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You Don't Know Jack: the show where high culture and pop culture collide!


You Don't Know Jack is a series of quiz show-inspired computer games which combine trivia and comedy. The games are known for their humor and challenge, as well as simple presentation. The games rarely use graphics, relying heavily on voice acting and text.

The games have recently been revived at the YDKJ official website, where new episodes are released every weekday. These are developed in Flash and are available to play for free within your web browser.

Category: Quiz

Release Date: Varied

Developer: Jellyvision
]]> 26 Mar 2007 11:13:20 The Pirate Tales Follow the adventures of Captain Caninbahl, Barley, Deckhand Dewey, Ruby Barnacle, and Planky the Parrot as they plunder their way through caves, underwater shipwrecks, and dangerous port towns. The Pirate Tales is a match-3 puzzle game spanning 100 chapter-style levels. Perform typical pirating duties, plunder treasure, and fight opponents in your quest to rescue Dewey's girlfriend, Ruby Barnacle.

This game is developed and published by Twintale Entertainment.

Shore leave is supposed to be a happy time for a pirate, filled with carousing, picking fights, and tax-free plundering.
]]> 19 Feb 2007 11:23:33 Bridge Builder Bridge Builder is a game where you build bridges. In each level you have a limited budget to buy materials with, materials with which you have to build a bridge which will hold a train passing over it.
]]> 25 Dec 2006 01:58:32 Armadillo Run Armadillo Run is a physics-based puzzle game. You have to build structures with the purpose of getting an armadillo to a certain point in space. There is a selection of building materials, each with different properties, which can be combined to form almost anything. The realistic physics simulation gives you the freedom to solve each level in many different ways.
]]> 09 Dec 2006 02:13:47 Harmonic Convergence (working title) Enter a world of beautiful graphics, hypnotic music, and addictive gameplay.

Harmonic Convergence blends these elements together into an unforgettable
experience that will have you losing track of time trying to outdo your last
top score, and get one skin further.

Harmonic Convergence features sixteen skins from some of the most talented
artists and musicians in the industry. Each skin transports you to a new and
unique little world. Bear witness to an ancient rite in "Ritual". Get your
mouth watering for some delicious watermelon on a hot summer day in
"Fruit Salad". Fly through space and watch the wonders of the universe unfold
before your eyes in "Asteroid". These, and many more await!
]]> 19 Nov 2006 11:59:39 Bontago Bontago is a single or multiplayer 3d real-time strategy/puzzle game. By stacking blocks each player increses their area of influence, and can build closer and closer to the goal in the middle of each level.
]]> 03 Dec 2006 10:02:40 Enigma Enigma is a puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock'n'Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones. Simple? Yes. Easy? Certainly not! Hidden traps, vast mazes, laser beams, and, most of all, countless hairy puzzles usually block your direct way to the Oxyd stones...
]]> 10 Dec 2006 06:24:18 The Impossible Quiz The Impossible Quiz is a quiz requiring patience, reflexes and smarts in order to beat. The game has 100 questions (or does it?) that each have their own unique twist. A puzzle game like no other, with questions and answers that will make you laugh.
]]> 19 May 2007 02:58:29 Another World Another World, known as Out of this World in the US and Outer World in Japan, is a 1991 cinematic platformer designed and developed by Eric Chahi. The graphics and box art were designed by Chahi, while the music was composed by Jean-François Freitas.

While not a great commercial success, Another World was innovative in its use of cinematic effects in the graphics, sound and cut scenes, with characters communicating through their facial features, gestures, and actions only. This cinematic style granted Another World cult status amongst critics and fans.

The protagonist of the game is Lester Knight Chaykin; a young, athletic, red haired physicist. Lester arrives at his high-tech underground laboratory during a thunderstorm, and continues to work on his experiment using a particle accelerator. Right before the particles reach their intended destination, lightning strikes the lab and interferes with the accelerator causing the unforeseen teleportation of Lester to a barren alien planet.

The player can control Lester using the keyboard or gamepad using four directions buttons and two action buttons: one for main actions, and one for jumping. Depending on the player's current position, movement, and status, the main action key performs a variety of actions including attacking and interacting with Lester's environment. At the start of the game Lester can only kick to attack, but later he can acquire a gun. While the movement keys normally make Lester run, the game also features sections where the player must swim, roll, or drive a vehicle. The player only has one life, but there are multiple checkpoints he can return to by entering the relevant pass code given at each one.
]]> 10 Dec 2006 09:53:52 Zoo Keeper Swap adjacent animals to line up 3 or more of the same kind to eliminate them. Get the required amount of animals in the times given. There is also a random animal square that, when clicked, will eliminate all of the animals on screen that it stops on.
]]> 20 Dec 2006 04:54:46 Gesundheit! Help an allergic pig save a city from snot-eating monsters using a clever combination of brains and boogers.

While keeping out of sight, you must lure your enemies through each single-screen level with your delicious nasal discharges. Objects scattered around town provide your pig with different ways of solving each puzzle. Control is simple and intuitive, requiring only a two-button mouse.
]]> 13 Mar 2007 12:32:37 Blocksum Blocksum is a very new typed action puzzle game. For everyone who can add numbers to 20.
]]> 08 Feb 2007 07:04:52 CrashBlock Crashblock is a platform puzzle game, mixing puzzle elements from Tetris and platform elements of Flashback.

The aim of the game is to play a game of tetris from the inside, running around the arena, climbing over the fallen blocks,trying to complete a line whilst trying to collect enough stars to advance to the next level and collecting coins and other items to boost your score and help you along the way. There are hazards to overcome, Bombs are released from completed lines along with bonus items and stars, also captive creatures called meanies are released making your task so much more difficult.

If the blocks pile up to the top of the arena, it's game over. If a falling block lands on you, it's squishy death, if you're caught in a bomb blast, it's goodnight and if you're caught by a meanie, it's so long and thanks for all the limbs.

You have to control the crane holding the current shape by calling it over to you, rotating the shape to the correct position and then diving out of the way while it falls.. there is no controlled drop in this game, oh no!

This game is currently under development for the Pascal Game Development 2007 Competition, The end deadline is the 3rd of June 2007. Check back often for updates.
]]> 17 Apr 2007 11:12:56 Samorost 2 The inhabitant of an asteroid must rescue his dog from kidnapping aliens. A simple yet elegant point-and-click game of puzzle solving. Winner of

"Best Web Browser Game" - 2007 Independant Game Festival.

"Best Original Sound" - Flashforward Film Festival 2006.

"Best Web Work" - Seoul Net Festival 2006
]]> 19 Mar 2007 11:14:04 Candy Catastrophe! Oh no! Leftover Halloween candy has gone bad, and it's up to you to clean up the mess.

History

This game was put on Newgrounds way back on 11/29/2005, and has broken the 75,000 view mark. This game is also open source; scroll down to see the notice, and scroll further to download the .fla file!

Gameplay

To play, click once on any colored candy with at least one of the same color adjacent. All similarly-colored candies will be highlighted, and text will tell you how many points it'd be worth to collect them. Keep above the minimum score to continue; how long can YOU last?

Cheats

Type c-h-e-a-t while playing and you'll hear "watch this!". Once cheats are enabled, press 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 to destroy all of the corresponding color (while racking up bunches of points!), or type "s-c-o-r-e" to get the equivalent of 10 candies at once (point value varies by level).

Hints


  • If you just randomly collect candy, you'll probably make it to level 5 or 6, but if you want any hope of passing further, you need to bunch multiple candies together - you'll get double the points for 4 at once than for 2 twice.
  • It's also important to get those bonuses! In Candy Catastrophe, you'll get a bonus for each candy that has over 90% collected. Here too, it's better to get one 96% than a few 91%s.
  • Save vertical candies for later unless taking them helps make a better match - sometimes you'll be able to get rid of a column on either side and can use them then.

Note: Open Source Game

This game is open source: if you want to change or edit this game in any way, or even keep it the same, then reuse it anywhere, go right ahead! Acknowledgement would be wonderful, but is not necessary; at the very least, I'd be honored if you just let me know it helps in some way!
]]> 23 Jan 2007 09:13:44 Puzzle Quest Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a brand new, genre-bending title that ups the ante on traditional puzzle games by incorporating strategy, role-playing elements and a persistent storyline. Set in the Warlords universe, the game challenges players to save the land of Etheria from evil Lord Bane as gamers engage in battles fought by means of competitive, head-to-head "match-three" style puzzle games in one of three gameplay modes: Single-player, Instant Action or Multiplayer. Victory will advance a player's customisable hero, magical arsenal, creature companions and more—ultimately rewarding gamers at nearly every turn and deepening their immersion into the richly diverse world. The game's remarkable mix of classic puzzle gameplay and an abundant suite of characters, customisations, spells, companions, tameable monsters and more provides a fresh take on the puzzle genre that offers endless hours of replayability. Designed specifically for handheld gaming systems, Puzzle Quest can be enjoyed in long or short doses, cultivating a casual but deeply satisfying and compelling gameplay experience.
]]> 31 Mar 2007 09:08:10 Classic PuffBOMB The original impulse based cute character blowing up puzzle game.
]]> 27 Nov 2006 10:23:42 Crayon Physics You play with crayons and physics. The goal of the game is to move the red ball so that it collects the stars. You can cause the red ball to move by drawing physical objects.
]]> 06 Jul 2007 11:27:22 Creatrix A game unlike any other, with fast paced arcade action combined with a deep gameplay strategy.

Construct your Contraptions out of a wide variety of Devices, then send them onto the Battleground to face your opponent's creations.
]]> 13 Nov 2006 04:53:17 Blitz Blox A furious block-dropping game that pits you against your opponent on the same playing field. Defend your blocks, attack your enemy's blocks. Make use of special blocks to turn the tables. Play against calculating AI or against another player

Developer: Blade Edge Software
]]> 15 Dec 2006 02:02:43 Click Drag Type Click, drag, and type your way through 10 mind bending puzzles. Use trial and error to see if you can figure out what is going on, and eventually solve the puzzle. You can play the puzzles in any order, and you are timed to see how long it takes you to finish them all.
]]> 27 Dec 2006 01:22:02 Ballistic In Ballistic you rotate the world around a little ball. In each level you have to get the ball to the goal within a certain time limit, something which is hindered by obstacles and gravity reversing objects.
]]> 15 Feb 2007 06:50:12 Oddictive In a world festering in cookie cutter match-3 puzzle games, one game stands out of the pack with authority and moons the rest of the games with it's cool sarcastic attitude. Oddictive promises to rob you of your free time and never give it back, not even if you beg for it.
]]> 08 Dec 2006 01:23:04 Cramgene Create meals for bizarre pets!

Cramgene is a very unique puzzle game inspired by today's advances in genetic science. Players compete through rounds, deciphering creature DNA to create specific meals for bizarre pets. Bonus moves are designed to add an element of surprise and strategy to every match. Cramgene offers a solitary mode played against the computer, as well as a 2-player option through an Internet connection.

Cramgene features charming characters, vivid graphics, and upbeat music to provide an amusing atmosphere. Its 3 difficulty modes are designed to give players of all ages a chance to feed up to 10 bizarre pets. Can you uncover the best strategy?

Yamisoft Entertainment Inc. supports Cramgene with tips and tricks, and provides a free demo version.
]]> 15 Dec 2006 03:58:05 Tower Defense Developer: Roman Sanine

Since WarCraft 3 I have had a strange fascination with tower defense games. I really like slow strategic games with virtually infinite possibilities. To a passive onlooker tower defenses may not seem very in depth. It appears that you simply are placing towers next to paths to kill creatures before they can get to the center. In truth these games can be quite complex. You need to decide what towers to build, where, when and at what stage they should be upgraded. (and to which degree)

Building the right tower a square in the wrong direction or a round to late can mean the difference between a stonewall and a leaky defense. If you are playing a team tower defense you will certainly be called a noob if you leak before the later rounds.

This tower defense lacks tower diversity in that all towers only have a range and damage rating. It is much more exciting when you have towers that have special effects even if its as simple as a set of land and air towers. The one thing this TD does have that seems to be unique is a never ending cycle. Basically each round monsters get progressively stronger until they breach walls. This is great but it would be much better with a leader board.
]]> 05 Mar 2007 02:04:07 Hapland Hapland is a point and click puzzle game. You must find a way to light the two torches and activate the big portal.
]]> 15 Dec 2006 12:49:37 Blue Rabbit's Climate Chaos You are Blue Rabbit, and you are traveling to a small island chain to help the native chief find out what happened to his son. Walk around and explore to solve the puzzles.
]]> 29 Dec 2006 03:32:37 Mezzo: Winter Edition Mezzo: Winter Edition is a puzzle game for Windows and Mac by ActionHead Studios. It's the company's first title and was released on February 15, 2007. The game makes unique use of combos to create a series of challenging yet enjoyable puzzles.
]]> 15 Feb 2007 10:45:34 Blast Miner Blast Miner is a physics based action strategy game where you use TNT, gas cans and stones to cause huge explosions to dig through the earth. It's awesome, seriously just play the demo or watch some gameplay movies. Explosions people! You can't go wrong with that.
]]> 22 Dec 2006 05:39:21 Sudoku eXpress Sudoku is a logic-based number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9x9 grid so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3x3 boxes contains the digits from 1 to 9. The puzzle setter provides a partially completed grid.

Completed Sudoku puzzles are a type of Latin square, with an additional constraint on the contents of individual regions. Leonhard Euler is sometimes cited as the source of the puzzle, based on his work with Latin squares.

The modern puzzle was invented by an American, Howard Garns, in 1979 and published by Dell Magazines under the name "Number Place". It became popular in Japan in 1986, when it was published by Nikoli and given the name Sudoku. It became an international hit in 2005.
]]> 18 Mar 2007 06:10:22 Play with Fire Play with Fire is a highly unusual platform puzzle game in which you play a giant ball of fire--and burn things down.
]]> 16 Jan 2007 02:19:56 Garland's Quest A puzzle game inspired by both the 'Super Mario Brothers' and 'Adventures of Lolo' game series. The Grand Wizard Garland tracks down the evil sorcerer Nem to retrieve his stolen staff and repair his good name before he can return home.

Story:

Garland the 'Grand Wizard' was out in the woods walking about and decided to take a nap in a near-by meadow. Just as he started to fall asleep, a dark wizard named Nem attacked Garland and stole his Wizard's staff. The old wizard, now in shame could not return home without redeeming himself and getting his own staff back from the dark wizard's keep. So Garland's Quest begins...
]]> 06 Jun 2007 11:11:28 Kachinko In the style of traditional Pachinko machines, Kachinko features an onslaught of colored balls and only a few places to catch them. The name of the game is strategy and quick wits. Kachinko starts simply enough, requiring you to eliminate sets of three like-colored balls at a time. The challenge is significantly increased when you're forced to put together longer chains and set up massive combos in order to get a score worthy of completing a level.
]]> 05 Dec 2006 10:53:16 Turbulence
]]> 30 Aug 2007 12:06:21 Gridlock Move the gray blocks left, right, up or down in order to free the blue block through the opening on the right.
]]> 15 Dec 2006 12:38:44 Tripline This is a puzzle game where you draw an uncrossable line and at the same time try to cover every geometrical icon within the black frame. You have to pick three of the same icon before being able to go to a different one.

The game has 30 successive levels, but they get quite (very) challenging around the halfway point.
]]> 14 Mar 2007 07:22:43 Hapland 2
Robin Allen said,
Restore power to the portal in order to...save a princess or something. Just light the damn torches
]]> 15 Dec 2006 01:03:15 DUOtris DUOtris is a take on Tetris (GB). Instead of blocks coming from the top, and fall down, blocks come from both top and bottom, and gravitate towards the middle.

The aim of the game is to get the highest score possible. Points are scored by moving the falling blocks on both sides of the play area so as to arrange 3 or more blocks of the same colour together. These blocks will then disappear causing any blocks "above" them to fall and possibly create further combinations. The game ends when either stack of blocks crosses the game over line. Over time the speed of the blocks increases, more colours are introduced and the play area becomes narrower.

There are two different game modes: Classic where there are just blocks falling, and Arcade where you get powerups and special blocks.
]]> 09 Feb 2007 06:11:41 Hydrium Hydrium is freeware!!!

In Hydrium we take control of an Helium molecule and we have the mission of finding every blue gem in each galaxy of the game.

But our task won't be as easy. We will have to face several enemies and traps that want to extract all the air inside our molecule, and be careful because you loose air every time you move!!

Hydrium is proudly presented by Geardome Entertainment.
]]> 16 Mar 2007 02:41:24 Master of Defense Master Of Defense is a strategy game that lets you assume the role of a brave hero, who has been chosen to save the ancient kingdom from the hordes of monsters. The challenge of the game is to ward off relentless attacks of monsters and prevent them from capturing people in your castle.
]]> 01 Jan 2007 05:22:56 The Dark Room You are trapped in a room and have to solve the puzzles to get out. You can change the room into seven different colors, and you have to solve a puzzle in each color. Solve all of the puzzles to escape into the hall of fame.
]]> 27 Dec 2006 05:07:15 Phit This game is half tangram and half tetris in it's workings. Use tetris-like groups of cubes to fill in a perfect rectangle at the bottom of the board using tangram methodology.
]]> 30 Jun 2007 05:52:06 The House You wake up next to a pool after being at a house party. You have lost your memory and have to find out why you are here.
]]> 18 Dec 2006 02:35:40 Submachine 4: The Lab Submachine 4: The Lab is the fourth installment of the popular Submachine Flash Puzzle/Adventure game. Created by Mateusz Skutnik, Submachine is a compelling mystery that only gets more intriguing as time goes on. Scraps of paper, words etched into walls, and archaic computers leave clues as to what the Submachine is, and how you must escape it. All of the (so far) 5 Submachine games tie into one another, and references to previous ones are riddled throughout.
]]> 10 May 2007 02:38:54 Cityscape Choose what to add to your city in order to create the best one you can. The order in which you add parts to your city will determine the size it becomes in the end.
]]> 27 Dec 2006 01:45:00 Acidbomb Acidbomb is a fifty level puzzle game where you must find the pistons used to trigger a bomb and defuse them before time runs out. There are many bombs scattered around the world, from biological bombs that have hair-sensitive triggers to napalm bombs that are exploding at the seams, to nuclear warheads that have challenged even the highest trained bomb defusal agent.
]]> 22 Feb 2007 07:56:20 Puzzle Poker Twenty five cards in five rows are dealt to you. You quickly spot the cards for a Full House and arrange them onto one line to form a hand. That was easy! Ch-ching! Five hundred chips. Now you spot four Kings! That's worth 1,000 chips. You start moving them onto a single line, but it messes up your Full House. OK, a little bit of finesse, and you are able to save both the Full House and the Four of a Kind. Now you notice the clock running down. Do you cash in or take a chance to get more points, maybe losing what you already have? You wonder what kind of scores your friends in your Club have. Will this hand be good enough to compete?

Developed by Top Meadow
]]> 22 Sep 2006 01:14:52 Zep's Dreamland The game consists of navigating Zep throughout a level to reach a certain location which allows him to advance to the next level. This is not such an easy task, however. Many obstacles will be in your path, and it is up to you to determine the best (and sometimes only way) to get around them. Zep has the ability to create special "blocks" by using the life energy from the ground he is standing on. By building the blocks in specific patterns, Zep can alter the landscape to his ability thus allowing him to reach his goal! Again, not everything is as it seems. Zep cannot build blocks while standing on top of just anything. There are many types of ground that restrict Zep's building ability. In addition to being able to create these special blocks, Zep can also destroy them.
]]> 27 Nov 2006 07:39:38 Bacteria 2 Bacteria 2 is a hard logic puzzle game.It has kept the game play from Bacteria 1 but has several new features such as multiple difficulty modes, arcade mode and multiplayer mode, both on and offline.
Bacteria 2 has won several awards and has received quite a bit of media attention.
]]> 20 Dec 2006 02:58:20 Moves This is a very simple board game for 2 players (or 1 player versus the computer). Both players get 7 pawns and 1 king on a 8x8 board. The goal is to get your opponent's king or 6 of his pawns. Each turn, the player may select 1 stone and move it straight or in an L-bow. You cannot jump over stones, but you can step onto your opponent's stone to take it. The numbers on your stones indicate the number of tiles they can move in a turn. When the Mastermind option is selected, the stones change in value when you move it. Pawns can get numbers 1-4, while the king only gets 1 or 2. A challenging game!

Setting the Mastermind option (to change the alue of your stones each move) will show numbers on the board so you will know the number you will get when you move a stone there.

This games comes with 5 imaginary friends of fine-tuned artificial intelligence to play offline against your computer.
]]> 17 Apr 2007 04:47:13