I Secretly Created a Trivia Game to Destroy this Streamer

Summary

In his latest stream, Ludwig takes on the challenge to outsmart Northern Lion, a well-known trivia buff on Twitch. Despite admitting to his own academic shortcomings, Ludwig devises a cunning plan to create a custom trivia game called Doppel, which he hopes will level the playing field. The game involves guessing the year various media were released. Through a series of strategic moves, Ludwig gets Northern Lion to play the game unknowingly, and subsequently challenges him to a head-to-head trivia battle. Although Ludwig's efforts culminate in a tense showdown, he ultimately learns the value of hard work over trickery.

Highlights

• Ludwig acknowledges Northern Lion's trivia expertise and his own shortcomings. 📚
• Doppel, the custom trivia game, is born from Ludwig's collaboration with his software developer friend. 🛠️
• Ludwig's strategic moves get multiple streamers, including Northern Lion, hooked on Doppel. 🎮
• A showdown is arranged with Ludwig and Northern Lion facing off in a series of trivia games. ⚔️
• Northern Lion wins the tightly contested battle, highlighting the importance of hard work and integrity. 🌟

Key Takeaways

• Ludwig creates a trivia game called Doppel to challenge and outsmart Northern Lion. 🧠
• Doppel requires players to guess the year different types of media were released. 📅
• Ludwig uses strategy to get several streamers to play Doppel, making it known to Northern Lion. 💡
• Ludwig sets up a face-off against Northern Lion involving several trivia and guessing games. 🚀
• Despite diverse challenges, Northern Lion narrowly defeats Ludwig, teaching a lesson on fair play. 🏆

Overview

Ludwig, determined to outwit Northern Lion, known for his vast trivia knowledge, decides to level the playing field by creating a custom trivia game called Doppel. Teaming up with his software developer friend, they design a game where players must guess the year different media were released.

Ludwig employs a brilliant strategy to popularize Doppel among streamers, eventually catching Northern Lion's attention. By getting streamers to play the game, Ludwig sets the stage for an epic showdown. He challenges Northern Lion to a head-to-head match involving various trivia games, including Doppel.

The competition is fierce and entertaining, with both competitors showcasing their knowledge and wit. Despite Ludwig's best efforts and clever tactics, Northern Lion ekes out a victory. Ludwig's experiment culminates in a valuable lesson: that dedication and honest effort often trump cunning schemes.

I Secretly Created a Trivia Game to Destroy this Streamer Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 this is the smartest guy on Twitch and today I'm going to make him look dumb if you watch Northern lion for about 1 hour you're probably going to learn five trivia effects you never knew before and get a couple plus twos along the way seriously he spends multiple hours a week on random sporle quizzes movie quizzes book quizzes the guy knows a lot he should be on Jeopardy not twitch and if you don't know anything about me I failed an eighth grade math test on stream oh God so under normal circumstances there's no real way I could actually be smarter than Northern lion but we're not going to do normal
• 00:30 - 01:00 circumstances today you see one of Northern Lion's favorite activities is to play worldle Clones you've seen them before there's worldle where you find the country traal where you have to guess whose economy this is there's even Swift for crying out loud where you just guess the Taylor Swift song and I do it over and over I did something bad I did something bad and so my genius plan was to beat Northern Lion at one of these Wordle clones however it's not enough to just beat him cuz anybody can cheat and get a perfect score I had to beat him and have everybody else else believe
• 01:00 - 01:30 that I was actually smarter than him and the way I was going to do this was by making my own game it helps to have a full-time software developer on your team so me and OT put our minds together and we came up with a game called Doppel it stands for date of publication pull the way the game works is simple there's five total rounds and every round is a different form of media you just have to guess what year that media came out and there's one bonus question where you guess the exact month that came out if you do all that perfectly you get a score of 6,000 and so be my game plan I
• 01:30 - 02:00 would convince a couple of my twitch friends squeaks and chibi to play it on stream and I know Northern lion likes watching them so it would get into the Ze guys he would start thinking about the game and then when he went live he would play it himself and that idea went perfectly okay Doppel daily when did Nighthawks at the diner by Edward Hopper come out that's a gimme brother we're going to call this 1921 260 1942 shouldn't you have been fighting the Nazis at that time Edward
• 02:00 - 02:30 Hopper after they all played the game I was able to start playing it on stream but I wanted to do it naturally so I didn't do it on my stream I did it on my friend foosley stream uh there's a new one squeaks was playing today too what's it called uh Doppel what's Doppel I'll show you I convince her that Doppel was a fun game to play and we both played it together and we did pretty good nobody batted an I nobody thought that I had made a random game I was just playing a game that other streamers were playing now here's the final problem if I just play this game on stream and get a perfect score my whole that's going to
• 02:30 - 03:00 call me out for cheating I have a history of it in gaming in gaming in gaming so that's when I had the idea to challenge Northern lion in a 1V one we would play through all these Ral clones and whoever's better at most of them is the smarter person I initially asked Northern lion to come up with the list of games and he was very charitable with what he picked things that we would both be good at but what I didn't tell him is that the day of the competition I would add a few extra games including Doppel I have a few I'd like to add to your list by the way please by all means just some real standard ones I thought New York
• 03:00 - 03:30 Times connections okay yeah yeah yeah uh play Doppel contexto okay yeah wait what's which one's do Doppel is the date of publication one yes okay well um why don't you start with the first round well Wordle baby lock me in okay I'm I'm going round one on my whle if you're ready oh baby four yellows four yellows okay how's that's a pretty good start okay got a and penis that's that's a
• 03:30 - 04:00 venial disease oh I got sorry you laughing at that I I got three greens and the yellow and I feel like I'm I'm set on round three okay I wow I have to think I have to actually really Ponder my second one here then okay okay wait wait wait wait take your time I okay I'm sure your mom's not just eating them out of in like 5
• 04:00 - 04:30 seconds I got it oh in in two I got it in two what I got it in two I don't know how that happened I got it in two okay that's Insanity at this point I have to tell you I didn't cheat in any of the games including Doppel which I'll get to later but because I've cheated in the past my chat accused me after getting Wordle and two of cheating and to counteract that I put up a CCTV camera watching my every move on all of my monitors I literally couldn't cheat okay
• 04:30 - 05:00 I'm not looking forward to this I'm going to get started if you're cool with it I'm I'm jumping right in Ridley Scott I I love Ridley Scott big Scott head huh I'm a big wait okay I missed one okay I'm not even going to ask you what it is cuz I don't I don't want to know you don't want to know but I'm I'm thinking like I'm going to be like the the sevens or the eights
• 05:00 - 05:30 today would be my guess Channing Tatum oh no I know exactly where I'm going to go with Channing Tatum a little remembered action movie film come on come on show up oh you know what I've I've uh I've I've uh I've decided to step down at three here um let's just move on to something because I'm not carefully choose I'm not a movie guy here you know what I am though uh geography yes I knew it and I would love to take you to Global because
• 05:30 - 06:00 there's actually only two other daily whle games my mom plays and it's Wordle and Global she loves Global so I'll take you here uh I've dropped my first guess do you have like a penis guess for this one I try to switch it up my mom always guesses France cuz she's from there uh oh I don't know I'm in Algeria Andy how can I ask you how close you are I'm just warmer okay I'm am also warmer my my third guess is off the map uh is
• 06:00 - 06:30 cooler all right fourth gu um I think I I have a good guess all right me too ready lock it in I'm in I'm warmer I got it okay you got me on this one all right bang uh I'm okay I've got my two good games out of the way so uh where do you want to where do you want to bury me oh well we got to go to codal dude okay I was nervous about this game are you one of those streamers who hasn't steep foot in a grocery store in
• 06:30 - 07:00 like 3 years I'm one of those streamers who hasn't set foot in a grocery store in 3 years oh no okay I need to I need to think here for a moment okay see this is hard for me because I'm I don't live in your country so I got to do the I got to add like 30% or subtract 30% from what I think it would cost because of CAD exactly and also I don't know what an ounce is so I got I'm trying to think of how many pounds my Skippy p peanut butter is okay I'm locking it
• 07:00 - 07:30 in okay okay uh I've got a a dark Crimson Arrow I'm just going to go six oh he is is he [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] okay all right I am locking it in third yes no lwig lwig no you lost touch and now look at you dude that's my first guess
• 07:30 - 08:00 must have been 5 cents away from being okay right because there's a range what what' you guess 8.65 see now this is how I know you're out of touch everything at Costco ends in a 99 unless it's the Final Markdown at which point it ends in a Seven and they highlight it with yellow highlighter to indicate this is the lowest it's going to get there's a whole meta to this there's layers 2 two I'll take you to uh I'll take you to worldo this is an in interesting shape I can't
• 08:00 - 08:30 tell size in this game mhm it's true I don't know if this they need to have like a banana next to the country dude and it's really really tidy oh okay I'm going to go here I don't think it's right but I'm going to lock it in okay I was 75% away I'm 94% okay I'm locking in my third guess 96% I don't think I'm going to get it oh I got it in
• 08:30 - 09:00 three I I very rarely get this uh this region of the world this quickly okay I'm there I'm in kavir I'm I'm I'm adjacent I think I can't he's in kir K I can't is a is a better Twitch TV emo where a guy's covering his eyes laughing that was my game okay you know what I hate to I hate to say it let but I'm bringing you to poke doco oh Old man okay I don't want a sandbag but I think the highest score I've ever gotten on
• 09:00 - 09:30 pooku is like um probably a three do you know what a mega evolution is in principle okay well I'm bringing you know a player who played for the Boston Bruins and the Carolina Hurricanes uh oh I'm on Puck doku Sergey Samson off for sure though okay so we'll get that we'll come back to that one uh in my own time okay all right this is easy just send it cuz it's going to take me [Laughter]
• 09:30 - 10:00 minute this guy kind of looks like he could be fire ground I didn't know he existed until he showed up in the search bar though come on really you're telling me the Pokemon heat Mo that is a a hot rock is not fire ground well he's an anteater actually that's a get to the ground he puts his nose into the ground to eat and then he has High your
• 10:00 - 10:30 hands okay I definitely cheesed that I actually typed in mega and then went through all the letters until I recognize a j Pokemon I'm not even mad like but I will say you don't have to do that oh no this makes sense bro yeah I got three okay I I'm I used all my guesses but that's like a PB for me well I'm just going to give up I got five that's enough okay 3 three you know what let's let's go neutral ground let's go to time guesser oh okay all right I have a good time with
• 10:30 - 11:00 time guesser I love time guesser I'll click daily see if there's a penis I'll let you know no penis I think it might be um the Nazis that happens sometimes this definitely could be adjacent they have the look of the Third Reich I just don't like how he's sniffing it he is smelling the glove my hypothesis is that they had a lot of leftover hats and then they said listen
• 11:00 - 11:30 we're getting rid of the ideology but there's no the hats didn't do anything wrong we can just put like a new badge on those I'm I'm going right here time guesser loves this location this this guy in the back is really [ __ ] with me I wish he wasn't there a lot of people were probably thinking that uh year is hard for this I'm going to go I'm going to go vague vaguely Europe what is vag Europe like Louisiana
• 11:30 - 12:00 I don't know the thing on the hat looks like that little Li thing looks like Nordic or something okay not bad not bad that was actually horrible it was really bad what was your your points 5,144 this is the inventor of the first uh Razor scooter but he hasn't quite figured out the bottom half yet uh I it do you have a guess I have no idea where we are what is it though is it like a hammer no he's a doctor what is that that I don't know cuz he's not dressed
• 12:00 - 12:30 in do I guess it is do Garb cuz he's got a mask he's got a mask I mean this is kind of crazy I'm just going to lock this in yeah I'm I'm I'm sending it holy cow one of the worst guesses I've ever dropped ever that was sovet technician checking a toddler for radiation why is everyone smiling I thought that would be like a more Grim situation I got 2,700 it's not good you literally be Me by one point
• 12:30 - 13:00 did you say Italy as well I went Greece I thought I thought it was like My Big Fat Greek Wedding four or something ohy do you see this dude's shorts dude I love that for him did you have a guess in already I did and I kind of crushed it on this one okay okay so we know it's Luxembourg we can just say it out loud now okay sure yeah I don't I don't know how you know that
• 13:00 - 13:30 are you meing no I already I already guessed there's the flag in the background and then it says uh Luxembourg chatau on the left uh 8,862 I I got 9,681 on your year must have been phenomenal it was 89 you went 89 Dude Looks Like My Dad yeah I went 83 o oh it's not class they wouldn't be rocking shorts like that in 83 they weren they weren't comfortable at that level yet the next picture is really
• 13:30 - 14:00 funny okay because of this guy's huge forehead right yeah he's got a five head it's a twitch emot oh man my man is bronzed up dude he's very bronze like I knew he was bronze but like seeing it up close in personal I'm like stunned he's the same shade as the water picture I feel like this has to be like literally the time that I just put in oh [ __ ] it's
• 14:00 - 14:30 the only thing that makes sense [ __ ] 9,173 I got 9,946 you knew was New York I did actually my my dad keeps me updated every day uh 35,6 22 final score got 38,46 it's a close battle that is a close one I had a bad bad guess though all right three to four my turn let me bring you to uh uh connections okay
• 14:30 - 15:00 ready three two one okay Swift holiday holiday holiday holiday okay what else do we got Hancock what the [ __ ] is Hancock John Hancock signature bolt D Dash got a bolt got a dash zip bolt Dash zip Dart always to like [ __ ] exit expeditiously nice Tire trunk Hood bumper car things Cardinal J lark uh Swift I
• 15:00 - 15:30 think and then boom Jazz Legends oh baby okay 50 seconds that's pretty [ __ ] good I'm not going to say I won but that was that was that's about as good as I can get let's check it with thatl people who signed the Declaration of Independence Parker John Hancock John J Taylor Swift holiday songs by Madonna all right I think I beat him on this one we tied it up folks we're doing
• 15:30 - 16:00 better than I thought I would do birds oh brother I love bird Jazz Legends I heard it didn't go well I lost that's tough that's tough uh and which means four to four where we taking where we going where are we going um let's go let's go movie to movie yeah I this this is this is good this is I need this I need to be humbled 3 two 1 good luck okay straight out of Compton is with Ice
• 16:00 - 16:30 Cube and Ice Cube is in are we wait what the hell okay why do I think it was it's with Paul Giamatti this is this is going bad this is going really bad Judy Greer's and a lot of stuff let's go Judy Greer Ant-Man Paul Rudd Wet Hot American Summer no no Jolo trulio super bad Seth Rogan funny people and big fat liar has Frankie munz and Frankie munz is in Malcolm in
• 16:30 - 17:00 the Middle Zoom reunion with Brian cranon Brian Cranston phenomenal actor but he is in Kung Fu Panda 3 Adam Sandler anger management Heather Graham The Hangover one Bradley Cooper The Hangover two Paul Giamatti straight out of content time who else is an Angels in the Outfield Christopher Lloyd Joseph
• 17:00 - 17:30 Gordon levit yeah Thomas Ian okay wait N I can get there that's all I need if Joseph Gordon levit in there all I need is to go to the mummy honestly I think I'm just having fun clicking around I haven't I haven't even I don't think I've attempted to go through uh back to Paul GTI all right you know what I'll give you that one I'll give you that one it rare that I that's still really fast honestly I didn't get it oh I've just given up well uh okay four to five let's go to guess the game I think that it's this based on
• 17:30 - 18:00 the on the lighting it's a it's a I was wrong swinging a Miss for me as well mhm it's on Windows oh okay oh this is come on come on did you get it no did you get it no it's this one then wait what oh I wait okay I'm in the right franchise bro I'm in the right franchise uh I I'm not
• 18:00 - 18:30 trying to put the heat on you but I got it in six well I'm on my fifth guess Warcraft 3 lock me in baby okay oh [ __ ] is EVE Online RTS home you got home World cataclysm yes um but I was alive right I was alive came out I was five and I was doing really well it's probably a little bit uh Advanced for a 5y old that hurts
• 18:30 - 19:00 I mean I didn't play it I was like I don't know I was 11 or something home World Jesus no I never I would have never gotten this in my damn life well okay jeez I'm down too let's go Doppel Doppel okay I now this I do love a Doppel although I stopped playing it when it was broken for a week straight uh it's always broken like I said earlier I didn't cheat in Doppel all I did is I gave Otto a suggestion for the theme because every day for Doppel is a different theme zombies Japan and this time I made it France because if there's
• 19:00 - 19:30 one thing I know a lot about it's my goddamn home country and I figured Northern lion wouldn't know as much about it but I might have overestimated how much I actually know about it I this is the is frest thing I've ever seen in my life yeah but you're French bro it has Juliet BOS in it famous for the TW kulur films I believe she was in BL a Blanc do you have a guess in I did I was off by one year I was off by 11 okay
• 19:30 - 20:00 okay I know this though this is a gimme probably if I had the guess I would say it's this month maybe this month did you get it I I got it and the bonus [ __ ] okay I also got it and the bonus oh okay do you know art no no I could not tell you on REM matis me [Laughter]
• 20:00 - 20:30 neither I can tell you when he wasn't though wow what what did you guess 1951 I guess 1956 and it was a horrible guess oo doas are you familiar with doas I am it is a French MMO RPG it's a French MMO RPG yeah okay uh critically acclaimed and I'm almost positive M it came out this year I'm watching the
• 20:30 - 21:00 trailer okay let's just go see what's oh but that's like so 2010 pilled man like a cute Adventure Time style animal here I'm going to say this is the year 201 wow 2004 man H that was not a good guess I have no idea um a deep PE off lvon Rose my mother loves a deep P off that's her name is not Edith P
• 21:00 - 21:30 off I no it's a DP off I I know this generally did you throw in a guess I did it was not great though I think it's a song I said well I'm not gonna tell you then I've locked it in I'm one year off I think you got me in Doppel then final score 4,470 oh you you killed me I got 4,190 w yes okay hold it back I can't
• 21:30 - 22:00 believe after my horrible movie in painting guest well I'm lucky that it was French themed Let's do let's do travel I'm I've never beaten it I'll just I'll set this stage for you I got it in seven you got it in seven I got it in seven which means I could and the picture that I'm looking at right now is something about it seems very lwd to me but I can get this then in seven okay I went Panama it was good I country away it's just some suming me's yelling out d
• 22:00 - 22:30 d d yeah I know what you're saying me when I saw Magic Mike in theaters [ __ ] though d d d the D did feel Dominica is so wrong oh [ __ ] what is it what is it Nicaragua Nicaragua all right I need a point badly
• 22:30 - 23:00 can I take you to lle of course I just want to be clear I did not make the game lle it was made by a viewer but they were inspired by Doppel so in a way I kind of did Inspire it and it helped a lot in this competition W what click me for a northern lion surprise what oh wait they added Northern Lionel I didn't know about this that's funny do you play do we play both and then do added score sure yeah let's do that do
• 23:00 - 23:30 you want to start with Lionel bro it's going to be so messed up I have so many Isaac episodes over the course of like 10 years I am seeing Northern L has over 19,000 videos uh oh you can kind of tell based on how fat my face is here's the thing I'm just looking at the Super Auto pets pack like that's what's going to help me is the super autopets art oh I mean without a doubt this is and I got a little less gray in my hair all right I'm four months I'm four months off I
• 23:30 - 24:00 was also four months off dude you're the guy in the image I know oh this is the [ __ ] one The Binding of Isaac rebirth Let's Play episode 163 parade what were you thinking when you made that title uh listen I'm cut from an earlier cloth I'll tell you what I know this date is tit are convenient as [ __ ] dude I don't want to talk about my I I got it wrong I got it wrong by one month wait
• 24:00 - 24:30 how did you get it wrong streamer brain I just Hitman whoa oh you already guessed yeah I was 77 months off oh my God what you thought it was like recent yeah I thought you played Hitman recently I was still 3 months off though I got I got 4625 on my own H [ __ ] well I got uh 3675 I'm off to lle now dude uh I'm screwed this is really let me tell you I
• 24:30 - 25:00 don't this is a slide by the way I literally don't watch YouTube it gives me like PTSD to watch YouTube so I don't know I don't know when this is I'm not offended but I've I have like 10 no I honest probably have like 20 videos called different iterations of like laughing is not allowed laughing is a crime laughing is illegal laughing is impossible you cannot laugh do not laugh you can't laugh and so it is going to be hard for you to get this I got it see this is tough for me cuz and I I don't mean it rudely I'm like I think the
• 25:00 - 25:30 thumbnail is like a little a little prosaic a little basic I feel like as time has gone on maybe your thumbnail game would evolve to pop a little bit more than this I your your hair is shorter but you did shave it like a few months ago as well so it might be a bit of a red herring uhhuh I think I'm going to say that you and slime are not in the same room the this is after we got used
• 25:30 - 26:00 to zoom in the throws of the pandemic in September 2020 you're gonna hate it oh dude it was like three months ago it was three months ago when I shaved my head it's a bad thumbnail you're right about that I whipped it up in about five minutes I mean you're right everything you saw my super autopets thumbnail uh this one next one this next one I don't even know um I'm like seeing the master at work only smart people can see this thumbnail you see it right uh this one
• 26:00 - 26:30 didn't do well I remember really I remember thinking what a genius thumbnail this is and it didn't perform well I'm like I'm I'm trying to get it by like the way you age a tree it's like I'm looking at your hair and it's like the more rings I see I'm like this must be closer to the the present by the way this I think this is the first time I ever saw you I saw a clip on Twitter of you mashing the button in Mario Party
• 26:30 - 27:00 wait no this is oh hang on no no no you're not going to pull one over on me this is from like a few months ago I remember this is the the squeaks and chibi and you were yeah yeah yeah this is like right here I was three months off one month off you're doing actually good here better than I expected I was 3 months off you were you were cooking in 2020 brother you got me beat there my total 4440 I got 2720 what did you get on your
• 27:00 - 27:30 own I was up on you by 1K and I lost by 1700 on this one so you got me all right two games left after almost every worldle clone there was just two games left and I was one point behind meaning I needed to win to tie things up and we were playing contexto the way the game works is simple you're trying to guess the word of the day and the way you get it is by throwing in random guesses and the random guess will tell you how close or far you are from that word so like if the word is beer then drink wine whiskey
• 27:30 - 28:00 would all be pretty close okay kid why is kid so goat animal okay kid kid uh ball uh play kid why is kid so high Christmas kid why would kid be so high kid work school learn why is kid so high College why is kid so high okay first word deliberate we're not close I'm going to assume we want this bar to be full so it's not similar to deliberate in fact
• 28:00 - 28:30 it might be the exact opposite in which case we say careless bow doll oh Barby ooh dress oh my gosh you should be looking for things that come in pairs mittens shoes you're right okay all right are you
• 28:30 - 29:00 close um I'm on 31 how's that it's pretty close you got shoe where did you get it I'm on four I haven't gotten it yet dress uh what else is there you have a dress you can wear a skirt you could wear a a gown you could wear a suit you could wear a tuxedo you could wear a a dress you could wear a coret corset corset corset okay that's stupid that was
• 29:00 - 29:30 stupid as [ __ ] apparel clothes money I don't think I understand this game at all honestly like I feel like I'm further away what's one step abstracted from clothing design style fashion I got the word in 86 guesses style I look closed and I look cool it's Chic it's Chic I can't believe that you got it bro what what is this game I'm at
• 29:30 - 30:00 137 I have clothes dress style Chic outfit all in the top 10 I don't understand what happened I I just thought about like what's if close is a subcategory what's the super category what's one level above clothes clothing so you sound as confused as I do now fashion dude I'm actually such an idiot I'm sitting there I'm going I'm
• 30:00 - 30:30 going I I wrote the word Chic which is just a French fashion dang it oh I had that I should have had that I couldn't think of the word fashion I believe uh it's a GG then sir god what have tied it up I [ __ ] lost after all that work of trying to trick him into playing the game playing the game on stream I still ended up losing I even had ldle on my side and you know what I realized if I'd put all that time that I put into
• 30:30 - 31:00 tricking Northern lion and making a new game into just learning Central American countries I would have [ __ ] won man don't cheat just study [Music] [ __ ]