Last week I told you we had never had it so good.
The party isn’t over yet.
- The Jackbox Party Pack 3 is out today on Steam (£18.99, 10% discount this week), XBox One, PS4 (although not until tomorrow it looks like) and Amazon Fire TV (£20.47 at time of writing), with five more exciting and hilarious games to play with your friends. And we ask you to put Saturday October 29th down in your diaries as that’s going to be the date of the next Bother’s Bar Game Night. I’ll be pushing that more next week.
- Society Game started Sunday and that means fingers crossed if we’re going to get an English translation it will likely be in the next few days. Society Game is the new Korean reality show made by some of the people behind The Genius and Endemol and is hence quite exciting. We will decide whether it warrants its own page in due course. Keep an eye on Bumdidlyumptious’ Twitter for any news.
I suspect the poll that just appeared on Bumdi’s twitter confirms it’s on the way.
Good stuff.
And a new tweet is saying we might see something late Friday/early Saturday..
I’ve just read a synopsis on Wikipedia, in structure it sounds a little bit like Pirate Master.
You can now officially “buy” episodes of The Adventure Game on the BBC Store, £5.99 for four first series episodes, or £1.89 each. That means Moira Stuart!
https://store.bbc.com/the-adventure-game
Yesterday Ruck Zuck and Glücksrad started in Germany.
Ruck Zuck works exactly the way Hot Stream has worked. Host Oliver Geisen is the best he has ever been, I really enjoyed him and so did a lot of others. The show got the highest viewership numbers RTLplus has had yet.
Glücksrad however was less fun. Isabel Edvardson (the one revealing the letters) is superfluous becaus the letters reveal them selves in every other round. There are three rounds in each show containing of two riddles each. The first one is a speed round (the letters reveal themselves) and the first one to answer correctly gets to go first on the actual riddle that follows. In the finale the person that has accumulated the most money choses one of three envelopes containing bonus money. They get a category and e,r,n,s,t,l and chose 2 consonants und 1 vowel. They have 10 seconds to win the money from the envelope. If they fail (unfortunately the first two winners failed, so I have no idea about the range of values in the envelopes) they keep their winnings, otherwise they add whatever is inside the envelope to the bank and win it all.
Jan Hahn, host of the show, is a breakfast television presenter and not used to interacting with nervous contestants. It seems the tapings had to be stopped every now and then, because host and contestants forgot the rules. And you feel that a flow is missing. It is weird that he talks to the contsstants using formal pronouns but using their first names (this problem is a very German problem tbh) e.g. “Sie, Thomas, mögen gerne Fußball…” instead of using Du. And Jan Hahn is really bad in telling the contestants what to do. They often spun the wheel, chose a letter, then Jan Hahn realised the contestant was bankrupt/lost a spin. Isabell Edvardson didn’t see the letters and touched them for seconds making it look like the screen was hardly worling correctly.
All these flaws may be flaws of the first few episode. But I don’t see why you would air this episode first then, since they don’t have any returning champions. I was really angry and sad after watching this terrible mess, but hope it will get better.
And terrible news for music lovers: The theme is terrible and they use boring pop music in between rounds instead of original music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXa5QWC7PXw
A short test stream of someone I’ve been watching on YouTube for a bit as he does ‘Ciles of Tonfusion’ nights most Fridays, where he plays Mahjong online. Here, we play a couple of the new Jackbox games, Guesspionage and Quiplash 2.
Guesspionage plays like the ‘We asked 100 whatevers…” questions from Bruce’s Play Your Cards Right, just without the card game bit. Each player gets a question like this and has to enter a percentage. The others then have to guess whether the actual answer is higher or lower. In the second round, they add Much Higher and Much Lower options which are worth double points if correct. The final round gives you 9 answers, you pick 3 of them and try to go for the ones that have the highest percentages.
Quiplash 2 is just the same as your regular Quiplash. Only thing different I saw was that on one question, someone used a ‘Safety Q’ thing, which might be having the game give an answer for you, kinda like the ‘Lie For Me’ button in Fibbage.
Forgot to mention, for Quiplash 2, instead of just giving votes to your favourite answers, you now give a Bronze, Silver and Gold medal to the answers, the game tallies how many of each medal each answer got and gives each player an amount of points based on the tally of medals
Thanks, I’m playing this with some chums tomorrow so I can get an idea of timings.
Actually learned some very interesting things. Tee KO has a very long lead time, six minutes of drawing and writing before anything gets judged, I’m likely to make this the opening game starting the broadcast whilst players are all drawing.
The questions on Trivia Murder Party and *especially* Guesspionage feel rather more American than previous. You Don’t Know Jack had a surprisingly low international barrier to entry, usually pairing its high culture which is fairly universal with things people are likely to have heard of. There were a couple of blank looks this evening.
Fakin’ It was great fun (especially as I managed to evade) but can’t be played without people in the room really, although I suppose if you all had cameras and agreed to avoid the pointing game it might work. And Quiplash remains superb in sequel form.
So it’s an intriguing mix that’s not always successful. We also played some Jackbox 2 stuff – it basically went down really well, especially Bidiots which surprised me a bit, although we’re gamey people so.
Sarah Millican’s Standard Issue magazine has a twenty question quiz about quizzes:
http://standardissuemagazine.com/quizzes/the-midweek-quiz-20
Some of the questions very trivial but you’ve got 18 to beat.