Ca$h Cab (Jelly, Bowser, SC)

[lilith2013]

Welcome to the Ca$h Cab!

Where unsuspecting taxi passengers test their knowledge in a game of trivia..

Rules

The object of the game is to walk away with as much money as possible. You do that by answering trivia questions correctly. Answer a question incorrectly, and you earn a strike. When your team reaches three strikes, you lose all your money and get dumped out of the cab! If you reach your destination without hitting three strikes, you get to walk away with the money (or play a Video Bonus question for double or nothing).

Setup:

At the beginning of the game, I’ll choose the starting point of your ride, and your team will choose a destination from a list of five places in Manhattan. One of the five choices will result in a Double Ride game, in which all values are doubled. I will then reveal the starting point, and the length of the cab ride between the two points determines how many questions you’ll be asked.

Answering questions:

When I ask a question, anyone on the team can answer by using bold tags:

Answer: Manhattan

or simply

Manhattan

. Your team can discuss your answer in this thread up until the deadline, which will be 48 hours from my asking the question. If a deadline runs out without an answer, I will count that as an incorrect answer. I won’t be prodding because after three missed questions (strikes) the team will strike out anyway and I will move on to the next team.

Types of questions:

The questions will cover a variety of topics, including food, history, literature, music, sports, and television. I will try to stay as geography-neutral as possible. All questions have a deadline of 48 hours.

Spoiler: Regular questions

The first four questions are worth $50, the next four $100, and any question after that $200. I will take only the first bolded answer for these questions. In Double Ride games, questions are worth $100, then $200, and finally $400.

Spoiler: Red Light Challenges

When a team has over $200 in a game and we stop at a red light (determined randomly by a 1d2 die toss, with 1 being green and 2 being red), a Red Light Challenge will occur. I will ask a question that has between 4 and 7 correct answers, and your team has 48 hours to give all of the answers. Your team can give a maximum of 10 answers, and there are no penalties for incorrect answers.

The Red Light Challenge is worth $250. You get no money if the time runs out before you have given all of the correct answers. However, it is not counted as a strike, and you do not lose any money. If your team reaches $1000 and we stop at a red light, I will hold another Red Light Challenge. There are at most two Red Light Challenges per game.

For Double Ride games, the Red Light Challenge will occur after a team reaches $600, and is worth $500. The second challenge will occur after reaching $2400.

Spoiler: Video Bonus

If you reach your destination without striking out, you can leave and keep the prize money, or try your hand at a video bonus question. I will put up a video clip and ask a single question, which your team has 48 hours to answer. If you answer correctly, you double your winnings. If you answer this question incorrectly, you will lose all of your winnings.

Shout-outs:

Over the course of the game, your team does receive help. You can use the Mod Shout-out by posting

Mod Shout-out

. I will stop the clock until I give you a list of five possible answers to choose from, then you will have the rest of the 48 hours to select an answer. Your team can use this shout-out twice over the course of the game (three times if you are playing a Double Ride game), and the shout-out cannot be used during Red Light Challenges or Video Bonus questions.

Entering the queue and choosing teams:

Anyone can enter the queue, as long as they are not already in the queue.

I will allow parties of up to three players. You can choose to form a team before you join the queue by having everyone in the team /in and confirm the team members. You do not have to join a team and can simply /in. Before the game starts, or at any point before I ask the 5th question, the first person in the queue can invite any teamless players in the queue to join their team, up to a maximum of three players. The players invited to the team can either say yes by /confirming or pming me, and join the game right away, or decline and wait for the next game. The players in the party can then keep inviting others from the queue until there are a maximum of three people in the party, although you are not required to invite anyone.

Determining how much time everything takes:

The 48-hour deadline for answering questions is equivalent to the 30 seconds that contestants get on the show. The clock stops when you have answered the question—i.e. if your team answers at the 24-hour mark, I will only take 15 seconds from the remaining time.
My asking a question will count as 15 seconds, regardless of how long it takes me to put up the question.
Mod Shout-outs: 1 minute.
I calculate how much time your team receives using the distance from the starting point to the destination. Then I calculate your remaining time using about 15 seconds per block.

Scores:

I will be keeping a team leaderboard as well as an individual leaderboard. At the end of each game, the winnings are divided evenly between all players in the party—so there is an incentive to go for fewer players.

All judgments made by me are final. Please be aware that this game is subject to general forum rules.

Final note:

I am totally open for suggestions on how to improve this version of the game—this is my first time modding a game so please bear with me

And a big thanks to Tatsuya Kaname for help with the setup!

[lilith2013]

Spoiler: Queue

ForWhomTheJellyRolls
StrangerCoug
Bowser
Save The Dragons

Spoiler: Team Leaderboard

1 - ForWhomTheJellyRolls, Bowser, StrangerCoug - $5400
2 - Save The Dragons, ika, TellTaleHeart - $4600
3 - RedCoyote, Save The Dragons, ForWhomTheJellyRolls - $0
3 - StrangerCoug, Save The Dragons, ika - $0

Spoiler: Individual Leaderboard

1 - ForWhomTheJellyRolls - $1800
1 - StrangerCoug - $1800
1 - Bowser - $1800
2 - Save The Dragons - $1533
2 - ika - $1533
2 - TellTaleHeart - $1533
3 - RedCoyote - $0

[RedCoyote]

/in

How are we doing teams, Mod?

[Save The Dragons]

/in

[lilith2013]

You can form teams before you join, or choose your team from whoever's in the queue. Red, since you were first, would you like to invite STD and/or Jelly to your team?

Here's your choice of destinations:
New York Public Library, for some light reading
South Street Seaport, for the 6th annual Taste of the Seaport food festival
Bouley, the Michelin-star French restaurant
Gershwin Theater, to see Wicked
Gagopa, for a karaoke party

Remember, one of these choices will give you a Double Ride game, in which all values are doubled!

[ForWhomTheJellyRolls]

/in

[RedCoyote]

omg, yes....

I want a team of STD and Jelly. And I want to go to........... Gagopa for a karaoke party

[Save The Dragons]

party!

[lilith2013]

STD & Jelly, you can join Red’s team and this game right away, otherwise just sit tight in the queue there.

Yay for karaoke! Unfortunately you didn’t choose the Double Ride destination, which was South Street Seaport. No harm done though!

Our starting point was the

Bowery Electric

, a neat little bar with live rock shows and highly overpriced drinks. They do have open bars sometimes so that kind of but not really makes up for it. Anyway, that means you have 39 blocks to rack up as much money as you can.

Spoiler: Look it's a map!

With a very crudely drawn line. Ah well. We can't all be good at photoshop.

Let's get started!

Here’s your first question, for $50:

What chemical element takes its name from a Roman god?

You have (expired on 2015-10-20 22:13:50) remaining to answer.

[ForWhomTheJellyRolls]

I'm in to do this. Isn't it Plutonium? That's an element right? Pluto is the Roman god of the underworld. At the moment I'm second guessing myself.

[Save The Dragons]

It's Mercury!

[lilith2013]

Remember, please bold your final answer because you can only give one.

Sorry, I probably should have been more specific. It's the Roman god of thieves.

[ForWhomTheJellyRolls]

Mercury

Goin for it.

[lilith2013]

And you're on the board with

$50

! We have 37 blocks to go, and here's your next question:

What Japanese clothing company sponsors tennis player Novak Djokovic?

You have (expired on 2015-10-22 08:45:56) to answer.

[RedCoyote]

I would've agreed with Mercury! But I have less than zero idea on this one. I don't think I could even name a Japanese clothing company... I don't think it's worth using a shout-out for a $25 question either.

[RedCoyote]

Err, $50 I mean.

[Save The Dragons]

no idea trying to think of clothing companies with sports sponsorship like reebok nike adidas...it might even be like a shoe company like saucony (except that one's Korean I think?)

[lilith2013]

Oh no!

Strike one

! The answer was Uniqlo.

You still have $50, and we have 35 blocks to go. Here's your next $50 question:

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide became the first climbers to reach the summit of what mountain?

You have (expired on 2015-10-24 10:01:13) to answer.

[Save The Dragons]

If there was ever a time we could rest easy it
Is now.

[RedCoyote]

Oh, good, I can get us one.

Mount Everest

, please!

[RedCoyote]

Also, I see what you did there.

[Save The Dragons]

:3

[lilith2013]

Nice! That brings you to

$100

, and here's your last $50 question:

What often-ridiculed Olympic distance sport requires competitors to keep at least one foot on the ground at all times?

You have (expired on 2015-10-24 18:28:32) to answer.

[Save The Dragons]

is powerwalking an olympic sport?

[Save The Dragons]

Though i know ballroom dancing is an olympic event or was