Gaming startup Versyv is unveiling RiddleVerse, a skill-based game that offers cash prizes for people who can solve riddles. The twist is that the riddles are primarily created only for RiddleVerse, and so cheaters can’t get the answers by doing a Google search.
Andrew Gladney, founder and CEO of Versyv, maker of RiddleVerse.
San Francisco-based Versyv has a very original business, and it has taken its model from other skill-based game companies. It has raised $750,000 in seed funding from private investors, and it hopes to give mobile and web players a new kind of experience with just three original riddles posted once a day.
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