A reality TV show where nobody speaks the same language
Posted by Severe-Pangolin-376@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 17 comments
What if there was a TV show where contestants who only knew their native language were featured. Ideally the more obscure the country the better. The contestants would need to work together to complete challenges that use a lot of communication and if they complete the challenge they win a 'Tower Piece'. If they win a certain number of Tower Pieces they build the tower and win the grand prize.
Clevertown@reddit
This is a great idea
Milan_Utup@reddit
How do you inform the contestants what the challenges are
Severe-Pangolin-376@reddit (OP)
So each contestant gets given the challenge translated into their own language written down on a card. They can hold onto the cards afterwards which may help with translating between the various languages if needed.
LogstarGo_@reddit
Or each contestant gets partial instructions.
Physical_Floor_8006@reddit
Or you tell one at random?
PCAnotPDA@reddit
Wait why aren’t the challenges given in IKEA furniture instructions? Then everyone is on a level playing field.
atom644@reddit
Call it “Babel”
listingpalmtree@reddit
They have to work together to make a tall, climbable tower. At the end the team with the tallest tower that they successfully climb wins.
Nidiis@reddit
I am all for it on one condition. Someone in a Duolingo mascot outfit executes the losing team on the spot Squid Games style
dirtmother@reddit
Then they can call it "Psycho Babel"
The owl is the psycho
Better_Barracuda_787@reddit
That's actually a great name
Stomatita@reddit
This reminded me of one time when I had 4 roommates but none of us spoke a language in common. We lived together for about 3 weeks and it was all via hand signals lmao, it was fun.
VenomFlavoredFazbear@reddit
In what scenario does something such as that happen?!
Stomatita@reddit
I moved to germany to attend a German Language School. It had people from all over the world and you could opt to live in one of the school's apartments. By a twist of fate all the people that got assigned to my apartment where A1 entry level students, so not even german in common. We had a Mexican (me), Japanese, Russian, Italian and French. Surprisingly I was the only one who spoke english.
Severe-Pangolin-376@reddit (OP)
Yeah I think it would be pretty interesting to see what communication methods people come up with, maybe have some challenges where they can't see each other so need to figure out how to communicate verbally as well
coyote_rx@reddit
Why not have 3 contestants a blind, deaf and mute person. Then have all 3 forced to work together. Likely on tasks that would exclude one of them. Like building a boat. The mute person can follow directions but can’t speak where the blind can speak and listen but struggle to do the task and the deaf person can see and speak but can’t understand when people talk with them.
Im_high_as_shit@reddit
Tons of YouTubers that run games that are effectively like that. They use noise cancelling headphones.