[Side note, we’re watchalonging Schlag den Star in the BB Discord from 7:15pm UK tonight (i.e. Saturday), do come and join us.]

Alright, I asked, you answered in your tens (literally thirty of you). We asked you what you thought the mean average prize for Ant and Dec’s upcoming Limitless Win would be, and as a tie-break the amount of the highest rung of the ladder attained. The forms are locked and loaded, and thanks to Google Spreadsheets I can tell you what you collectively thought.

MEAN WIN:

RANGE: £8,560 – £487,500
Mean Avg Guess: £104,695.53
Median Guess: £69,500

HIGHEST RUNG:

RANGE: £45,000 – £8,500,000
Mean Avg Guess: £1,620,459.20
Median Guess: £1,125,000

The show tapes next month, I think those are very plausible numbers. Let’s hope there’s a bit more to it than “we’re going to give away lots of money” because that’s not a guarantee of, well, anything really, but that is now the bar it has set itself. We’ll find out who’s won… next year!

Fans of Deathgame Mystery Dramas rejoice, the newest one from Korea launches on Netflix today, Squid Game, where 456 people compete in eliminatory kids games with a deadly twist and one will remain to win a lifechanging amount of cash.

Obviously this ticks a lot of my boxes, and along with the excellent Alice in Borderland it’s been a good year for Deathgame Mystery Dramas on Netflix, which already was doing quite well with 3%.

Also well done to Agatha Christie who basically invented the Deathgame Mystery Drama and the eliminatory reality format with And Then There Were None.

Also! A reminder that it’s Schlag den Star tomorrow from 7:15pm UK and we’ll be watching along in the Discord as usual – likely the penultimate one of the year as The Masked Singer is about to take over Pro7’s Saturday nights.

Finally it’s your last chance to enter the Bother’s Bar There’s No Limit Competition to win a BIG CASH PRIZE, entries close 23:59 tonight.

“Usually dispatched within 1-2 months” according to Amazon, but at least there’s a Kindle verison as well.

The new Taskmaster book contains 101 tasks and clues to find a silver head of the Taskmaster, who doesn’t otherwise feature on the front of the book. IS THIS A CLUE? Will there be clues hidden in the upcoming series of Taskmaster starting on Channel 4 next Thursday?

I will read the book but obviously I can’t be bothered to do the actual treasure hunt, but I look forward to watching all the explanation videos that will inevitably pop up on Youtube. Will the real prize be the friends we made along the way?

It’s happening, I suspect it will be a car crash, but who should be the new GamesMaster? And who should host? And has anyone watched any of the Top Gear Gaming Show?

In other news, join us in the Discord on Saturday for what’s likely to be the penultimate Schlag den Star of the year, from 7:15(UK)/8:15(Central Europe).

US started its new season yesterday and one of the new “things” is an old “thing” – Wheel of Fortune has a new arrangement of Changing Keys, one of its old – and most remembered – themes (coincidentally written by the show’s creator Merv Griffin).

So I ask you viewers: what’s the best rearrangement of an established theme?

Ant and Dec announced Limitless Win earlier this week, promising the world’s first limitless jackpot and a never ending money ladder.

RED. RAG. TO. A. BULL.

With expectations set for BIG MONEY, I’m giving YOU the chance to win some big money of your own – £7.99, the equivalent of buying 2 Unlimited’s No Limits album on iTunes.

To win, all you must do is guess what the MEAN average prize for the first five eps of Limitless Win will be, and then as a tie-break, what you reckon the highest amount of money in play on the table will be. If that still can’t break the tie, the winner will be picked at random from those eligible.

As we don’t know the complete format of the show yet, there are a few things to take into account:

• As far as we’re aware, the run is five episodes, so to keep the playing field level in case this turns out to be incorrect, we’ll only take the results from the first five episodes to establish the figures.
• If the final contestant on episode five doesn’t complete their game within the episode, that game will not count towards the statistics.
• Someone who crashes out with nothing will count as £0 for the purposes of working out the mean prize.

Great stuff. My decisions are final and just one entry per person, I reserve the right to disqualify anyone I choose who I suspect of cheating. You must get your entries in by 23:59pm (UK) 17th September 2021 (that’s this coming Friday), the show records next month for 2022 broadcast so it will be a while before this all resolves. I’ll come back next Saturday with the range and average of your responses though.

How do you enter? You can’t now, the compo’s closed. Look out for the results next year!