{"id":12176,"date":"2019-03-24T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T10:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2019-03-24T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T11:00:25","slug":"the-usxit-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12176","title":{"rendered":"The USxit List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to various on Twitter for pointing this out to me yesterday (we&#8217;re postponing Bother&#8217;s Bar Plays Badly until next weekend, do join in), the pilot for the US version of <strong>The Exit List<\/strong> on ABC and hosted by Mike Greenberg who&#8217;s lost his pen since hosting the US version of <strong>Duel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zxTq1COh-8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some points of note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The shape of the Maze. It&#8217;s a big X!<\/li><li>Object hints in the rooms.<\/li><li>The way the game works, that they must visit at least two zones before being allowed to go back to the lift, means at a minimum they&#8217;ll have to go through 15 rooms. If they ace all the panic rooms, and get all the questions correct, that&#8217;s a minimum list of 11 things to remember. Chances are though you&#8217;re probably looking at 20-30 things each time which seems huge. They didn&#8217;t make &#8220;you have to get back to the elevator&#8221; very clear, you can&#8217;t just end any time after hitting two zones, so I can&#8217;t work out the emphasis on decision making at that point.<\/li><li>That is a hugely generous bail-out offer.<\/li><li>I think I preferred the escape from the UK show with its movement. I would have thought that the whole point of putting objects in the rooms would possibly be to help you remember. As it is, the &#8220;deeper you go, the harder it is to get out&#8221; mantra doesn&#8217;t quite work here thematically.<\/li><li>Nice to see they used Nick Foster&#8217;s musical score.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to various on Twitter for pointing this out to me yesterday (we&#8217;re postponing Bother&#8217;s Bar Plays Badly until next weekend, do join in), the pilot for the US version of The Exit List on ABC and hosted by Mike Greenberg who&#8217;s lost his pen since hosting the US version of Duel. Some points of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12176\">Read More &raquo;<\/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-12176","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-3ao","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176","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=12176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}