Since it's hard to judge the gameplay value of a free game, Trippert Labs Are You a Moron for iPhone and iPod Touch is more easily evaluated based on the time it takes to find and download from the App Store. Frankly, it's not worth even that.

Not that Trippert Labs, the game's developer, didn't have the right idea, doling out a humorously named trivia game for the quick-fix novelty crowd; it's that the game was released with what seems to be an utter lack of testing or quality assurance - nor even a simple spell-check, for that matter.

For example, when asked "Which of the following is not a mammal: Shark, Dog, Dolphine, Whale," you could correctly answer both Shark and "Dolphine," because one is a fish and the other doesn't even exist (unless you drop the "e" on the end, follow?).

Odder still, the game is only ten questions deep, and takes less than a minute to play - unless you're a moron, of course - but you'll never know by this game because it tallies and rates you as "0% Moron" even if you get some or all of the answers wrong - or just the curiously inapt "Dolphine" answer correct.

Too bad, as Trippert appears to be hard at work on other iGames and WebApps of varying user acclaim, but Are You a Moron? is doing nothing but damage to the company's credibility.

[UPDATE: Since this review, Trippert has released an update with a fix to the broken scoring system plus 40 new questions, though it's still a 10-question trivia game (What is the Capitol of Africa?), and if you play it more than once, you're bound to get repeats. However, now the super short trivia game has to audacity to hit you with an advertisement halfway through a round, and paste continuing ads at the bottom of the screen. Too, some of the trivia question are merely survey questions trying to gauge your interests, like "what's your favorite kind of TV show?" Yes, it's a freebie, but the game still isn't captivating enough to warrant enduring a marketing ploy. The Dolphine typo has been fixed, and the score could be bumped up to a 1.5 or 2 out of 5, but there's little point; the score stands. Just skip this one.]

Equipment Disclosure:
iPhone 3G S provided by Rogers Wireless (rogers.com)
Software provided by the publisher