From 9pm and we’re looking for panellists. If you’ve got a microphone and are available from 9pm to 11:30pm on Saturday (camera not necessary) I’d like to hear from you – leave a comment or find me on Twitter. If you don’t want to be a panellist you can still play along anyway! Get your second screen out and watch our live stream here and on Youtube. The Audience is the 8th player, and this episode a member of the audience with a microphone will get to represent the entire viewing public in the exciting Arbitrary Grand Final at the end of the evening.

If you’ve not seen it before, we play a load of Jackbox Games live, as well as some bonus concocted stuff (including own brand smash-hit worldwide marble racing quiz sensation The Road to Sortition). Earn points by winning games, the player with the most points gets a tiny advantage in the winner takes all Arbitrary Grand Final. Here’s a playlist.

In the meantime if you didn’t fancy sitting through five plus hours of our Schlag den Henssler Watchalong this weekend just gone, I’ve made a quick and dirty edit of the two main own-brand events.

First, the revival of amazing eighties quiz Connections!

And really the main event, the non-copyright infringing David J Bodycombe’s Puzzle Mansion!

Enjoy.

Saturday, 7:15 UK (8:15 Europe)
ProSieben or naughty streaming services

Tweet us on #bbsdh

It’s been a long Summer but Schlag den… is back with a new regular antagonist: celebrity chef Steffen Henssler, and a new prize pot of €250,000 if anybody can best him over fifteen unusual mystery events of skill, dexterity, mental acuity and endurance.

And that means we’re back as well providing commentary, entertainment and gossip throughout the show’s lengthy running time. Do come along and keep us company, we’ll be reading your tweets all night.

And feel free to dip in and out, on previous form the show will still be going on past midnight. With a new antagonist and prize fund we don’t know if there have been any other changes – the presenting team of Elton and Elmar Paulke hasn’t changed, so you will learn as we do.

Our commentary stream – live from 7:15 to around midnight
This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.

To watch it would be useful to download Opera and sign up for ProSieben’s catch-up service – it’s pretty simple to work out, don’t click the box if you don’t want e-mail messages. You will need to put in a proper e-mail because it will send you a confirmation. Go into your settings (Cog top right of Speed Dial screen, then bottom) – go to Privacy settings, click on Enable VPN. Go to Pro7 stream, click on blue VPN symbol in address bar, turn it on for Germany. Hassle but should work!

Back up – best in Opera or Firefox. Best with ad-block.

@bothersbar, @danielpeake, @davidjbodycombe @sensei256, @ogbajoj

Tschüß!

Coming screeching in like a screeching thing, ITV2 are piloting a show called Crashtag which is described on SRO, where you can get tickets, thusly:

Crashtag! is a brand new ITV2 gameshow from the award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedy act Goose.

Two teams compete in a series of innovative, strobe-speed challenges that defibrillate the meaning of the word ‘gameshow’. Come and be in the audience! You won’t know what’s hit you but you’ll like it.

Meanwhile Chortle are describing it as “a Taskmaster-style series of physical challenges between competing teams of comedians.”

I hope you like shows that are a bit like Do A Thing And Win Some Poi Taskmaster whilst not being as good as Taskmaster because the feeling I get is most pitches over the next year or so will feature the phrase “it’s a bit like Taskmaster” in it somewhere.

Regardless, we look forward to seeing strobe-speed challenges that defibrillate the meaning of the word gameshow. Although that does make it sound a bit like Reflex.

Meanwhile Bother’s Bar favourites Barnstorm Games have released an all-new Ultimate Chase app for £2.99. It’s out on iTunes, and presumably it’s coming out on Android although Google Play don’t seem to have it yet.

There’s not much to talk about until next week really (where Escape and Alphabetical series two goes out, which I can now OFFICIALLY reveal now the 26th September embargo has lifted) so I was quite pleased to discover that about a month ago somebody had uploaded to Youtube another episode of Bother’s Bar favourite Connections.

And if you liked that then make sure to join us for the Schlag den Henssler Watchalong on Saturday where we’ll be playing it LIVE! during the ad breaks.

And it’s important you tweet along as it may turn up on Bother’s Bar’s Game Night 7 on the 7th October, and if you want to join the live panel for that you can now start expressing an interest.