Facebook Messenger Football: [How to play hidden Euro 2016 game]

Have you heard about Facebook’s secret new football game? Well it’s tucked away inside the Messenger app, so here’s how to play it.

Facebook is celebrating the Euros with a new – and hidden – swipe-action football game embedded in the mobile Messenger app. Bear in mind that this won’t work on the web version of Messenger.

David Marcus, who heads up Messenger at Facebook, said:

“Our little [basketball] Messenger game we launched for March Madness and the NBA season was played over one billion times (!) over the course of the latest 3 months. Since you loved it so much, and it’s the Euro 2016 & Copa America

HOW TO PLAY FACEBOOK MESSENGER FOOTBALL GAME

ü  Make sure you've updated to the latest version of Facebook Messenger

ü  Send the football emoji to a friend

ü  Tap the football emoji in the chat

ü  The game should appear automatically

The challenge is to keep the football from touching the ground. The game keeps your best score intact for the next time you use the emoji and want to replay.

The interface is simple, with the ball bouncing about the white screen, more vigorously as the level advances. Users can easily exit the game, and back to their conversation whenever they feel like. There's no pausing the game though, you'll have to end it to continue chatting.

Facebook had done a similar trick in March with its Messenger Basketball game. It got activated in the same way, but needed the basketball emoji for starting it. Facebook also claimed that the game had received 300 million plays in just one week.

You can also unlock a secret chess game by typing “@fbchess play” in a Messenger conversation

The new game is being rolled out globally to all users. The update should have hit the App Store and Google Play in your region, but if it hasn't, it will soon.

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