In the The Chase slot with the The Chase host:

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TONIGHT, 10:30-midnightish
Right here, via Youtube

Play along by pointing your phone to jackbox.tv

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Yes it’s Ga-ames Night and the feeling’s right oh yes it’s Ga-ames Night oh what a night!

Tonight me and a panel of punters will be playing games of creativity, knowledge and bluff drawn from the Jackbox series of games in a manner we hope you will find entertaining. And whatsmore all these games are fully interactive and you can playalong on your phone, trying to find correct answers, choosing your favourite answers and affecting the outcome.

Tonight’s menu:

• Drawful 2 – Our panel are given something unusual to draw. It might be something easy like “a dolphin”, it will probably be something much harder like “a dolphin dreaming of becoming president”. Everyone then gets to see each picture and come up with a name for it, then everyone tries to guess what the actual title is. You came up with lots of these picture titles!
• Lie Swatter – a simple true or false quiz. Bonus points for correct answer streaks and answering the fastest.
• Fibbage 2 – Fill in the blank with something believable. Hope that people pick your answer and that you pick the right one.
• Quiplash – Players given prompts and have to come up with something witty and entertaining to fill them. Everybody votes for their favourite answer.

To determine the winner of the night the panel are playing for extra marbles for the new and improved The Road to Sortition finale, Bother’s Bar’s hit marble race quiz format that’s already been sold to 200 countries.

I will also be keeping a close eye on Twitter, please use #bbgn to share your thoughts.

Edit: If you want to use that set of Drawful 2 titles for yourself, start a custom game and put the following code in: TMD-LCTG.

Alright, this actually came out a few days ago but the full list of Rose d’Or nominations is up and the category we’re most interested in is the Game Show one, obviously.

• Baking in the Dark – DR (Denmark)
• Pick Me! – ITV (UK)
• The Getaway Car – BBC (UK)

Pick Me and The Getaway Car are known quantities, Baking in the Dark (Ultras Sortes Kageshow – Big Cake Show) is a Danish show where pairs try and bake a cake in the dark. Here’s an episode of it here.

This year apparently the people who make the shows will get a say in who wins which may skew the results slightly differently. Previous winners suggest that the judges look for originality and a strong idea before commercial considerations. With this in mind, I’m going to predict the winner.

I rate The Getaway Car‘s chances at around 5% and my main reason for this is that Wild Things won last year with a show that’s similarly physical and similarly has the backseat driver element, but Wild Things is much funnier and more creative, I can’t see it going to a similar sort of thing twice in a row.

Baking In The Dark is the slightly unknown quantity, I put its chances at 35%. It’s a funny idea but really it’s quite derivative – any cooking show combined with Total Blackout. It would be the first time a non-English show has won the category since 2010.

So by process of elimination I give Pick Me! a 60% chance of winning. It was an original idea, It was fairly funny, being a flop non-commercial success domestically doesn’t seem to put the judges off.

I’d be thrilled for Possessed if they won it but I can’t say I’d be pulling for it enthusiastically, it seems somewhat unbelievable that of all the shows that put themselves forward these were the top three, but the correct show out of the nominations tends to win in this category, unlike other awards in the past I don’t care to name.

The new series of the new exciting emotional and story-led Robot Wars starts Sunday 8pm on July 24th, we’re reading. That’s the old Top Gear slot.

Saturday 16th July, 10:30pm – midnight(ish) UK

On Youtube and RIGHT HERE on Bother’s Bar.

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Well it went so well the last time I’m doing Game Night once again, and this time it will be FULLY INTERACTIVE. Yep, you’ll be able to play along with every game on your phone, competing, judging answers and helping to decide the winners all thanks to the Jackbox Party Packs.

This time round we have Drawful 2 to add to the mix. One of the “things” for Drawful 2 is that we can do our own prompts for people to draw, so here is some prep work – what weird and wonderful things would you like the panel to draw? We’re on late so you can be rude (although try not to be too crude), they don’t have to be gameshow related, the more conceptual and odd the better. Send in as many as you like and I’ll add them to the list. Lines close for this on Friday night.

I will also be looking for people to fill the panel to play and provide reaction. If that sounds like you then hit me up on here or on Twitter. You will need a reasonable connection and the ability to use Google Hangouts (and invariably the link to join will be given out via direct message on Twitter). I’ve only got room for a certain amount and I’m looking for a range of people. If that doesn’t sound like you but want to get involved you can playalong on your phones as part of the audience on the night.

Please don’t be offended if I turn you down, I’m looking for a mix of old hands and new people, and if we’re well oversubscribed I will try and run this more regularly.

And if you want to see the sort of thing we get up to, here’s the first one and here’s the second one.

[A quick reminder that we have a Show Discussion post up for The Question Jury starting at 4pm today so please direct discussion of it there.]

We’ve had an e-mail from Clare at ITV Studios who are looking for volunteers to take part in a non-broadcast runthrough this Wednesday (13th) after a last minute drop-out.

It is a smart quiz being developed by ex-University Challenge people, but it’s for families.

We’re therefore looking for a team of four family members to take part. It doesn’t matter how the four people are related, but two of them must be aged 11 to 18.

We can cover travel expenses for people who aren’t London-based.

If that sounds like you (kids might be quite difficult as the Summer hols haven’t started yet, although your kids may have just finished their exams). Then drop clare.parody@itv.com a line. Quickly!