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Family Feud Java Style

It's Family Feud with a Java twist, what more could you ask for in a Java learning exercise?

The problem

Every student has their problem with memory recall, this game is designed to help eliminate that process.

Participants and props

Anyone can participate in the row style competition all you need is a working computer with Microsoft .NET framework in order to run the game.

The script

Family Fued Java Style Rules:

(1) - Each team's turn is indicated by the label in the top right of the screen
(2) - The team will have 30 seconds to come up with an answer to the question
(3) - Each team has 3 wrong answers before their turn is over
(4) - The game continues until all of the answers have been given or the give up button is clicked
(5) - The team with the highest score at the end of the game is the winner

Read Me

PLEASE READ THIS!
This game link comes as a zip file with all the required files in order to run the game. I have also included the source files for those interested, but they are not necessary in order to change the game information, etc.

Questions.txt:
The questions file should be formatted with one question per line and each question may be no more than 100 characters long.

Answers.txt:
There must be 7 answers per question, no more, no less
Each answer should be on one line and to distinguish between questions "&&&" should be entered as a delimiter.

Points.txt:
Same as the answers, there must be 7 point values
Each point value should be on one line and to distinguish between questions "&&&" should be entered as a delimiter.