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Like many people, Daryl Penn liked to bring out games such as Scene It? or Family Feud during weekend get-togethers. But the fun started to fizzle as the 38-year-old business teacher at Old Mill High School realized that few of the questions tapped into the history or culture of African-Americans.
After one family get-together last year, Penn went shopping for a game that featured African-American trivia.
He couldn’t find any on store shelves.
So Penn, an entrepreneur from a family of educators in Anne Arundel County, decided to create one.
He invested $25,000 to produce 1,000 copies of Are You Sure? Since its release April 28, he has sold more than 300 copies of the game, which costs $34.99. He figures he needs to sell about 800 copies to break even, so now that school is out, he plans to market it as aggressively as possible.
Penn, of Glen Burnie, has approached black fraternities and sororities in several states and is recommending the game as a fundraiser to a church in Pennsylvania. He plans to run commercials locally on cable. Eventually, he would like to see the game sold nationally in a large retail store.
“For me, the game is really for families, for the bonding,” Penn said.
The DVD game is modeled on popular ones such as the movie trivia game Scene It?, which shows a question on a television screen and allows players to select an answer using a remote control.
Sometimes after an answer is selected, players see a clip of one of Penn’s family members asking, “Are you sure?” Players then get a second chance to change their answer before the game shows them the correct one. The “Are You Sure?” clip plays regardless of whether the player selected the right answer - one of Penn’s classroom techniques to challenge students to stand behind their position.

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