On Tuesday, the news and entertainment source launched the Magic Answer Ball App for iPhone, its foray into the mobile gaming category. The app is a parody of the classic Magic 8-Ball from Mattel: a physical fortune-telling toy that displays random answers to yes/no queries.
The Onion's version is, as you might except, far more colorful: Instead of a "likely" or "no," questions about the future trig responses such as, "You're one stabbing away from all you desire" or "You are a master a finding time to do something selfish." The app also supplies you with more than fifty pre-programmed questions, such as "Am I the father?" "Will I ever find the parking spot of my dreams?"
You can opt to share your questions and answers directly to Facebook to, as Onion writer Chris Karwowski explains, "let your friends see what's in store for you in the future."
At one time, The Onion had a physical Magic 8-Ball it sold in stores, but the company that produced it went out of business, says Karwowski. An iPhone app was a way of bringing the product back to life.