YOU DON'T KNOW JACK (Facebook)

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK (Facebook)

YOU DON'T KNOW JACK (Facebook) game tile
Developer	Jellyvision Games (later Jackbox Games)
Series	You Don't Know Jack
Release date	May 29th, 2012 (Web) December 13th, 2012 (iOS) May 21st, 2013 (Android)
Release price (USD)	Free (with optional purchases)
Hosted by	Cookie Masterson
Number of players	1-6
Game duration	5-10 Minutes
Platforms	Web iOS Android
Languages	English
Genre	Trivia
Website	jackboxgames.com (archived)

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YOU DON'T KNOW JACK (Facebook) was an online trivia video game developed by Jellyvision Games (later Jackbox Games) and launched on Facebook on May 29th, 2012.

It was later brought over to iOS on December 13th, 2012, followed by Android on May 21st, 2013.

The game is no longer available to play as of March 1st, 2015. This was due to Facebook's API update and because of how little traction the game garnered.

Gameplay

This was one of the first You Don't Know Jack games - before the Party Pack's release - where players could play with others remotely in the same game.

The gameplay worked exactly the same as the other You Don't Know Jack games in the series: you'd be presented with a multiple-choice question of which you had to answer. If you got it right, you got the cash, and if not, you'd lose it.

This game also had plenty of other question types, most of which were ported over from You Don't Know Jack 2011.

Dis or Dat

You were prompted with seven different statements of which you had to pick whether it's part of either groups or both, occasionally. You'd also gain a bonus for how much time you had remaining.

Gibberish Question

You were prompted with a seemingly nonsensical phrase, with a value of $3,000 to boot, and you had to type in what the original answer could be. The game would also give you three clues along the way. The cash remaining when you answered the prompt would be the amount of cash you'd win or lose.

Cookie's Fortune Cookie Fortunes With Cookie "Fortune Cookie" Masterson

Cookie would read out a fortune from said fortune cookie, then prompt you with a question related to it. The answering structure worked exactly the same as a normal question.

Funky Trash

Cookie would stumble through somebody's trash, with various objects and "valuables" he'd find along the way, then prompt you with what these trash findings meant.

Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt or Dracula?

You'd be prompted with a description on-screen, then you'd have to pick which of the four individuals is the prompt talking about.

Jack Attack

What the fifth and final question was. You'd have to buzz in on the match that correctly fits the prompt on-screen. If you got it right, you get $1,000; and you'll lose $1,000 for each incorrect answer.

All player scores and player placements would show up at the end of the game, with Cookie shouting your placement. After the game's concluded, whichever placement you got in the game plus the amount of cash you've earned whilst playing, would add up to your current booty. If you've collected a sufficient amount of cash, you'd level up, and earn an amount of coins because of it. You could also share your placement and level ups on both Twitter and Facebook.

Episodes

There were two categories in the "Episodes" tab of the game in the main menu, almost all of which were introduced and released in 2013, these were:

Special Guest Episodes

Cookie would greet the special guest and he'll have a small conversation with them at the start of the game. The gameplay would work exactly the same as a regular You Don't Know Jack game, but with the special celebrity playing along in the episode, which would have their player box colored in fucsia as opposed to blue. At the end of each episode, the guest host would talk about their up-coming projects or some fun facts about them.

At the end of each episode, you could go back to the Episodes tab, where you can see the guest's final scores aswell as your own, and you could replay the episode if you desired to.

The fourteen guest hosts who were invited to play the game were:

• American actor Rich Sommer (aired February 7th, 2013)
• American model and actress Adrianne Curry-Rhode (aired February 27th, 2013)
• American actor and comedian Brian Stack (aired March 13th, 2013)
• American comedian Doug Benson (aired March 27th, 2013)
• American comedian and actor Jimmy Pardo (aired April 19th, 2013)
• American comedian and actor Andy Kindler (aired May 9th, 2013)
• American actor and comedian Jonathan Katz (aired May 31st, 2013)
• American actress and musician Janina Gavankar (aired July 3rd, 2013)
• American actor and screenwriter Bob Odenkirk (aired August 23rd, 2013)
• American comedian and actor Paul F. Tompkins (aired September 18th, 2013)
• American actress and comedian Maria Bamford (aired October 2nd, 2013)
• American writer and comedian Julie Klausner (aired October 25th, 2013)
• Canadian voice actress Jennifer Hale (aired November 7th, 2013)
• Cookie's cats, Mayonnaise and Poopsie (aired November 22nd, 2013)

Special Episodes

Along with the celebrity episodes, there were also special themed episodes in the same tab, these included:

• Jack The Halls, which was a Christmas themed episode. (aired on December 17th, 2012; and the only special episode to be released in 2012.)
• 2012: Year In Technology, which was an episode revolving around tecnological topics, like hardware, operating systems, among other things. (aired on January 1st, 2013)
• Red Carpet & Drapes Gala (aired on February 21st, 2013,) which revolved around several actors and award academies.
• March Derangement, which revolved about sports, most notably, basketball. (aired on March 20th, 2013)
• Spring Break Wet Trivia, which revolved about vacations and spring or summer activities. (aired on April 3rd, 2013)
• Sharknado. Sharknado. seemingly had no concrete theme throughout the episode. However, it's the only special episode with a sponsor, and a real one at that, with it advertising another Jackbox title, Clone Booth. (aired on July 19th, 2013,)

Sponsors

Once you've played enough games, or spent 300 coins, you could've gotten a new sponsor that would pop up at the start of every single game. These would also have a dedicated tab at the menu screen, where you could rewatch their video or hear an audio-only advertisement of their sponsor. These sponsors were, in order of appearance in the game:

• Chocky the Chipmunk's Allergy Clusters
• Animal Lover's Boutique
• Glug Light Beer
• Nachopedic Cheese-Filled Beds and Pillows
• Warehouse Supply Warehouse
• The Stand-Up Comedy News Channel
• Autumn Dusk Feminine Spray
• The Church of A'zqr: The Eternal Bleeding Jackal Skull
• Fetus T-Shirts
• Carpet: The Musical
• Flavonnaise
• The American Council for Slacks
• Evan Jacover, Best Friend For Hire
• Winey Wine
• STD Superstore
• Tim Simian: Chimp Mechanic
• Recipe of the Day Toilet Paper
• The Feline Bible
• MatchYourSock.com
• Aunt Joan's Drinkable Cleaning Products
• Tampa Bay Sex-Free Dolphin Encounters
• The Young Joseph Stalin Commemorative Silver Dollar
• The Library
• "Raise the Roof" Arm Dance Studio
• Carp Cakes

The main menu also displayed several other commercials, like Time-Traveling Terry's New and Used Cars, Hooves of Love, The No Surprise Jack-In-The-Box, among others.

Trivia

• Along with You Don't Know Jack 2011 and Flash (to name a few) this was also one of the games where the score wasn't in a fixed amount, as the remaining amount of time you'd have left to answer a question would be your determined earning (e.g. if the player answered with 15.89 seconds on the clock, they'd earn or lose $1,589 dollars.)
• This was the shortest game in the You Don't Know Jack series, with only five questions in total, beating You Don't Know Jack Volume 6: The Lost Gold and You Don't Know Jack Flash by two.
• This is also one of the only You Don't Know Jack games to have an in-game currency to buy power-ups in-game, of which you could buy new sponsors, remove an answer from a question, Performance Enhancers, among other things.
• If you were to get last place in a game, you'd be rewarded with a spin of the Loser Wheel: a wheel that you could spin to win $1, and small chances to win a free spin or $5,000. Whichever prize slot you'd land on would then be deposited to your booty.
  • This would also cancel out your earnings for your real final score, whether they'd be negative or not.
• Just like You Don't Know Jack Flash (VMA too), this game also had a Jack head whose eyes would follow your mouse cursor.
• This is also one of the You Don't Know Jack games that had achievements inside of its game, along with the iOS and Android versions of the same game.
• This is the only game in the series that had its own leveling up system.