User:Dcarriso/TAYG Games

Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation is an Australian game show produced by Granada Productions which premiered on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. It is hosted by Shaun Micallef.

This is an incomplete list of the games played during each episode. In each episode, eight or nine games are played. Some games, such as Your Generation, are played in every episode, whereas some are played once or only sparingly. Other games only appear on the Magic Window and are hidden behind the buttons which teams choose during the relevant segment.

Your Generation
Your Generation is generally played as the second to last game in each episode. Each team is asked four to six questions relating to a specific topic, such as Eggs or Cities. If the question is answered correctly, the team wins a point. However, if answered incorrectly, the team loses two points.

Quite often, the questions bear little relation to the topic and feature only a passing mention to it.

End Game
End Game, or Which Generation Is Best At? is the last game played in each episode. End Game has different objectives in each episode (past examples include balling socks and working in a butcher shop) and different point values. However, in each episode, the point value has been enough that if the team losing the game wins, they will win the game by at least one point, however End Game has occasionally been worth "a million points".

A time limit is usually set and ignored (for example, in the episode where the task was to sew a three piece suit, 90 seconds was allocated however the segment went for almost 12 minutes ) and had almost half an hour of footage filmed.

¡chronoloco!
¡chronoloco! is a game in which teams have to order a certain number of things (usually six) of a certain theme in the order they were first introduced (examples have included wedding dresses and modes of transportation).

One point is awarded for each item placed in the correct place, and points are sometimes offered for successfully or humorously demonstrating or identifying the items.

Third Drawer Down
Third Drawer Down features a credenza with several drawers, the third one containing various items. The team must be able to correctly identify the item.

One point is awarded for each item identified correctly, and another point for correctly identifying the decade that the item was introduced.

Era Error
Era Error presents a scenario in a certain era (for example, a classroom in 1965) and contestants are to identify six items that do not belong in the era within a limited time period.

One point is awarded for each item that is identified to not belong.

Watch Your Mouth
Watch Your Mouth has both members of the generation playing sitting facing away from each other. The guesser, who is the "host" of a chat show who does not know the identity of the guests, faces the audience and must try and guess the celebrity their partner (who is facing away from the audience with their mouth on a stand) is portraying on the Magic Window. The contestant facing the Magic Window must give clues to the contestant without saying any of the forbidden words or phrases (ranging from 5 to 8) shown on the Magic Window. If one of the phrases or words is mentioned, a Wilhelm scream is played, and a new guest is introduced.

One point is awarded for every celebrity the guesser is able to identify correctly.

Draw That Book and Draw That Movie
Draw That Book and Draw That Movie are the same game, with either the titles of books or movies being drawn. One team member draws the title of a book or movie presented to them on a card by Shaun on a large easel, while the other guesses what the title is.

A point is awarded for guessing the correct movie or book title.

"Trust Me" Games
In Season 2, a "Trust Me" button was added to The Magic Window. The game played varied with each time the round is played, is worth either triple or quadruple points, and involves one team member answering questions, and another being placed on what is referred to as The Stool Of Fun or being chained or attached to something that resembled a medieval torture device. In Season 3, the button was removed and instead hidden behind one of the other buttons to prevent the teams from intentionally avoiding it.

Initial plays of Trust Me games involved animals (such as Gravy Suit, in which one team member wore a suit covered in gravy and was placed in a cage, where when questions were answered incorrectly several dogs would be released into and Seedbell Sombrero, where one team member wore a sombrero made of bird seed and was made to sit in a birdcage in which pigeons were released into each time a question was answered incorrectly ), however most recent plays of this game have involved various foodstuffs (for example, Human Nacho, in which the contestant was chained to the medieval torture device and each incorrect answer would result in the contestant being subjected to sour cream, then guacamole, then salsa).

Three questions are asked, usually an open ended question, a true\false question and a multiple choice question. For each correct answer, the team received three or four points and the team member not answering questions being subject to humiliation would receive a reward of some description, such as a corn chip or toffee apple. Incorrect answers result in the team member not answering questions being subject to or propelled forward to further humiliation.

Guess The Guest
In Guess The Guest, the team members playing are blindfolded, and a mystery guest is introduced. The guest then inhales a voice altering gas from balloons, and the team playing can "only ask several questions" to identify the guest.

The team is awarded points for correctly identifying the guest.

HG Wells' Time Machine
In HG Wells' Time Machine, both members of the team ride on a model of a time machine to be "transported" to significant points in history, where an audio clip is played.

A point is awarded for identifying the event or person speaking, and another point is awarded for identifying the year that it occured.

It Could Be Worth
It Could Be Worth is a spending game similar to those on The Price Is Right. The team is presented with eight items that are have been priced based on what they worth in a specific year (for example, a litre of milk in 2000 and a VCR in 1987) and a budget that varies in each episode, usually over $1000. These prices are not visible to the team playing.

The team approximates the price of any of the items available to purchase. Once the team has decided that they have purchased all the items they want to purchase, the prices of them are revealed: the team must buy at least one item but can buy all eight if they feel that the budget allows. As the prices are revealed, the actual prices (not the approximations made by the team) are deducted from the budget. Therefore, it is entirely possible for a team to get one point by buying one obviously low value item.

To win, the team must choose items which have an actual price that is equal to or less than the allocated budget, in which case the team is awarded one point of each item chosen. If the actual value of the items purchased by the team exceeds the budget, the team scores no points.

As of the end of Season 4 in 2012, this game has been played numerous times but only won once.

What Just Happened?
What Just Happened? features a clip that parodies a pop culture reference or a major historical event, usually starring Shaun Micallef and often actors Shaun has worked with in the past such as Francis Greenslade. The team playing watches the video and must then answer questions relating to the video.

A point is answered for each question answered correctly. The maximum number of points a team can score in this game depends on the number of questions asked.

What Am I Smelling? and What Am I Eating?
What Am I Smelling? and What Am I Eating? are essentially the same game but with different senses being used. In both, one team member is blindfolded, while the other feeds them or presents various objects for them to smell. Usually, the items relate to a specific theme (for example, breakfast cereals in What Am I Eating or things found in a bathroom in What Am I Smelling).

A point is awarded for each correct guess made by the blindfolded team member and another point is awarded for correctly guessing the decade in which the item came onto the market. The maximum number of points a team can score in this game is 12.

Addition and Distraction
Addition and Distraction was originally presented as a Trust Me game, however was moved to be an ordinary game after the first play. One team member sits in a barber chair and is shaved by a barber and is asked three math questions while the other team member writes the answers on a chalkboard.

A point is awarded for each correct answer. The maximum number of points a team can score in this game is three.

Name That Tune
Name That Tune involves a group of songs relating to a specific theme (for example, television theme songs) played. Teams buzz in with their guesses.

A point is rewarded for a correct guess. The maximum number of points a team can score in this game depends on the number of questions asked.

Panda-Monium
In Panda-Monium, the teams are showed an image of a historical event, in which a person or people have been replaced with a Panda. Teams must buzz in and identify the historical event and the person replaced with a panda.

Correct guesses for both the historical event and the person replaced with the panda are worth a point each.

Frankenface
Frankenface features a combination of different famous faces being shown on The Magic Window, usually with one person's hair, another person's eyes and another persons mouth and nose. Teams must identify the three different people.

A point is awarded for each correct guess.

As Quick As
As Quick As is a game in which the teams are asked questions and must buzz in and answer as quickly as possible. Questions are asked until time is up, with the time allotted for the round usually being kept by a whistling kettle, however on some occasions other methods of timing have been used (such as a sheep being shorn).

Often, questions are asked that have no real answer, are asked to merely satisfy Shaun's curiosity or are otherwise nonsensical in an attempt to confuse the teams.

Each question is worth one point if answered correctly.

Charlie Was Wrong
In Charlie Was Wrong, a video clip of Charlie answering a question incorrectly from a previous episode is shown to the teams. With the exception of Charlie, other team members must buzz in and provide the correct answer.

If answered correctly, the team wins fifteen points.

Gag Games
Throughout the series, a number of games have been introduced but never actually played. The most common one was You Say Various Things, which is introduced, but never played. Introduced with a song, Shaun will proceed to announce a reason for not playing it (usually it being "too stupid" or that "the song took too long") and another game is played instead, usually As Quick As.

Other such games have included Colonial Rule and the Legacy of European Nation States

Another example was the Secret Word Game, which is played whenever a contestant says a secret word, with past examples have included "the" and "Formica". A question is asked to the person who said the word and is worth ten points to their team if answered correctly.