You Dont Know Jack for Tablet

Video game series

Video game series

You Don't Know Jack
Genre(s)	Political party
Developer(s)	Berkeley Systems, Jackbox Games, Starsphere Interactive, Fe Milky way Studios, Webfoot Technologies, Flipside.com
Publisher(s)	Sierra On-Line, THQ, Jackbox Games, Berkeley Systems, SPELGRIM.Com, Majesco Entertainment, TopWare Interactive, Warner Bros. Games, Tsukuda Original, Telltale Publishing
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, Xbox 360, Xbox Ane, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Apple TV, Android, Roku, OUYA, Nintendo Switch
Kickoff release	You Don't Know Jack
Latest release	You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream Oct 17, 2018

You Don't Know Jack is a serial of video games developed by Jackbox Games (formerly known as Jellyvision Games^[ane]) and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the start You Don't Know Jack game in the series. You Don't Know Jack, framed as a game bear witness "where high culture and popular civilisation collide", combines trivia with comedy. While it is primarily a PC and Mac-based franchise with over ii dozen releases and compilations for those platforms, there accept been a few entries released for consoles: ii for the original PlayStation, and the 2011 release which had versions for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo DS and Wii. In 2012, Jackbox Games developed and published a social version of the game on Facebook^[two] with cross-platform versions afterward released for iOS,^[3] Android^[four] and Kindle. On November 5, 2013, the majority of the franchise's many volumes and spinoffs were reissued onto Steam^[5] past Jackbox Games. On November 18, 2014, You Don't Know Jack 2015 was released equally part of The Jackbox Party Pack on Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PlayStation three, PlayStation 4, and later Nintendo Switch, iPad, Amazon Fire Television, Android Tv, Nvidia Shield, Apple tree TV, and Xfinity X1. On Oct 17, 2018, You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream was released as part of The Jackbox Party Pack 5 for the same platforms equally You lot Don't Know Jack 2015.

History [edit]

In 1991, Jellyvision's former identity, Learn Television, released the award-winning motion picture The Mind's Treasure Breast, which featured lead grapheme Jack Patterson. When Learn Television sought to utilize new multimedia technologies to create a more active learning experience, the company teamed upwards with Follett Software Visitor and adult "That'due south a Fact, Jack!", a reading motivation CD-ROM game show series roofing young adult fiction, targeted to 3rd through 10th graders. The game would give a title for a kid to read, and and so ask questions related to that title.

The idea for You Don't Know Jack began while That'south a Fact, Jack! was yet in development. The game's title comes from the more than vulgar version of the phrase: "You don't know jack shit".

Gameplay [edit]

Almost versions of the game tin be played by upwardly to 3 players. The game can be played past only ane player on the website and the iOS app. The game can be played by up to 4 players on the tabletop version, You Don't Know Jack 2011 (except for the PC and Nintendo DS versions, which are limited to two players), the OUYA version, Party and the game in The Jackbox Party Pack titled You Don't Know Jack 2015. The Full Stream edition in The Jackbox Party Pack 5 can accommodate up to viii players plus up to x,000 additional "Audience" members. All versions of the game feature the voice of an off-screen host, who reads questions aloud, provides instructions regarding special question types, and pokes fun at the players.

The game usually opens with a green room segment, in which the players are prompted to enter their names and given instructions for play. The audio during this segment includes rehearsing singers, a busy producer, and a harassed studio manager/host. The only graphics are a big "On Air/Stand By" sign in the eye of the screen, visual representations of the players' button assignments, and a box for name entry. If the players take also long to think of their names or if the players press the "return" or "enter" primal without typing in their names, and then the journalist will name the players. In games starting with the Netshow, on certain days, such as Christmas Eve, or certain times such as a Saturday night, or even during Twilight, the journalist will mention the fourth dimension of twenty-four hour period or the special holiday, and sometimes grumble well-nigh the game being played at that time or on that day. There is no box for proper name entry in the 2d episode of The Ride. In the PlayStation versions, after the game is finished, players can name themselves next to the score recorded. In the console versions of You Don't Know Jack 2011, the OUYA version, and the single-histrion games of Yous Don't Know Jack 2015, the players are prompted to choose their names that they typed in before starting the game. (The console versions of Y'all Don't Know Jack 2011 too allows players to make new names in the "Contestants" section.) If one or more players cull the "I don't care" selection, the announcer or the host volition tell that they refused to enter their names. Additionally in these games, the sign-in screen is famous for an Easter egg where if the role player types in the phrase "fuck you" as their name. The phrase will be changed to a skillful name afterwards. In You lot Don't Know Jack 2011 and OUYA, the announcer will tell the role player that they have no friends or didn't use proper English. In Y'all Don't Know Jack 2015, the host will punish the player for typing the offending name. If the player does information technology one time, the host will deduct $1,000 from their score. If the player does it over again, the host volition deduct $fifty,001 from their score. (The deduction is simply cinematic, and does not persist to the get-go question of the game.) If the player does information technology 3 or more times, the host will end the game with a goat, forcing the player to quit to the main menu of Jack 2015.

Most versions of Yous Don't Know Jack offer the choice of playing a vii- or 21-question game; some versions offering but 15 questions (the Netshow, Louder! Faster! Funnier!, fifth Dementia and Mock 2), and others offer only 13 questions (The Ride), 11 questions (HeadRush, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Party, You Don't Know Jack 2015 and Full Stream), or seven questions ("The Lost Gold" and the Wink website). In a 21-question game, there is a brief intermission after the tenth question. Most questions are multiple choice, with some occasional free-entry questions, or mini-games. The Facebook version offers only 5 questions.

In its original format (Vol. 1, Sports, Vol. 2, Movies, TV, Vol 3, HeadRush, Offline, Louder! Faster! Funnier! and "The Lost Gilded"), before each question, one player is given a pick of three categories. Each has a humorous title that has some connectedness to the topic of the corresponding question. After a brusque animated introduction, which is often followed by a sung jingle well-nigh the question number, the host asks the question. Typically, the question is multiple choice and players are given x seconds to select an answer. The first player to "fizz in" and give the right answer wins the coin for that question and gets to cull the next category. If a player answers incorrectly, they lose money, only not earlier the host wisecracks most it. If all players answer incorrectly, or if none of the players fizz in and respond the question earlier the timer runs out, the host will reveal the correct answer; not answering doesn't give any players coin, the host will then randomly choose a thespian to select some other category. In The Ride, 5th Dementia, Mock 2, the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party, You Don't Know Jack 2015 and Full Stream, the category is chosen past the host or pre-assigned to an episode. Players can still fizz and answer inside 10 seconds in The Ride, 5th Dementia and Mock 2, while in You Don't Know Jack 2011, the Facebook version, OUYA, Political party, You Don't Know Jack 2015 and Full Stream, all players answer separately within xx seconds (more than one histrion tin can select the same answer). There are occasionally other question types offered (see below).

In earlier versions' multi-player games, each player is allowed ane take chances to "screw" an opponent in each half of a full (21-question) game, or once in an unabridged curt (seven-question) game. Using the "screw" forces the opponent to give an reply to a question inside ten seconds. If the actor who is "screwed" answers correctly, they win the money while the thespian who "screwed" them loses coin. This basic design has changed slightly in some versions of the game. For example, in the teen spinoff HeadRush, the screws are replaced by pairs of false teeth, so players "seize with teeth" their opponent instead. In The Ride, the feature is known as "FlakJack" and allows a actor to burn multiple screws into the screen, partially or totally obscuring the question and answers. The player then chooses an opponent, who must answer even if the question is no longer readable. In German-linguistic communication versions of the series, nails are used instead of screws.

In You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, OUYA, Party and You lot Don't Know Jack 2015, if a player uses the screw on an opponent, they simply have 5 seconds to answer the question. If the screwed player answers incorrectly or fails to answer before the 5 seconds are up, the player who used the screw takes the money from them. It is possible to use the screw on yourself, but subsequently the host tells you about the screw, yous will yet lose the money based on the time you used information technology at.

In Full Stream, either 1 or two screws (depending on the total number of players in the game, not counting Audience members) could exist awarded in one of 2 ways: (1) they could be given to the player(s) who gave the fewest right answers in Question 3, the "DisOrDat" round; and (ii) to the lowest-scoring role player(south) at the interruption earlier Question 6, which starts Round Two. (Several factors—too numerous to proper name hither—determined how many screws would be awarded in each case, and players could just hold one spiral at a time.) Unlike previous versions of the game, screws can touch on all other players instead of but one (most notably if they take not yet answered before the screw is activated), and they make the question more than difficult to answer for the players instead of forcing them to answer within a short amount of time. Those include removing all vowels from the answers on their devices, flipping the text of the question and the answers upside-downward or backwards on their devices, making the text of the question and the answers on their devices extremely small-scale or large, making the answers hashtagged on their devices, putting the answers on their devices into shades of gray, or bouncing the answers around the screen in the style of a screensaver program. Others include forcing the players to enter a password, ringlet through an excessively long "Terms of Service" form, or change their screen names before being able to select an answer. After the right answer is revealed, the player who used the screw earns extra money.

In earlier games, different category options were worth differing amounts of coin, which was revealed after a category was chosen. This amount indicated how difficult the question would be. Amounts initially varied betwixt $1,000, $ii,000, & $3,000, and were doubled during the second round of questions. Yet, Vol. 1, Sports, Vol. 2 and Movies occasionally featured questions hosted past guests spawned from Fiber Optic Field Trips and Glory Collect Calls; these were worth $5,000 and appeared every bit the first question of the 2nd round. Later on games in the series didn't give players three randomly generated categories, but instead gave a set number of questions in a set guild. In The Ride, players 'fizz in' to gear up the amount of money the question is worth. Values could range from only a few hundred dollars to $10,000 or more than. In 5th Dementia, the amounts of money each player sets add up to the total amount. In Mock ii, the host chooses a category and sets the corporeality of money to either $1,000, $2,000, or $three,000. In the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015, players win coin based on how long it took to answer correctly within the 20 seconds. The money is not doubled on the website or the Facebook version, but it was doubled in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Party and You lot Don't Know Jack 2015. In Total Stream, all questions in categories the host selected are worth $1,000 (double in Circular 2).

Some of the volumes have a feature called "Don't Be a Wimp", which is activated if 1 actor has a very big pb. If no one answers a question, the host may deride the leading player, calling on the audience to shout "Don't exist a wimp!", and forcing the leader to answer the question.

In some volumes, the host too punishes a histrion who buzzes in too early; the question disappears and a text box shows upward, leaving the thespian with x seconds to blazon the respond.^[6] For The Ride and 5th Dementia, this is replaced past dissimilar punishments: the role player is forced to pick from a listing of four nonsensical answers, all of which are wrong, or both the question and answers are scrambled. This punishment is simply triggered if a player buzzes in at the very instant that the question appears on the screen. In those three instances, the player that buzzed in also early on is not permitted to "screw" the other players.

In some volumes, the host removes the question so the players don't cheat; the four possible choices are still shown.

Question types [edit]

The majority of You Don't Know Jack questions are multiple selection, with 4 possible choices. Some questions are fill-in-the-blank, requiring a typed response.

Special questions are also played during the game. Each version of You Don't Know Jack has its ain different types of special questions, but some of the near common are:

• DisOrDat: This exists in all versions except Vol. i and Sports. Only one player plays the DisOrDat with a thirty-second time limit (in before games, this is played past the player that got the question right, in later on games, this is played by the histrion with the everyman score). The thespian is given two categories and vii different subjects, and information technology is upwards to the player to determine which category the subject falls nether (or, in some cases, whether the subject fits both of the two categories). For example, the actor might accept to determine if Jay Leno was a daytime or a nighttime talk show host, if orecchiette is a blazon of pasta or a parasite, or if "Urban" is the name of a Pope or a Britney Spears song. Coin is added for every correct answer, and deducted (or stolen by the other player(s) in the offline version of You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, Roku, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015) for every incorrect respond, every bit usual; whatever questions not answered earlier the thirty seconds expires are treated as wrong, and penalized accordingly. In Full Stream, all players play the DisOrDat simultaneously with a 5- or x-second time limit for each subject.
• Gibberish Questions: These exist in all versions except HeadRush, the PlayStation versions, the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, Roku, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. Players are given a mondegreen: a nonsensical phrase whose syllables rhyme with a more common phrase or title. For case, "Pre-empt Tires, Similar Scissure" could exist the gibberish to The Empire Strikes Dorsum. The question has a fourth dimension limit of 30 seconds, and the commencement player to buzz in and type the correct answer wins the coin. Clues are given as time passes, but the money decreases past v% of the initial starting value with every one.5 seconds that elapse. The money could get unrewarded if the amount goes downwardly to $0. In The Ride, the money decreases steadily over the entire xxx seconds. This question is famous for an Easter egg where if the first player types in the phrase "fuck you" ("fuck off" in the British version, and "Arschloch" in the German versions) as the answer, the host will respond bellyaching and volition either deduct $50,000 from their score or reset their score to $0 (whichever punishment is bigger), may deduct an boosted $100,000 from their score, and may change their name. If some other player does it, the host will reply by chastising that player for a lack of originality, but volition non deduct any money from their score or change their name. If a 3rd player does information technology, the host will declare the game to be over and get out, automatically endmost out the software. If the thespian presses any primal while the host is talking, the host will say an extra statement regarding that the game is ending regardless of what the thespian does before the software closes out. This Easter egg varies in later volumes of the game. In the 5th Dementia, the host will respond by deducting $100,000 from the get-go actor that typed the offending answer and replacing the player'due south spaceship avatar with a bare foot. If another thespian does it, the host will deduct $two from that player's score. If a third histrion does it, the host will declare the game to be over and go out, automatically closing out the software every bit usual. No additional dialogue from the host is provided from pressing whatever keys. Furthermore, no name change is given to whatever of the players.^{[7] [8]} In "The Lost Gold", the host volition answer past deducting $52,681 from the first player that typed the offending answer and changing the actor'due south name to "Arschloch" (a hold-over from the German Vol. 4, where the easter egg is triggered by typing "Arschloch"). If another thespian does information technology, the host will deduct $92,681 from that player's score, but will not change their name. If a 3rd player does it, the host will declare the game to exist over and leave, but instead of forcing the software to close out, the host will accept the players to a joke mini-game called "Gorilla Hunter"; the actor is given six bullets, simply in that location'south nothing to shoot at and the gun cannot be reloaded, forcing the players to quit the software manually through the pause carte du jour.^[9] In the Facebook version, the host mocks the histrion proverb that he can say the "nasty words" every bit well and proceeds to say a lot of them bleeped-out of context; no actress coin is lost other than the normal wrong answer penalty. In Total Stream, after the answer is revealed, the host will beam an Easter egg to the device of any players who entered in "fuck you" which explains the history of the Easter egg to them, with the host assuming they entered it in just for the Easter egg, and like in the Facebook version, no extra money is lost.
• Anagram Questions: These only exist in 5th Dementia and "The Lost Gilt", and follow the same rules every bit the Gibberish Questions; however, instead of trying to figure out a rhyme, players must rearrange the messages given into a saying, name, or other group (equally in the famous example of "genuine class" being an anagram of "Alec Guinness"). Different in other question types requiring a typed-in answer, the answer to an Anagram Question must exist spelled exactly right to win the money. This type of question as well appears in the Facebook version, only instead of beingness text-based, information technology is multiple choice.
• HeadButt: Only existing in HeadRush, these too follow the rules of the Gibberish Questions. Players are given a give-and-take equation (for example, "colour of pickles + opposite of night") and take to put it together to form a proper name or other group (in this case, the color of pickles is "Green", and the reverse of dark is "24-hour interval", and so the respond would be "Green Day").
• Fiber Optic Field Trips: These simply be in Vol. 1, Sports, Vol. ii, and Movies, and only appear in full (21-question) games. The host calls a random person from out of the phonebook and asks them to come with a trivia question. Fiber Optic Field Trips are initiated during the kickoff half of the game, and the trivia question hosted by the special invitee is the commencement question of the second half. All categories for this question type are worth $5,000.
• Celebrity Collect Calls: These merely exist in Vol. two and follow the same bones format as the Fiber Optic Field Trips. The host calls a celebrity and asks them to come up up with a trivia question. Celebrities include Tim Allen, Florence Henderson, and Vanessa L. Williams. Sometimes, the conversation between the host and the celebrity lasts a very long time.
• Pub Quizzes: These supervene upon the Cobweb Optic Field Trips and Glory Collect Calls in the British version of the game. Instead of calling a random person in a city, the host calls a bartender in a random pub inside the Great britain to give the players a question.
• Trash Talkin' with Milan: Merely existing in HeadRush, "Milan the Janitor" (voiced by Igor Gasowski) hosts a standard multiple choice question about grammar.
• Bug Out: This only exists in fifth Dementia. The goal is simple: Bugs volition crawl and display a choice. When you see a choice that does not friction match the clue, buzz in. In a multiplayer match, if you are right, your opponents pay you lot money, simply if y'all are wrong, you pay your opponents.
• Fill in the Blank: Instead of having four answers to choose from, yous have to type the answer out.
• Sequel Question: Some questions have questions that refer to them and are guaranteed to appear immediately after them. When this happens, all three selectable categories volition refer to the Sequel Question. In The Ride, 5th Dementia, Mock 2, the website, You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Party and You lot Don't Know Jack 2015, all questions are arranged into 'episodes' whose questions always appear in the same gild. This allows for a question to refer to any previous question, and for running jokes to be made. In You Don't Know Jack 2011, equally the question sets are fix into episodes, there volition be questions that are 20 or xxx questions after the first. ('A Harp out of Harp' related to Cookie'southward party episode.) In Full Stream, in that location are also Sequel Questions, most notably in a series of questions with a "Special Guest" (come across Guest Host Question below). Additionally, in Full Stream, sure serial of questions tin also trigger a specific post-game outcome, similar with the question "This Question Is Calculator Generated", which is followed past Nate Shapiro hosting an episode of Truth Talk 23/7 after the game.
• Pissed Nearly A Question: A special kind of Sequel Question. This only exists in both Offline volumes. Jellyvision creates new questions about angry messages they have received from irritated players. Each of these questions is based upon a alphabetic character from a viewer who complained about the previous question.
• RoadKill/Coinkydink: This only exists in The Ride (every bit RoadKill) and Mock ii (as Coinkydink). In this fast-paced question type, players are given ii clues (for example, "Sexy vox" and "Hefty child"). Several words fly past in rapid succession, and the players must buzz in when the word on the screen connects the 2 clues in a pair (in this case, the answer is "husky"). At the end of the question, players can earn a bonus for choosing the category which all the correct answers have in common.
• Jack BINGO: This only exists in The Ride. A five-alphabetic character word related to the episode's theme is offset given (for case, W-I-M-P-S in an episode about gym grade). A inkling to an answer is provided, after which the messages in the given word are randomly lit. The players must fizz in when the first letter to the clue'southward respond is lit. (In the example, the clue may be "SNL's Doug and Wendy ______"; the player rings in when the "W" is lit for the word "Whiner.") $500 and that answer'due south alphabetic character is given to the starting time player who is correct, and the next clue is given; a $500 penalisation is received for wrongly timed responses. The first to collect enough answers to spell out the given word wins the prize alleged before the start of this mini-circular; it tin can go unrewarded if nobody finishes the word subsequently a set number of clues.
• ThreeWay: This simply exists in Vol. 3 and the first PlayStation version. Players are given 3 words that have something in common (for instance, solid, liquid, and gas) and several clues that but relate to ane of the words (for case, "______ Plumr"). Players must match the clues to the proper words. The possible answers flash upward on the screen, and the players must buzz in when the correct reply appears (in this case, "liquid").
• Wendithap'n: This exists in Louder! Faster! Funnier!, Mock two and "The Lost Gold" and its German version You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 (as Wann War Was?) and follows the same rules as the ThreeWay. The player is given an event (either in pop culture history, or in sequence order) and must decide if several other events occurred before it, after it, or never occurred at all.
• Guest Host Question: Someone else hosts the question, and it appears in Vol. three and The Ride. In Full Stream, this question is known as a "Special Guest" Question with Jimmy Fallon (which bleeds over into the remainder of that particular game).
• Incommunicable Questions: Only existing in Vol. 3 and the first PlayStation version, Impossible Questions are worth very large amounts of money, just equally the proper noun implies, they are near always very, very difficult. Examples of Impossible Questions include what color eyes the bald guy has on the box of Y'all Don't Know Jack Sports, the number of years between the invention of the can and that of the get-go practical can opener within a two-year range (high or low), what number between one and 9 the host is thinking of, or what the third word is in the 3rd scene in the third act of Richard III. They can be either multiple selection or fill-in-the-bare. In a case of double-bluffing, one question, 'What has iv legs, a tail, and barks?', has the category 'It's a Dog!' and the answer 'a dog'.^[x] "The Lost Gold" has a variation of this question as well, non formally named and consisting of Pirate-themed questions such every bit "What was the name of Blackbeard's Parrot?" This was connected to the game'south plot - as explained in the game's introduction, a pirate has been cursed to haunt the game until its players accrue enough 'booty'. The pirate has thus secretly bundled the pirate-themed questions, which he believes are yet common noesis, in an endeavor to speed upward the procedure, not realizing how obscure and primitive his knowledge has become.
• Super Audio Question: A sound will play, and the host will ask y'all a question about it.
• Whatshisname Question: In this question, the host is trying to remember a certain name of a person, identify, or other group. A inkling is provided every few seconds, and the role player must buzz in and blazon the proper noun to win the money. This question is known in HeadRush as Old Human'south Moldy Memories and in Y'all Don't Know Jack 2015 equally Foggy Facts with Old Man which both characteristic the character of "Old Man" (voiced past Andy Poland) in which he hosts the question.
• Picture Question: This is similar to the Super Audio Question, but based on a moving-picture show rather than a sound.
• Who's The Dummy?: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and Y'all Don't Know Jack 2015. The host has taken upward ventriloquism, and asks a trivia question by way of his ventriloquist dummy, Billy O'Brien (or his sister Betty O'Brien). As the host explains, he has difficulty pronouncing consonant sounds such as B'southward, P's, and Thousand's (which become D's, T's, and Northward'south, respectively, and are translated as such in the text of the question and the answer choices), which adds a minor layer of difficulty to the question. The dummy also hosts one question in Full Stream.
• Cookie'southward Fortune Cookie Fortunes (with Cookie "Fortune Cookie" Masterson): This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You lot Don't Know Jack 2015. This mini-round appears randomly and includes trivia questions inspired by cliché fortune cookie letters that Cookie Masterson receives. For example, the fortune "Yous have a magnetic personality." leads to a question regarding which metal-based fictional character might be most attracted to him.
• Funky Trash: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. The host roots through the trash of a famous person, and the players must identify that person by his or her trash. For case, a World War I ambulance driver's license, cigar butts from Republic of cuba, and a can of ointment for 6-toed cats would be clues to Ernest Hemingway.
• Information technology's The Put The Choices Into Order Then Buzz In And See If You lot Are Right... Question: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. The host gives three or four items and the player has to fizz in to the corresponding right reply. The question is multiple selection, significant that, technically, the actor does non have to put the answers into the right order themselves only rather simply pick the right social club out of the four possibilities. For case, the player might have to determine the lodge in which the St. Louis Arch, the McDonald's Gilded Arches, and the Archie comic book serial debuted. Answering correctly awards the role player an extra $ane,000, even so, the extra money is not lost if a player is wrong.
• Nocturnal Admissions (with Cookie Masterson): Simply existing in You Don't Know Jack 2011, Cookie Masterson tells the player about a dream he had, which is based on a pic. The thespian so has to tell which movie that dream was nigh. The characters of the picture are replaced past Cookie himself, his cats and his mother, which often makes information technology difficult to effigy out the correct one. For example, Cookie tells of a dream in which he transferred his mind into a fake cat body and then he could learn the civilisation of his 2 cats. He does this to help with his mother'due south enquiry, but falls into love with the cat world and is therefore attacked by his mother's troops. The right answer to this dream would be James Cameron's Avatar.
• Wrong Answer of the Game: Not a question in and of itself, the Wrong Answer of the Game appears in You Don't Know Jack 2011, OUYA, Party and Y'all Don't Know Jack 2015. Before the beginning of the game, Schmitty announces a satirical sponsor for the episode (similar to The Ride). If a actor manages to buzz in with the wrong answer associated with the sponsor, they win $4,000 (double in Round two) and a 'prize' from the sponsor, instead of losing money. For example, in the episode sponsored past 'BloodCo.', answering with the incorrect answer 'Dracula' awards money and a bucket of man claret.
• Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt or Dracula? / Kangaroo, Peanut, Albert Einstein or Uranus? / Octopus, Java, Queen Elizabeth or Frankenstein?: First appeared in the iOS and Facebook versions, questions in this category e'er have the same four answer choices: Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt and Dracula. The question is posed in definition course, such as "Could be considered a Bull Moose". The player must decide, of the four reply choices, which one fits the definition. In this case, the respond is Teddy Roosevelt; he ran for president in 1912 as the Progressive Party'due south candidate, and his party was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. The concept is the same in You lot Don't Know Jack 2015 with Kangaroo, Peanut, Albert Einstein, and Uranus, and in Total Stream with Octopus, Coffee, Queen Elizabeth, and Frankenstein, which could be either the monster or the Doctor (and is specified in the question's animation).
• Data Mining: This only exists in Full Stream. A selection of a well-known personality'southward search history, in the class of queries or statements, are read to the players, who and then have to cull the right person the searches came from. For example, the searches "Directions to get effectually that runway", "Is 'I own't no' grammatically correct?", and "Why do these bananas sense of taste like [REDACTED]?" would vest to Gwen Stefani (referencing lyrics from her song Hollaback Daughter). Data Mining is a spiritual successor to Funky Trash.
• Thespian's Choice: This only exists in Total Stream. At a moment of the game, the Binjpipe host asks players, including the audience, to vote between two question categories. The question with the highest percentage of the votes is the question that will be asked. (In instance of a 50%/50% necktie, the Binjpipe host chooses between the two, presumably at random.) Examples of choices include: "An like shooting fish in a barrel question" or "A hard question", and "A question with airhorns" or "A question ABOUT airhorns".
• Binjpipe Recommends: This merely exists in Full Stream. A question is based on the genre, subject(s) or rating of a movie or TV show that is recommended by Binjpipe, presumably influenced by your prior "viewing choices" or internet research as referred to in the question.

Jack Attack [edit]

The concluding round of the game, called the Jack Assault in most versions and also known every bit the HeadRush in HeadRush, is a word association question. The category for this final circular—which generally describes the desired right answers—was determined differently, depending on which version of the game is being played. In earlier versions of the game, this was based on the terminal selected category; in later versions, the category is selected past the game or pre-assigned to an episode.

In most versions of the game, a word, phrase, or name appears in the middle of the screen, to which the player must detect an associated word or phrase that fits the overall category. For example, Star Wars might exist the associated word, and the correct answer fitting "pic stars" could be Harrison Ford. Other possibilities offered might include actors not in that movie, or other objects or concepts related to the film but which are not stars of the movie. For each associated field of study, several potential matches announced on screen 1-at-a-fourth dimension for merely a few seconds each before disappearing, and merely i is correct. The topics and/or potential answers are sometimes humorous.

Players win coin if they buzz in when the right friction match is displayed on the screen. An incorrect guess deducts money from the player's score—not just once, but every fourth dimension the player buzzes in incorrectly (it is possible to fizz in incorrectly multiple times while the same wrong respond is shown). The coin earned or lost was $two,000 in about You lot Don't Know Jack volumes, $5,000 in HeadRush, an amount ready by the players in The Ride and 5th Dementia, $4,000 in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS and Roku, $1,000 in the Facebook version, and $100, $500, or $1,000 in Full Stream depending on how long it takes the player to press the answer. Multiple players play simultaneously, playing to the same words. The words that are not matched will be cycled back in once all seven subjects have been attempted.

Jack Assault ends after either all seven subjects are either (a) matched with the right respond, or (b) attempted twice (some subjects are attempted three times). The exceptions are in some episodes of Yous Don't Know Jack 2011 and iOS, and all episodes of the Facebook version and You Don't Know Jack 2015, where all vii subjects are only shown once.

In Total Stream, merely six subjects are given per "Assault". In each instance, the aforementioned clue and subject in the center of the screen are presented to the players, with vi associated words—added two at a fourth dimension—tin can all exist available at once, and more than 1 answer can be correct. Players earn money for correct choices and lose coin for wrong choices. Then the players choose their answers, the less coin is earned or lost per pick (either $ane,000, $500, or $100). And since each actor answers separately on their device, all players tin score—either positively or negatively—on all the answers, simply but once per selected respond.

In all versions of the game, the running total of each player'southward score is not shown anywhere on the screen during Jack Attack, and this office of the game is usually accompanied past ominous music or ambience sounds. This creates tension between players because of the doubt of ranking, and the unsettling atmosphere.

Game show theme [edit]

Throughout the You Don't Know Jack franchise, in that location has been a running theme of You Don't Know Jack taking place on a self-titled televised game evidence where the players are the contestants. This idea is shown by satirical fake commercials that can exist heard while starting the game, and in most games, after the game has finished (run across below).

In Full Stream, instead of the game taking place on a traditional broadcast TV game show, the game becomes a show hosted on a fictional streaming service called Binjpipe. Between questions, the game navigates through the Binjpipe interface. During the game, a new female host (representing Binjpipe) speaks earlier the game, and hosts some question types like Binjpipe Recommends and Data Mining.

Commercials [edit]

I of the unique features of the game takes place after it has ended. Before you beginning a new game, you lot tin can cull to mind to You Don't Know Jack staff performing parodies of diverse radio commercials. The commercials vary in absurdity, selling products such as scented suppositories or foreign linguistic communication cassettes to assistance you larn how to speak American.

They as well featured phony news stories about everyday things. Examples: "Oxygen: Gas of Life? or Secret Military machine Death-Vapor?" or "People are falling unconscious for 8 hours every dark. What is the 'sleeping illness'? Do you have information technology? Find out tonight."

Most You Don't Know Jack games feature recurring characters like "Chocky the Chipmunk", a breakfast cereal mascot with the catchphrase "Pink and tartie!" or "Xenora: Queen of Battle", a parody of Xena, Warrior Princess that gets involved in overtly erotic situations. Others are "The Movie Ending Phone", "1-800-me4-sale", "Cancer Stick tobacco lip lotion", "Momma's Pride Human Chest Milk", "Buster'due south Bait Store" and parodies of public service announcements from the fictional "United States Department of Condescending Paternalism".

The first CD-ROM for The Ride features a CD of a selection of these commercials from the previous games in the series. The disc was titled You Don't Hear Jack and has since been released as a separate product on CD. A 2d disc titled Yous Don't Hear Jack 2 was also released featuring commercials from newer versions of You Don't Know Jack. Both are bachelor for digital download.

In Full Stream, commercials for Binjpipe are heard during the sign-in screen while players join in the game. In the post-game, radio shows are heard instead of commercials.

Hosts [edit]

There have been many different hosts of You Don't Know Jack over the years. The post-obit is a list of hosts and the games they appear in.

• Nate Shapiro (voiced by Harry Gottlieb) – Nate Shapiro was the offset host of the serial. He hosts Vol. ane, the Netshow, the tabletop game, and episodes 49 to 58 of The Ride. He also hosts a post-game radio show known as Truth Talk 23/7 in Full Stream. He is not to be confused with "Nate the Intern" from the Wink incarnation (voiced by Production & SQA Coordinator Nathan Fernald).^{[11] [12]}
• Guy Towers (voiced past Andy Poland) – He hosts Sports, Sports: The Netshow, and episodes 17 to 32 of The Ride.
• Buzz Lippman (voiced past Peter B. Spector) – He hosts Vol. two and appears in some episodes of The Ride. He is Nate Shapiro'due south cousin.
• Cookie Masterson (voiced by Tom Gottlieb) – Cookie Masterson is the most well-known host of the franchise. He originally served as the sign-in host, taking down players' names in the opening greenish room segments of Vol. 1, Sports and Vol. 2. He hosts the Netshow, Movies, Vol. iii, the first PlayStation version, episodes 1 to 16 of The Ride, Offline, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party, You Don't Know Jack 2015 and Total Stream. He also hosted the daily webshows that appeared on the Yous Don't Know Jack website from December 2006 through September 2008 (with one special episode in November 2010). He was also the announcer for the short-lived You Don't Know Jack Boob tube evidence in 2001.
• Josh "Schmitty" Schmitstinstein (voiced past Phil Ridarelli) – Josh Schmitstinstein, or "Schmitty", well known as the host of Lie Swatter, the Quiplash serial and Bracketeering is the virtually contempo of all the American CD-ROM hosts. He hosts the Netshow, TV, episodes 33 to 48 of The Ride, Louder! Faster! Funnier! (the second Offline game), 5th Dementia (the Online game), Mock ii (the 2nd PlayStation game), and "The Lost Gold". He too hosted one particular question in Cookie'southward volume of Offline. He also appear the sponsors in You Don't Know Jack 2011, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You lot Don't Know Jack 2015. In Full Stream, he hosts a post-game radio bear witness chosen You lot Don't Know Jack: Oldies Radio.
• Bob (voiced by Andy Poland) – The host of HeadRush.
• Jack Cake (voiced by Paul Kaye) – The host of the only British version of You Don't Know Jack.
• Quizmaster Jack (voiced by Axel Malzacher in Vol. 1 and Kai Taschner in Vol. 2, Vol. three: 'Abwärts!' , & Vol. 4) – The host of the German versions of Yous Don't Know Jack.
• Masatoshi Hamada – The host of the but Japanese version of You Don't Know Jack, and the only host who is not a fictional character.
• Troy Stevens (played by Paul Reubens) – The host of the 2001 You Don't Know Jack TV bear witness. He is the just host whose full concrete advent is known.

Game list [edit]

This is a list of the You Don't Know Jack games released:

• You Don't Know Jack (Vol. one) – September 12, 1995
• You Don't Know Jack Question Pack – 1996 (Yous Don't Know Jack Vol. 1 must already exist installed to play)
• You Don't Know Jack Sports – September xxx, 1996
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. ii – November 30, 1996
• You Don't Know Jack the Netshow – 1996–2000
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Movies – Apr xxx, 1997
• You Don't Know Jack Idiot box – May 9, 1997
• Yous Don't Know Jack Sports: The Netshow – 1997
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. three – October 31, 1997
• HeadRush (a teen spin-off game) – April twenty, 1998
• You lot Don't Know Jack (tabletop edition) past Tiger Electronics - 1998
  • NOTE: Game came with 500 Full general Noesis questions on 125 cards; additional 113-card, 450-question Expansion Packs with TV, Movies and Sports themed trivia were also released.
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4: The Ride – Nov 30, 1998
• You Don't Know Jack Offline (the all-time of the Netshow on Deejay) – 1999
• Y'all Don't Know Jack (PlayStation, has similarities to Vol. 3) – 1999
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Louder! Faster! Funnier! (2nd Offline game) – March 28, 2000
• Y'all Don't Know Jack 5th Dementia (Online game) – November one, 2000
• You Don't Know Jack Mock 2 (2nd PlayStation game) – November 1, 2000
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 6: "The Lost Gold" – December one, 2003
• Yous Don't Know Jack (Online beta game on the You lot Don't Know Jack website) – 2006–2008
• You Don't Know Jack – February 8, 2011^[13]
• You lot Don't Know Jack (iOS) – Apr 2011^[14]
• You Don't Know Jack (Facebook) – May 26, 2012 (shut downward March ane, 2015)
• You Don't Know Jack (second mobile game) (close down March 1, 2015)
  • iOS - December 13, 2012
  • You lot Dont Know Jack Lite – 2012
  • You lot Dont Know Jack (Roku) – 2012
  • Android - May 21, 2013
• Yous Don't Know Jack (OUYA) - June 11, 2013
• You lot Don't Know Jack Political party (has similarities to OUYA) - September xix, 2013
• Yous Don't Know Jack 2015 (Office of The Jackbox Party Pack) - Nov 18, 2014^[fifteen]
  • NOTE: Game contains fifteen episodes from OUYA and Party.
• You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream (Role of The Jackbox Political party Pack 5) - October 17, 2018^[16]

There is as well a British version, a French version, a Japanese version, and the post-obit German versions:

• You lot Don't Know Jack Vol. 1 – based on U.Southward. Vol. 2
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. 2 – based on U.Due south. Vol. 3
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 3: 'Abwärts!' – based on U.S. Vol. four ("The Ride")
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 – later used as a base of operations for U.Southward. Vol. half dozen ("The Lost Gold")

Reception [edit]

The You Don't Know Jack series shipped 500,000 units by December 1996.^[17] Shipments in the United States lone rose to nearly 1 million by February 1998.^[18] By 2001, the You Don't Know Jack series had totaled sales of 3.5 meg copies.^[nineteen] YDKJ sold above 4.5 million copies and drew revenues above $100 million by 2008.^[twenty]

Within Mac Games named You Don't Know Jack 2 the best puzzle game of 1996. The editors wrote that it "continues the high standards established past Berkeley's breakaway archetype".^[21] It received a score of 4 out of 5 from MacUser.^[22]

You Don't Know Jack Movies was a runner-up for Estimator Gaming World 's 1997 "Puzzle Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Smart Games Challenge ii. The editors chosen Movies a "hilarious political party game", and noted that it "came a close second".^[23]

Yous Don't Know Jack Twoscore won 2 1996 Spotlight Awards, for "All-time Script, Story or Interactive Writing" and "Best Trivia or Puzzle Game".^[24]

Yous Don't Know Jack Vol. 3 was the finalist for GameSpot's 1997 "Best Puzzles and Classics Game" award, which ultimately went to Chessmaster 5500. The editors wrote, "[I]f information technology weren't for the improver of the Threeway question format (which is a complete dud), You Don't Know Jack Iii would have reached instant-classic status."^[25]

You Don't Know Jack Vol. iv: The Ride won Computer Gaming World 's award for the all-time classic game of 1998. The editors wrote, "You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4: The Ride ranks easily as the all-time since the offset of the serial institute its way into the CGW Hall of Fame. And for that nosotros salute the folks at Berkeley Systems and Jellyvision, game designers who really do know Jack, at least where our funny basic are concerned."^[26] Information technology also won the 1998 Spotlight Accolade for "Best Trivia, Puzzle or Classic Game" from the Game Developers Briefing.^[27]

You Don't Know Jack: Huge received a score of four.5 out of 5 from Michael Gowan of Macworld, who wrote that the game "will strain your brain while agreeable you with its witty banter and rapid-burn action."^[28] In 1998, The Huge collection was named the 48th-all-time computer game of all time by PC Gamer US, whose editors called it "essential stuff."^[29]

Other media [edit]

During the 2000 presidential ballot, Sierra On-Line president David Grenewetzki challenged the presidential candidates to play a political version of Yous Don't Know Jack. The game had been distributed to a few radio stations, and was described as a "litmus test" of the candidates' political cognition.

You Don't Know Jack also appeared as two books: You Don't Know Jack: The Book and You lot Don't Know Jack: The Tv set Book. Both were published in 1998 by Running Press.

There was besides a Tiger Electronic tabletop game of Yous Don't Know Jack, emceed by Nate Shapiro. It featured question cards with a number code on them and a gray button to open a sliding door to evidence the answers. It was the first game to feature 4 players instead of 3 players. There were likewise "Sports", "Movies", and "Idiot box" question packs that were sold separately. A standalone handheld version was likewise released.

An bodily television receiver show version of You Don't Know Jack had a cursory run on ABC in prime number fourth dimension during the summer of 2001.^[thirty] It starred Paul Reubens (the role player and comedian best known for his graphic symbol Pee-wee Herman) equally over-the-top game show host Troy Stevens, with Tom Gottlieb's 'Cookie' equally the journalist. The bear witness lasted only six episodes, as information technology received very fiddling buzz and well-nigh You lot Don't Know Jack fans weren't even aware of its beingness until long afterward its cancellation.^{[ citation needed ]} A previous attempt had been made by Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Tv in 1996, produced by Ron Greenberg in Chicago; this version, intended equally a weekday syndicated show, was not picked up (later on initial tests and run-throughs necessitated a retooling of the show; Telepictures subsequently chose to drib the project).^{[31] [32] [33] [34] [35]}

After the You Don't Know Jack TV show ended, another show from the makers of You Don't Know Jack called Smush aired on USA Network in tardily 2001. It was a game of taking two or more words and combining them into ane long word. The evidence started belatedly at nighttime, but was afterwards pushed to later and later times, even up to 3:00 A.M.; until it was eventually canceled.

In 2001, AMC released Y'all Don't Know Jack near MonsterFest, an online game on their website emceed by Schmitty, and the MonsterFest picture marathon was hosted past Clive Barker and Carmen Electra, who gave clues for the game.

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External links [edit]

• Official You Don't Know Jack website (now redirects to the Jackbox Party Pack 1 store page)
• You Don't Know Jack at MobyGames

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