After getting a sudden rush of creative juices on this lazy Sunday afternoon, I decided to create a home version of one of my favorite foreign quiz shows, Japan's Panel Quiz Attack 25.
For those unfamiliar with it, it's basically Blockbusters meets Othello, plus an additional player (4 players head-to-head). A question is read. Player with the correct answer chooses a square on a 5x5 board to change to their color. If a player brackets an opposing color with their own, those bracketed colors are captured (like In Othello). Play continues until all 25 squares are claimed. Winner is the player with the most claimed squares.
Ingredients for my home version:
- Puzzle board and numbered squares from Endless Concentration
- 10-second sand timer from Flippin' Out, a Scattergories clone from Endless
- Quizzard and three additional question books
- Puzzles and prizes from the now-cannibalized Concentration (reverse side of prize tiles are the white player's pieces)
The only difference in my game is the final round. On the show, the winner plays for a trip to a location, video of which is chromakeyed onto the board. The player can only see the video through the squares he/she captured in the main game, and has 10 seconds to identify the mystery location once the video is done. I kept the Concentration rebuses, so that instead of a video, the winner has 10 seconds to solve the partially-revealed rebus.
Here's a picture of the whole setup:
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/9813/1325482007791.jpgI'm pretty proud of it, and we're going to give it a try at my game night tomorrow. What do you think?
