The Garnet Wager

Season 2 begins… NOW. A new house, a new cast, new rules, new games… and a new podcast gimmick to match. Six and Allen are playing Fantasy Genius this time around, drafting teams of Genius contestants to compete in a battle for fantasy points. As we dive into the first episode of this new season, we quickly learn it’s survival of the fittest: the Food Chain Game has no room for t...

On this quiet week, Allen and Six gather with Genius Online founder Shane Raymond to play a variant of Gyul! Hap! Afterwards, they ready themselves for season 2, reading the bios of all the contestants. Lots of new players, but a few old favorites as well! Season 2 of The Garnet Wager will arrive… June 6th! If you want to find Allen on Twitter, they’re at @allenibrahim . Six is @sixdet...

The stage is set. The players are ready. Season 1 of The Genius will come to a close. Who will be the winner? And on the podcast side, which host prevails, accumulating more garnets than the other? To whatever end, it all ends here. Episode 12. The Season 1 Finale. The Garnet Wager is not over. We will see you again for Season 2. If you want to find Allen on Twitter, they’re at @allenibrahim...

It worries me to say this so close to the end of the season, but… I think this episode was actually kind of bad? Hmmm. Hmmm. Well, Allen and I will talk it over on this episode. I just feel like the Main Match, 5:5 Game, was really badly constructed. Just a bad GAME. The Death Match, Same Picture Hunt, was definitely better, but also seemed basic in a way that wasn’t very engaging to m...

This week, the guests steal the show: on the podcast and on the show! In our challenge, guest and friend Jennifer runs a trivia game, and Six and Allen have little choice but to ride the waves of a variety of questions. Back on The Genius, our Final Four contestants are even MORE helpless, as they must each trust a guest they’ve invited to play the game for them, while they confined to one r...

They weren’t talking about facial expressions! Dammit, BOTH of us lost that wager. Allen and Six are back for Season 1 Episode 9, and I hope you’re ready to make a BID for success. That’s an auction joke, folks. Well, more pun than joke, I guess it wasn’t really funny… at all…. After the Auction ends, we’re off to a new variant of Indian Poker for our DM!...

I hope you aren’t like Allen, and jumped from Kong to Donkey Kong: the barrel-throwing simian is unrelated to this week’s episode of The Genius, I’m afraid. In a struggle between the players’ greed and their survival instincts, who will prevail? After a brutal Main Match filled with deceit and betrayal, we head into a Death Match… filled with deceit and betrayal. What...

It’s time to duel, y’all! Grab your decks, deal the cards. We’re starting off with a special card game based on Blind Man’s Bluff that Six made special for this episode, then we’re going straight into a different type of card game: Open, Pass, this week’s Main Match. Can Jinho and Poong overcome the rest of the players teaming up against them in a game of card-b...

Crime pays, all day every day. We’re down to eight geniuses battling for the throne, and this week, the Main Match tasks them with Catch(ing) the Burglar. Can the two villages smoke out the thief before all their gold is stolen? And if they can… then what? Where do they go next? Then we move on to our homework: a classic of modern cinema, Street Fighter the Movie. Then it’s time...

Cards on the table, folks. This week, Six and Allen are going deep into debt, opening with a game of poker with garnets on the line, then moving into a rigged horse race Main Match where the outcome is already decided. Who can gather the clues to figure out the winner, while seeing through the lies that obscure the truth? Then it’s on to a Death Match with the bad DM game returning- boooo! B...

This week, we’re all INFECTED… with excitement over this week’s Main Match, the Zombie Game. Allen and Six eagerly tackle perhaps the best episode of The Genius so far, full of scheming, betrayal (“IT’S WATER!”), and tragedy. The Best Boy and the Best Girl join forces. Changyeop is absolutely terrified. No one can read Poong’s notes, least of all Poong. Wh...

We’re all starving on this week’s episode of The Garnet Wager. Starving for a challenge, starving for trivia, and starving because in this week’s episode, nobody got any bread. The Bandage Man offered the cast of The Genius a choice between Abundance and Famine, and they SOUNDLY chose famine on this one. Then we take a break to slip over to Second Life, and uhm. Boy. That place i...

This week, we’re going to the polls to see what contestant of The Genius can win the hearts and minds of the people. In the wake of a one-sided game of Twenty Questions, Six and Allen tackle the 2000 film “Almost Famous” for their media homework. Sangmin is still the greatest, Sanggyu is still the most precious, and Yuram surprises with her focused strategizing. Plus, our first w...

Folks. Friends. Welcome to The Garnet Wager. Over the coming weeks, we will take a journey through Season One of the South Korean reality game show, The Genius. As they face challenges, so shall we. Your two guides on this journey, Six and Allen, will do their best to lead you, but they’ve also got a score to settle. The hosts will clash in a challenge every episode, and score will be kept i...