"What? Where? When?"

This is our club's version of the legendary intellectual game show, which we adapted for participants, ages 9 to 13.

Throughout the game, a team of 6 experts attempts to answer questions sent in by "television viewers". For each question, the time limit is 1 minute. The questions require a combination of skills such as logic, critical thinking and team work, in order to find the correct answer. The intellectual game show was known as "Million Dollar Mind Game" on American television's ABC network, and is widely known as "What? Where? When?" in the rest of the world.

The basic rules of the game are:

• The game is played between a "team of TV viewers" and a team of six experts. Viewers (in the case of our club, the Curious Kids Club coaches or staff) ask questions to the young experts (Curious Kids). The experts, during a one-minute discussion, try to find the answer to the given question.
  
  
• If the experts answer the question correctly, they earn a point. If their answer is wrong, the viewers' team gets a point, and the viewer who sent in this question receives a monetary prize. The experts do not receive monetary prizes, except for the best player in case that they win the final game of the series or the year.
  
  
• The experts sit around the round table, which is divided into sections, 12 of which contain envelopes with questions mailed in by the “viewers”.
  
  
• The arrow on the spinning top selects the section, or question, which will be played next. If the arrow points to a section which has already been played, the next clockwise section with an envelope containing a question is selected.
  
  
• A question may involve material objects or media (video or audio) demonstrated to the players.
  
  
• Sometimes a subject of the question is located inside a black box, which is brought into the room and placed on the table but not opened until the correct answer is announced. In this case, the question is usually ended with the phrase "what's in the black box?"
  
  
• The experts may choose to answer the question immediately, avoiding the one-minute discussion. Then, if their answer is correct, they get a reserve minute which can be appended further to discussion of any other question of the game.
  
  
• Usually, members of other teams of experts attend the game and informally discuss questions among themselves during the show. Once per game, but only if the viewer's team is in the lead, the playing team can ask for help from the audience.
  
  
• The game continues up to 6 points scored by either side.
  
  

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