{"id":12355,"date":"2019-06-25T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12355"},"modified":"2019-06-25T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:07:56","slug":"calendar-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=12355","title":{"rendered":"Calendar Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our thanks to @gordygeorge88<\/a> on Twitter for alerting us that the Youtube channel Countdowngoofs<\/a> has uploaded the pilots for Calendar Countdown<\/strong>, and on their Dailymotion site<\/a> five full episodes of the original Yorkshire TV production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s interesting that it plays by the original French Le Mot Le Plus Long<\/a><\/strong> rules in that the opponent of the person whose go it is to select the letters has to beat the length set by the player otherwise they don’t score anything – a tie isn’t good enough. This also applies to the numbers rounds, which is quite interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, if you’ve never seen LMLPL<\/em> before it became Des Chiffres et Des Lettres<\/strong>, here’s a clip. Instead of numbers rounds, it features riddles if you score an odd number of points in order to keep them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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