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The fat fanned deck of question-and-answer cards, graded by school grade, that quizzed you on math, science, English, and history. The gifted-kid flex, the backseat road-trip time-killer, and the thing a teacher pulled out to make learning feel like a game.
You hail a New York taxi, the ceiling erupts in lights, and Ben Bailey booms that you're in the Cash Cab. Answer trivia to your destination and you leave with cash; three strikes and you're out on the sidewalk, wherever that happens to be.
The party game that let everyone shine — one box combining sculpting, sketching, humming, acting, trivia, and word puzzles so the artist, the know-it-all, and the ham all got a moment. Famously sold at the Starbucks counter before it ever hit a toy-store shelf.
The board game that made you turn on the TV: pop in the DVD, watch a movie clip, and be the first to yell the answer. For a few years in the mid-2000s, every family game night and every dorm shelf had a Scene It? box — and probably three editions of it.