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Show Us Your Wits Show Us Your Wits Show Us Your Wits is a Playboy TV adult game show based out of the Las Vegas Palomino Strip Club and hosted by Daphnee Duplaix. Touted as the first "strip club game show", "Show Us Your Wits" uses a similar format to the television show "Cash Cab", whereas unsuspecting contestants have to answer rapid-fire questions for monetary compensation. Rather than a taxi cab setting, these contestants enter a lap dance room at the Las Vegas Palomino Club, only to be surprised by former Playboy Playmate Daphnee Duplaix. The men then have to answer her "guy-related" trivia