I always really liked the Brain Box bit – good music, fun physical element, but it really needed to be either a) a bit longer or b) needed some other element as there’s not enough score variance in it really. This is less of an issue when the show stopped being eliminatory.
Has any other show used the “obvious correct answers beginning with a letter which yours cannot” mechanic, from the Gunk Dunk? I always thought this was a mechanic that’d work pretty well in a more comedy-based quiz and I don’t think I’ve seen it used anywhere.
If you’re on the Bother’s Bar Discord, we’ve a lively and fun boardgaming group (largely played though Board Game Arena) where currently we’ve got several games turn based games on the go (i.e. you can get an e-mail when it’s your turn but there’s otherwise little time pressure), and then currently every other Sunday night (including tomorrow) from about 8pm until 10:30ish people can turn up in the live voice chat and play games live. Those tend to be at the lighter, livelier, bluffier end.
Currently we’ve got a game of King of Tokyo on the go and I’m having a great time. It’s not a new game by any means but it’s the first time I’ve played it – basically roll dice to either score points or hurt other monsters – the monster currently in Tokyo can hurt all the other monsters outside simultaneously and earns points the longer they stay in Tokyo, but they take all the damage from all the other monsters outside Tokyo who don’t otherwise hurt each other. Every time they get damaged, they can yield to the damager. The winner is the first to a point value, or the last one left standing. There’s (only) a little bit more to it than that, but that’s the gist.
This feels like the sort of thing that ought to translate to a game show pretty well, albeit likely with questions rather than dice rolling, contestants vying for a rewarding privileged position whilst also increasing their risk whilst in that position. Has it happened?
Avanti Un Altrosort of has it, there was an 70s/80s US quiz called Jackpot but it wasn’t especially adversarial. Similarly there are shows where people compete to take on the current champion, like Tout Le Monde Veut Prendre Sa Place, but that’s not quite the same thing. Along those lines, here’s an unsold pilot called King Of The Hill.
Oh Crikey, we were joking about the use of the word "iconic" earlier, Matthew Strachan's music is probably the definition of the word: https://t.co/KoUIwGtRwb
ITV have commissioned R¿dd?culous (i.e. Riddiculous) to be hosted by Good Morning Britain‘s Ranvir Singh and Henry Lewis from The Goes Wrong Show as the richardosman, where teams must answer questions to unlock riddles and win big cash prizes.
Some fab Boring Press Release Quotage in the press release, but top marks for deciding that its end game, Henry’s Riddle Run, is already ‘iconic’ – can’t remember the last time a show called one of its own elements iconic before it had even been made but I miss those days. If you’re reading from East Media, and you did it deliberately, do get in touch and collect your jackpot.
It’s due for weekday afternoons and sounds like it might be quite fun.
It seems to get later and later every year doesn’t it?
In other news, GamesMaster films 4-6th October at the Cross Ness Engines Trust at Thames Water, tickets can be procured from SRO.
To be clear I still have misgivings about the point of bringing the show back, however what a brilliant location for it, a Victorian pumping house, harking back to the Games Rig of its second series, it looks absolutely beautiful. A self-styled cathedral of engineering. Love it.
