Testing New Games with Deboki Chakravarti | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@QuinnZip]

2:10 Sam revealing that Hank has just been a marionette puppeteered by Deboki this whole time

[@theanyktos]

All the games were a lot of fun, but I especially enjoyed 'Um, Actually: Science Edition'

[@Velcraft]

"Mouth sounds" would be a fun alternative way of deciding which panelist gets to go first/second for the Fact-Off!

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

aren't harvestmen/daddy long legs also different from spiders because they have only one body segment instead of two like spiders head and cephalothorax or I'm I missing something

[@scipio109]

I have an idea you could make the gauntlet better better and a bit less complicated if everybody starts with a score of 100 points and then you deduct points from the score every time they make a mistake that way they never get negative points and it’s a bit more intuitive to compare the scores. also you could still introduce the stealing of points your score would get less negative if you give the right answer while stealing

[@kyle-silver]

Also maybe it could be multiple choice instead of free-form answers?

[@chrissik3102]

This was a lot of fun to listen to, I liked all the games, especially the mouth sounds 😁 Also Deboki is always a great guest

[@IceMetalPunk]

Deboki's game is basically "Um, Actually: Real Science Edition", and I love it! You should require players to preface their answers with "Well, really," or not get any points 😁 And Ceri's is like Make Some Noise... has the SciShow office been bingeing College Humor game shows lately? 😂 As someone who's a paid member of College Humor mostly for their game shows, this was a huge compliment and I loved all the games; though, as others have said, Sam's could be streamlined a bit. Maybe passing a question gives the opponent an immediate chance to steal just like getting it wrong does, and you only revisit skipped questions if both players got them wrong? I think that's equally fun, but also shortens it a bit.

[@ditzfough]

Also if you go down the list of 10 questions and each is worth its numerical value. Odds has an advantage. Make the list 6 questions long. Each player gets 3 questions. A 3 pointer, 2 pointer 1 pointr.

[@ditzfough]

Also um actually is amazing

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@ditzfough While odds add to a higher value than evens, there's no particular strategy for one player to always get odds or always get evens from what I can tell, so I'm not sure that makes a difference.

[@internetexplorerpony]

Hank and Sam Reich have been interacting a lot lately. If we are lucky, he may appear in one of the extra game changer episodes they have been hinting.

[@FaeFemboi]

Loved all the games. Sam's went a bit long, could use some sort of streamlining. Ceri's game was DELIGHTFUL and has my full support!

[@cactusbart710]

This is quality material. I don’t know why more people aren’t subscribed

[@MarcosProjects]

needs a little workshopping but I feel like the Gauntlet has a ton of potential

[@silliepixie]

I love how you all supportively critiqued each others games. I would suggest trivia questions to decide who goes first for these games.

[@amelia13131]

this was such a fun episode! my favorite was Mouth Sounds

[@EricTams]

Tweak to the rules for "The Gauntlet", instead of getting negative points you should instead give positive points to your opponent!

[@SciShowTangents]

wow.... i like that

[@arc4705]

HAHA I am a huge astronomy fan, was so proud that I knew all but #9!

[@0oShwavyo0]

Ceri’s maniacal laugh at the end thinking about doing mouth sounds during the poop episode 😅

[@Challkboard]

I was so ecstatic when this notification popped up, as •I rarely catch the premieres, •Deboki is here, and •New (old) Games!! …But then I saw the thumbnail..and living in MA (near the CT & RI borders) & knowing a couple of reasons that people do this..some of that happiness disappeared.

[@Challkboard]

Because a whale being beached is a ridiculously sad situation to me, in and of itself; Never mind why people do what they do to it while it is/was in such a vulnerable state.

[@tao5231]

Deboki's game is Umm Actually.

[@IceMetalPunk]

And Ceri's is Make Some Noise. I think the SciShow team binged some College Humor game shows recently 😁 I'm all here for it! When do we get Dirty Laundry: SciShow Edition? 😂

[@massimocole9689]

I loved Mouth Sounds!

[@Bortnm]

Gauntlet Feedback: 1. go from low to high. you want to be able to come back as fast as possible. 2. the risk of answering is super high because you can both get negative points and your opponent can get positive points with no risk. 3. 10 questions is alot, so the pace has to be kept up. Suggestion: 5 questions each ranging from 1 - 5 points. You can either answer or pass. On a pass your opponent can guess and if right get 1 point, if wrong 0 points. On an answer you get 1 - 4 points based on the round, start at the 1 pt question though and work up to 5 points. You go between contestants 1pt for Contestant A, then 1 pt for Contestant B, then 2pt for Contestant A, then 2 pt for Contestant B, then 3pt for Contestant A - and so on. In the final round of the gauntlet - contestants must answer the question. Helps keep it anyone's game. I think the game is more fun as rapid fire back and forth than the circling back.

[@sueg2658]

I LOVED the all the games especially Cheri’s Mouth Sounds.

[@shadebug]

Petition for Sam to take over as host because he says “fire to be lit”

[@MangindDerous]

This was awesome. I loved all 3 games and want to see hank play all of them soon. 😍😍😍

[@rubidot]

Hank making mouth sounds would be great 🤣

[@DoctorAlex1]

Loved the "croquet"! :D :D Sounded very tasty! :) :)

[@ryanc473]

That bird call is literally a heartbeat (a messed up one, but still, it's weirdly close)

[@CourtOfWinter]

When you talked about Daddy longlegs, did you mean Opiliones or Pholcidae? Because if you meant the former, Ceri would have been correct about their lack of venom. But if you meant the latter, isn't the statement of them being "distinct from true spiders" incorrect since they are true spiders?

[@foozlebagel7488]

Opiliones are also very evolutionarily distinct from spiders; spiders share more recent common ancestry with horseshoe crabs than they do with that brand of Daddy Longlegs. I think Ceri kind of hit the nail on the head when she said it was more than just legs that separated them from spiders.

[@jesseannenorton6972]

Loved mouth sounds!!! Question for the Science Couch - How come you use the term 'lighted' instead of 'lit' for tagline?

[@silvanaarchilagomez9728]

loved the gauntlet

[@lutilda]

I love 2nd game! It sounds like a science version of Um, Actually. Which is a fav of mine. 😁

[@donnacharlton7213]

This is where the gauntlet is started?!

[@travisross9913]

If you guys keep one game it has to be Siri's game!

[@adamruff7013]

So I just tried watching this episode on both Google podcasts and audible and neither one would allow the episode to play 😞

[@datgurl12121]

Okay I loved the sounds one! And the gauntlet could be cool with some streamlining.

[@bloop9809]

so sad I missed the premiere cause I was asking for an all game episode of the podcast

[@edb7121]

Great episode!

[@nonhumanperson9362]

Sam: make the gauntlet 5-1. Steal attempts in round two result in a loss of the points for the stealer. All wrong answers give the game runner one point Deboki(sorry I'm going off memory I can't check your name without discarding my comment lol): only change would be wrong guesses reward the game runner Ceri: your game is already perfect lol great job

[@ponyote]

I like The Gauntlet, but think Tuna should give it a better musical sting.

[@Nothing2150]

Maybe instead of losing points equal to the value of the question say losing 3 points could encourage guessing the first time around and theoretically you are less likely to get the hard questions so will more often be penalized and if you miss an easy question you really shouldn't have gotten it wrong. Currently the risk reward on trying to answer a question is heavily weighted towards risk. There's a literal 0 value to trying to answer a question that you're not 100% certain on right now.

[@VeteranVandal]

What?

[@tjthrash0143]

I love the complexity of Sam's game but dont think it would be practical in a tangents episode.

[@nickfcarter]

MOUTH SOUNDS!!!! 👄🔊

[@atzarul]

Great episode!