A few years ago my two younger brothers became obsessed with the 90's version and gave the characters back stories. So if you over heard a game between them you would hear things like, "Is your person unhappily married?" "Is your person secretly a communist?"

@ballsrgrossnugly

10 жыл бұрын

lol one day they will be the wachowski's...

@mistermack4987

9 жыл бұрын

Would love to sit in on a game with them. Wait, that came out a little more creepy than intended...Comment withdrawn

@eightbait06

7 жыл бұрын

DELETE COMMENT BUTTON INTENSIFIES

@vacatiolibertas

7 жыл бұрын

I would want to hear a game of them playing guess who, sounds hilarious

@elisefurze8956

6 жыл бұрын

EightBait qqx

"Are you the happy one? Or are you the happy one that looks like Nigel Thorneberry?"

@ProgrammedPersona

8 жыл бұрын

+DoomVault splashing.

@stevekelley17

7 жыл бұрын

SHMEBULOCK

@sahajnanda

7 жыл бұрын

shotgun6X SHME BU LOCK

@sahajnanda

7 жыл бұрын

Scuba Steve SHMEBULOCK

@Kairnestar

6 жыл бұрын

SMASHING

he really did do a fucking guess who episode.

@ryanfleming2049

8 жыл бұрын

+Dick Santorum yes, and you what's sadder? We all watched it.

@Beevenhouse

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Fleming We all had to look for it, too. And we did.

@finchcarvingadiamond

8 жыл бұрын

And he looks like a newborn baby in it. Lmao

Many people forget that 'black' and 'white' are just like 'brunette' and 'blonde'. it is not rascist, it is an identifying feature of a human so you can tell two people apart... and not necassarily to bully them, often just to say ' hi Anne'.

@TheGreatJuniper

8 жыл бұрын

agree

@squintsyadams8463

8 жыл бұрын

Agree

@squintsyadams8463

8 жыл бұрын

Agree

@squintsyadams8463

8 жыл бұрын

Agree

@MajaM777

8 жыл бұрын

Yes rasist means making fun of or thinking they're better than a race. When you describe someone that say stole your car mentioning their race is just describing them

"Are you the happy one? Or are you the *really* fucking happy one?"

Hey, but this is only one version of the game. I've got a version that has about 1/3 of the characters black. Then a 1/3 are tanned and 1/3 are pale. Ok, that's not perfect, but it's better, right?

@readerminion6743

8 жыл бұрын

I have three versions and two are like that and one is like the newer one he described.

@aturninthegameof...4584

7 жыл бұрын

That's pretty much perfect.

@Joesolo13

7 жыл бұрын

yeah. can't expect them to go by the census and make sure each corresponds exactly to its share of the population also In terms of game balance it makes sense. wonder if they didn't make them all white just so people didn't ask about race

@hahalove47

6 жыл бұрын

I was pretty confused by the video at first because the only new version I've played had different skin colors haha didn't realize there was another new one without.

@Double_T_G

6 жыл бұрын

In terms of balance they should either eliminate race as a guess by making it against the rules or make all the characters the same race. Any question that eliminates 1/3 of the characters is going to shorten the length of the game dramatically and consistently.

I want to see Daniel O'Brien and Adam Conover have an "acktchually" battle

@sthngo

7 жыл бұрын

yes.

@FinnUkato

6 жыл бұрын

That would be awesome

@bookwermofthefandoms

6 жыл бұрын

So awesome. Maybe also the Mr. Rogers guy from the Cracked Ads going up against Adam on his Adam Ruins Everything? The ideas are so amazing and endless.

@honorburke474

5 жыл бұрын

DOB went on Dropout’s Um, Actually! I don’t remember if he went up against Adam, but it’s still cool to see

I don't know about other countries but the guess who that my family bought here in Germany in 2003 contains like over 1/3 of black people. Also, the Bernard that we have is black too, so seeing a white Bernard really freaked me out for a second there. Oh and we have sad people in the game too.

@jeppel1972

8 жыл бұрын

+st0nedg0at I'm sure you can find a question with better than 1/3 of the characters for your second guess.

@estefanolivares4159

8 жыл бұрын

+st0nedg0at you always start the game with sexism. Is it a boy or a girl gets close to 50% off the first guess

@griml0gic420

8 жыл бұрын

+CarpeDiem So Guess Who in Germany was pretty much stereotyping black people as criminals since the game is an adaption of 'find the murderer' type games. Since the black population in Germany is estimated to be around 0.3% that is 100 times Racist!!!!

@ckgaming6296

8 жыл бұрын

Same (I live in Austria)

@oliverwilson8092

8 жыл бұрын

It was like that in America in 2003 too

I miss DOB. He is so funny. I hear he is making the best parts of Last Week Tonight nowadays. I would love to see him in front of a camera again.

@iambicpentakill971

Жыл бұрын

You might like the podcast Quick Question with Soren and Daniel. Strong recommend.

honesty, from a game design point of view, skin color elimates too many people right away and makes that the first question you should ask. Maybe they thought making it so that picking the black lady was the worst person to pick seemed racist. Or they couldve just added other black people as well as other skin colors. Or maybe they're just racist.

@PrincessNinja007

7 жыл бұрын

Some psychologists designed a version where race was the first question to ask, to see who would ask. The older a subject was, until it leveled out in the 20'sish, the less likely they were to ask about race, particularly if the other participant was black. This made them appear more racist when they were afraid to bring up race- particularly if the other participant was black.

@chaumas

7 жыл бұрын

> skin color elimates too many people right away and makes that the first question you should ask The most effective question at any stage eliminates exactly half of the remaining characters. No more, and no less. It doesn't matter if it's skin color or anything else. For example, in the classic set, I can ask "Is your person someone with yellow or orange hair, or a woman with white hair" (supposing my person is none of those), and I will eliminate either 12 (for yes) or 11 (for no). Say it's 12 remaining; I can ask another question that applies to exactly 6 people. Now again, I'll have only 6 people remaining, given either answer. Next I'll ask something that narrows it down to 3. Then 2 or 1 (at which point I win). Obviously my last question will rule out one person, and I'm done. So you see, it doesn't really matter what attributes they put on the characters. You can _always_ craft your questions so that you'll eliminate half of the remaining people, and if you do that, you'll win in either four or five moves. If you ask more specific questions than that, then yes you'll get lucky sometimes. But the odds are against you; if there's only one black person, and you say "is your character black?", it's _very_ likely that you're only going to eliminate one person. I haven't done the statistics on this properly, but stabbing around at rough approximations, I'm pretty sure that the average number of moves it will take you to win is around 10 with that strategy. So the optimal strategy is around twice as strong.

@nekrataali

7 жыл бұрын

The first question asked almost every game at my elementary school was "Does your person have facial hair (eyebrows don't count)?" You can eliminate a lot of the people with that question alone. It's almost more effective than if you asked about gender (probably the second most asked question, because there's a 50/50 split). chaumas is correct about asking which questions eliminate ~50% of the remaining board. You're taking a huge gamble by wasting a question on a single character. You could win the game on the spot, or you wasted an entire turn.

@user-bo1fg6tw5e

6 жыл бұрын

I vote we create a diverse set of Guess Who characters, that all look like fairly normal people, except we make Anne fucking blue. I feel like that's the best choice here.

@oskarobertson5513

6 жыл бұрын

chaumas on the subject of knocking out half of them, I had a set with multiple games on it and there was a set with household appliances and I’d always start with “does it need to be plugged in”

Fascinating - if this video were posted today I can guarantee it would receive at least 1/3 dislikes regardless of the fact that it's comedy and not a serious critique. I'm always interested in the changes in social trends (even if it's an undercurrent) and in 2015-2016 we near invariably see a noteable chunk of people downvoting and complaining about any video that dares to mention racism. Clearly some people are very sensitive to this issue despite usually insisting that the video creators are "over-sensitive" or "too offended" even when they're perfectly calm while the commenter is outraged. Did I get all the scare words in?

@vulture_5212

8 жыл бұрын

You missed out the phrase "White cis male". Otherwise you're good.

@SilverFeet

7 жыл бұрын

You forgot how they'll make trigger warning joke apropos of nothing.

@johnpatrick1647

7 жыл бұрын

The only think I see people taking offense to nowadays is this retarded belief that only whites can be racist and that every white is a privileged racist.

"A casual boring white guy hat." What?

@awsometomable

8 жыл бұрын

+Bob Bluered I Had the same reaction! How can you define a hat as a hat for white people.

@michaelpieruccini8623

8 жыл бұрын

+Bob Bluered Have you seen someone not white wear a hat like that?

@bobbluered8984

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Pieruccini I've never seen ANYONE wear a hat like that.

@michaelpieruccini8623

8 жыл бұрын

awsometomable Why does that show results for "pharrell"...

@awsometomable

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Pieruccini It's a guy that isnt white that where's a said "Casual boring white guy hat."

Reminds me of a study- after 8 years old, children grow increasingly afraid of asking about race in Guess Who (even if it was set up to be strategically the best question to ask first), and being afraid to mention race actually made them seem *more* racist.

I know this is satire... but... the underlying points made in this video really are a bit spot-on. Milton-Bradley dumbed down the game we older folks grew up with for a new, softer generation, narrowing the field of questions possibly so games would go quicker. But on the other hand, in doing so, they made everyone pretty much the same character, but with different hair colors and articles of clothing. That's kind of sad...

@KamisamanoOtaku

8 жыл бұрын

+Joseph Collins Wait, wouldn't making the cast more ethnically centralized make the game more difficult? It removed some of the "easier to isolate" characters. Is the due with a small facial scar (the only guy with one) gone?

@12brunni

8 жыл бұрын

+Kami-sama no Otaku No. just the opposite. By guessing a certain minority, you might as well just be guessing for a specific individual. Sure, it may be easy victory if he actually chose such a character, but if he/she didn't, you basically wasted your move. there are a lot of objectively superior moves to make. By including more ethnic diversity, you're making the game easier, since it makes entire groups of people, if not most of the board easy to dismiss by guessing the right one.

@KamisamanoOtaku

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicolas Brun-Cottan Maybe we were just always bad at the game then... or good at reading each other. Not every time but often enough I could tell when my opponent was so nervous that he or she had to have a character that was going to be easily narrowed down. Plus most of the characters that were "One Question" types still had other features one could guess. Since it has been some 20 years since I last played, this example is probably horribly inaccurate but let us say there is one and only one character with a facial scar. He has dark hair and a red shirt. One of our games would typically go -Is it a man? -Is he wearing a red shirt? -Does he have black hair? -Does he have a scar? At least if each preceding question was answered "yes". We were just kids so if that is the wrong way to do it... my bad. Those times when someone was annoyed because they had one of the female characters (the edition I played had only a quarter to a third of the characters being female) or the guy with the small facial scar... well you guessed it pretty quick. I think because of a horrible failure to get the rules when I first started playing (...I lied about my character >.>) we never thought to bluff properly with our mannerism (I am not sure if I played this game past the age of 10).

@12brunni

8 жыл бұрын

The question now becomes, was the game any actually easier for you (did it take fewer questions for you to get the target) or was it purely a question of meta gaming, as in the other players attitude told you which questions to use.

@KamisamanoOtaku

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicolas Brun-Cottan Right, and as I tried to explain, by now I am not sure. ^^' That is why I gave such a detailed comment (if you did not click Read More, there is a lot to read more XP). If that sounds slower than your typical game of Guess Who (give or take a few decades) then yeah it was pure metagaming: if I had played more people who knew what they were doing then I would probably have realized it was a bad approach. If it is significantly faster then... maybe its the other way around? Though even if it is the other way around, I think I understand the point; it isn't just having a more diverse cast; it is having one that does not follow (for example) the population breakdown for the United States on a national level. So its a specific level of diversity that is needed; so that no one characteristic is an easy win.

so i got a copy of guess who in like 2000, there were literally 6 black people, i don't who what happened

@aarondesch

9 жыл бұрын

***** there are literally 5 or 6 of EVERYTHING5 moustaches 5 hats 5 women (now) 5 black people any feature you ask about will either eliminate 5 or eliminate all but 5

@Lucy-ng7cw

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah I had that one. I remember once, the nerd I was as a child, statistically worked out in order which characters were best through to worse to have based one which was most common. I forgot the results though.

@angelamazakas2624

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, people assume asking the race makes the game too easy. Not true! Asking the hair color, sad vs. happy, often took out MORE characters, as there was also at least one asian, hispanic, etc.

That green screen tho

I dunno. The "boring, casual white guy hat" looks like an Alpine-style fedora, meaning Bernard is now "cheerfully Teutonic" as opposed to "aggressively Russian." And at least one of the screenshots used in the "casual 70s racism," the Siamese cat in the blue suit and black bowtie, is from the 1980s show Rescue Rangers. And, in fact, it looks like the others are all from 1940s and 1950s era movies and shows. So literally nothing he showed was from the 70s and one was from AFTER the 70s.

@FrancisR420

3 жыл бұрын

His flight was about how certain months of racism were tolerated in the 70s so showing clips from directly before and after the 70s makes that point all the same

Did anyone else notice the weird squiggling black dot thing in the mug's shadow (starting at 0:38)? What's up with that? Some glitch with the green screen?

@TrevorMerrillD

8 жыл бұрын

+Sierra Sater Theres a LOT of green screen issues in this episode.

@XieYali

8 жыл бұрын

+Sierra Sater It's a sign from our robot overlords.

@sierrasummit

8 жыл бұрын

+XieYali Can you interpret?

Well If your opponent asks "if your character is anything other than white" They are technically just asking "is you character Anne?" in that case still a shot in the dark in most cases.

Me:...ARE YOU THE REALLLY FUCKIN HAPPY ONE?! Mom:...no ._.

@ballsrgrossnugly

10 жыл бұрын

Haha, and then she said "Not happy cause you swore and where mean to me..." ;)

@gracekelley-annlarsen2684

10 жыл бұрын

ballsrgrossnugly Nah, she cool, she cool.

@ballsrgrossnugly

10 жыл бұрын

Grace Larsne Lol so your wacking stick is bigger than hers then, gotcha.

@gracekelley-annlarsen2684

10 жыл бұрын

ballsrgrossnugly ...No...*coughs* Not like that man. Sick. (BTW I love your profile pic. South park FTW)

When I played this as a child, we didn't even notice skin colour. Just their hair, hats, sad or happy, glasses...

@zeroburrito

Жыл бұрын

well children surely will see it now.

"All the black person"

@sagedill5993

5 жыл бұрын

Greatest quote

They should make a LOTR Guess Who

@BenjaminWirtz

9 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking they should make special versions based on shows, movies, or video games or even historic figures.

@alxjones

9 жыл бұрын

***** Guess Which US President

@CasaiAgicap

9 жыл бұрын

Alexander Jones "Is your president white?" "...Fuck."

@BenjaminWirtz

9 жыл бұрын

Alexander Jones OK I just played that with kids I am teaching, they enjoyed it.

@MegaKaitouKID1412

9 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure those little faces are able to be popped out, so you could realistically print out your own pictures and pop them into the board for any type of Guess Who you want?

this is so fucking absurd I cannot believe he cross examined several versions of guess who games A+++ quality content

what about the fact that there are only 4 women?!

@zacharynbd880

3 жыл бұрын

shut up

@creativedesignation7880

3 жыл бұрын

@@zacharynbd880 Thank you, for demonstrating that sexism is alive and well in 2020, good job for pointing out that problem so clearly.

@alexcr4345

3 жыл бұрын

@@creativedesignation7880 Oh cmon it's just a board game, they probably only did it for balance purposes (like not making the first question asked eliminate 50% of the cast, and the fact that you can fit more features , like facial hair, on men) and not because they're sexist. Commenting on a 20 year old board game isn't helping the plight of inequality for either gender.

I played Guess Who as a kid and there was far more than one black character. Is American Guess Who different? Must be.

Guess Who is not the only game that threw out its roots. When I was a kid, Monopoly was a trick that parents used to teach kids how to count money. A very necessary life skill. My niece brought over her Monopoly board one weekend and asked me to play. I said sure. She excitedly started setting up the board and then handed me a plastic card. I asked what this was for, and she said it was my ATM card. I almost died when I realized that the fundamental reason that Monopoly existed, has been replaced by a machine that automatically does all the work for you. That's progress I guess

@opppi

9 жыл бұрын

Mister Mack pretty sure Monopoly was designed to demonstrate the faults of a capitalist society. So, that obviously didn't work. Plus, kids these days probably need more practice being responsible when spending with plastic than handling actual cash because, you know, wave of the future.

@mistermack4987

9 жыл бұрын

Monopoly being a metaphor for capitalism is irrelevant because ten year olds wouldn't comprehend that. I was talking about what it was actually USED for, to teach kids to count money. Your statement does not change that fact. Wave of the future? Since when is encouraging laziness a positive trend?

@raq619

9 жыл бұрын

Mister Mack They should have both in one game, paper and plastic money. Kids need to use both.

@mistermack4987

9 жыл бұрын

Monzer I'm aware, but that doesn't change my point

@abonynge

9 жыл бұрын

Mister Mack It really does. Parents who want to use it to teach still have the original available, actually that version is much easier to find in stores. The version with a card is a rather uncommon high price point version that is designed to simply be fun, and is sold as simply fun. It takes out most of tedious parts out of the game, everyone who buys it just doesn't want to deal with the paper money.

When I played the original version at my school my sister kept pointing out how racist this game is.

@troostan2776

8 жыл бұрын

not really

@Kuhlio1313

8 жыл бұрын

+Gi Le I don't know why, but your random insult made me laugh.

I also noticed that Guess Who had no black people

@tilburg8683

7 жыл бұрын

A Different Video of a Banana Every Goddamn Day but it had?

this is the only show on cracked i really love

Miss you buddy. Rewatching your old videos, cuz they're so enjoyable.

And THIS is why my family skipped immediately to Guess Who Star Wars edition

I always tried to pick whatever character that was most similar to the most other characters, usually an old white guy.

there's a black hole near his mug at the beginning of the video or maybe it's a black beetle or a very very tiny bean from his lunch break

@hawkscratch

7 жыл бұрын

Bad green screen.

"Is your character anything other than white?" is a wasted question - it's like asking "is your character Tom?". You wouldn't pull the race card until you had, say, four people left. I say having a token black character taught kids that she was the same as everyone else - asking "Do you wear glasses" is much better for discrimination

Maybe they got of the old characters because they were racist stereotypes themselves. For instance, the original Bernard looks like a suicidal Russian(which is a stereotype,weird) and the woman you showed was a stereotypical black woman

@Montork

7 жыл бұрын

they could have updated anne and added one more black person to the roster.. this is bs.

None of the Disney movies you mentioned were made in the 70's, they are all much older, just so you know.

I made my own version of Guess Who to help students with English. Every characteristic is represented in 5's. 5 black people, 5 people with white hair, 5 women, 5 Japanese people... the only problem is student's either ask "Are you a dark skinned person, are you a light skinned person or are you a Japanese skinned person?" I made things worse trying to be inclusive. Also student's think my Oprah card is a man.

Wouldn't guess who just be much, much easier if they made it more ethnically diverse? The only way to fix it would be to have different editions of the game, but then again it'd probably get called racist if they sold Guess Who: Black Edition.. Damned if you do, damned if you don't..

You're funny asf! Keep the videos coming!

3:01 Are you nigel thornberry?

@thelastcoolguyonearth4858

9 жыл бұрын

Miles Bridges Smashing!

I play the littlest pet shop version, it's way different

@snailb0y

7 жыл бұрын

Kikinara Kitty yES THAT ONE IS GR8

D.o'B., I like how you go on about conveying your words with pauses and whatnot here and then with a form of patching up your mental process to clear-up the statement. That and the beat boxing reminds me of Nickelodeon's Doug~

Oh Daniel, I love you and your work.

Guess Who? Doctor Who

@jiljacob-linares9649

10 жыл бұрын

nO BUT WHAT IF THEY HAD A DW VERSION OF GUESS WHO WITH ALL THE DOCTORS AND COMPANIONS OMG wait there would still be like two back people...fucking mickey and martha

@jiljacob-linares9649

10 жыл бұрын

"Do you want to kill the Doctor?"

are you the happy one or the really fucking happy one

This rocked so hard. Best video I've seen today.

“Is your character about to cry all the time, because we all die in the end.” This is gonna be my senior quote

I had this game as a kid and there were multiple black people? Maybe it's cause I live in England?

Eliminating the different races and making everyone look somewhat similar isn't meant to be racist it's meant to make the game harder. By having different races you could ask one question and eliminate potentially the entire board. Having everyone look really similar it makes the attention to detail much more important to keep the game challenging. There's nothing racist about it. As another commenter proposed here if you were to have an equal amount of people with different races the same problem would apply since you could still narrow down the field ridiculously far. Once again, there is nothing racist about this, it is just a company trying to make sure their game is still challenging and engaging to each new generation.

The version of Guess Who that I played had 5 black people, 5 women, 5 blondes, 5 with hats, 5 with facial hair, etc. Some of these fit in more than one category. I don't know what version you played, but that's what I played in the 90s and since I bought a new one in the 2010s.

Awesome video I love some of your jokes Thumbs up

Hmm the version I have has multiple black people :0 it's a german hasbro version and it has "das original" written on the box

This video unpleasantly glossed over any versions in between the one he played and the one he bought recently. I recall multiple black people from the ones I played. I wonder how they evolved over the years to what it is today, as that might actually be an interesting video.

3:18 aww that "Boom" was adorable. (totally nailed it)

Love your work Dan! 😂

I'm sorry, is that capt America um....cuddling a strange ethnically challenged doll?

Guess Who is also sexist. According to Hasbro the reason they only have 5 women in the game is because they have 5 of every characteristic represented. Basically, Hasbro believes being male is the default and being a woman is equivalent to having brown hair or wearing a hat.

@nicholasmacneil6524

9 жыл бұрын

Jo Dee its called game design, they needed to pick either men or women to represent the base, or every single game ever would start with "is it a woman?" and eliminate half the board right off the bat, which is a waste. the only way to make it not "sexist" would be to use androgynous characters like robots or aliens, or kitchen appliances.

@jlb478

9 жыл бұрын

Nicholas MacNeil true, that is a flaw in splitting the genders 50/50 but how do girls feel if that same question leads to all but 5 characters being eliminated. Getting the girl character becomes a negative. Imagine if Hasbro made the game with primarily female characters, which is just as reasonable as having the base gender be male. How would boys feel being so undervalued and underrepresented? Perhaps Hasbro should make a "girl" version. I know they have made a Star Wars version which does have alien creatures.

@nicholasmacneil6524

9 жыл бұрын

Jo Dee i think youre probably a lot more bothered by being "underrepresented" than i am, i am a guy with a little sister and almost exclusively younger female cousins, so i end up playing the "girly version" of a lot of games. no it doesnt really get to me. on a side note, destroying the status quoe in female centric imagination (playin' house like a boss) based games is hilarious.

@ganon1028

8 жыл бұрын

Jo Dee Having to make a different version to please pedants is not commercially viable for Hasbro or indeed any company.

Wow I am so happy to see The Oatmeal "Nikola Tesla" mug. Glad more people know how kick ass The Oatmeal is and how mindblowingly awesome Tesla was, especially on Cracked!

Randomly over these 4 years I think of this episode and watch it. I'll wake up and be like "I have to watch that guess who episode again."

Did you know there's a very clear difference between racism and just plain stereotypes? Yeah. Also, remember earlier how he was commenting on the Russian guys hat and then he says "Now it's just a...white guys hat." If Guess Who is racist, which is logical whatsoever, then he's racist too, because obviously logic doesn't exist in this video.

"casual racism" what a term...

@ballsrgrossnugly

10 жыл бұрын

sort of like casual gaming, but with more throwaway value.

I had this game in the late 90s/early 00s. Mine had the new pictures. I've never seen the ones you're claiming are from the 90s xD Wonder when they updated, because it wasn't that recent.

@whitneymouse

7 жыл бұрын

Erin Fagan I was born in 92. We would've had Guess Who around the time I was 6-8, which would be 98-00. Perhaps yours is older, but mine, as I've said before, was from the late 90s or early 00s. The change wasn't that recent.

Cracked's video equipment has definitely improved over the last few years.

Ima let you finish. But monopoly is the best board game...

@hrishiv27

8 жыл бұрын

War on terror ftw

@eightbait06

7 жыл бұрын

Magic: the gathering...?

@angelamazakas2624

6 жыл бұрын

No way! It was really fun, but it's way too long, esp for children

@jaggerjdm9787

6 жыл бұрын

Angela M, it takes a while to build up a monopoly. That's the fun of it. Too bad no one I know thinks the same.

@thadboy3267

5 жыл бұрын

Finishing. There's something that never happens in a game of Monopoly!

I feel I should point out, which I'm sure someone else has said it already, that it's entirely possible that Guess Who changed their characters to increase the difficulty of the game. The video explicitly talks about how there was, like, one black person in the older version of the game, and how much it sucked to draw her because it was so easy to guess. The point of the game is guessing the identity of the other player's character by distinguishing features. Does this premise promote racism? Probably. But making the game harder by making the characters look more similar (and thus making them harder to single out) is also simply a good design strategy. Were there racist and PC motivations behind the changes? Definitely probably. But I just wanted to say that the game is more fun when it's more challenging, and making the characters more similar accomplishes this. Keep up the great videos guys. I think I'm starting to come down with my own case of OPCD

Omg that "more like 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!" line really got me laughing hahaha

I play "Are you the closet rapist?", "Would you turn around if you saw this person walking towards you?", and "How high are you?"

Being PC just furthers the problem stop the PC bullshit

@ApartmentViews

9 жыл бұрын

being PC is better than being racist

@SirNilzey

9 жыл бұрын

ApartmentViews Being overly PC is the same as being racist.

@ETXAlienRobot201

9 жыл бұрын

SirNilzey and that is exactly what's happening. besides this, it tends to distort what imagery and words really mean, because when you censor things to that degree, their meaning is often times, inevitably altered and obscured.

@ratobaraj1949

9 жыл бұрын

ApartmentViews Being not racist is better then being PC.

@By_MichaelMcDevitt

9 жыл бұрын

How about we just rename political correctness to what it really is, which is "not being an asshole." From my own experience, a majority of people who complain about "PC" are usually ignorant, intolerant people.

Oh my god,who the hell cares?...

@tommacrossan3522

7 жыл бұрын

It's called obsessive pop culture disorder

@negascoot23

7 жыл бұрын

Guilherme Dal molin Umm... You, apparently 😊

@guilhermedalmolinpereira7812

7 жыл бұрын

James Daniels On the contrary

@guilhermedalmolinpereira7812

7 жыл бұрын

James Daniels You seen like a genuinely nice guy,and I don't want to get into another argument so I'll just rap up my comment and hopefully we can both leave it at that.I actually care (contrary to the words that you put in my mouth),I know it may sound rude,but honestly people have to stop looking into things so hard you seem like an intelligent guy so hopefully you can understand where I come from.

@negascoot23

7 жыл бұрын

Guilherme Dal molin I do understand, I even sympathize. But looking deeply and obsessively into things that should just be taken as simple entertainment is quite literally the premise of this show. You could say "Oh my god who cares?!" about EVERY subject Daniel discusses. That's his shtick: overanalyzing things that were never intended for analysis... And he is WELL aware of this. He references the ridiculous and absurd nature of his compulsion to analyze pop culture in nearly every episode. It's like if you point out offensive jokes in a South Park episode: It's not that you're incorrect, but you're making an issue of something everyone else, including the writers, is well aware of. You're taking something calculated and intentional and calling attention to it as though it was a mistake. That's why I responded to you in the first place. It's comedy: Laugh or don't laugh. That's all😀

The design of guess who from like 2009 was really diverse, as far as I remember...

3:04 Woa! That's a blonde version of Nigel Thornberry!

Well this WAS a bad episode...

racist? dose that word even have any meaning anymore? answer: no...no it dosent.

@mhypersonic

8 жыл бұрын

+Digiquill yea it does, but the word nigga and variations are meaningless

@DJScootagroov

8 жыл бұрын

+mhypersonic no racist has been thrown around so much most people don't even know what it acctually means any more. it's just used as a slur to shut the other side up when someone is losing an argument now a days

@mhypersonic

8 жыл бұрын

yes they do know, WE ALL KNOW what it means, just cus you're clearly an implyed racist cancer that get called it all the time doesn't mean you don't know what it means. I'm pretty sure racist are on the losing side considering that they start with name calling and end with name calling.

@DJScootagroov

8 жыл бұрын

+mhypersonic wow cool it with the accusations there camiczair. you know what they say about. assumptions.

@mhypersonic

8 жыл бұрын

''it's just used as a slur to shut the other side up when someone is losing an argument now a days'' im not assuming, your implications are quite obvious

When I used to play the original version, one of my kids used to deliberately select the one she wanted, to the extent that we would just ask 'does your person have bows in their hair' as a first question. She then got incredibly annoyed that we would ask that and we were banned from asking that question. Last week I played the new version with her daughter. Just not the same😅

Guess Who is the easiest game in the world to win. It's a simple matter of who goes first. They all have *names*! Meaning that you just ask the same question a few times and voila, you win in a maximum of 5 moves. Usually it take 3. Ask if the persons name begins with a letter in the first or second half of the alphabet. Repeat this and you win in usually 3 moves.

@itclientservices

8 жыл бұрын

OH, you could just ask, "Which half of the alphabet does the name start with", then which fourth, then which eighth and so on.

@ThunderChunky101

8 жыл бұрын

Hi I'm A Being That's not how the game works. It's yes or no.

@itclientservices

8 жыл бұрын

Sean Dali Oh yeah I forgot lol

I'm glad to see you have a life...

a lot of my time playing boardgames was me trying to find ways to cheat. my brother never ONCE suspected or realized the reason i won EVERY SINGLE guess who game was because i rearranged the cardboard photos of the people to match exactly on both boards, so the moment he would knock down his own person i already won, haha

@laurao6070

2 жыл бұрын

I folded and then unfolded the corner of the "old maid" card so that I could always tell which one it was

Back in the 80's version, using the smiling/not smiling question and whether they had rosy cheeks were like a cheat code if the other person didn't know about them.

That was the best video evah!

What's the name of that 80's song playing at the Kanye concert at the end. It's fist fucking my brain.

You were dead right about Bernard being Stephen Fry and I'm also right that the new George is clearly David Icke - 2000s version.

that's a handsome shot of Dan on the cover of that "magazine"

Great Show!

Why has this video from 4 years ago -wait 2012 was 4 years ago oh my gosh- popped up in my feed and also why is this funny

"Is your character the sad one? Does your character look like it's about to cry, all the time, because we all die in the end?" I am laughing so fucking hard.

Is that mug from The Oatmeal? -checks- OMFG it is!!!!!

I watched a TEDtalk before this and still found this more insightful.

Do mine eyes spy a "Tesla>Edison" mug? :)

I like to think that, as kids, we didn't give a shit about skin color.

Good lord, that green green work lol. Love this series though.

I love this show. Make more or else.

Played a new version of Guess Who recently and it had aliens and electronics...should it still be called Guess Who or maybe Guess What? Don't know but the kids loved it

I have a version of the game with like 6 of every catagory 6 blondes 6 black hair 6 red hair 6 with hats 6 with dark skin tone etc.

Whats that black writhing thing beside the coffee cup @0:50?

I used to love Guess Who because in elementary school, we'd play Guess Who in speech class. I just liked playing a game in school.

I think this is the first time a part of my childhood actually got ruined.

I miss you Soren 😭😭

"And also, something something Kanye West." Suddenly relevant all over again.

DOB is so good at being that character that I am convinced he is actually like that, 100% of the time. Just.... Awkward...all the time.