"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:
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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