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From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bell House in beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia. Ask me another.

I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Thank you, Jonathan.

We have a great show for you.

Four brilliant contestants are here to play our nerdy games.

They're backstage breaching data, and only one of them will be our big winner.

Our guest is Nantari Guma Mbaho Moine.

You might know him from his role in Tramay, based in New Orleans, or as Ronnie on the Shai, based in the south side of Chicago.

So my strongest memory of Chicago is going to the mirror maze on Navy Pier and having a total panic attack, because I could not find my way out.

Have you ever seen your own failure reflected back to you in a hundred different directions?

I have.

In our first game, we'll imagine bad video games based on movies like Stephen Spielberg's Super Mario Bridge of Spies,

or my favorite World of War Horse.

But first, let's meet our contestants first up Lauren Gerard on buzzer number one you're studying drama therapy at NYU welcome thank you excited to be

here your opponent is Julian Bilker on buzzer number two you're a production manager for experiential marketing. Welcome. Thanks. Happy to be

here. Okay, Lauren and Julian, the first of you who wins two of our games will go on to our final

round. So let's start with a trivia game called Not What I Nintended. In this game, we're going to

imagine what would happen if some unlikely movies were adapted into video games.

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