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You-Dont-Know-Jack-upgrade-768x480.png|The somewhat controversial upgrade.
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You-dont-know-jack facebook question lawyer.png|A question from the aforementioned Funky Trash.
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Revision as of 12:59, 17 May 2022

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The game logo.

Status: Lost

Facebook YDKJ is a Facebook game application based on the long-running series of trivia games created by Jackbox Games (formerly Jellyvision Games). It was released for public play on Facebook in May 2012 after a beta period.

You Don't Know Jack or also known as YDKJ is known for being the most widely recognized trivia games in the world and known for being "The most irreverent trivia game".

The game is presented as a fictional television show, where the host would mock you for each answer you get wrong. It was developed by Jellyvision, now known as Jackbox games, and Berkeley Systems in 1995. Since starting out on the Playstation, Macintosh and Windows the series skyrocketed and led to its successor The Jackbox Party Pack which reached over 200 million sales by the end of 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic.[1]

Release and Reception

It was released for public play on Facebook in May 2012 for PC after a beta period. A mobile version for iOS was released in December 2012, of that same year it won the 2012 Spike Video Game Award for Best Social Game.[2]

A couple months after that, an Android version was released in May 2013 and allowed cross-play with the Facebook application allowing you to play with each other on those devices.

It would play out the same way as the other installments but with few changes, instead of the regular ten questions it would be five. It was also known as the first You Don't Know Jack game to include microtransactions and social features, which many players saw as a departure from the original format, and the reception was very mixed and wasn't received well.

The Closure

Unfortunately on January 30, 2015 Jackbox games announced it's shutdown of the game due to not that many people playing anymore. Another reason for it's closure was that around that time, Facebook was requiring all apps to update to a new API and they said they didn't have enough time on how they've integrated Facebook social networking into the game and how it wouldn't flow well.[3]

On March 1st 2015, both the PC and mobile versions were taken down and are no longer available to download.

Availability

As of March 1st, 2015 the game is no longer available on iOS and Android or PC and cannot be found in any form. Quite a lot of footage exists, thanks to Youtube user, "Mr. Coddleshire" because he recorded as much footage as he could before it went down.[4] But only of the PC version and only a small amount of footage of the mobile versions are available. The game still exists in spirit, most of the questions from this game were carried over to You Don't Know Jack 2015 for the first Jackbox Party Pack. Due to the reception, it is unknown if the game will come back.

Gallery

Videos

Mobile version trailer of the game.

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Fake sponsors from the game.

Number sequences (PC Version).

Photos

iOS and Android

PC

References