It didn’t take long for players to find tweets on Jaric’s twitter account saying that they had used bots for other games of HQ. Jeric has since locked his Twitter. Kotaku has reached out to both HQ and Jeric but they did not respond in time for publication.

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The Daily Beast reports that both Jeric and Kayla are apparently members of a private Discord dedicated to “hacking” trivia apps. “On Sunday night, a bot in a private Discord chat that both Brual and the runner up, Kayla, were active members of was spitting out supposed answers live as other members of the group collaborated on answers in real time,” Daily Beast reporter Taylor Lorenz wrote. Lorenz also wrote that members of this Discord provided screenshots that purported to show both Jeric and Kayla were in the chat during this game of HQ.

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“I can confirm that Kayla is in chat because she, along with Jeric, were both screaming in the voice chat about how far they got, and the only reason Kayla actually didn’t win was because she fat fingered,” one member of Discord told The Daily Beast, meaning they accidentally tapped the wrong answer.

Lorenz writes in her report for The Daily Beast that while the bots helped Kayla and Jeric, the key to getting answers right was being in a voice chat between the community members. Speaking aloud helped them figure out the correct answers faster than just using a bot on its own. Sounds a lot like my own HQ experience, honestly. I’ve used HQuack, I’ve conferred with friends, I’ve tried to Google answers. But the first, and only, time I’ve won, it was because head of Special Projects Tim Marchman happened to walk by and answer the final question correctly for me.