The Genius: Black Garnet () is the third season of The Genius. It debuted on tvN on October 1, 2014.
Cast (in alphabetical order)
Choi Yeon-seung Ha Yeon-joo Jang Dong-min Kang Yong-suk Kim Jung-hoon Kim Kyung-hoon Kim Yoo-hyun Kwon Ju-ri Lee Jong-beom Nam Hwee-jong Oh Hyun-min Shin Ah-young Yoo Su-jin
Format Change Theft and Violence
It was explicitly stated that players who commit theft and/or violence during the gameplay would lose the Main Match if they do so. They would be the elimination candidate for the day.
Discarding of garnets
Garnets of the losers of the death matches would be discarded as opposed to the previous seasons, where it was given to the winner of the death match. Both players would have to hand in their garnets to the dealers for them to safeguard, and the winner of the death match would have his/her garnets given back to him/her.
Black Garnets
Season 3 showcased a new addition in the garnet pool: Black Garnets. Players that had won a death match would receive a black garnet. It may also be used like a garnet (such as in trading and/or deals with players) but may not be used in biddings (with the use of garnets). In episode 10, each black garnet was converted to 2 garnets (worth 2,000,000 won or 2,000 USD).
Black Missions
Players that had 3 black garnets (either gained through death matches or received from other players) could choose to challenge a Black Mission, if they had been chosen for the Death Match. There were 3 different Black Missions in the entire game, which were: Observation, Memory and Mathematics. Should the player succeed in the Black Mission, he/she may choose another player to play for him/her in the Death Match instead. If the player had failed in the Black Mission, he/she must carry on to the Death Match.
The three different Black Missions:
Observation (attempted by Kim Jung-hoon in Episode 4)
The player will play a game of Gyul! Hap! in this Black Mission, and must find all the Haps before shouting Gyul. If the player shouts Gyul before finding all the Haps, he/she loses immediately.
Kim Jung-hoon failed in this Black Mission.
Memory (attempted by Lee Jong-bum in Episode 7)
The player will memorize 12 bus stop names and their order within 1 minute. The cards will then be shuffled and only their number (order) will be displayed. The player must read out all 12 bus stop names in the random shuffled order that was shown.
Lee Jong-bum failed in this Black Mission.
Mathematics (this Black Mission was not attempted and not shown)
Episodes EpisodeMain Match Main Match winner Immunity receiver Main Match loser Appointed opponent Death Match Eliminated 1Fruit Stand Kim Kyung-hoon Oh Hyun-min Shin Ah-young Kwon Ju-ri Black and White II Kwon Ju-ri 2Jury Game Jang Dong-minOh Hyun-minChoi Yeon-seungHa Yeon-jooShin Ah-youngYoo Su-jinNam Hwee-jong - Kang Yong-suk Kim Kyung-hoon Betting Rock Paper Scissors Kim Kyung-hoon 3Middle Race - Except Choi Yeon-seungKang Yong-suk Choi Yeon-seungKang Yong-suk - Black and White II Kang Yong-suk 4Swords and Shields Oh Hyun-minChoi Yeon-seungKim Yoo-hyunShin Ah-youngLee Jong-bum Yoo Su-jin Nam Hwee-jong Kim Jung-hoon Double-sided Poker Nam Hwee-jong 5Miner Game Oh Hyun-min Jang Dong-min Choi Yeon-seung Yoo Su-jin Double-sided Poker Yoo Su-jin 6Stormy Stock Market Jang Dong-min Oh Hyun-min Kim Jung-hoon Lee Jong-bum Betting Rock Paper Scissors Kim Jung-hoon 7Constellation Game Ha Yeon-joo Shin Ah-young Oh Hyun-min Lee Jong-bum Twelve Janggi Lee Jong-bum 8Investment and Donation Oh Hyun-min Jang Dong-min Kim Yoo-hyun Shin Ah-young Memory Maze Shin Ah-young 9Middle Race Jang Dong-minChoi Yeon-seung - Kim Yoo-hyun Ha Yeon-joo Memory Maze Kim Yoo-hyun 10Chain AuctionHong Jin-ho Oh Hyun-min Jang Dong-min Ha Yeon-joo Monorail Ha Yeon-joo 11Doubting Yutnori Jang Dong-min - Oh Hyun-minChoi Yeon-seung - Betting Black and White Choi Yeon-seung 12Finals Twelve JanggiOh Hyun-minJang Dong-minSame Number HuntJang Dong-minOh Hyun-minBetting Rock, Paper, ScissorsJang Dong-minOh Hyun-min
Footnotes The winner is a guest player.
Elimination Chart RankingContestantsRoundsMMWINDMIMMDMWIN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 121Jang Dong-MinINWINIMMINIMMWININIMMWINDMWINWinner(2:1)4312Oh Hyun-MinIMMWINIMMWINWINIMMDMWININIMMDMRunner-Up(1:2)4423Choi Yeon-SeungINWINDMWINDMINININWININELIMOh Hyun-Min3024Ha Yeon-JooINWINIMMINININWININDMELIMJang Dong-Min2115Kim Yoo-HyunININIMMWIN INININDMELIMJang Dong-Min2016Shin Ah-YoungDMWINIMMWINININIMMELIMOh Hyun-Min2217Lee Jong-BeomININIMMWININDMELIMOh Hyun-Min1118Kim Jung-HoonININIMMDMINELIMJang Dong-Min0119Yoo Su-JinINWINIMMIMMELIMJang Dong-Min21010Nam Hwee-JongINWINIMMELIMJang Dong-Min11011Kang Yong-SukINDMELIMJang Dong-Min00112Kim Kyung-HoonWINELIMJang Dong-Min10013Kwon Ju-RiELIMJang Dong-Min000Garnets152733435244505868843860 (₩60,000,000) Black Garnets124357688 Discarded Garnets121(1)003000022
Footnotes Black Garnets are not counted towards the total amount of garnets. Discarded black garnets。 At the beginning of Episode 10, every black garnet is exchanged for 2 normal garnets. The winner of Round 10 is the guest player, Hong Jin-Ho; therefore, there is no winner amongst the contestants. The first-place winner amongst the contestants is Oh Hyun-Min, who received immunity for the round. The discarded garnets from the last eliminated player will be added into the final garnet amount as a special award.
Main Matches
Episode 1: Fruit Stand (13 Contestants) Each player is assigned two fruits to sell. In each of 4 rounds, they will be secretly setting their price for each of their assigned fruits, and trying to be the lowest price in order to selling them. Only the player(s) who set the lowest price (from $1-$5) for each type of fruit can sell that fruit. The number of fruits sold equals to the number of people assigned the fruit. E.g. If 5 apple players all set their price as $5, they all will each sell 1 apple and earn $5 each. But if one player underbids them at $4, he/she steals the entire sale, selling 5 apples and getting $20 alone. If there are several player with the same lowest bid they split the total earnings for that fruit between each other. E.g. if 3 apple players set their price at $4 instead, each of them gets $20/3=$6. The final price for all fruits and the earnings shares from each fruit are shown after each round.
Each player can use a Change ability and Secret ability once during the 4 rounds. If a player uses Change, he/she change one of the assigned fruits to any other fruit. If a player used the Secret ability, he/she can obscure the price and earnings for a fruit of their choice for that round.
Player(s) who earned the most after 4 rounds win the game and the player(s) with least money loses. If there are more than one loser, the winners select one of the losers to go to the death match. If there is only one winner, he/she also get an extra token of life to give to anyone, except the elimination candidate. The elimination candidate can only pick his/her death match opponent among players who didn't win and don't have a token of life.
Episode 2: Jury Game (12 Contestants) This game is similar to the game "Resistance" with citizens and criminals. Players draw their secret roles - citizens, citizen leader, criminals or criminal boss. Criminals know each other, but don't know identity of their boss. Citizen leader knows who criminals are but also does not know the criminal boss.
In each round, a jury is appointed. All players then vote to approve or disband this jury. If approved, the jury then anonymously vote "Guilty" or "Not Guilty". All jury players must vote Guilty to reach a "Guilty" verdict; else it will be a "Not Guilty" verdict.
Citizens win after reaching 3 "Guilty" verdicts, while criminals win if they get 3 "Not Guilty" verdicts.
The leaders on both sides have to stay secret because if losing team guesses the identity of a leader in opposing team, then they turn the tables and win instead.
Episode 3: Middle Race (11 Contestants) Players first vote anonymously who will pick his/her game role last. This player can in turn choose the preceding player to pick his/her role and so on. All players pick a role based on this order, and each role has different abilities. The goal of Middle Race is to finish in the middle of the pack, with the first and last finishers losing and going to the death match. Players are given a set of 4 "move cards" numbered 1-4. On their turn, they submit one card and move their piece on a board that number of spaces. When player is out of cards, only then can they replenish their set of cards.
Roles have unique abilities which can influence movements (or movement cards). Some roles have active offensive abilities, e.g. pushing someone away from the middle with the goal of making them first or last. Some roles have passive abilities that can activate even when it is not their turn. E.g. When a player lands on a place already occupied by Push, Push can move that player one space forwards or backwards. Another example is that Union can move players who land 1 space in front of them back 1 space to the same space as them.
Episode 4: Swords and Shields (10 Contestants) Players are split into 2 teams of five - Team Verita and Team Falso. Each team appoints a secret leader before the game starts.
Teams are given limited number of cards with swords, dual swords, shield or bare hands on them. Each player "equips" these cards for both right and left hands. These picks are not visible to other team.
Team then start taking turns exchanging blows. Attacker announces who they are attacking using sword(s) and in what hand. Player in defending team can try to challenge attacker and call bluff on him/her having a sword in the first place. If attacker didn't have a sword, they die. If attacker didn't lie, then the doubter dies.
Player receiving the attack can then declares if they will defend with a shield in right or left hand. Attacking team can now similarly challenge the defender on that claim as above. Shields, real or imaginary, can take 3 hits before becoming unusable.
When a team's leader dies, that team loses. All players in the winning team receive a token of life plus an extra one which they can give to someone in losing team. They also pick the player for the death match.
Episode 5: Miner Game (9 Contestants) Players are split into 3 teams of three. Teams take turns "mining" by putting a hand into a prop that symbolizes a mine and grabbing cubes out of it. Different types of cubes are worth different points. Special black cubes are "bombs". If a team mines three bombs or more — their mining turn is over and they get nothing. Until then, the team is free to mine further until they decide to stop.
When one team is mining, each spectator player from the 2 other teams secretly submits to the dealer the number of points they want to get (from 1 to 50). If miners extracted more than or equal to sum of ordered points — spectators get what they ordered and miners themselves divide the rest of the points between them. If the miners extracted less — spectators get nothing, and miners divide their entire haul. Also, the most greedy spectator with the biggest ordered amount gives that amount of his/her points to people with the least ordered amount. If miners get three bombs — they get nothing, but spectators still get their ordered amount.
Episode 6: Stormy Stock Market (8 Contestants) Players are given $10 and take turns trading on a model stock market.
Just like with Scamming Horse Race games, stock fluctuations are pre-determined and players are given hints detailing which stock price will go up/down, by what amount and when.
There are a limited number of shares for each company in the market, and players cannot hold more than seven shares per company.