You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 - The Ride

by Vivendi Universal

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• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001IVUO
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 1, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,172 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #43 in Video Games > PC Games > Trivia
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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The fourth volume of the award-winning party game tests your trivia knowledge through an onscreen game show. You Don't Know Jack allows one, two, or three players to battle wits, and Volume 4: The Ride includes 800 new questions and four new question types. (Ages 13 and older)

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What A Rush!, November 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 - The Ride (CD-ROM)

YDKJ: The Ride breaks the mold of its predecessors with a whole new goth/techno look! New games like Roadkill (which is almost too similar to Jack Attack) and Jack Bingo are great. All of the hosts are back, but Buzz is only limited to a few cameos. The Elevator Lady also stars in the game, messing with your name and commenting on the time, day, etc. While some may not like the new look or the loss of choosing the category, YDKJ: The Ride is the best the series has had so far!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best JACK yet., February 21, 2000

By 

Richard Engelhardt (Boca Raton, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 - The Ride (CD-ROM)

JACK 4 is by far the best JACK made to date. Instead of picking a category, you have to quickly pick the highest dollar amount you can, then they tell you the category. Screwing has never been better. Instead of just forcing someone to answer the question, you force someone to answer after you blast the screen with screws and cover up the question. Roadkill is very similar to the Jack Attack - but a lot more fun and more difficult. Jack Bingo is great; you have to pick the first letter of the word they're giving you the clue to. And they still have 2 classics: Gibberish Question and Dis-or-Dat. I HATE GIBBERISH QUESTIONS, and JACK 4 didn't make me like them anymore. I love Dis-or-Dat, though. And Dis-or-Dat is really sweet when you get over $10,000 per question (I'm not joking). JACK 4 is more intense and way more competitive. And having only 13 questions is great because those 21 question games can feel like they're dragging on sometimes. Also, in JACK 1, 2, & 3, you kind of knew who was gonna win by the time you got to question 16 or 17. Not so in Jack 4. I was playing with my sister, and she racked up more points in one question then I did in the entire game. If you love JACK, you must get JACK 4.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I Memorized Jack, September 28, 2005

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J. Zonta "Common Nerd" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: You Don't Know Jack Vol. 4 - The Ride (CD-ROM)

The Jack series, overall, is one of .the. best trivia games I've ever played (and I've played a number in my time). Sadly, The Ride, while being a F'ing blast, falls short on the replay factory. You play a number of floors, but after you're run through the game once (it's set up in a linear fashion), you have to start over from the beginning, and all the questions are the same--I'm still working over games one and two, and despite having some questions appear multiple times, there are still new questions to discover.
There are extremely fun conventions in The Ride, only slightly taken down by the, usually fun, announcers' comments--they seem "snotty" in this version.
Overall, still a good purchase, but after the slap and tickle, there's no cuddling. I'm gonna go back to YDKJ2 and explore some more.