Well I was playing You Don't Know Jack Volume III last weekend and I got to thinking how much fun it might be to have a similar style audio game. For those that don't know, YDKJ is a trivia game that plays like a TV game show. Each time you get a question right you get a certain, random amount of money, and you lose the same amount when you're wrong. You choose between games of seven or twenty-one questions. For each question you pick from one of three randomly selected categories and then you get a question that pertains to that category in some way or another, though sometimes they're not always obvious. Within these categories you also have a bunch of different types of questions. There's the basic multiple choice where you choose the answer you think is right, the Three-way where you get the main category and the three possible answers. Then the questions and the three possible answers flash on the screen one by one and you buzz in when the one you want appears. Then there's the Dis or Dat question where you get seven names and two categories. You tell the host whether each name falls into one category, the other or both. The Gibberish Question is where you get a phrase of gibberish that rhymes with a real phrase and you have to figure out what the actual phrase is and type it in. The real fun of those games begins when you have more than one player. Then, you have the ability to Screw your opponent. Before the game begins, each player gets one screw, which he can use at any time during a given round. If he does, he can choose whether to screw either one of his two opponents if he's playing with two humans. Obviously if it's just a two-player game then he just screws his opponent. The "screwed" player is then forced to attempt to answer the question. If he gets it wrong, the other player gets the amount of money that the question was worth, exactly as he would if he'd answered the question himself. On the other hand, if the "screwed" gets the question right, the screwer loses the money and the host makes a smart remark to that effect.
The ideal host of such a game would be smart, sarcastic and generally hilarious, not unlike Bow Linball from Ten Pin Alley, who would leave you with no illusions at all as to how he views your performance. While the mainstream You Don't Know Jack games are already almost totally accessible, certain parts of them are not, such as the Three-way and Jack Attack questions. I just think it'd be fun to have our own style of You Don't Know Jack game. You could call it Brainbuster or something like that.
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