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Rating:	4.2 Passable
Popularity:	0
Difficulty:	Medium
Year:	2005
Players:	2-99 players
Playing time:	30-8 minutes
Age:	8+

Created by: (Uncredited)

Published by: University Games

Description:

The idea behind "Can You Beat Ken?" is a match up between Ken [Jennings, Jeopardy! champion] and the players as they try to answer some 1,200 trivia questions broken up into several different categories such as sports, science, contemporary music and history.

The challenge is to see which player, including Ken, is able to reach $2.6 million (the amount Jennings actually won on Jeopardy!) in prize money first.

"The game is unique in that we actually tested Ken with all 1,200 questions", [University Games spokesman Alex] Plant said, although neither he nor Jennings could recall how many of the game's questions Jennings actually answered correctly.

"Ken may have gotten some right and some wrong and we recorded how he answered each question on the card itself", Plant said. That allows players to see how they held up against the Jeopardy! whiz.

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Can You Beat Ken? Game Rules

Components

1 Game Board
4 Colored Chips
1 Spinner Card
1 Game Token
4 Dry Erase Boards
220 Question Cards
Ken Cut-out & Base
4 Dry Erase Pens
Instructions

Object of the Game

To be the first player to win $2,600,000.

Setup

Unfold game board.
Stack cards question side up.
Insert Ken cut-out into its base and place at Start on Ken's yellow Money Track.
Each player selects a colored Money Track on the board.
Each player places a color-matching chip on Start of his/her Money Track.
Place game token on Start mark of Game Path.

Game Play

The smartest player goes first. If there's a dispute, the youngest player goes first. Play continues clockwise. Ken goes last. (The first player is responsible for moving Ken throughout the game). â€¦

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