{"id":10391,"date":"2017-10-18T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2017-10-19T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T20:21:36","slug":"the-crystal-maze-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=10391","title":{"rendered":"The Crystal Maze Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Let’s be clear here, if you hadn’t guessed I don’t love the Crystal Maze<\/strong> reboot<\/a>. At its best it’s OK<\/em>, but it shouldn’t just be OK, it should be one of the best things on TV.<\/p>\n

From having fewer games to concentrate on the contestants’ personalities, to the tediously matey social media presence, to declaring the games to be “multilayered” which seems to just mean “you have to get TWO riddles right instead of one now” and various other issues in between, not least Richard Ayoade’s wildly inconsistent likability as Mazemaster, it’s been a very difficult series to love. And there are still eight more of this one to be shown! Instead of making The Ironic Crystal Maze<\/em>, they should have just tried making The Crystal Maze<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And yet! There may be interest from an unlikely source in the form of the official Christmas cash-in book which I’m sure they’d love to advertise on telly, only there was very definitely always going to be a split in the series at this juncture. Out Thursday, it’s The Crystal Maze Challenge<\/strong>. It promises to let you play the show in your very own home with over 100 ideas.<\/p>\n

And this might be ingenious<\/em>. I suspect there is nobody reading, of a certain age and persuasion, who didn’t try and emulate The Crystal Maze<\/em> in their bedrooms with friends in some capacity, even if it’s just endless variants of The Floor Is Lava\u00a0<\/em>or throwing things at cuddly toys. What will this book teach us? I do hope it’s not as disappointing as the show.<\/p>\n

It’s priced \u00a37.50 on Kindle, but the hardback version can be ordered in many places for \u00a37.<\/a> I hope to devour it over the next day or so when it downloads.<\/p>\n

What were your<\/em> homemade Crystal Maze<\/em> games from twenty years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s be clear here, if you hadn’t guessed I don’t love the Crystal Maze reboot. At its best it’s OK, but it shouldn’t just be OK, it should be one of the best things on TV. From having fewer games to concentrate on the contestants’ personalities, to the tediously matey social media presence, to declaring\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-2HB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}