Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) v3.1.9.7



Introductory Information


What Is Givling?

How Does Givling Work?

What Is Team Trivia And How Does It Work? (Hint: It's Trivia For The Rest Of Us!)

How Do I Earn a Cash Award?

How Does Crowdfunding Work?

How Does Givling Fund All Of This?

Are There Award Limits?

Is Givling A Non-Profit?



The Funding Queues
What Is The Funding Box

How Are The Crowdfunded Proceeds Divided?



More About Trivia


How Does The Trivia Game Free Play Work?

Trivia Scoring

Why Do I Play Trivia With Two Other Random Players? (It's All About Team And Leveling The Trivia Playing Field)

Can I Really Be Top In Trivia With A Zero Score?

How Are The Trivia Statements Generated? Does The Difficulty Change?

How Are The Trivia Statements Generated? Does The Difficulty Change?

Why Doesn't Trivia Have Subject Categories?

How Long Do I Have To Answer A Statement?

Why Does My Trivia Ranking Get Out-Of-Synch With The Trivia Leaderboard From Time To Time?

How do I get funded through the Exchange?



More About Queue Points


How Can I Definitely Tell If I've Played A Trivia Game To Completion?

Queue Point Redemption
What Is The Queue Point Exchange?



Video Spinner and Red and Gold Stars (and Streaks), and Random Drawings


How Does The Video Spinner Work?

Why Don't I See A Video Before Playing The Video Spinner?

Why Do I Need To Allow Ad Tracking for Videos?

How Do I Enable And Videos?

How Do Red and Gold Stars (and Streaks) Work? And The Random Drawings?

How Do I Find My IDFA Or AAID?



Miscellaneous Stuff



On The Home Screen, What Do The "Queue Points" Button Colors Mean?

On The Queue Point Ledger Screen, What Do The "Type" Abbreviations Mean?

What Does The Speaker Button In The Top Left Of The Home Screen Do?

Why Do I Still See High Scores After The Free $2.5K Queue Resets?

Is There A Reward For Inviting A Friend?

Innapropriate and age-innapropriate ads?




What Is Givling?     (back)

Givling is gamified crowdfunding. You can be crowdfunded up to $100,000 through several different ways.


How Does Givling Work?      (back)

Play trivia, earn points, and climb the funding queues. The players in the top spots are the recipients of the game's crowdfunding efforts.


What Is Team Trivia And How Does It Work? (Hint: It's Trivia For The Rest Of Us!)     (back)

If You're on one of the top ten tems when the countdown clock hits zero, you'll automatically be awarded Queue Points. Points are added an hour after the game ends.

How Do I Earn a Cash Award?     (back)

  1. The Free $2,500 Queue
  2. From crowdfunding of the $50,000 Green or Orange Queue
  3. From crowdfunding that is made available when you are randomly selected on the Queue Point Exchange.


How Does Crowdfunding Work?     (back)

You buy coins to play additional trivia games. 45% of the proceeds fund the person in the Green or Orange funding box. 45% goes to fund the people who are offering their Queue Points up via the Givling Queue Exchange. 10% goes to run Givling.

How Does Givling Fund All Of This?     (back)

The $50,000 Queue is funded from crowdfunding coins through the trivia game. The Free $2,500 and Givling operating costs are paid from advertising, sponsors and merchandise revenues.


Are There Award Limits?     (back)

Yes. An individual player cannot be awarded more than $100,000. $50,000 from being funded via the Green or Orange Queue, and $50,000 total from other sources, including the Queue Point Exchange.

Is Givling A Non-Profit?     (back)

Givling is a for-profit corporation. For more details about how Givling operates, please refer to our Terms And Conditions.




What Is The Funding Box?     (back)

The "Funding Box" is the term we use to designate who is being crowdfunded at the moment.

How Are The Crowdfunded Proceeds Divided?     (back)

90% of all Direct Crowdfunding goes to fund the current person in the Queue and 10% goes to Givling to run the platform and infrastructure.
50% of all Trivia Coin funding goes into the user's cash wallet, and 50% goes to fund the current person in the queue. The percentages are divided after banking and process charges have been deducted from the gross.

How Does The Trivia Game Free Play Work?     (back)

Everyone gets two trivia Free Plays every day.

Free Plays are available just after midnight Mountain time and are playable until a minute before midnight, Mountain time.

Free Plays do not accumulate. So if you miss a day of playing Givling, you miss the Free Plays for that day.

By the way, for those playing an extreme number of trivia games, you may run into a situation where there are not enough new questions. In that rare situation, you will not be given Free Plays, but instead we ask you to please wait a day or two to play again.


Trivia Scoring     (back)

The first question starts at 10 points and goes up 10 points for each question after that. So 10 points for the first question... 20 points for the second... and so on... up to 15 questions. Making it through all 15 statements is affectionately called Running The Gauntlet!

You may have noticed, though, that you may have started with some points already on the board. That's because Givling Trivia is a team game and these points are from your two anonymous teammates that have recently completed their games. Your score plus theirs equals your team score.

Note there are also special point bonuses depending on your position on your team. If you move from third place on your team to second, you get an extra 100 points. If you move from second to first, you get an extra 250 points. And if you jump from third place on your team to first, you'll get an extra 350 points.


Why Do I Play Trivia With Two Other Random Players? (It's All About Team And Leveling The Trivia Playing Field)     (back)

The top ten victorious teams each day are all awarded the same number of Queue Points.


Can I Really Be Top In Trivia With A Zero Score?     (back)

As odd as that sounds, yes, you can be top in trivia with a low -- or even zero -- personal score if your teammates come through for you. Go team!


How Are The Trivia Statements Generated? Does The Difficulty Change?     (back)

Trivia statements are compiled by Givling employees, gathered from newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, textbooks, and broadcast media. Multiple people review each statement before it is approved for the game. The trivia statements are a combination of historical facts, current events, and general knowledge. The difficulty of the statements varies greatly.

The trivia statements are presented randomly, such that players playing at the same time are presented with different questions.

Why Doesn't Trivia Have Subject Categories?     (back)

Helps level the trivia playing field further.


How Long Do I Have To Answer A Statement?     (back)

You have 10 seconds.

If you pause the game, receive a phone call, or lose internet signal at any time, by any means at all, this will be detected and your game will be ended and voided. Should you not answer the statement within ten seconds, you will receive a strike. If you experience game interruption issues outside of these elements, try restarting your phone.


How Old Do You Have To Be To Play?     (back)

18 years or older.


Why Does My Trivia Ranking Get Out-Of-Synch With The Trivia Leaderboard From Time To Time?     (back)

For performance purposes, the Trivia Ranking (what you see on the Home Screen) is a quick rank. Actual rankings, found on the Trivia Leaderboard, take extra time to synch depending on the number of games being played. Always defer to the Trivia Leaderboard for actual standings.

How do I get funded through the Exchange?     (back)




How Can I Definitely Tell If I've Played A Trivia Game To Completion?     (back)

There are several indicators, including seeing the "GAME OVER" screen that shows your Team Score.

The definitive record, of course, is kept in the "My Past Results" screen. You can find this screen under Settings (the Gear Icon in the upper right corner). But, please remember, your name must be first in the "Team Members Scores" section... because that means it was your game played... and not just you being anonymously paired in other games.


Queue Point Redemption     (back)

As a reminder, the Queues can only be funded when our sponsors are properly engaged with. To ensure you and Givling receive credit for each action you choose to initiate, please adhere to the following rules:

  1. If you request Queue Points from the Rewards team after engaging with a sponsor and that action (order/subscription/etc.) is returned and/or canceled (outside of promotional specifications), you are required to inform the Rewards team of said cancelation and your Queue Points for that action will be ineligible.
  2. Do not click on any deal/rewards browser extensions OR use any coupon codes (unless one is provided within the promotional terms) when engaging with a brand as not only you, but Givling, will not receive credit for that action.
  3. As a final and friendly reminder, each user that signs up to become a Givling user has agreed to our Terms and Conditions stating that any manipulation of the rewards point system may be deemed ineligible for points and/or banned from the app entirely.



What Is The Queue Point Exchange?     (back)

A user must opt in to the Queue Point Exchange, have a gold star, and have enough points to be eligible to exchange their Queue Points for funding.
If a user sets a limit on the amount of points that can be exchanged, it will calculate the $ amount that can be exchanged based on this limit when the user is selected for the Exchange Queue. If the limit is less than what it takes to receive $10K in funding, the user may only receive $500, or $2,500 for instance. Once selected, the user can still change the amount, as values will not affect the current queue, it will only affect how many points are exchanged the next time you are selected.

A user needs 11,764,706 points in order to receive the full $10,000 at the $0.85/$1 rate. We are giving the user $0.425 for each $1 that is funded, but we are only taking half the points each time, so it works out to $0.85/$1 exchanged.


How Does The Video Spinner Work?     (back)

Watch a short video. You'll be rewarded with a spin for Queue Points.

The number on the TV icon shows how many videos you can still watch during a 24-hour period (MT).


Why Don't I See A Video Before Playing The Video Spinner?     (back)

Video ads are only shown when there is available inventory from our advertising partners.


How Do I Enable Videos?     (back)

Per Apple Guidelines. From you mobile phone's Home Screen:

* For iOS 14: Settings --> Privacy --> Tracking --> make sure "Allow Apps to Request to Track" slider is ON (i.e., green color)... and make sure the setting for "Givling" is ON, too (i.e., green color)

* For other iOS: Settings --> Privacy --> Advertising --> "Limit Ad Tracking" slider to OFF

* For Android: Settings --> Privacy--> Ads --> "Opt out of Ads Personalization" slider to OFF

iOS 14 NOTE: Sometimes iOS 14 has an issue with a disabled (grayed out) tracking control, though. Apparently if you sign out of your Apple ID, that enables the control. Go to Settings --> Name (top of screen) --> Sign Out.


How Do Red and Gold Stars (and Streaks) Work? And The Random Drawings?     (back)

Play a FreePlay trivia game and earn a Red Star with a number signifying how many trivia games you've played within a rolling 15-day period. You'll find your Red Star in the upper left corner of the Givling Home Screen.

Earn a Gold Star when you've played 10 trivia games in a rolling 15 day period (and qualify for the Daily Drawing (Monday through Friday) and random cash drawings.


How Do I Find My IDFA Or AAID?     (back)

IDFA (Identifier For Advertising) for Apple, and AAID (Android Advertising ID) for Google, are both ways to track advertising activity.

FOR iOS IDFA: Make sure you are allowing ad tracking. Download "My Device ID by AppsFlyer" from App Store. You will find your IDFA in this app.

FOR ANDROID AAID: Open the Settings app and tap on Ads. Your AAID is listed at the bottom of the screen. (For older Android devices: Settings > General > Google > Ads.)

NOTE: To avoid transcription errors, please send in the actual number, not a screenshot. This helps a lot, thank you.

Also, please don't forget to also send the date and time/time zone you had whatever issue you are reporting.



On The Home Screen, What Do The "Queue Points" Button Colors Mean?     (back)

Just a colorful way to tell you how many points you have:

Blue = 0 to 499,999,999 points

Orange = 500,000,000 to 999,999,999 points

Red = 1,000,000,000 to 1,999,999,999 points

Gold = 2,000,000,000 and above points


On The Queue Point Ledger Screen, What Do The "Type" Abbreviations Mean?     (back)

Queue Point Codes:

What Does The Speaker Button In The Top Left Of The Home Screen Do?     (back)

This button mutes all the game sounds. It will not, however, mute ads.


Why Do I Still See High Scores After The Free $2.5K Queue Resets?     (back)

Free $2.5K Queue Points zero out after each award selection. The process of zero'ing out points takes some time, though, so you may temporarily see some players with last queue's scores. Thanks in advance for your patience.


Is There A Reward For Inviting A Friend?     (back)

We rely almost entirely by our community inviting others to play Givling trivia and help crowdfund student loan and mortgage debt. We currently are not offering rewards for these invitations, however, as we found some players violating not only our terms of service, but those of our platform partners, and good gamesmanship is important to us.

We hope to bring this back soon, but in the meantime, we would still really appreciate you telling your friends about Givling. :)


Innapropriate and age-innapropriate ads?     (back)
Occasionally ad providers will provide innappropriate or age-innapropirate ads. If you see any, please email support@givling.comwith a screenshot of the ad and the date and time you saw it. We will do our best to block it from our ad network. Thank you for your help! "