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I buy many trivia games. Scene It!, Buzz!, I even bought that Trivial Pursuit game. I love playing trivia with my family and friends, and I have been trying to fill a trivia-shaped hole in my heart for awhile. This is because Jellyvision hasn’t been making You Don’t Know Jack games for awhile.

But now they made another one, and it reminded me why Jack is, hands down, one of the best gaming experiences you can have with your friends.

It is seriously like they haven’t been gone for all these years. The game immediately opens, just like the old games, and the game flows almost exactly the same as well. The best part is: all of it totally still works. All of the banter, all the jokes, all the fake commercials. They are all still completely hilarious, even today. Every episode is a finely crafted experience, and you get 73 of them at the budget price of 30 dollars, or 20 on the PC because there’s no online play.

How have you not bought this yet?

There are a few small changes, but I really think they are for the better. The new Jack adopts the now more-popular style of “everyone answers, and the faster you answer, the more the question is worth” format of most recent trivia games. This is great because it, of course, keeps people like Essner from completely dominating the game and lets everyone participate more. With no keyboard, the game also loses the Gibberish Questions, but lets face it: that wasn’t really the most fun category anyway. Dis or Dats and the Jack Attack are still in play, though.

On top of that, there are tons of new features. All the new question categories, like Cookie’s Fortune Cookie Fortunes with Cookie “Fortune Cookie” Masterson and It’s The Put The Choices Into Order Then Buzz In And See If You Are Right Question, are both hilarious and interesting in their execution.
By far the best addition, though, is the Wrong Answer Of The Game. Every game is “sponsored” by a fake sponsor, who has chosen one wrong answer to associate with a “fabulous” prize and $8000 dollars. These answers will be thematically related to the sponsor. It’s devious, really: a trivia game trains you to lock in your answer as fast as possible, but $8000 is a huge amount of money in this version of Jack, and can easily swing the game in your favor. You’re then forced into the tough choice of trying to pay more attention to the answers, and link them with the theme, or assume your opponents won’t find the Wrong Answer of the Game and just play normally. It’s shockingly strategic, actually, and by far the best “Holy shit!” memorable moments I’ve had while playing have been based around someone finding the Wrong Answer when everyone else missed it and the reaction that ensued.

This is as near a perfect trivia package as you could want. The game even supports the Scene It! buzzers, making it very parental-friendly as well! If you like trivia at all, and I do mean even the least little bit, you owe it to yourself to drop the 30 bucks on this game and pick it up. You will not be disappointed.

You Don’t Know Jack is so, so fucking amazing. Play it. Own it. Enjoy it. Do it now.