Think you’re smarter than the average game show contestant? Microsoft’s 1 vs 100 game is your chance to prove it to everyone. It’s also Microsoft’s chance to prove that Xbox Live can captivate a mainstream audience with a game that is far different from a Halo death match.

Based on the short-lived NBC game show of the same name, 1 vs 100 will have a 13-week season. The two-hour-long shows will take place on Friday and Saturday nights, and is hosted by comedian and voice actor Chris Cashman. Each installment features a player, the One, who is trying to outsmart 100 players in the Mob by rapidly answering trivia questions with multiple choice answers. The longer the player survives, the more Microsoft Points he earns when he walks away: staring at 200 Points ($2.50) and ramping up to 10000 ($125) by defeating all 100 players in the Mob. But if the Mob defeats the One, then everyone the player hasn’t knocked out of the Mob earns an Xbox Live Arcade game. There are other players in the Crowd, where the top 3 scorers in each game will earn the Arcade game. And each answer earns the Crowd an entry into a sweepstakes, for undisclosed huge-mega-prizes, that will be held in the middle and at the end of the season. As 1 vs 100‘s director Jo Clowes said, “It brings the best elements of TV and combines them with the best elements of games.”

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