Anyone for a game of Gollywood Squares?
Yes, this was an official Cyberchase board game. It was released as a printable activity sometime in early 2005 as part of the "Know Your Dough" promotion. The promotion was all about teaching kids the value of saving their money. This was a few months after "The Snelfu Snafu" had aired. However, Cyberchase had a two-hour marathon, also called "Know Your Dough", containing four episodes that had to do with earning, saving, and spending money. They put live-action segments in between them, featuring Bianca and Harry hosting the show while goofing off at an arcade. I really should make a post about that.
The game looks like Monopoly on the surface, You roll a die and move around the board. Some squares force you to pay money, while others give you money. However, there are also temptation squares, where you can choose to pay money to move a certain number of squares. There is a "Get a Job!" square that allows you to get a job card and get paid for your work.
The goal is to earn enough money to buy autographs from each of the four Cybersquad members. The first player to get one from each member wins.
In addition to the spots that can directly buy the autographs, you can also end up on the U-Want U-Bid square. If one player lands on it, all players make their secret bids, and the person who bid the highest buys the autograph at that price.
Here's the sort of jobs they had in mind. I know some of this artwork has been reused, but some of it is unfamiliar to me.
I don't recall ever seeing Matt in green overalls, even though it makes alot of sense.
Inez is much more excited about walking the large creature here than she was in the episode.
I also don't remember that we've ever seen the inside of Hacker's closet. I really wish this picture was higher-resolution, as we so rarely see him in other outfits.
And here we have delete dressed as a waiter for a fancy restaurant.
Have you paid your Cyberchase Fan Club dues for the month?
Do the kids get some sort of allowance or stipend from Motherboard for saving the world every week?
I need it.
We get to see the Cybersquad's autographs.
I feel like Jackie put the most effort in here. She wrote in cursive and dotted the i with a flower. Digit's autograph is interesting though.
Here's the play money.
1 Snelfu denomination
5 Snelfu Denomination
10 Snelfu denomination
20 snelfu denomination
If you want to print the game out for yourself to play it, go to this Internet Archive link to get it.
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