Putting this here mainly as a reminder to me to look into it in the next few days, I was alerted to this on Twitter last night:

Sounds intriguing and Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like, although I’m interested to see how it goes down – the challenges would need to be very strong as it’d be quite difficult to start following and picking favourite contestants out of so many. Or is it? It’s on SBS6 in the Netherlands if anyone wants to have a look before I do (or indeed even after).

Not quite sure if it’s worth its own follow-up post to the original S1 one, but the first of two Sport Relief specials airs this evening from 8:30pm. I don’t know if S2 proper is following straight after this mini-run or what. As we’ve said previously, as a 30 minute light shoulder-peak snack it was surprisingly quite good, whether it will work in a slightly longer slot in the middle of primetime remains to be seen.

Next Saturday (7th March) we open up our doors again for another Game Night and I’m looking for panellists. We’ll be deliberately playing games that for one reason or another haven’t had many run outs of late (although we’ll undoubtably find an excuse for Trivia Murder Party 2 at some point).

If you’re:

• Free next Saturday night from around 8:50pm-11:30pm GMT,
• Have a microphone,
• Have a Discord account

You could be one of my seven panellists. Whatsmore, I will be needing a Voice Of The Audience for this episode’s exciting Arbitrary Final.

If you’re interested, please leave a comment here OR DM me on Twitter (please don’t just reply to a Tweet, it’ll likely get forgotten about when I come to putting a panel together). New panellists are encouraged.

Importantly, as we’ll be doing it through Discord direct messages, we will need to be friends on Discord. If we’re not then add me (I am BrigBother #9399) or leave your details and I’ll add you. Adding is no guarantee of selection, there are many considerations when it comes to putting together a panel. i’d like to be able to put the panel together on Thursday night, so I will let successful applicants know then.

Thanks and good luck!

My Last Eurovision Breath, James Newman.

I’ve been playing a lot of the board game (and soon apparently to be a reality gameshow) Ticket to Ride recently, specifically we’ve been trying to explore more of the variants – everyone loves Europe, I’ve got a personal love of the stocks and shares aspect of the Pennsylvania board, and I tried playing the UK board last night but it was, frankly, a bit out there with its rules variants. Anyway, what’s your favourite expansion?

I wanted to illustrate the post with a video. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be copies of Gyles Brandreth’s Railway Carriage Game on Youtube. Gladiators: Train 2 Win a bit too clever. The best in terms of most obscure then is probably Commuter Quiz, the cryptic crossword competition from the mid-eighties.