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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.
Nickelodeon's Jeopardy for kids: three contestants, a seven-by-seven board of school subjects by grade level, and the "Fire Drill," the messy physical stunt that could hand your desk, and your lead, to whichever kid ran fastest. Everybody went home in British Knights.
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.