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Frank Branham
October 2003
USA

We got to drag the new OTB game to the table. This one is actually pretty cool, as it adds a new angle to trivia games that I've not seen before:  

Arguing.  

It is based on a public radio game show. The core mechanic is that the questions are so difficult that it is nearly impossible to know the correct answer. The questions are, however, multiple choice. You can usually rule out one of the answers, and will occasionally actually know the answer.

What happens in a round is that there are two contestants, and every one else is audience.The audience first all choose their answers, then reveal them faceup.Then the entire group discusses what should be the correct answer. The contestants then get to openly choose their answers.

Anyone who gets it correct gets a point. If both contestants came to a consensus AND were right, they get a bonus point.

Anyone in the audience who manages to get both contestants to agree with their answer, gets a bonus point--whether or not the answer was right or wrong. They get a point for being persuasive.

The cool thing comes from the discussions themselves. The discussion of just how long an engine could run without oil or water took on a new life with our group of techies. Incantations of Thermodynamics were even invoked.

Moo,
Frank

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