How good are you at making predictions? Meet PlaytheDay a quiz game that will entertain those who can predict the future. The game is very simple: you need to answer 8 questions related to a future event. If you get 8 answers right in a row you win. There is one prize to win everyday and several series of quizzes in different spaces (celebrity, music, sport, Internet and finance,…) are available. Each questions come with a tip and link to a website where you can evaluate or find the answer. The fun part is that the games are closed one day before the actual date and on the day answers are progressively revealed along with the list of participants that are still racing for the prize.
To start off they have created a free predictive quiz on web2.0 events taking place next october 14th (you can already participate). You can find questions like “how many votes will the most popular story on Digg have at 4pm” or “How many comments will the top story on TechCrunch get at 4pm”. Honestly answering is mostly a question of luck rather than skill. But the game is free and the upside is not bad: you can win an iPod touch and you have here another opportunity to prove you are a real Web2.0 Guru 
This free game is aimed at raising awareness around their site but the main activity of the service will be selling tickets for participations to other quizzes.
Betting games have been around for a while. Gottabet and Bluebet allow you to create a bet on virtually anything. Predicting games have been also around for a while: PicksPal allow you to predict sport event, and other services like SocialPicks do the same with stocks.
PlayTheDay has been around for a while but the official launch takes place this week. This game is operated by FairPlay, a privately held company incorporated in Cyprus and created by team of veterans in the gaming industry including an Israeli entrepreneur previously senior employee at Random Logic (that operates 888.com)
Well, I think, it will be fun to ask what is web 2.0 itself. I just happened to hear some completely different and unrelated definitions of it recently. Anyways, nice way to replace dry surveys.
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The site is a crap! I tried answering the ‘Quiz of the day’ and I got this error:
Essential Site Maintenance
Welcome to PlayTheDay.com, the most exciting quiz game on the net!
Unfortunately, we are currently performing essential maintenance on the site. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and hope to have the site live again as soon as possible.
Should you have any questions, please contact us at support@playtheday.com.
Best regards
Customer Support Manager
http://www.playtheday.com
How do i know if i won?
Hi there third!
My name is Michael and I’m a part of the PlaytheDay team.
Thanks for your comment, we had a few very short minutes of maintenance tonight, but the site is now up and running now and you shouldn’t have a problem. I urge you to try it again, and if you encounter any more problems, please feel free to contact me at michaelz@playtheday.com.
Have fun and sorry again…
Michael
http://www.playtheday.com
Have just checked this site out, looks pretty cool. To be honest, I have never been into the whole bookies thing, betting on the football is a bit intimidating but this seems easier, at least only 4 potential answers. Think I will give it a go especially now that Jose has left Chelsea!
Interesting Idea. I do enjoy betting with friends. This might be an easier way of getting everybody involved.
Seems like this might end up becoming a new fad. Played a moderately similar concept at pickthemarket.com. Not so much gaming as crowdsourcing concept for predicting tomorrow’s market close. Ah… so much work to do and so many wonderfully devilish distractions.
If you like these sorts of prediction games, you might like my Word Association Prediction Game Facebook app:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/a.....8077388976
Stupid, a waste of time, baffoonery, I should know!
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I like the idea, and the UI is very appealing. No doubt it’ll be a facebook app next.
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i heard many ideas about web 2.0 but this is the most amazing one
thanks techcrunch
Mmmm…mildly interesting.