There is a new game that people everywhere
are playing on their phones.
It's called "HQ."
Everyone plays at the same time.
And the winners split a cash prize.
This is our next guest's reaction
when she found out she one.
[VIDEO PLAYBACK]
[LAUGHTER]
- I didn't get it.
[CRYING]
Did I not get it?
What did he say?
- --in 2018.
And you chose--
[SCREAMING]
- God!
Oh my god!
- What does it do to you when you win?
- Oh my god.
- [INAUDIBLE]
- I won $11!
[END PLAYBACK]
[LAUGHTER]
That's right.
She won $11.30.
[LAUGHTER]
From San Francisco, California, please welcome Lauren May.
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC- "I'M SO EXCITED"]
I'm so excited.
And I just can't hide it.
I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it.
I'm so excited.
[APPLAUSE]
Hi.
Well, you just seemed like an emotional person.
Really, you just--
[LAUGHTER]
[CRYING]
Well-known fact.
Well-known fact-- so you get emotional
about a lot of things.
I am, like, either end of the spectrum, crying.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, so you play this game,
which I don't really fully understand.
Have you heard of "HQ," everybody?
[APPLAUSE]
All right, some people.
All right, so it's a game.
You answer questions, right?
Correct.
And everybody at once.
Correct.
OK, and so how long had you been playing this game?
Well, I had been playing for months.
But the farthest I ever got was like question six.
Mhm.
So besides today, which is literally
the best day of my entire life, because you
are my favorite human being on the face of this planet.
Mm.
Aw.
But I'm serious.
I mean, sorry, mom.
Like--
[LAUGHTER]
It's like you, mom, rest of family, like everyone else.
[APPLAUSE]
I had never gotten past question six.
So it's like seven, eight, nine--
I'm nonverbal-- 10--
I'm blacking out-- 11--
[LAUGHTER]
--I don't know where I am anymore--
12-- I'm dead.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm essentially a ghost playing "HQ."
And my friend told me like right after I pressed the answer
that I got it wrong.
And so that's why I started sobbing.
Because you had gotten that far.
What was the question?
It was, who composed the music for Windows 95?
The answer was Roxy Music.
Uh-huh.
When in doubt, I go with the one that I've never heard of.
Well, first of all, you should know Roxy Music.
Because Roxy Music is great.
So you should start listening to that right away.
I'm so sorry, Ellen DeGeneres.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
It will never happen again.
Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry--
need to know about them.
OK.
So then you realize--
you know, I was worried about your dog.
Because you scared your dog.
I mean, your dog flipped out when you jumped up and started
screaming.
He is certified as an emotional support animal.
Well--
So I think this is--
[LAUGHTER]
It's within his realm of capabilities.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
OK, so $11.30.
Correct.
So you knew that that--
that reaction was $11.30.
Yes.
I found out pretty late that it was $11.
So like, I was just excited to win.
To win.
Yeah.
So it didn't matter about the money.
No.
Did you spend the money yet?
Well, so I learned after I became viral, the most common--
I tried to actually read the comments, because, you know,
people tell you not to do that.
Yeah, don't do that.
But a lot of the comments were saying, girl,
you don't even know.
You can't get that money.
Because you actually can't cash out of "HQ" until you're
$20, which I don't have.
[LAUGHTER]
So I'm currently sitting on a whopping nothing.
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, no.
Yeah, yeah.
That's terrible.
But I'm meeting you--
Yeah, that's right.
--which is worth-- it's like 12 bucks.
Yeah.
A whole $12.
[LAUGHTER]
It's like a whole $12.
[APPLAUSE]
[BUZZER]
[LAUGHTER]
Oh my god, tWitch!
[LAUGHTER]
Hi.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, so I'm going to give you a chance to win some money.
How about that?
You are not--
Because I know--
Ellen.
Tell me a game that you like to play of mine.
"Dice with Ellen."
You're going to play "Dice With Ellen."
Stop it.
Yes, you are.
No, I'm not.
You are.
You're talking about someone else?
[LAUGHTER]
We're going to take a break.
And you're going to play "Dice with Ellen" with me.
Thank you.
I'm back with my best friend, Lauren.
And we're going to play "Dice with Ellen."
Here's how you play.
You're going to get three rolls.
You're going to get as many Ellens as you can.
Because there's, you know-- you know how to play.
Oh, yeah.
And after each roll, you'll tell me what number
to put the Ellens on.
Behind one of those numbers is $5,000, OK?
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
OK.
So OK, you know how to play.
Yeah.
All right, grab them all.
Throw the Ellens.
And throw them all at once.
Yeah, all at once.
OK, this is my workout for the day.
All right, you have two Ellens.
OK.
Go-- and here, let me pull them back.
[LAUGHTER]
Did you ever work in Vegas?
You'd be good.
No, no, no.
And I put them somewhere?
All right.
Yeah, you tell me.
Three.
OK.
And five.
All righty, throw again.
Don't act like they're heavy.
Whoa.
Oh, god.
No.
Well, that's because can talked to me.
So I got stressed out.
[LAUGHTER]
OK, OK, OK.
She just told me before we started
playing during the commercial break
that she could feel every single one of her organs.
[LAUGHTER]
I can.
[LAUGHTER]
That's true.
I'm going to try a different-- this is my last one, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
OK.
[HEAVY BREATHING]
[LAUGHTER]
OK.
[APPLAUSE]
All right.
OK.
All right.
OK.
All right, which one?
What do you want?
One.
Do all the odds.
OK, here we go.
All right.
If someone on this show likes evens, I'm in trouble.
OK.
So I'm going to start with two.
OK.
All right?
OK.
[BUZZER]
Oh, that's an X.
That's a good thing.
OK.
[APPLAUSE]
[SCREAMING]
[BUZZER]
[CHEERING]
Ah!
Do you have something I can hold onto?
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, OK.
[BUZZER]
All right, OK.
OK.
[SCREAMING]
[DINGING]
[CHEERING]
[INAUDIBLE SCREAMING]
$5,011.
Dollars!
[CHEERING]
All right.