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DRUNK NAKED JEOPARDY!

  A strip/drinking game to be played while watching TV's greatest quiz show; brought to you by the Sexy Genius Consortium

    Rules for Play

--All players are stationed (sitting or standing, up to you) someplace where they can see the TV, clothed and holding an alcoholic beverage of their choosing.

--When Alex reads a clue, everyone starts yelling out answers.  If no-one is right, nothing happens.  When a player gets a question right, the show is paused.  The correct player (or first correct player, if more than one yelled out the right answer) then gets to order a player or players of his or her choosing to remove an article of clothing and/or to take a drink.  When the correct player has apportioned the clothing removal and/or drinks, and the ordered players have complied, the TV is unpaused and play resumes.

--The numbers of removed clothing articles and/or drinks are apportioned in accordance with point values of questions.  For example, a player who correctly answers a clue from the very top of a category (i.e., the easiest one) gets to tell another player to either remove one article of clothing or to take one drink.  A player who correctly answers a second-from-the-top clue gets to tell one player to remove two articles of clothing, or take two drinks, or tell two different players to each remove an article of clothing, or each to take one drink, or tell one player to remove an article of clothing and another to take a drink.  And so on, etc., down to the bottom clue, which is worth five (i.e., five articles of clothing or five drinks or some combination thereof, apportioned out to anywhere from one to five other players).  Five may sound like a lot, but remember just somebody’s shoes and socks is four articles of clothing altogether.

--If circumstances warrant, the point values of questions may be altered.  For example, if you have a small number of players who are all very good at trivia, everyone will be completely naked very quickly, which takes all the challenge out of the game.  You may wish to amend the rules accordingly—e.g., you could say that the top three questions in a category can only be used to assign drinks, and not clothing removal.  If there is one player present who is so much better than everyone else that it ruins the game, a handicap may be devised for that player—e.g., he or she may only be allowed to assign clothing removal upon answering the very bottom clue in a category.

--A player must answer correctly before any of the contestants on the TV do.  If your assembled group is not especially quick at trivia, you may wish to employ beginner rules where the TV is paused for a few seconds immediately after Alex reads the clue, giving you at home a chance to answer, then unpaused to hear whether you were right, then paused again for the apportioning of clothing removal and/or drinks, then unpaused to hear the next clue.  But this sucks.  Please try to play the real way, if possible.

--There is no difference in gameplay between SINGLE and DOUBLE JEOPARDY.  In both rounds, a player who answers a clue correctly gets to order another player or players to do 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 points worth of clothing removal and/or drinking.  If point values were doubled in DOUBLE JEOPARDY like on the show, then every player would automatically end up completely naked every time, which sounds like a good thing at first but would actually make the game less fun because it would remove any element of risk or suspense, as well as render FINAL JEOPARDY pointless.

--Yes, a correct player may elect to order himself or herself to remove clothing or take drinks, either out of sympathy for other players or just to show off.  Apportionment of clothing removal and/or drinks may also be divided between the correct player and one or more others.

--Whether players have to wait for Alex to finish reading the entire clue, or have to remember to phrase their responses in the form of a question, may be decided by the assembled company before each game.  Please stick to what you decide at the beginning.

--A player who has been ordered to remove an article of clothing gets to choose which article to remove him/herself.  But things like how much clothing a player is allowed to be wearing at the beginning of the game (e.g., can you have ten t-shirts on one over the other), and what does or doesn’t count as an article of clothing (do hats count, do earrings count, do glasses count, etc.) should be determined before gameplay starts, to avoid arguments.  Please stick to what you decide at the beginning.

--There is no penalty or any effect whatsoever for yelling out a wrong answer.  That would make it too complicated, and only result in people being afraid to answer and then going “I was gonna say that!” after the correct response is revealed, which is boring.  However, each player only gets one guess per question!  If a player yells out a wrong answer and then immediately goes “oh, shit!” because he or she remembered what the right answer is, too freaking bad.  You cannot be right once you have been wrong.  If a player yells out a wrong answer and then yells out the right one afterwards anyway (just to show off or because he/she is drunk and forgot the rules), another player can steal it for a correct response.

--In the event of a player being rendered completely naked, he or she remains in the game, but can only be ordered to drink, unless he or she wins back clothing on a DAILY DOUBLE.

--When a DAILY DOUBLE pops up, the clue belongs to the last player to have gotten a correct response, same as on the show.  The player wagers an amount of clothing up to the number of articles he or she still has on.  If the player is correct, he or she gets to order that number of articles of clothing off of other players, or number of drinks to other players, or reclaim that number of articles from his or her previously removed clothing.  (This is the only way a player can put removed clothing back on!)  If the player is wrong or doesn’t know, he or she must remove that number of articles (a wrong answer on a DAILY DOUBLE must involve clothing removal rather than drinks, unless the player is already completely naked).  If the player has fewer than 5 articles of clothing still on, he or she may wager up to five, in which case a wrong answer leaves him or her completely naked and making up the difference in drinks.   

--When it comes time for FINAL JEOPARDY, players secretly write down a wager based on the category, and then once the clue is revealed, write down their responses on a piece of paper during the time the music is playing, same as on the show (no pausing for more time during Final Jeopardy!).  Only two wagers are possible: “no wager” and “completely naked.”  If a player indicates “no wager,” then nothing happens whether they are right or wrong and the only point to them even writing down a guess is to show off.  A wager of “completely naked” means that if your response is correct, you can order another player of your choosing to remove the remainder of his or her clothing, but that if your response is wrong, you must remove the remainder of your own clothing. 

--Apportionment of drinks does not play a role in FINAL JEOPARDY, only the removal of clothing.  Players reveal their answers and wagers one-by-one, starting with the player with the fewest remaining clothes, and ending with the player with the most clothing still on.

--So players cannot cheat by changing their wagers once they see the question, wagers should be signed and placed into a hat or other central location before the Final Clue is revealed.

--Players who are already completely naked by FINAL JEOPARDY may still participate.  The penalty for a player who is already completely naked by FINAL JEOPARDY, and then wagers “completely naked” and gets the question wrong, should be decided by vote at the very beginning of the game (possible penalties might include a spanking, a dare, a certain amount of drinking, etc.).  Please stick to what you decide at the beginning.

--Yes, a player who enters a wager of “completely naked” and then comes up with a correct response may elect to order himself or herself
to get completely naked, either out of sympathy for other players or just to show off.

--Be aware that the results of a game of DRUNK NAKED JEOPARDY! do not necessarily accurately reflect skill at trivia.  The players who are most naked by the end are not necessarily the worst, nor are the most clothed players the best.  Since players who come up with correct responses punish other players instead of being rewarded themselves, it is rather the case that the players who end up the most naked or drunk are simply the ones whom the other players were most interested in seeing naked or drunk.  This is why the FINAL JEOPARDY wagering takes the form of a “completely naked” all-or-nothing, rather than wagering based on how much clothing each player still has on.

--Please only play DRUNK NAKED JEOPARDY! with people you trust, know your limits when it comes to the consumption of alcohol, and be respectful of the limits of others.

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Sexo Grammaticus is the founder of SexyGeniusConsortium.com and The1585.com, and the inventor of DRUNK NAKED JEOPARDY!.  He is also in terrible financial trouble.  If you think this game is so brilliant that you want to give him one measly dollar as a reward for thinking of it, you may do so here:

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