You Don't Know Jack 2011 is an entry in the You Don't Know Jack series. This is the first commercial game since You Don't Know Jack Volume 6: The Lost Gold was released 8 years prior. It is also the first You Don’t Know Jack game in High-Definition and the first to be in 16:9 widescreen.
Description[]
Features[]
The 2011 version of the game works just like every other game in the franchise. However, there are some changes made to improve the formula. All players answer simultaneously instead of buzzing in individually. The amount of money earned or lost on a question is now determined based on a timer of 20 seconds; for every 0.01 second left, the player will earn $1 (or lose $1 if they get it wrong). All cash values are doubled in Round 2. The game has also been shorted to just 10 questions, plus the Jack Attack.
New to You Don't Know Jack 2011 is the "Wrong Answer of the Game!" At the start of the game, you are going to be shown the episode's sponsor. One of the wrong answers in the game will be loosely themed around this sponsor, and choosing it will give you $4,000 ($8,000 in Round 2).
Screwing returns and functions largely the same as it used to, with only minor changes. If a player gets screwed, the 'screwee' only has 5 seconds to answer. If they get it wrong, the player who screwed them will get the cash. However, if they get it right, the 'screwer' will be screwed instead and lose the amount of cash that would have been lost had the screw victim got it wrong. Screws are not restored at the start of Round 2, now.
Question Types[]
| Multiple-choice questions Varies |
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| The classic trivia style. Answer bizarre questions with even more bizarre answers. The faster you answer, the more cash you make or lose. |
| Dis or Dat $300 |
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| The Dis Or Dat question type has been changed so that all players can take part. The player in last place when a Dis Or Dat starts will be given the chance to play the Dis Or Dat directly to earn cash and catch up. If another players answers the question before the main player has picked an answer, they have a chance to earn cash. If the main player picks the wrong option, all players who answered before them will earn money if they guessed correctly - with the $300 on offer being split evenly between them. The faster the main player finishes, the more cash they earn at the end, so they can still profit if they did poorly but answered fast enough. There is now no option to skip, so all choices must be answered in order. Dis Or Dat's now only appear exclusively in Round 1, and there is a Dis Or Dat for every episode. |
| Wrong Answer of the GameNEW $4,000/$8,000 |
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| Find the wrong answer associated with the episode's sponsor to earn big cash. |
| Who's The Dummy?NEW Varies |
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| Introducing Billy O'Brien! Cookie Masterson's ventriloquist puppet asks a question, but with a speech impediment that makes the question both difficult to read and difficult to understand. |
| Nocturnal Admissions With Cookie MastersonNEW Varies |
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| Cookie had a nightmare last night. Listen to his retelling of events and then pick the answer that most closely resembles the dream. |
| Cookie's Fortune Cookie Fortunes With Cookie "Fortune Cookie" MastersonNEW Varies |
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| Cookie cracks open a fortune cookie and reads his fortune, followed by a question based on the advice he is given. |
| It's The Put The Choices Into Order Then Buzz In And See If You Are Right QuestionNEW Varies |
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| Pick the order that three given items go in according to a specified order. |
| Funky TrashNEW Varies |
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| Cookie is going to search through someone's trash and find what they have thrown out. Based on what he finds... Whose trash does this belong to? |
| Jack Attack $4,000 |
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| When you see an answer that's a match, be the first to buzz in and score the cash. But if you guess wrong, you lose money. And keep this in mind... REMEMBER THE CLUE! |
DLC[]
The game contains four DLC packs, dubbed "Jack Packs". These are only an available on the console versions of the game (PS3 and Xbox 360). Unlike the main episodes, the player does not need to complete previous episodes to unlock them, and the player must instead purchase the respective Jack Pack they are included in. Each of the packs contain 10 episodes with new sponsors and new questions, the second Jack pack contains some of the questions returning from the NetShow, but this pack only contains regular questions (with none of the new question types) as a result. As of 2013, the DLC is no longer available to purchase.
Online Play[]
This is the first game released by Jellyvision to support online play. On the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, users can play episodes with other players online using Xbox Live or PlayStation Network. For DLC episodes, all players must have the Jack Pack the respective episode belongs to purchased. Users can only play with users on the same system type (Xbox 360 players can only play with other Xbox 360 players, and PS3 players can only play with other PS3 players).
Demo[]
A demo version of the game is also available, but is only available on PS3 and Xbox 360. The demo includes three episodes, one of which being exclusive to the demo, as well as one of the DLC episodes from the second Jack Pack.
Differences Between Releases[]
Wii[]
- Due to hardware limitations, the game is not available in HD, and the quality and amount of animations in the game have been reduced.
- The Wii version does not have the DLC available to purchase, leaving only the 73 initial episodes available to play on Wii.
- Online Play is not available.
Xbox 360[]
- Achieving certain tasks (ex: play any episode and score over $0) awarded the player's Xbox avatar with unique YDKJ themed apparel, this includes a t-shirt (Classy♂, Trendy♀), short-pants (Fashionable♂, Beautiful♀), a ski mask and a replica dummy.
PlayStation 3[]
- One additional trophy is included, which is the platinum trophy(Must complete the game 100% first, and get all other trophies).
PC/Steam[]
- This version of the game only supports 2 players, as opposed to four.
- The menu has been slightly redesigned, and now takes you straight to the episode selection.
- Additionally, unless you exit the game and then reenter, any consecutive episodes played will not have some of the intro dialogue or the option to view the instructions available.
- Online Play is not supported.
Nintendo DS[]
- This version, unlike many Nintendo DS versions of major console games, is still heavily based on the console version, but included features are stripped back or altered in several ways compared to their console counterparts.
- The game is limited to 1 or 2 players, although 2-player mode doesn't require a second system to play.
- Online Play is not included either
- The game only has 37 episodes as opposed to the console version's 73.
- The DLC is also not available.
- The presentation has been simplified due to hardware limitations, for example, the intro featuring the Jack head coming towards the screen is absent, as well as the intro music. However, in place of this, there are jokes separated with one line being the buildup, and a delayed punchline.
- Surprisingly, the game still has full voice over.
- The Wrong Answer of the Game is completely absent.
- Any questions that featured the Wrong Answer of the Game were rewritten to remove the references to the sponsors.
- The “Nocturnal Admissions with Cookie Masterson” questions are also not present, and are replaced by different questions.
- For Dis or Dat rounds in 2-player mode, the player who isn't playing can't buzz in early and earn money if they guessed correctly when the main player guessed incorrectly, essentially making Dis or Dat harder on the leading player as a result.
Trivia[]
- The PC version of the game was discontinued from Steam on June 10, 2014.
- The Xbox 360 digital release of the game on the Xbox marketplace was discontinued on June 5, 2014.
- This is the first game by Jackbox that supports Xbox and PlayStation trophies, both of which are only available on their respective consoles. It is also the first game to have an achievement system in general.
- Mods have existed to include the DLC from PS3 and Xbox 360 on the Wii version of the game, but these mods have not been publicly released.
- The game has commercials from previous You Don’t Know Jack volumes return. Most can be found in the main menu, but a few can be found in the game starting sequence and credits, the latter of which contains all of the new commercials as well.
- Episode 47: Lawn Wax is a famous episode in the series. The episode starts by revealing that the writers went off and had a picnic, having finished only 6 questions. In the panic, all the interns are tasked with finishing the rest of the questions, but it all goes wrong.
- This installment is famous for being the start of the '4our Lore,' telling the story of "The Fate of Question 4our." During the Question 4 segue in Episode 27: Fat Jim's Weasel Jerky, the leading 4 gets shot and gets replaced by a "f" in later episodes. The funeral for the murdered 4 happens in Episode 32: Rocky's Rodent Rockets.