You Don't Know Jack (quiz teaser episode - post your score) -new game out today

[jp-30]

The 1990s classic quiz game is coming back in February for Xbox, PS3, Wii, DS & PC, and they have a teaser episode up on their website here;

http://www.youdontknowjack.com/episodes/e1/index.html

Post your score from your first playthrough. I started poorly, but picked it up towards the end;

$18,614

Your turn...

[divisionten]

[Zepton]

Aww I suck. I'm going into the negative after only the first 2 questions... I'm not cut out for this game. I'm not even going to play anymore of it. I don't know what a pint is or how many fingers different kinds of animals have. I don't know jack.

[jp-30]

I was in the negative after the first two, too. Plenty of chances later on to pull points back.

[Zepton]

Maybe, I'll try again later and fail the first 2 on purpose so I don't have an unfair advantage.

[skeeter]

$11,009 - I lost a lot of my points in the middle... I used to love You Don't Know Jack! My friend had a game and we'd play it all the time. I finally got years later one but no-one at my place would play it with me.

[jp-30]

The Xbox & PS3 versions of the new game have online play. I'm pissed off that the Wii & PC versions apparently don't (the 2 systems I own), as there aren't many people here that would want to play with me either.

[ShaggE]

That was always the rub with YDKJ... trying to convince people that a trivia game is not only worth playing, but can actually be as big a timesink as more traditional titles was never easy. With that in mind, it's astounding that the series became a hit in the first place.

Good thing the single player is nearly as satisfying. I've been playing through the later YDKJs that I never owned (except for The Ride, which won't run on Vista no matter what I do ), and I've been having a blast. The only one I don't really care for is Lost Gold, but even then the writing is top notch.

[jp-30]

I just remembered (playing the teaser) how much I love the Jack Attack - some of those answers just make you flinch and almost hit the spacebar - Hugh Jackman for the Wolverine Claws, etc.

[puzzlebox]

Woo, I love this game!... and pretty much any multiplayer quiz game. Scored $14,902, so obviously need some practice.

[Zepton]

-1894... Yeah I definately don't know Jack. I kept pressing space for "jackman" with "wolverine's claws" and "hi I'm a beaker" for "beaker". Who knew beakers went "meep"?

[jp-30]

I knew.

[Zepton]

Oh, wow!! I had no idea that was a muppet. I was thinking like chemistry beakers...

[jp-30]

He is a chemistry Beaker.

[Molokov]

Ahh I used to love YDKJ, despite its very US-centric questions (which confused the hell out of non-Americans who'd never seen some of the TV shows referenced)

[jp-30]

Though generally the pop-culture is just a premise set up for the actual question. See the '2 Girls One Cup' reference in the first of this episode as a prime example - you don't have to know of its existence to answer the question about volume measurements.

[Molokov]

Ahh that was fun.

Final score $20,415.

And yes, 3 out of the 7 rounds were very US-centric (measurement of a cup in pints? I know it's 250mL.) I got two of them right purely by guessing... And no, it wasn't the pints one.

[jp-30]

You don't have to know what the actual mascots look like to answer the 2nd (or 3rd?) question either (which I didn't realise until too late), just the animals they represent.

[skeeter]

Originally Posted by Molokov

Ahh that was fun.

Final score $20,415.

And yes, 3 out of the 7 rounds were very US-centric (measurement of a cup in pints? I know it's 250mL.) I got two of them right purely by guessing... And no, it wasn't the pints one.

I got stuck on the cup one - I knew it was 250mls but not sure of pints. Afterwards I realised if I hadn't been in a hurry, I did know that 600mls is around a pint, so I should've got it if I'd thought about it...

[linorn]

Originally Posted by jp-30

Though generally the pop-culture is just a premise set up for the actual question. See the '2 Girls One Cup' reference in the first of this episode as a prime example - you don't have to know of its existence to answer the question about volume measurements.

British cups are different to American. I only remembered this after putting in my answer!