According to the records, this is the 25th BBPB! Incredible.

This came out yesterday on most of the major digital platforms, but is it any good? It features 1,500 questions and everyone’s favourite TV host Lucky McCoy!

You can play at home in pass the pad capacity, or online against other players, or set up a stream where people can answer in the chat.

It’s published by Ubisoft of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune fame, but it’s been developed by Snap Finger Click of It’s Quiz Time fame. They’ve not bothered localising the title so good luck in finding it unless you know what you’re looking for. And do you know what? It’s OK?

They are mainly looking for people from the North West, for COVID reasons presumably, but anyone can apply. Filming in January.

The 1% Club has been commissioned for ITV and I thought this had been knocking about for a while, but a quick search suggests that they filmed a pilot for it at Salford only back at the end of January so not that long in the grand scheme of things. It’s Everybody’s Equal with brainteasers and Lee Mack, basically, but apparently with a convoluted money system only 1% of people will understand that basically boils down to “£100k is split amongst everyone who survives and gets the hardest question right”, unless I’m missing some nuance.

In other news, they’ve changed the logo for Blankety Blank on Applause Store so it looks like 80s Blind Date, and there’s no mention of Bradley Walsh. Have the plans changed?

Not especially gameshow related (although we note Family Feud will be out on console on Thursday – we will try and do a video for it) but I’m lucky enough to have got an XBox Series X this afternoon, so here’s an occasional post on how you can find me for scoreboard fun if the fancy takes you:

Steam: Add me on Steam if you want.
XBox: We can be chums on XBox for high score fun if you’re that way inclined, where I am Brig Bother.
Playstation Network: I’m not currently on PSN, but if I come back BrigBother ought to do it, but this handy link should do it as well.
Switch: Code SW-2805-5403-1808

And hey! If you’re on XBox why not join Club Bother’s Bar? Sure, nobody’s posted anything in there for about two years, but still.

To win a Bother’s Bar Game Night, it’s not enough to be best at the Jackbox suite of games played throughout the evening. No, to become ultimate champion you must convert the advantage of moral victory into actual victory in the evening’s Arbitrary Final. A game of my own devising, playable by eight people (usually). Some are pretty bloody good (I reckon everything from Elimination Wipeout onwards is strong (apart from the archery one), with particular mention going to Quizudo and Die Hard), the others are at least quite funny.

Anyway, it’s been ten episodes since volume one, so here’s volume two.

Extremely sad to hear Alex Trebek lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He’ll always be best known for his many many years hosting Jeopardy! since 1984, but he has of course fronted a range of shows from the sublime to the ridiculous. My first recollection of him was hosting Classic Concentration which they used to show daily on UK satellite. Everybody else will be using Jeopardy! I suspect, so here’s a random episode of that.