Hello guys,

Just a quick heads up on something I've been working on for the past few months.

http://www.jrjgames.com/rubiks

Please do not email me with questions on how the show works as I can't release that to the public yet, but the format has been approved and all TV rights licensed to JRJ Games. I will be pitching the format soon to networks and producers.

Just a heads up on something that's in the works.

You comments are welcome!

John

Beleive it or not, Rubiks Cube is on an upswing Im told. I will never be as popular as it was before, but as you know anything pop culture has a shot.

And for Wink's Trivial Pursuit...it wasnt that he was too late, the format was kinda boring...no offense to Wink or anyone on here that may have worked on it. They get Kudos for great interactive play that GSN has yet to match...but the game was kinda a sleeper! :)

More to come on Rubiks when I know more!

Thanks for ALL the support!

John

Can anyone fill us in on how the game was played? Jay Wolpert's Trivial Pursuit, I mean.

I'm slightly amused that a thread about another highly-touted John Ricci license acquisition comes back to Trivial Pursuit. That notwithstanding...

The crux of the show is that four players play on a modified gameboard (4 spokes instead of 6), trying to make it from their "corner" of the board to the hub (a journey that takes 5 right answers). The six then-standard TP categories were used.

Each player is staked to $250 and players take turns "buying" questions for their clockwise opponent ($100 for a hard question, $50 for a medium question, easy questions were free). That opponent could then take the question of that difficulty level in that category, or change the category. A right answer advances the player one space toward the hub and lights one wedge in the player's pie (each player had a monochrome pie of a different color).

Second round was played in the same fashion, but a wrong answer meant that the player who bought the question got a "kickback" and could answer the question himself. Each player also got a prize hidden somewhere along the untravelled portion of his path.

Third round saw one player getting a car hidden somewhere along the untravelled portion of his path. On their turn, a player could choose to answer a question and move one space (in hopes of uncovering the car) or spin their individual pie - landing on a previously lighted wedge advanced them directly to the hub and won them the game.

Bonus round was very Hit Man-esque. The winner played against his three opponents from the main game and received an extra lighted wedge. Everyone's lighted wedges essentially become "lives". The winner faces off against each player one-at-a-time in a series of jump-in question showdowns. A right answer took a life from your opponent, a wrong answer took one from you. If the winner vanquished all three opponents, she won the game.

Like any other respectable Jay Wolpert game, there were a lot of other complications and details that I've omitted. Feel free to fill them in if you've seen it and care.

A game show about a Rubik's Cube sounds very intriguing! Good luck with it!

I hope this venture works out well for you, John.

Two questions:

--Won't it be hard to find 54 celebrities to fill all those squares?

and

--Won't some of them fall out of their chairs when the cube is turned face down?

:-)

Good luck, John...hope it sells!

Chuck Donegan (The Eager "Chuckie Baby")

this sounds weird. it might be pretty good. who knows. i really see no way possible to make Rubiks Cube into a game show, but kudos for doing it.

John, have you actually played this game?

The game has not been play tested yet...but the concept is not that difficult. Although it may be hard to believe, there is a way to make this a game show! ;)

John

It's interesting that you've plopped down the money for the name and made a public announcement about having done so without having even played through the format or gotten anyone interested in it.

I still wish you luck, but all the same, I hope that's money you weren't going to miss anyway.