Facebook has added a new game to its Messenger app: soccer. After people played its inaugural basketball game more than 1 billion times in the past three months, the social networking company is branching out to provide some lighthearted entertainment during the Euro 2016 soccer (called football outside of the U.S.) competition.
To enable the game, send someone a soccer emoji and tap it to begin. The objective of the game is to bounce the ball as many times to receive the most points. It doesn’t seem like this is immediately available to everyone as when we tested it out before publishing, the game wasn’t accessible, but rolling this out to more than 900 million monthly users likely takes time.
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Just like with basketball, the game seems to work only on Facebook Messenger’s mobile app, not on the web or desktop clients.
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