Bother’s Bargains

By | December 9, 2011

Well sort of, I can only really tell you where things are cheapest:

The Cube Boardgame
Well possibly interesting, although possibly not, it looks like the best place to buy this is in fact your local John Lewis (or online) which is selling it for £20.24.

This compares rather favourably to Amazon, which is still charging £27 for it. In fact loads of places are doing it cheaper. Edit: Spooky, it’s jumped to £32.50 whilst I was sorting this out. You can still buy new from elsewhere for £27.99 though.

Pointless
Again, John Lewis appears to be your friend here where it is going for £20.

Amazon don’t seem to have it in stock at all. But it does have Zero, an American game that’s clearly inspired by it.

The Million Pound Drop
Amazon fare better here, it’s only £15. Only two stars though, and that’s because the favourable review is for Amazon’s returns policy by the looks of things.

John Lewis have it for £19.99.

QI: The Board Game
This is new out this year. Amazon have the edge on John Lewis. £17.49 at Amazon, although Stephen Fry’s face on the cover appears to be scaring kids.

It’s £19.95 at John Lewis.

Dragon’s Den: The Boardgame
John Lewis has this going for £19.95.

Amazon doesn’t have it itself, but does have it “from £18.75” from different sellers.

So there we are. Basically if you can’t be bothered to wait, go down your local branch of John Lewis, clearly.

A couple of other things of note:

There are now countless amounts of All-Star Family Fortunes skeins, but this one for £17.99 includes face-off buzzers, which is quite exciting. We can’t find the one with the big electronic board, though.

Forget yer Zeldas and yer Call of Duties, There’s an Eggheads DS game coming out next Friday! I hope you get to “be” CJ. There are also two different versions of the board game. Or at least two different boxes. Here is box one, here is box two.

OR! Why not party like a celebrity with your very own I’m a Celebrity Which Witchety Grub? Game? 10 white chocolate grubs. Seven are toffee, three are tripe. Christmas fun for all the family!

It’s the Take Me Out game we’ve ALL been waiting for!

Meanwhile here’s a book there’s a fairly decent chance I wrote loads of.

Is there anything else interesting you’ve spotted, punters?

Lose a Million

By | December 8, 2011

Well here’s fun (although not quite as much fun as I remember), someone’s put up an episode of Chris Tarrant non-hit Lose a Million on Youtube.

Quite like the end game. The final round is quite a good idea, although I don’t know how they decided the very important order of play. First two rounds drag on a bit.

Stephen Leahy and Andrew O Connor devised this, they also devised Incredible Games which had a game with a ghost schoolmaster just like round two but without the clever juxtapositions. And then The Two Ronnies nicked it for that seventies Mastermind sketch.

The Bother Series of Poker 2012

By | December 7, 2011

Well with Fantasy X Factor finishing this weekend, it’s time for the other Bother’s Bar sleeping giant to awaken.

It’s just one month until The Bother Series of Poker 2012 begins another six month competition of cards and “hilarious” “banter”. This year I’m going to give you the opportunity to play January’s events (pencilled in for the 8th and 22nd January) for free.

I need to test out the Pokerstars home game settings, and to that end I will be attempting to set up a FREEROLL this evening for Sunday 18th December, 8pm (A Christmas special, if you like). The winner will win the money equivilent of the buy-ins to January’s games (£5.50 each, I think). Amazing.

You will need to be a member of Brig’s Poker Club to play. So join today!

The BotherSOP 2012: you’ll need your A Game, all game.

Show Discussion: The Million Pound Drop – LIVE! December 2011/January 2012

By | December 5, 2011

December 2011:
10:00-11:30pm Monday to Thursday,
9pm-10:30pm Friday

January 2012:
9pm Friday, 9:30pm Saturday

Davina’s back for another week of drop drama. I have no idea if any celebrities are playing or when.

Last series some massive amounts were given away (£300,000 being won by Jack Whitehall and his dad). Last Christmas the losers got to pick drops to go away with a prize – no idea if we’ll be seeing that this week.

It feels a bit too early for Christmas specials. The “too much?” advert was quite amusing though.

Edit: Everywhere comics Mickey Flannigan tonight and Paddy McGuinness later the week, so @bbspy tells us.