Wager Town

A friendly wagering community for fans

1 follower

A friendly wagering community for fans

1 follower

Wager Town is a friendly wagering community that lets players compete in, create, and share their own prediction games on any live event.

Launch tags:

Web App•Games

Launch Team

Jakob Homan

And how long did it take you to give the Hadoop logo a new nose?

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5yr ago

Kevin Showkat

Wager Town

Maker

@blueboxtraveler Ha! We actually worked with a local Indonesian artist to design the elephant -- maybe Jambo and Hadoop roamed together at one point?

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5yr ago

Jakob Homan

@showkat It's clearly stolen:

Perhaps you want to speak to your artist about that. I'm not sure how much I'd trust a gambling site that doesn't care much for property rights...

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5yr ago

Kevin Showkat

Wager Town

Maker

@blueboxtraveler thanks for your feedback!

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5yr ago

Kevin Showkat

Wager Town

Maker

Hi all, Some friends and I created Wager Town to solve a specific problem we were having: how can a group of friends watching a live event together make friendly wagers amongst each other? Introducing the wagering game. Think of it as a hybrid between Jeopardy and fantasy sports, where players compete to make correct "bets" on offered prompts ("Will LeBron score more than 30 points tonight?"). Correct bets add to your balance, wrong ones deduct from it. Top players every week win cash prizes. We launched Wager Town in January and have grown the community to ~25K players, with daily games on all types of current events: state lottery numbers, sports games, TV show plotlines. Some other fun insights: we have a fairly diverse userbase, with 60% of our players identifying as female, & 30% of users above the age of 45 (according to data from Facebook/Google). Play Wager Town (it's free) and let us know what you think! Best, Kevin

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5yr ago