Probably not a great deal happening between now and New Year, although I’m hoping to live stream some sort of Bother’s Bar Smash Bros on (checks diary) Friday 28th Saturday 29th, look out for details then. You’ll need to add me as a Switch friend to have any hope of playing (SW-2805-5403-1808) , and although I haven’t settled on anything yet you might want to set up a Discord account as well.

And in the New Year there’s the Poll of 2018. Including some new categories by popular demand – radio and online. Get your thinking caps on!

Saturday, 9:15pm UK
Here and on Youtube.

That’s right, tonight SIX contestants will battle it out in a test of smart-arse quizzery and staying power.

FIVE straight games of You Don’t Know Jack: Full Stream, the lowest scorer each time eliminated until there’s only one person left who leaves the Jack Off tent with this magnificent trophy, which was going to be used for something else six months ago that we never got round to doing.

We’ll be live here and on Youtube and the audience can play along and affect the outcome – the value of each question is partly determined by the amount of audience members who get the question wrong. Grab your mobile and join the audience, go to jackbox.tv and put in the room code in the corner. They’ll be a slight broadcast delay, so look at your phone and listen to the stream is our advice.

Live from 9:15!

We were discussing this on Twitter and in the recent Christmas thread, and it looks like FOTB Thomas Preece has put something together, which I hope to test out in due course. Why not have a look?

…but we’ll always have Craig.

It’s a really old school edition of The Price is Right from 1961. We’ve discussed this original version before – it’s effectively an auction based format where the nearest without going over wins the prize on offer, some of the prizes and skits being quite unusual.

This video is in two parts.

Part two is here.

Here’s what’s going on, in case you couldn’t be bothered to click the link above:

It’s fairly simple. Four contestants bid items shown to them. On their turn they must either increase their bid to be higher than the current leading bid or freeze. Sometimes there are is a minimum increment, and sometimes there are one-bids (like you get now). Whoever is nearest without going over wins the prize and occasionally a bonus prize. Sometimes these are a bit outlandish, sometimes there’s a mini-game attached. But it’s really neatly done with some neat ideas. And it all shifts along under the auspices of Bill Cullen, as someone who mainly knows him for his later work he’s really sharp here.

Promising 1,000 questions. Fiver on Kindle, £9 in actual book form.

Hopefully the difficulty standard is a bit better than the first series of the reboot. The new series begins January 1st. The book includes Fastest Finger First questions which I don’t remember from the original books (although that’s not to say they weren’t there). Links quite useful for a touchscreen Kindle.