You Don't Know Jack! Hints and Easter Eggs (PC)

You Don't Know Jack is a series of computer games developed by Jellyvision and Berkeley Systems. YDKJ, promoted as the games "where high culture and pop culture collide", combine trivia with comedy. The series' title is based on the phrase "You don't know jack s*".

The games are known for their humor and challenge, as well as simple presentation. With some rare exceptions, the games never use graphics, and instead rely only on animated text art for visual content. This was not a purely stylistic choice; the game was designed to minimize the amount of disc accessing needed by keeping files small.
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GAMEPLAY HINTS

Fiber Optic Field Trip
Wait until a Gibberish Question appears as question three or four. The Field Trip will be on question seven if the Gibberish Question was question three. The Field Trip will be on question eight if the Gibberish Question was question four.

The ultimate response
Start a three player game, then wait for a gibberish question. Proceed to buzz in with each player and type F* You (without the asterisks). The third time you do this, the host goes on about how he is not putting up with this and quitting the game. During this, press any key. The host will say similar to "Oh no, you're not getting out that easy, this game is over!". Then, your computer will be restarted automatically.

Double points
When a category appears that you have already done appears, buzz in immediately before the multiple choice answers appears and type in the correct answer. The game will give you a smart mouth reply and then award double points.

EASTER EGGS

Special messages
Set the PC date to one of the following and start the game to get a special message form Cookie. Note: These are listed in the "usd.txt" file on the CD-ROM.

Dates

Ash Wednesday - 8 March 2000

Flag Day - 14 June

April Fools Day - 1 April

Great American Smokeout - 3rd Wednesday in November

Guy Fawkes Day - 5 November

Sweetest Day - 3rd Saturday in October

Mother's Day - 2nd Sunday in May

Father's Day - 3rd Sunday in June

Day of the Dead - 1 November

Michaelmas - 29 September

Bastille Day - 14 July

Elvis Presley's Birthday - 8 January

Earth Day - 22 April

National Coming-Out Day - 11 October

Martin Luther King Jr. Day - 3rd Monday in January

Saint Patrick's Day - 17 March

Easter - 23 April 2000

Nurses Day - 12 May

Labor Day - 1st Monday in September

Yom Kipper - 20 September 1999 or 9 October 2000

Independence Day - 4 July

Thanksgiving - 25 November 1999 or 23 November 2000

Hanukkah - 4 December 1999 or 22 December 2000

Valentine's Day - 14 February

Christmas Eve - 24 December

Christmas - 25 December

Groundhog's Day - 2 February

New Year's Day - 1 January

New Year's Eve - 31 December

Kwanza - 26 December


Here is a gameplay video: