Failure to launch: Samantha Bee's new app to increase voter turnout crashes in debut

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee launched a civic tech trivia game app — This Is Not a Game: The Game — Wednesday, with the host determined that it could help increase voter turnout in the midterm elections.

Bee partnered on the project with expert Adam Werbach, who described the discipline: “Civic tech is this idea that we can make the world a better place through the technology we have. It’s fun. You don’t know you’re doing democracy.”

Bee and Werbach fashioned the game, a trivia app with political and comedic undertones, after the popular HQ Trivia. To encourage people to play, there is a real cash prize for the winner(s), with the first prize pot being $5,000.

The first game was scheduled to start at 11 p.m. Wednesday, but heavy traffic caused the app to crash. As a result, the launch was pushed to Thursday.

The show’s official Twitter was philosophical about the snafu:

Full Frontal With Samantha Bee airs Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. on TBS.

See Jimmy Kimmel’s clever solution for fans upset over NFL players kneeling during anthem:

Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:

• Bob Woodward fires back after Trump calls him a liar: ‘The truth will emerge’

• Stephen Colbert and James Corden speak out following Les Moonves exit

• If NFL players kneeling during the anthem upsets you, Jimmy Kimmel has the solution

Tell us what you think! Hit us up on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, or leave your comments below. And check out our host, Kylie Mar, on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.