Muse Prod, Ltd.

god this tickles me

YOU CAN JUST DO THIS?!?!

Host : Well, your name is Obu?

Obu : Yes sir!

Host : And your last name is Obu?

Obu : Yes sir

(Audience laughter)

Host : Obu Obu

Woman, off screen : You should ask him what his middle name is

Obu : Steve not ready for that (2x) (incoherent audience laughter)

Host : You don't know how ready I am! (Audience laughs) As a matter of fact, we not doing a damn thing until we find out! (More laughter) What is your middle name, Obu?

Obu : It's Obu. (Louder audience laugh)

Host : Obu Obu Obu

Obu : Yes sir! ( Audience laugh) Gotta show some ID?

Host : (softer) now you gotta show them id. You got it on you?

Obu : So the process I go through, go on check that out!

Host : I'll be damn. (More audience laughter and clapping) Your-- who, who named you, Obu obu obu?

Obu : My father.

Host : Father still livin' ?

Obu, pointing off screen : Yes, sir, he's right up there. (audience claps) Yeeaaa my pops yeeeaaaaaa

(Host walks towards the camera and camera flips back n forth to reveal Obu's dad, followed by more audience laughing n clapping)

Host : Yeeaaa yeaa that's who I'm lookin for! (laughter) What's your name, sir?

Obu's dad bellows with echoey sound : Oo~obuu~

(More audience laughter)

the only challenges that require multiple people are at the beginning and end - at the beginning to allow the players to bounce around there for a bit before they realize they need to go down, and also at the end to ensure that a runaway player has to wait for another to catch up

count the rice itself, of course, can only be played with one player, so that players never actually have to count rice (if you had to wait for a second player at the end, then whoever got closest would win) (this is ofc not accounting for hannah pilkes)

the middle rooms are great too, because they are easy to intentionally fail, and hard to win. the spot the difference rooms are especially good, because you think you understand what it is (spot the difference between the two halves of the room), and this is seemingly confirmed when you successfully loose, but once you come back to try to win, you realize you did not actually fully understand the game. the placement of these is important, too - only players who were intentionally trying to lose got to those rooms. any higher in the sequence, and they might have had a player trying to win reach the rooms first, and then they'd realize the twist

and also the decision to split the rooms up? 2 and 3 in a separate space from 4-8, so players would assume there are only 3 until someone loses enough, subtly hiding the majority of the game from them