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Yous Don't Know Jack
Genre(s)	Party
Developer(southward)	Berkeley Systems, Jackbox Games, Starsphere Interactive, Fe Galaxy Studios, Webfoot Technologies, Flipside.com
Publisher(south)	Sierra On-Line, THQ, Jackbox Games, Berkeley Systems, SPELGRIM.Com, Majesco Amusement, TopWare Interactive, Warner Bros. Games, Tsukuda Original, Telltale Publishing
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, PlayStation, Xbox 360, Xbox 1, PlayStation 3, PlayStation four, Wii, Nintendo DS, iOS, Apple Tv set, Android, Roku, OUYA, Nintendo Switch
First release	Yous Don't Know Jack
Latest release	You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream October 17, 2018

You Don't Know Jack is a serial of video games developed by Jackbox Games (formerly known equally Jellyvision Games^[one]) and Berkeley Systems, as well as the title of the starting time You Don't Know Jack game in the serial. You lot Don't Know Jack, framed as a game show "where high culture and pop civilization collide", combines trivia with one-act. While it is primarily a PC and Mac-based franchise with over 2 dozen releases and compilations for those platforms, there have been a few entries released for consoles: two 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^[2] with cantankerous-platform versions subsequently released for iOS,^[3] Android^[four] and Kindle. On Nov v, 2013, the majority of the franchise'due south many volumes and spinoffs were reissued onto Steam^[5] by Jackbox Games. On November 18, 2014, You Don't Know Jack 2015 was released as part of The Jackbox Party Pack on Windows, macOS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation four, and later Nintendo Switch, iPad, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Nvidia Shield, Apple TV, and Xfinity X1. On October 17, 2018, You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream was released as office of The Jackbox Party Pack 5 for the same platforms every bit Y'all Don't Know Jack 2015.

History [edit]

In 1991, Jellyvision'south one-time identity, Acquire Television receiver, released the award-winning film The Listen's Treasure Chest, which featured atomic number 82 grapheme Jack Patterson. When Learn Television sought to utilize new multimedia technologies to create a more active learning feel, the company teamed up with Follett Software Company and developed "That'southward a Fact, Jack!", a reading motivation CD-ROM game show series roofing young adult fiction, targeted to 3rd through 10th graders. The game would requite a championship for a kid to read, and so ask questions related to that championship.

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

Gameplay [edit]

Most versions of the game tin be played past upwards to three players. The game can be played by simply one actor on the website and the iOS app. The game tin exist 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 Political party Pack titled You Don't Know Jack 2015. The Full Stream edition in The Jackbox Party Pack five can accommodate up to eight players plus up to ten,000 boosted "Audience" members. All versions of the game characteristic 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 sound during this segment includes rehearsing singers, a busy producer, and a harassed studio managing director/host. The simply graphics are a large "On Air/Stand By" sign in the middle of the screen, visual representations of the players' button assignments, and a box for name entry. If the players take too long to retrieve of their names or if the players printing the "render" or "enter" key without typing in their names, then the announcer will proper noun the players. In games starting with the Netshow, on sure days, such as Christmas Eve, or certain times such as a Sat night, or fifty-fifty during Twilight, the announcer volition mention the time of day or the special holiday, and sometimes grumble about the game being played at that time or on that twenty-four hour period. In that location is no box for name entry in the second episode of The Ride. In the PlayStation versions, subsequently the game is finished, players tin can name themselves next to the score recorded. In the panel versions of You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, the OUYA version, and the single-actor games of Y'all 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 You Don't Know Jack 2011 likewise allows players to make new names in the "Contestants" section.) If one or more than players choose the "I don't intendance" pick, the announcer or the host will 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 player types in the phrase "fuck yous" as their proper noun. The phrase will be inverse to a good name subsequently. In You Don't Know Jack 2011 and OUYA, the announcer will tell the player that they take no friends or didn't use proper English. In You Don't Know Jack 2015, the host will punish the thespian for typing the offending name. If the actor does it once, the host will deduct $1,000 from their score. If the player does it again, the host will deduct $50,001 from their score. (The deduction is only cinematic, and does not persist to the first question of the game.) If the player does it three or more times, the host will end the game with a goat, forcing the player to quit to the principal menu of Jack 2015.

Most versions of Yous Don't Know Jack offer the selection of playing a 7- or 21-question game; some versions offering only 15 questions (the Netshow, Louder! Faster! Funnier!, fifth Dementia and Mock ii), and others offer only 13 questions (The Ride), 11 questions (HeadRush, You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Party, Yous Don't Know Jack 2015 and Full Stream), or 7 questions ("The Lost Golden" and the Flash website). In a 21-question game, at that place is a brief intermission after the tenth question. Nigh questions are multiple selection, with some occasional free-entry questions, or mini-games. The Facebook version offers only v questions.

In its original format (Vol. 1, Sports, Vol. 2, Movies, TV, Vol 3, HeadRush, Offline, Louder! Faster! Funnier! and "The Lost Gold"), before each question, 1 player is given a choice of three categories. Each has a humorous championship that has some connection to the topic of the corresponding question. Later a brusk animated introduction, which is often followed by a sung jingle almost the question number, the host asks the question. Typically, the question is multiple choice and players are given 10 seconds to select an answer. The first player to "fizz in" and give the right respond wins the money for that question and gets to choose the next category. If a thespian answers incorrectly, they lose money, simply not before the host wisecracks nearly it. If all players answer incorrectly, or if none of the players buzz in and answer the question before the timer runs out, the host volition reveal the right reply; non answering doesn't give any players coin, the host will then randomly cull a player to select another category. In The Ride, 5th Dementia, Mock ii, 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 by the host or pre-assigned to an episode. Players tin still buzz and answer within ten seconds in The Ride, fifth Dementia and Mock 2, while in You Don't Know Jack 2011, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party, You Don't Know Jack 2015 and Full Stream, all players respond separately within 20 seconds (more than one thespian can select the aforementioned respond). In that location are occasionally other question types offered (run into below).

In earlier versions' multi-thespian games, each player is immune one adventure to "screw" an opponent in each half of a full (21-question) game, or one time in an entire curt (seven-question) game. Using the "screw" forces the opponent to give an answer to a question inside ten seconds. If the thespian who is "screwed" answers correctly, they win the coin while the actor 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 past pairs of simulated teeth, so players "bite" their opponent instead. In The Ride, the feature is known as "FlakJack" and allows a player to burn down multiple screws into the screen, partially or totally obscuring the question and answers. The player then chooses an opponent, who must respond even if the question is no longer readable. In German-linguistic communication versions of the series, nails are used instead of screws.

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

In Total Stream, either i or two screws (depending on the total number of players in the game, not counting Audience members) could exist awarded in ane of two ways: (1) they could be given to the player(s) who gave the fewest correct answers in Question 3, the "DisOrDat" round; and (2) to the lowest-scoring player(s) at the intermission before Question 6, which starts Circular Two. (Several factors—likewise numerous to name here—determined how many screws would be awarded in each case, and players could merely hold one spiral at a time.) Different previous versions of the game, screws can affect all other players instead of only i (most notably if they have not however answered before the spiral is activated), and they make the question more difficult to answer for the players instead of forcing them to respond inside 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-down or backwards on their devices, making the text of the question and the answers on their devices extremely small or large, making the answers hashtagged on their devices, putting the answers on their devices into shades of gray, or bouncing the answers effectually the screen in the style of a screensaver plan. Others include forcing the players to enter a countersign, gyre through an excessively long "Terms of Service" form, or change their screen names before being able to select an answer. After the correct answer is revealed, the player who used the screw earns extra money.

In before games, different category options were worth differing amounts of money, which was revealed after a category was chosen. This amount indicated how difficult the question would exist. Amounts initially varied between $one,000, $2,000, & $3,000, and were doubled during the second circular of questions. Withal, Vol. one, Sports, Vol. ii and Movies occasionally featured questions hosted by 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 second round. Later games in the series didn't give players three randomly generated categories, but instead gave a gear up number of questions in a set order. In The Ride, players 'fizz in' to set the corporeality of money the question is worth. Values could range from just a few hundred dollars to $x,000 or more. In 5th Dementia, the amounts of coin each player sets add together upwards to the total corporeality. In Mock 2, the host chooses a category and sets the amount of money to either $1,000, $2,000, or $3,000. In the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and Yous Don't Know Jack 2015, players win money based on how long it took to answer correctly inside the 20 seconds. The money is not doubled on the website or the Facebook version, just it was doubled in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Political party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. In Full Stream, all questions in categories the host selected are worth $i,000 (double in Round ii).

Some of the volumes have a feature called "Don't Be a Wimp", which is activated if i player has a very large lead. If no one answers a question, the host may deride the leading role 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 also punishes a player who buzzes in too early on; the question disappears and a text box shows upwardly, leaving the player with 10 seconds to type the respond.^[6] For The Ride and 5th Dementia, this is replaced past dissimilar punishments: the player is forced to selection from a list of iv nonsensical answers, all of which are incorrect, or both the question and answers are scrambled. This penalisation is only triggered if a player buzzes in at the very instant that the question appears on the screen. In those iii instances, the player that buzzed in too early is not permitted to "screw" the other players.

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

Question types [edit]

The majority of Y'all Don't Know Jack questions are multiple option, with four possible choices. Some questions are fill-in-the-bare, requiring a typed response.

Special questions are also played during the game. Each version of Y'all Don't Know Jack has its own unlike types of special questions, just some of the nigh mutual are:

• DisOrDat: This exists in all versions except Vol. 1 and Sports. Just one actor plays the DisOrDat with a 30-second time limit (in earlier games, this is played past the player that got the question right, in later games, this is played by the actor with the lowest score). The role player is given ii categories and 7 different subjects, and it is up to the role player to make up one's mind which category the subject falls under (or, in some cases, whether the subject fits both of the 2 categories). For instance, the player might take to determine if Jay Leno was a daytime or a dark talk show host, if orecchiette is a type of pasta or a parasite, or if "Urban" is the name of a Pope or a Britney Spears song. Coin is added for every right answer, and deducted (or stolen by the other player(south) in the offline version of You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, Roku, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015) for every wrong answer, every bit usual; any questions not answered earlier the thirty seconds expires are treated every bit wrong, and penalized accordingly. In Full Stream, all players play the DisOrDat simultaneously with a 5- or x-2nd time limit for each subject.
• Gibberish Questions: These be in all versions except HeadRush, the PlayStation versions, the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, Roku, OUYA, Political party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. Players are given a mondegreen: a nonsensical phrase whose syllables rhyme with a more mutual phrase or title. For example, "Pre-empt Tires, Like Crack" could be the gibberish to The Empire Strikes Back. The question has a time limit of 30 seconds, and the first histrion to buzz in and type the correct answer wins the money. Clues are given every bit time passes, but the money decreases by v% of the initial starting value with every 1.5 seconds that elapse. The money could become unrewarded if the corporeality goes downwardly to $0. In The Ride, the money decreases steadily over the unabridged 30 seconds. This question is famous for an Easter egg where if the first histrion types in the phrase "fuck you" ("fuck off" in the British version, and "Arschloch" in the German versions) equally the answer, the host will respond bellyaching and volition either deduct $50,000 from their score or reset their score to $0 (whichever penalisation is bigger), may deduct an additional $100,000 from their score, and may change their name. If another player does it, the host volition respond by chastising that histrion for a lack of originality, but will not deduct any money from their score or change their proper name. If a third player does it, the host will declare the game to exist over and leave, automatically closing out the software. If the actor presses whatsoever central while the host is talking, the host volition say an extra statement regarding that the game is catastrophe regardless of what the player does before the software closes out. This Easter egg varies in afterwards volumes of the game. In the 5th Dementia, the host will respond past deducting $100,000 from the first histrion that typed the offending answer and replacing the histrion'southward spaceship avatar with a bare foot. If some other histrion does it, the host volition deduct $2 from that player'southward score. If a third player does it, the host will declare the game to be over and exit, automatically closing out the software every bit usual. No additional dialogue from the host is provided from pressing any keys. Furthermore, no proper name change is given to any of the players.^{[7] [8]} In "The Lost Gold", the host will respond by deducting $52,681 from the kickoff player that typed the offending respond and changing the player's name to "Arschloch" (a hold-over from the German language Vol. 4, where the easter egg is triggered by typing "Arschloch"). If some other player does it, the host will deduct $92,681 from that histrion's score, simply volition not change their name. If a tertiary player does it, the host will declare the game to be over and leave, just instead of forcing the software to close out, the host will take the players to a joke mini-game called "Gorilla Hunter"; the histrion is given half dozen bullets, but there's nothing to shoot at and the gun cannot be reloaded, forcing the players to quit the software manually through the pause menu.^[9] In the Facebook version, the host mocks the actor saying that he tin can say the "nasty words" also and gain to say a lot of them bleeped-out of context; no extra coin is lost other than the normal wrong answer penalization. In Full 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 only for the Easter egg, and similar in the Facebook version, no extra coin is lost.
• Anagram Questions: These but exist in 5th Dementia and "The Lost Gold", and follow the same rules as the Gibberish Questions; however, instead of trying to figure out a rhyme, players must rearrange the letters given into a saying, name, or other group (equally in the famous example of "genuine form" being an anagram of "Alec Guinness"). Unlike 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 likewise appears in the Facebook version, merely instead of beingness text-based, information technology is multiple selection.
• HeadButt: Only existing in HeadRush, these also follow the rules of the Gibberish Questions. Players are given a word equation (for example, "color of pickles + opposite of night") and have to put it together to form a name or other group (in this instance, the color of pickles is "Green", and the opposite of night is "Day", and so the reply would be "Light-green Mean solar day").
• Cobweb Optic Field Trips: These merely exist in Vol. 1, Sports, Vol. 2, 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 up with a trivia question. Fiber Optic Field Trips are initiated during the kickoff one-half of the game, and the trivia question hosted by the special invitee is the commencement question of the 2d one-half. All categories for this question type are worth $5,000.
• Celebrity Collect Calls: These simply be in Vol. 2 and follow the aforementioned bones format as the Cobweb Optic Field Trips. The host calls a celebrity and asks them to come with a trivia question. Celebrities include Tim Allen, Florence Henderson, and Vanessa Fifty. Williams. Sometimes, the conversation between the host and the glory lasts a very long time.
• Pub Quizzes: These replace the Fiber Optic Field Trips and Celebrity 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 within the UK to give the players a question.
• Trash Talkin' with Milan: Just existing in HeadRush, "Milan the Janitor" (voiced by Igor Gasowski) hosts a standard multiple choice question about grammar.
• Problems Out: This only exists in 5th Dementia. The goal is simple: Bugs will crawl and display a choice. When you come across a choice that does not match the inkling, buzz in. In a multiplayer match, if yous are right, your opponents pay you money, but if y'all are wrong, you lot pay your opponents.
• Fill in the Bare: Instead of having four answers to cull from, you have to type the respond out.
• Sequel Question: Some questions have questions that refer to them and are guaranteed to appear immediately after them. When this happens, all iii selectable categories will refer to the Sequel Question. In The Ride, 5th Dementia, Mock two, the website, You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015, all questions are arranged into 'episodes' whose questions ever appear in the same social club. 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, every bit the question sets are set into episodes, in that location will be questions that are 20 or 30 questions after the commencement. ('A Harp out of Harp' related to Cookie's party episode.) In Full Stream, there are besides Sequel Questions, most notably in a series of questions with a "Special Guest" (run into Guest Host Question below). Additionally, in Full Stream, certain series of questions tin also trigger a specific mail-game event, like with the question "This Question Is Computer Generated", which is followed by Nate Shapiro hosting an episode of Truth Talk 23/7 after the game.
• Pissed About A Question: A special kind of Sequel Question. This only exists in both Offline volumes. Jellyvision creates new questions about angry letters they accept received from irritated players. Each of these questions is based upon a letter from a viewer who complained about the previous question.
• RoadKill/Coinkydink: This only exists in The Ride (as RoadKill) and Mock 2 (equally Coinkydink). In this fast-paced question type, players are given two clues (for example, "Sexy vocalization" and "Hefty child"). Several words wing past in rapid succession, and the players must buzz in when the give-and-take on the screen connects the two clues in a pair (in this case, the respond is "husky"). At the end of the question, players can earn a bonus for choosing the category which all the correct answers accept in common.
• Jack BINGO: This only exists in The Ride. A five-letter word related to the episode's theme is start given (for example, W-I-Chiliad-P-S in an episode about gym class). A inkling to an answer is provided, after which the letters in the given word are randomly lit. The players must buzz in when the start letter to the inkling'due south respond is lit. (In the example, the clue may be "SNL's Doug and Wendy ______"; the actor rings in when the "W" is lit for the word "Whiner.") $500 and that answer'south letter of the alphabet is given to the first player who is correct, and the adjacent clue is given; a $500 penalisation is received for wrongly timed responses. The showtime to collect enough answers to spell out the given discussion wins the prize alleged earlier the showtime of this mini-round; information technology can become unrewarded if nobody finishes the word after a fix number of clues.
• ThreeWay: This just exists in Vol. 3 and the first PlayStation version. Players are given three words that accept something in mutual (for instance, solid, liquid, and gas) and several clues that just relate to one of the words (for instance, "______ 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 right answer appears (in this case, "liquid").
• Wendithap'n: This exists in Louder! Faster! Funnier!, Mock 2 and "The Lost Golden" and its German version You Don't Know Jack Vol. four (as Wann War Was?) and follows the aforementioned rules as the ThreeWay. The thespian is given an event (either in pop civilisation history, or in sequence order) and must decide if several other events occurred earlier it, later on it, or never occurred at all.
• Guest Host Question: Someone else hosts the question, and it appears in Vol. 3 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 item game).
• Impossible Questions: Only existing in Vol. iii and the first PlayStation version, Incommunicable Questions are worth very large amounts of money, only equally the name implies, they are near always very, very difficult. Examples of Incommunicable Questions include what color optics the baldheaded guy has on the box of Yous Don't Know Jack Sports, the number of years between the invention of the can and that of the commencement practical can opener within a two-yr range (high or low), what number between i and nine the host is thinking of, or what the third word is in the third scene in the 3rd human activity of Richard 3. They can be either multiple choice or fill-in-the-bare. In a case of double-bluffing, one question, 'What has four legs, a tail, and barks?', has the category 'Information technology's a Dog!' and the reply 'a dog'.^[10] "The Lost Aureate" has a variation of this question equally well, not formally named and consisting of Pirate-themed questions such as "What was the name of Blackbeard's Parrot?" This was connected to the game's plot - every bit explained in the game'south introduction, a pirate has been cursed to haunt the game until its players accrue enough 'haul'. The pirate has thus secretly bundled the pirate-themed questions, which he believes are still common noesis, in an attempt to speed up the procedure, not realizing how obscure and archaic his cognition has go.
• Super Audio Question: A sound volition play, and the host will enquire you a question about it.
• Whatshisname Question: In this question, the host is trying to remember a sure proper name of a person, place, or other grouping. A clue is provided every few seconds, and the player must fizz in and type the name to win the money. This question is known in HeadRush as Old Man's Moldy Memories and in You Don't Know Jack 2015 equally Foggy Facts with Old Man which both characteristic the graphic symbol of "Quondam Human being" (voiced by Andy Poland) in which he hosts the question.
• Picture Question: This is like to the Super Audio Question, but based on a picture rather than a audio.
• Who'south The Dummy?: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. The host has taken up 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 equally B'south, P'due south, and M's (which become D's, T's, and N's, 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'due south Fortune Cookie Fortunes (with Cookie "Fortune Cookie" Masterson): This exists in Yous Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Political party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. This mini-round appears randomly and includes trivia questions inspired by platitude fortune cookie messages that Cookie Masterson receives. For instance, the fortune "You have a magnetic personality." leads to a question regarding which metal-based fictional grapheme might be nigh attracted to him.
• Funky Trash: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and Yous Don't Know Jack 2015. The host roots through the trash of a famous person, and the players must identify that person past his or her trash. For example, a World War I ambulance commuter's license, cigar butts from Cuba, and a tin of ointment for 6-toed cats would be clues to Ernest Hemingway.
• It's The Put The Choices Into Guild Then Buzz In And Encounter If You Are Right... Question: This exists in You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, the Facebook version, OUYA, Political party and Yous 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 choice, meaning that, technically, the player does not have to put the answers into the right order themselves just rather just pick the correct lodge out of the 4 possibilities. For example, the actor might take to determine the order in which the St. Louis Arch, the McDonald's Golden Arches, and the Archie comic volume series debuted. Answering correctly awards the player an extra $1,000, however, the extra money is not lost if a histrion is incorrect.
• Nocturnal Admissions (with Cookie Masterson): Only existing in You Don't Know Jack 2011, Cookie Masterson tells the player about a dream he had, which is based on a movie. The role player then has to tell which movie that dream was about. The characters of the flick are replaced by Cookie himself, his cats and his mother, which often makes it difficult to effigy out the right one. For example, Cookie tells of a dream in which he transferred his mind into a imitation true cat body and so he could learn the civilisation of his 2 cats. He does this to help with his mother'due south enquiry, merely falls into dearest with the cat globe and is therefore attacked by his mother's troops. The right respond to this dream would be James Cameron's Avatar.
• Wrong Answer of the Game: Not a question in and of itself, the Wrong Reply of the Game appears in You lot Don't Know Jack 2011, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. Before the commencement of the game, Schmitty announces a satirical sponsor for the episode (similar to The Ride). If a player manages to buzz in with the wrong reply associated with the sponsor, they win $4,000 (double in Round two) and a 'prize' from the sponsor, instead of losing coin. For example, in the episode sponsored by 'BloodCo.', answering with the incorrect reply 'Dracula' awards money and a saucepan of human claret.
• Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt or Dracula? / Kangaroo, Peanut, Albert Einstein or Uranus? / Octopus, Coffee, Queen Elizabeth or Frankenstein?: Beginning appeared in the iOS and Facebook versions, questions in this category always have the same iv reply choices: Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt and Dracula. The question is posed in definition form, such as "Could be considered a Bull Moose". The player must make up one's mind, of the four respond choices, which one fits the definition. In this case, the answer is Teddy Roosevelt; he ran for president in 1912 every bit the Progressive Party'south candidate, and his party was nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. The concept is the same in You Don't Know Jack 2015 with Kangaroo, Peanut, Albert Einstein, and Uranus, and in Full Stream with Octopus, Coffee, Queen Elizabeth, and Frankenstein, which could be either the monster or the Medico (and is specified in the question's blitheness).
• Data Mining: This only exists in Full Stream. A selection of a well-known personality's search history, in the form of queries or statements, are read to the players, who then have to choose the right person the searches came from. For example, the searches "Directions to get effectually that track", "Is 'I ain't no' grammatically correct?", and "Why practice these bananas gustation like [REDACTED]?" would vest to Gwen Stefani (referencing lyrics from her song Hollaback Girl). Data Mining is a spiritual successor to Funky Trash.
• Role player's Choice: This just exists in Full Stream. At a moment of the game, the Binjpipe host asks players, including the audience, to vote between ii question categories. The question with the highest percentage of the votes is the question that will be asked. (In case of a 50%/50% tie, the Binjpipe host chooses between the 2, 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 only exists in Full Stream. A question is based on the genre, field of study(due south) or rating of a movie or TV evidence that is recommended past Binjpipe, presumably influenced by your prior "viewing choices" or internet research as referred to in the question.

Jack Attack [edit]

The terminal round of the game, chosen the Jack Attack in most versions and also known every bit the HeadRush in HeadRush, is a word association question. The category for this final round—which more often than not describes the desired right answers—was determined differently, depending on which version of the game is beingness played. In earlier versions of the game, this was based on the final selected category; in after versions, the category is selected by the game or pre-assigned to an episode.

In most versions of the game, a give-and-take, phrase, or name appears in the middle of the screen, to which the player must find an associated give-and-take or phrase that fits the overall category. For instance, Star Wars might be the associated word, and the correct answer fitting "movie stars" could be Harrison Ford. Other possibilities offered might include actors not in that film, or other objects or concepts related to the moving picture merely which are not stars of the movie. For each associated subject, several potential matches announced on screen i-at-a-time for only a few seconds each before disappearing, and only one is correct. The topics and/or potential answers are sometimes humorous.

Players win money if they fizz in when the right friction match is displayed on the screen. An incorrect gauge deducts money from the thespian's score—not merely one time, but every time the player buzzes in incorrectly (it is possible to buzz in incorrectly multiple times while the same incorrect answer is shown). The money earned or lost was $2,000 in near Y'all Don't Know Jack volumes, $5,000 in HeadRush, an amount set by the players in The Ride and fifth 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 histrion to printing the answer. Multiple players play simultaneously, playing to the same words. The words that are not matched will be cycled back in once all vii subjects take been attempted.

Jack Attack ends after either all vii subjects are either (a) matched with the right reply, or (b) attempted twice (some subjects are attempted 3 times). The exceptions are in some episodes of You 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 simply shown once.

In Full Stream, just six subjects are given per "Attack". In each case, the same clue and subject in the eye of the screen are presented to the players, with six associated words—added two at a fourth dimension—can all be available at in one case, and more than than 1 answer tin can be right. Players earn money for correct choices and lose coin for incorrect choices. And so the players cull their answers, the less money is earned or lost per choice (either $1,000, $500, or $100). And since each player answers separately on their device, all players tin score—either positively or negatively—on all the answers, but only once per selected answer.

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

Game show theme [edit]

Throughout the Yous Don't Know Jack franchise, there has been a running theme of Y'all Don't Know Jack taking identify on a self-titled televised game show where the players are the contestants. This idea is shown past satirical fake commercials that can be heard while starting the game, and in most games, after the game has finished (see below).

In Full Stream, instead of the game taking place on a traditional circulate Tv game testify, the game becomes a show hosted on a fictional streaming service chosen Binjpipe. Between questions, the game navigates through the Binjpipe interface. During the game, a new female person host (representing Binjpipe) speaks before 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 y'all start a new game, you can cull to listen to You lot Don't Know Jack staff performing parodies of various radio commercials. The commercials vary in absurdity, selling products such as scented suppositories or foreign language cassettes to assist you acquire how to speak American.

They also featured phony news stories almost everyday things. Examples: "Oxygen: Gas of Life? or Hole-and-corner Military Death-Vapor?" or "People are falling unconscious for viii hours every night. What is the 'sleeping illness'? Do you have it? Find out this night."

About You Don't Know Jack games characteristic 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 Telephone", "1-800-me4-sale", "Cancer Stick tobacco lip lotion", "Momma'southward Pride Human Breast Milk", "Buster'southward Bait Shop" and parodies of public service announcements from the fictional "Usa 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 serial. The disc was titled Y'all Don't Hear Jack and has since been released every bit a split up product on CD. A second disc titled You Don't Hear Jack two was too released featuring commercials from newer versions of You Don't Know Jack. Both are available 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 following 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 series. He hosts Vol. i, the Netshow, the tabletop game, and episodes 49 to 58 of The Ride. He also hosts a post-game radio show known every bit Truth Talk 23/7 in Full Stream. He is not to be confused with "Nate the Intern" from the Flash incarnation (voiced by Production & SQA Coordinator Nathan Fernald).^{[xi] [12]}
• Guy Towers (voiced by Andy Poland) – He hosts Sports, Sports: The Netshow, and episodes 17 to 32 of The Ride.
• Buzz Lippman (voiced by Peter B. Spector) – He hosts Vol. 2 and appears in some episodes of The Ride. He is Nate Shapiro'southward cousin.
• Cookie Masterson (voiced past Tom Gottlieb) – Cookie Masterson is the most well-known host of the franchise. He originally served every bit the sign-in host, taking down players' names in the opening light-green room segments of Vol. ane, Sports and Vol. 2. He hosts the Netshow, Movies, Vol. 3, the outset PlayStation version, episodes i 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 Y'all Don't Know Jack website from December 2006 through September 2008 (with one special episode in November 2010). He was also the journalist for the short-lived Yous Don't Know Jack TV bear witness in 2001.
• Josh "Schmitty" Schmitstinstein (voiced by Phil Ridarelli) – Josh Schmitstinstein, or "Schmitty", well known every bit the host of Lie Swatter, the Quiplash series and Bracketeering is the nearly contempo of all the American CD-ROM hosts. He hosts the Netshow, Boob tube, episodes 33 to 48 of The Ride, Louder! Faster! Funnier! (the 2nd Offline game), 5th Dementia (the Online game), Mock two (the 2nd PlayStation game), and "The Lost Gold". He besides hosted one particular question in Cookie's volume of Offline. He also appear the sponsors in Y'all Don't Know Jack 2011, the Facebook version, OUYA, Party and You Don't Know Jack 2015. In Full Stream, he hosts a mail service-game radio show chosen Yous Don't Know Jack: Oldies Radio.
• Bob (voiced by Andy Poland) – The host of HeadRush.
• Jack Block (voiced by Paul Kaye) – The host of the but British version of You Don't Know Jack.
• Quizmaster Jack (voiced by Axel Malzacher in Vol. 1 and Kai Taschner in Vol. 2, Vol. 3: 'Abwärts!' , & Vol. 4) – The host of the High german versions of Y'all Don't Know Jack.
• Masatoshi Hamada – The host of the only Japanese version of Yous Don't Know Jack, and the only host who is non a fictional graphic symbol.
• Troy Stevens (played by Paul Reubens) – The host of the 2001 You Don't Know Jack Television show. He is the only host whose full concrete appearance is known.

Game list [edit]

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

• Y'all Don't Know Jack (Vol. one) – September 12, 1995
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Question Pack – 1996 (You Don't Know Jack Vol. 1 must already be installed to play)
• Yous Don't Know Jack Sports – September 30, 1996
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 2 – November 30, 1996
• You Don't Know Jack the Netshow – 1996–2000
• You lot Don't Know Jack Movies – April 30, 1997
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Goggle box – May ix, 1997
• You Don't Know Jack Sports: The Netshow – 1997
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 3 – October 31, 1997
• HeadRush (a teen spin-off game) – Apr 20, 1998
• Y'all Don't Know Jack (tabletop edition) past Tiger Electronics - 1998
  • Note: Game came with 500 General Cognition questions on 125 cards; boosted 113-carte, 450-question Expansion Packs with Goggle box, Movies and Sports themed trivia were also released.
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. four: The Ride – November 30, 1998
• You Don't Know Jack Offline (the best of the Netshow on Disk) – 1999
• You Don't Know Jack (PlayStation, has similarities to Vol. 3) – 1999
• You Don't Know Jack Louder! Faster! Funnier! (2nd Offline game) – March 28, 2000
• You Don't Know Jack 5th Dementia (Online game) – November one, 2000
• You Don't Know Jack Mock 2 (second PlayStation game) – November 1, 2000
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. 6: "The Lost Gilded" – December 1, 2003
• Y'all Don't Know Jack (Online beta game on the You Don't Know Jack website) – 2006–2008
• You Don't Know Jack – February eight, 2011^[xiii]
• You Don't Know Jack (iOS) – April 2011^[14]
• You Don't Know Jack (Facebook) – May 26, 2012 (shut down March 1, 2015)
• You Don't Know Jack (second mobile game) (close downwards March 1, 2015)
  • iOS - December 13, 2012
  • You Dont Know Jack Calorie-free – 2012
  • You Dont Know Jack (Roku) – 2012
  • Android - May 21, 2013
• You Don't Know Jack (OUYA) - June 11, 2013
• You Don't Know Jack Party (has similarities to OUYA) - September xix, 2013
• You lot Don't Know Jack 2015 (Part of The Jackbox Party Pack) - November 18, 2014^[fifteen]
  • NOTE: Game contains 15 episodes from OUYA and Party.
• You lot Don't Know Jack: Full Stream (Part of The Jackbox Party Pack 5) - October 17, 2018^[16]

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

• You Don't Know Jack Vol. one – based on U.South. Vol. 2
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. 2 – based on U.South. Vol. 3
• Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. 3: 'Abwärts!' – based on U.S. Vol. 4 ("The Ride")
• You Don't Know Jack Vol. four – later used as a base for U.S. Vol. 6 ("The Lost Gold")

Reception [edit]

The Yous Don't Know Jack serial shipped 500,000 units past Dec 1996.^[17] Shipments in the The states solitary rose to nearly ane million by February 1998.^[18] By 2001, the You Don't Know Jack series had totaled sales of 3.5 million copies.^[19] YDKJ sold above 4.5 one thousand thousand 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 loftier standards established by Berkeley'due south breakaway classic".^[21] It received a score of four out of 5 from MacUser.^[22]

You Don't Know Jack Movies was a runner-up for Computer Gaming Globe 's 1997 "Puzzle Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Smart Games Challenge 2. The editors called Movies a "hilarious party game", and noted that it "came a close second".^[23]

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

Y'all Don't Know Jack Vol. 3 was the finalist for GameSpot's 1997 "All-time Puzzles and Classics Game" award, which ultimately went to Chessmaster 5500. The editors wrote, "[I]f it weren't for the addition of the Threeway question format (which is a complete dud), You Don't Know Jack 3 would have reached instant-classic condition."^[25]

You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4: The Ride won Estimator Gaming Earth 's award for the all-time classic game of 1998. The editors wrote, "You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4: The Ride ranks hands as the best since the showtime of the serial found its style 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 to the lowest degree where our funny bones are concerned."^[26] Information technology likewise won the 1998 Spotlight Award for "Best Trivia, Puzzle or Classic Game" from the Game Developers Conference.^[27]

Yous Don't Know Jack: Huge received a score of iv.5 out of 5 from Michael Gowan of Macworld, who wrote that the game "volition strain your encephalon while amusing you with its witty banter and rapid-fire activity."^[28] In 1998, The Huge drove was named the 48th-all-time computer game of all fourth dimension 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 You lot Don't Know Jack. The game had been distributed to a few radio stations, and was described as a "litmus examination" of the candidates' political knowledge.

You Don't Know Jack also appeared as 2 books: You lot Don't Know Jack: The Book and Yous Don't Know Jack: The Tv Volume. Both were published in 1998 by Running Printing.

There was also a Tiger Electronic tabletop game of You Don't Know Jack, emceed by Nate Shapiro. Information technology featured question cards with a number code on them and a grey push button to open a sliding door to evidence the answers. It was the first game to characteristic 4 players instead of 3 players. There were also "Sports", "Movies", and "TV" question packs that were sold separately. A standalone handheld version was also released.

An actual tv set show version of Yous Don't Know Jack had a brief run on ABC in prime time during the summer of 2001.^[30] It starred Paul Reubens (the actor and comedian all-time known for his character Pee-wee Herman) equally over-the-top game show host Troy Stevens, with Tom Gottlieb's 'Cookie' as the announcer. The show lasted only half dozen episodes, as it received very lilliputian fizz and almost Yous Don't Know Jack fans weren't even aware of its existence until long after its cancellation.^{[ citation needed ]} A previous attempt had been fabricated by Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television in 1996, produced by Ron Greenberg in Chicago; this version, intended as a weekday syndicated prove, was not picked upwardly (later on initial tests and run-throughs necessitated a retooling of the show; Telepictures subsequently chose to drop the project).^{[31] [32] [33] [34] [35]}

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

In 2001, AMC released You Don't Know Jack near MonsterFest, an online game on their website emceed past Schmitty, and the MonsterFest movie marathon was hosted by 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 Political party Pack one store folio)
• Y'all Don't Know Jack at MobyGames

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