# Trivia on IRC channels **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 25, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377 "2013-02-25T21:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/1 "2013-02-25T21:36:10Z")
Does anybody here play? The #trivia channel I like best is on EFnet. It runs persistent scores, gives you jackpots for runs, and is generally good fun if you want to kill some time. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/2 "2013-02-26T01:23:31Z")
I used to. I even wrote a bot to play it. As in, actually play, not just host the game. It was pretty simple-minded, though: The channel I was in, the rules were that the first right answer won, and wrong guesses weren’t counted against you, so the bot just looked for yes-no questions, multiple choice, and others that fit a similar template where repeated guesses would bear fruit, and then would just blast out all the possible answers. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/3 "2013-02-26T06:53:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I used to. I even wrote a bot to play it. As in, actually play, not just host the game. It was pretty simple-minded, though: The channel I was in, the rules were that the first right answer won, and wrong guesses weren’t counted against you, so the bot just looked for yes-no questions, multiple choice, and others that fit a similar template where repeated guesses would bear fruit, and then would just blast out all the possible answers. Heh. It’d get noticed though wouldn’t it? I used to play quite a bit a couple of years ago, and then dropped off completely. I ended up stumbling into a channel yesterday, and it struck me that this was the sort of thing a lot of people on the dope would be doing. Apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/4 "2013-02-26T07:00:32Z")
Not since around 1998. Those were fun back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/5 "2013-02-26T11:19:23Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Not since around 1998. Those were fun back in the day. Yeah the golden age of IRC has passed a little hasn’t it? I discovered I still enjoy it a fair amount though. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/6 "2013-02-26T15:18:33Z")
I’m another ‘used to’. I think I still have an IRC client on my home machine, but I haven’t felt any motivation to use it for a few years. I LOVE trivia, though. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/7 "2013-02-27T02:01:57Z")
I never tried to evade notice. It was prompted by the observation that a lot of humans were behaving much the same way (like, if the question started with “what color”, three or four people would make it all the way through “red” “orange” “yellow” “green” before even finishing reading the question), and I figured, if we’ve got humans acting like bots, we might as well just have bots and be done with it. I ran the bot under the screenname “Chronotron”, and it got listed separately from me in the scores. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/8 "2013-03-02T23:11:51Z")
I never played trivia on IRC but did play chat trivia. I liked Yahoo’s the best. It was informal-- whoever won the round asked the next question. ---
**Author:** ![PockyRawr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@PockyRawr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PockyRawr)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-on-irc-channels/651377/9 "2016-02-18T02:09:48Z")
I play at #Trivia on [irc.p2pchat.net](http://irc.p2pchat.net) you can also connect via [http://playtrivia.weebly.com](http://playtrivia.weebly.com)