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    You Don't Know Jack is an irreverent and comedic trivia game show "where high culture and pop culture collide." It was created in the early-90s by Jellyvision at the request of Berkeley Systems, and was originally published by Sierra Entertainment.

    Couch play with the classic pack?

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    The Classic pack is up on steam, I know it's a goofy question but if I set up the PC in the living room come Christmas how (if at all) can I set up a multiplayer game with just the keyboard. Know YDKJ vet's will be slapping their heads at that question but I can't find a clear answer online.

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    @wampa1 said:

    The Classic pack is up on steam, I know it's a goofy question but if I set up the PC in the living room come Christmas how (if at all) can I set up a multiplayer game with just the keyboard. Know YDKJ vet's will be slapping their heads at that question but I can't find a clear answer online.

    Why wouldn't you be able to set up a multiplayer game with just a keyboard? From what I remember from back in the day you could only play those old school YDKJ games with one keyboard.

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    Those old games had multiplayer using the keyboard - each player is assigned a key. I can only assume that's the same with these steam versions.

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    If you wanted to you could possibly use a program like Xpadder or JoyToKey to set up a game using xbox 360 controllers. Might be a less clumsy way of playing those games on the couch.

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    @i_stay_puft: Yeah, bad wording on my part. I meant to ask if there was a way to set up separate inputs per play, since we'd likely be spaced out around the room making the keyboard pretty much impossible.

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    I think there are programs like Joytokey that can let you map multiple controllers to different keyboard inputs.

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