{"id":87566,"date":"2016-06-17T15:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87566"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:57:14","slug":"43-million-facebook-messenger-users-have-failed-this-challenge-can-you-beat-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/43-million-facebook-messenger-users-have-failed-this-challenge-can-you-beat-it\/","title":{"rendered":"43 million Facebook Messenger users have failed this challenge. Can you beat it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember that back in <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/messengers-hidden-secret-that-will-make-your-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March<\/a> we told you about <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/\">Facebook Messenger<\/a><strong>\u2019s<\/strong> secret <strong>basketball game<\/strong>, that is accessible at any time from inside any chat box. A month later, the social media giant has revealed something that might surprise you: <strong>Less than 1% of those who have played the game have only managed to score 30 points or more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87568\" title=\"messenger-bastketball-568x354\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/messenger-bastketball-568x3541-568x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/messenger-bastketball-568x3541.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/messenger-bastketball-568x3541-256x159.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In total, the game was played by around <strong>43.7 million users<\/strong> within <strong>693 million sessions<\/strong> \u2013 300 million of which were played within a week after the game\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>The question is: Are you part of this 1%? And if not, do you accept the challenge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember that back in March we told you about Facebook Messenger\u2019s secret basketball game, that is accessible at any time from inside any chat box. A month later, the social media giant has revealed something that might surprise you: Less than 1% of those who have played the game have only managed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/43-million-facebook-messenger-users-have-failed-this-challenge-can-you-beat-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;43 million Facebook Messenger users have failed this challenge. Can you beat it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2445],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook-messenger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328940,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87566\/revisions\/328940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87566"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87566"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87566"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}