The stage is set. The players are ready. Season 1 of The Genius will come to a close. Who will be the winner? And on the podcast side, which host prevails, accumulating more garnets than the other? To whatever end, it all ends here. Episode 12. The Season 1 Finale. The Garnet Wager is not …
It worries me to say this so close to the end of the season, but… I think this episode was actually kind of bad? Hmmm. Hmmm. Well, Allen and I will talk it over on this episode. I just feel like the Main Match, 5:5 Game, was really badly constructed. Just a bad GAME. The …
This week, the guests steal the show: on the podcast and on the show! In our challenge, guest and friend Jennifer runs a trivia game, and Six and Allen have little choice but to ride the waves of a variety of questions. Back on The Genius, our Final Four contestants are even MORE helpless, as …
They weren’t talking about facial expressions! Dammit, BOTH of us lost that wager. Allen and Six are back for Season 1 Episode 9, and I hope you’re ready to make a BID for success. That’s an auction joke, folks. Well, more pun than joke, I guess it wasn’t really funny… at all…. After the Auction …
As Jennifer Unkle and Allen Ibrahim continue their journey through Final Fantasy XII, Allen is swept up in the politics and finer details of this gorgeous, complex world, while Jen grits her teeth through several brutal bosses. JEN, I’m surprised by a lot of Final Fantasy XII. Its minute-to-minute structure reminds me of a linear RPG or …
I hope you aren’t like Allen, and jumped from Kong to Donkey Kong: the barrel-throwing simian is unrelated to this week’s episode of The Genius, I’m afraid. In a struggle between the players’ greed and their survival instincts, who will prevail? After a brutal Main Match filled with deceit and betrayal, we head into a …
It’s time to duel, y’all! Grab your decks, deal the cards. We’re starting off with a special card game based on Blind Man’s Bluff that Six made special for this episode, then we’re going straight into a different type of card game: Open, Pass, this week’s Main Match. Can Jinho and Poong overcome the rest …
Crime pays, all day every day. We’re down to eight geniuses battling for the throne, and this week, the Main Match tasks them with Catch(ing) the Burglar. Can the two villages smoke out the thief before all their gold is stolen? And if they can… then what? Where do they go next? Then we move …
Cards on the table, folks. This week, Six and Allen are going deep into debt, opening with a game of poker with garnets on the line, then moving into a rigged horse race Main Match where the outcome is already decided. Who can gather the clues to figure out the winner, while seeing through the …