How Gaming helps you to Make Money Online: A Review of Moola

Moola is a website which allows you to earn cash by playing games against a computer or other users. Here’s an excerpt from their website:

Moola’s patented tournament model allows millions of people to attempt to win anywhere up to $10,000,000 playing exciting, nearly addictive games against one another, for free.

The progressive level system at the heart of the tournament model. On level 1, a player will be matched in a 2-player game against another player who also has 1 penny.

Players may choose from a variety of existing games, and Moola will regularly offer new titles to choose from. The winner of this game will emerge with the other’s penny, for a total of 2�, and have the opportunity to continue climbing to the next double or nothing level.

Players may choose to cash out at any time, in which case Moola will pay out real money to that player via mailed check in U.S. currency, or save account balances and return later for continued play.

Moola Review

Moola is an interesting concept. The site is itself well designed, easy-to-use and the idea of playing games for money seems attractive. Having read reviews of Moola from many blogs and after browsing several forums on the net, I have concluded that Moola doesn’t seem like a scam. They do pay out.

Having said that, earning money on Moola is a rather subjective process. Much of it depends on the user’s technical ability or intelligence in playing the games and at times, sheer luck.

The three games available are very easily to play and I tried them out without even reading any instructions. I won four games in a row before losing at the fifth level, where I was supposed to go from $0.32 to $0.64.

The time I spent on this semi-useless endeavor was 20 minutes. While I didn’t make any money, I have to say that the games were pretty addictive and I can imagine that is indeed possible to reach the higher, lucrative levels.

Gameplay

Here’s a screengrab of the games control panel within Moola itself:

You can choose to play against an auto player (which is the computer) or other users who are currently online. Some users have complained that playing against the computer gives them a 50:50 ratio, which means that they usually end up with 50% wins and 50% losses, which isn’t profitable at all.

A better bet would be to choose to play against other users. You can let the computer assign you a user of the same level, or you can even choose to play a Private Match against a specific user/friend by entering an assigned code.

Making money with Moola

Essentially Moola starts to get profitable when you have a large sum of money involved. If you have over 40 dollars in your account and win a game, that’ll double to 80 dollars in an instant.

You can see where this is leading. In order to allow users to move up the levels a swifter pace, Moola offers several ‘booster’ programs whereby you have to fill in surveys, visit websites or sign up for services with companies such as Emusic, Real or Zip.ca in order to get some bonus money (ranging from $1 to $35) credited into your playing account.

In this aspect, Moola is exactly like Cashcrate or Treasure Trooper. This also means that you’ll start playing games at a much higher level, where the stakes are high.

Here’s a grab of the ‘Booster Zone’ with all the offers:

Advertisers are essentially the sponsors that fund Moola’s million dollar cash bag and Moola is pretty focused on making sure that their ads get sufficient airplay. Before you begin to play any game, a short video will run in which you will have to pay attention.

After the video, a simple question will come and you’ll have to click on the right answer to proceed. I found that usually the same ads are run so you can easily click on the ‘Skip this ad and go to the question’ button below the video to save some time.

Another means to get some money is to utilize Moola’s strong referral program. According to Moola:

The referral program is based on a 4-tiered network you set up by inviting others. You will earn bonuses on the Cash Outs of all active members within your network. A member will be put into your active referral network for a period of one year from the time they join, so long as you invited them, or another active member within your network has invited them.

Summary

What’s Cool.

• Games are somewhat fun and addictive.
• High earning potential
• Legitimate program. Not a scam.
• Great referral system with several tiers.

What’s Not.

• Difficult to reach higher levels/stakes.
• Earning money depends on personal skill and luck.
• Time-consuming - Cannot automate the earning process.
• Video Ads can be irritating.
• Booster offers cater mostly to U.S residents.

Conclusion

Moola is fun if you love and excel in playing cool like flash games which take some skill and thought. As a means of making serious money, Moola offers a lot of potential to be exploited.

I do think that if one puts the time and effort into playing the games, one should eventually develop experience and a overall strategy that works.

It’s a little like playing online Poker, except that there’s a much lower risk involved. You don’t put in any money (unless you choose complete offers for credits) yet still have the ability to generate some substantial income.

If you hate affiliate marketing, doing surveys or writing blogs, Moola is definitely the program for you. Be prepared though, to spend a LOT of time online.

Moola is currently in it’s beta stage and membership is by invitation only. I’ve got a limited number of invites so if anyone really wants to try out Moola, do leave a comment and your email address.