You Don't Know Jack (Facebook game)
| You Don't Know Jack | |
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| Developer(s) | Jackbox Games |
| Publisher(s) | Jackbox Games |
| Series | You Don't Know Jack |
| Platform(s) | Browser, iOS, Android |
| Release date(s) |
Facebook
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| Genre(s) | Party game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
You Don't Know Jack is a Facebook game application based on the long-running series of trivia games created by Jackbox Games (formerly Jellyvision Games). It was released for public play on Facebook in May 2012 after a beta period. The game builds on the success of the relaunch of the series from the 2011 video game for consoles and personal computers, though has altered some features to work better on the social media platform. The game is presented as a fictional television show, emceed by "Cookie" Masterson; players answer five trivia questions, typically multiple-choice, during each episode, earning virtual money to track their score within the game and in the larger meta-game. Players compete asynchronously, playing alongside other participants that have already played the present episode, and later compared to the scores of their friends that play that episode later. As part of the series' theme of "high culture meeting pop culture", the questions are often phrased eloquently and combine general knowledge with contemporary entertainment and celebrities references. A mobile version for iOS was released in December 2012, and for Android in May 2013; both mobile games will allow cross-platform play with the Facebook application.
The game has been praised for taking an unconventional route towards social media-based games, incorporating elements like microtransactions and interactions with friends without aggressively marketing these elements. It won the 2012 Spike Video Game Award for Best Social Game. On January 30, 2015 it was announced this version of the game will no longer be supported and will be removed from Facebook and no longer functional on mobile devices as of March 1, 2015.
You Don't Know Jack on Facebook follows a similar format to previous games from the series, where players compete in a virtual game show hosted by the emcee "Cookie" Masterson (voiced by Jellyvision Games's Tom Gottlieb). The player competes asynchronously with other friends on Facebook or with other Facebook users in trying to earn the most virtual money from an episode.
Episodes consist of five questions. Most questions are multiple choice, where the player is given four answers to choose from within a short amount of time once the emcee has finished reading the question. The player is awarded money for selecting the right answer, and a bonus for how fast they responded; getting the wrong answer will cost the player a similar amount of money; failing to answer does not affect a player's score. Like other games in the series, the questions mix general knowledge with contemporary events, as per its tagline "where high culture meets pop culture". For example, the player may be asked how many alcoholic shots they would have to drink for each cannon shot in the 1812 Overture. Some of the multiple choice questions are based on a recurring question type throughout the episodes as well as those featured in earlier You Don't Know Jack games. For example, "Funky Trash" questions will list three items claimed to be in some celebrity's garbage, and the player would be required to identify the celebrity. A new variation introduced in the Facebook game is "Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt, or Dracula", where the answer to the question will be one of those four items.
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