Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
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Product Summary
Brand: THQAudio: English (Unknown)
Release Date: 2007-11-12
Platform: Nintendo DS
Model: 36143
Publisher: THQ
Product features:
- Test your knowledge with 28 tough grade school subjects with over 3,000 challenging questions
- Get help from 5 classmates with the ability to Peek, Copy and Save
- When you reach the Million Dollar Question, you are on your own. See only the subject of the question before deciding to proceed or drop out
- Drop out of the game and admit defeat by saying - "I am not smarter than a 5th grader."
Video Game Reviews of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Customer Review: ok for a while, but loses it's replay value.
Summary: 3 Stars
This game is ok if you can find it cheap, and I mean really cheap. If you see it almost being given away, you may find it to be ok, but if you paid too much, it will seem to be a rip off.
The game is hosted by a 3D polygon of Jeff Foxworthy, he explains the rules, but you can hit any button to skip it. You then chose 1 of the 5 fifth graders as you would on that show, before you start the questions.
That part can be annoying, as there is only 5 to choose from, and you can't skip there intro of names, and that part can become very annoying.
Then, you get to chose your category, English, astronomy, music... whatever... at least the category switch around and can be different with each new game.
However, some of the questions do repeat themselves too much, and there has been a few people report wrong answers to questions programed into the game, but I am yet to see one I know for sure is wrong. Someone reported a question, "how many days of the week start with T and S" and say it's 4, but the question I saw in the game was "how many DON'T start with T & S" which is 3, which is the right answer, so maybe they have a bugged version, or aren't on a 5th graders reading level of the question.
The degree of difficulty is completely random. It is not like "Who wants to be a millionaire" where you start off easy, and advance up harder as you go. This one is completely random to where you could have the first few questions hard as hell, then the half a million dollar question could be as easy as "1 +1 =?"
However, if you do make it to the very last question, they can be as hard as hell. Even those who cheat and look up the answers online can still not find the answer to them. First time I got there it was some question about what tribe of Indians didn't join forces or something, and you don't get multiple choice, you have to type in letter by letter the correct word with no hints... so, good luck getting that question right.
Apart from that, the game is ok for a while. But once you make it to the million dollar question, you most likely have played it enough times to have pretty much memorized all the answers to questions, and it has lost it's replay value for now.
What it needs is some sort of alternate version on the game, or even just mini games, ya know, something like a side game to see how many out of 10, or out of 50, maybe even 100 questions you can answer correctly... things like that, or a mini game to test your knowledge of a certain topic, things like that might keep people coming back for more, but with nothing like that on here, the game does lose it's replay value with nothing more to keep you coming back and playing again.
Description of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Class is in session?how much have you forgotten since grammar school? Jump right into the game show action with Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Enjoy game show excitement?just like the show, from the classmates' peer pressure, to Jeff Foxworthy's wisecracks. Step up to the podium and put your smarts on the line to see if you're smarter than a 5th grader ? we won't tell!Puzzle Games
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