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Showdown is a trivia and word game that tests players’ general and popular culture knowledge, as well as their numerical skills and willingness to bluff and take a risk. It makes use of the Summit (puzzle) scoring system which awards higher scores for long answers containing letters towards the end of the alphabet. Showdown is one of the first boxed games to integrate mobile telephone and text message technology, as players can text their answers to a Showdown number which calculates the value of their answers and replies within 10 seconds with their score. The game was created by Winning Moves in 2008. A mobile version of the game was launched in Ireland in 2002 by national broadcaster RTE and Zamano. Showdown has been described as "Trivial Pursuit meets Scrabble" by Peter Sterling, Puzzles Editor for the Press Association. == How To Play == Play begins when one player draws a ''Topic Card'' from the deck, and reads out the five topics on it. They range from general knowledge topics (a European country) to popular culture (a James Bond character) to the everyday (something found in a bathroom). Players have two minutes to come up with an answer to each of the five topics, keeping in mind that if they come up with the same answer as another player, both will score 0 points. They also bear in mind the Summit scoring system, in which each letter A is worth 1 point, B is worth 2, C worth 3, up to Z which is worth 26. Other characters such as punctuation and spaces are ignored. For example, the band ''ABBA'' scores 6 points whereas ''ZZ Top'' scores 103. When the time is up, players with a valid answer for a topic can choose whether to go “in” or “out” depending on whether they feel they have a high-scoring, unique answer or not. If a player chooses “out”, they bank 5 points. Once everyone has announced “in” or “out”, everyone’s answers are revealed. If one or more players have chosen “in” and have the same answer, they are knocked out and score 0. If a player has chosen “in” and has a unique answer, they can bank 10 points. Now that everyone knows the other players’ answers, players must decide whether to enter ''The Showdown'' to try to win the maximum 20 points for that topic. ''The Showdown'' is where the Summit scoring system comes into play; the highest scoring word in ''The Showdown'' wins, and anyone losing ''The Showdown ''scores 0. Players announce “in” or “out” again, with players going “out” at this stage scoring 10 points. If two or more players go “in” to ''The Showdown'', the scores are calculated and the highest-scoring answer wins 20 points. If only one player is willing to enter ''The Showdown'' (for example, if everyone thinks that one player’s answer is clearly much better than all the others) then that person automatically wins the 20 points. If two or more players have an equal Summit score (for example, the musicals ''My Fair Lady'' and ''Calamity Jane'' both score 114), then both players win 20 points for that topic. The player with the most points after the 5 topics wins the game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Showdown (game)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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