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Spock on “Star Trek” has his ears vulcanized, what will be true about them: his ears will be rounder, stronger, larger or hear better?Īs with crossword puzzles, Jack grows easier once you get into the rhythm of the game’s particular sensibility.

To really know Jack, you’ll need to bring equal doses of liberal arts education and modern cultural exposure.įor instance, the game asks which classic toy the French artist Georges Seurat would probably enjoy most: Play-Doh, Lite-Brite, alphabet magnets or Etch A Sketch? Or which musician could not use his or her name as a Windows file name: Ke$ha, ?uestlove, will.i.am or Ol’ Dirty Bastard? And if Mr. The strengths of the Jack franchise have always been its writing, voice acting and skillful blending of pop culture and high culture. (The game is appropriately rated T for Teen, with the proper designations for crude humor, drug references, language, mild blood and sexual themes.) It has no explicit profanity, but the puns, double entendres and clever wordplay are often far more risqué than we can share here. If it were a film, it would push the limits of the PG-13 classification without straying into R territory. Proudly sophomoric at times and certainly snarky, Jack is also quite witty. Jack is billed as “the irreverent trivia party game,” and it certainly is. And as soon as the football game ended, Jack was back.

Over the Super Bowl weekend my living room was pressed into many hours of double duty as a game show studio until mere minutes before kickoff. But You Don’t Know Jack is both accessible and infectious for anyone who likes trivia games.

Most so-called party games are for children or serious gamers, and almost none of my friends are either. Except for collaborative music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, I don’t usually have a lot of people playing at my house.