Our French chum Cosser alerted us to this the other day which is actually quite exciting and also I’d wager good Sunday afternoon fare: an episode of La Carte aux Tresors with English subtitles – you’ll need to turn them on so you might need to watch this on the Youtube site. I found it quite difficult initially to watch the subs and take in the scenery at the same time.
It’s a fun episode (although there are edits, the contestant intros and the SMS game are cut) and the English subs very much help to clarify what’s going on. At this point in the show’s run the clues are in the form of “Meet [a person] with/at [an object/a cryptic place]” with a visual hint, so it’s a game of inferring significance, going around and getting information on one half of the clue helps you solve the other. In helicopters.
I’m slightly worried about how close the contestants insist on holding the mics to the public’s faces as said member of the public is driving them around.
In other news some new French quizzes started this week, none of which look greatly interesting (Trouvez l’intrus and 8 chances de tout gagner!) which we will try and look at in due course.
But I did come across this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nZ4t6r3Dxk
La Derniere Porte, which looks like a kids Escape Room game, not looking unlike Les Mondes Fantastiques.
The structure of riddles evolute along the years. The two first seasons, the length and the complexity was closer to what La chasse aux trésors and Trésors du monde doing at their time. But since 1998, every riddles are shroten but the mecanism that you describe Brig apprear regulary on the game only sevral years after. It gives an additional human dimension to the game but it’s a shame because there has been no more variety of constrution until the show was axed…