New Game Show Tests What You Really Know About Asking a Non-Jew on Shabbos

Can you ask a non-Jew to turn off a bedroom light on Shabbos? What about turning on an air conditioner during a hot summer day? Is hinting always better than asking directly?

A new free online game show is turning these common — and often confusing — Shabbos questions into an engaging, fast-paced learning experience for families, classrooms, camps, and Shabbos table discussion.

And Now You Know — Amiroh Lenochri Edition is an interactive game that challenges players with reallife scenarios about amiroh lenochri — asking or hinting to a non-Jew on Shabbos — with answers based on cited sources from AskTheRav, Chabad.org, and Shulchan Aruch Harav.

The game was developed by Rabbi Yossi Shain, a local mechanech, who created it as a fun and accessible way to review important halachos in a format that feels more like a game show than a worksheet.

The questions are designed to be practical and surprising: when direct asking may be allowed, when hinting is not a loophole, what to do when a child is frightened in the dark, and the timely summer question of when extreme heat and air conditioning may change the halachic picture.

Rabbi Shain emphasizes that the game is not a source of psak and does not make halachic decisions. Rather, it is an anthology-style learning tool built around the sources cited inside the game. For real-life halachic questions, players are reminded to ask a Rav.

The game includes single-player and multiplayer modes, scorekeeping, level progression, and clickable source links so users can review the actual source material behind each answer.

The game is currently being offered free to the public.

Play it here: https://anyk.pages.dev

For learning purposes only. For real-life halachah, ask a Rav.