{"id":14245,"date":"2022-11-08T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14245"},"modified":"2022-11-08T09:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T09:41:57","slug":"just-bloody-whack-it-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14245","title":{"rendered":"Just bloody whack it, mate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our new favourite thing is a clip from Flemish (it sounds like) mid-1980s quiz <strong>IQ-Kwis<\/strong> which turned up on the Discord last night. It looks like <strong>The Waiting Game<\/strong> but with logic puzzles, which is already brilliant, but my two favourite bits are 1) people absolutely just thumping the buzzers and 2) the speed of the tile shuffling in the endgame, where it looks like they&#8217;ve got to try and make a twenty-letter word (or as best they can in the time they&#8217;ve earned, my hint that this is the case is that an advert for the book after it suggests it has an official word list of 20 letter words).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-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\/CaTYxAB1XXo?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>We&#8217;ll be pitching <em>Sonic Blastman: The Quiz<\/em> to Channel 4 next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I can&#8217;t see us leaving Twitter whilst it still has utility value and until something better comes along (Christ I&#8217;m still occasionally posting to Facebook), but would always recommend looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/cCYTDgk\">Bother&#8217;s Bar Discord<\/a> where stuff like this usually turns up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new favourite thing is a clip from Flemish (it sounds like) mid-1980s quiz IQ-Kwis which turned up on the Discord last night. It looks like The Waiting Game but with logic puzzles, which is already brilliant, but my two favourite bits are 1) people absolutely just thumping the buzzers and 2) the speed of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14245\">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-14245","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-3HL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245","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=14245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}