{"id":15327,"date":"2026-01-19T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15327"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:20:54","slug":"yes-or-no-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15327","title":{"rendered":"Yes or No Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s excitement is German, it&#8217;s on Amazon Prime, it&#8217;s an eliminatory quiz where all the answers are either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; in 24 incredible virtual worlds. And you can watch it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/wUn9f1DtH1w?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>But I wouldn&#8217;t bother. If you had said <em>Yes or No Games<\/em> was a 15 minute kids Saturday morning quiz segment you might go &#8220;oh well OK then&#8221;, but then you realise adults are playing it for large amounts of money and Amazon have put lots of money into it and\u2026 blimey. The tech doesn&#8217;t even look all that impressive, the worlds are mildly diverting, but on screen it&#8217;s not much better than green screen, the longer you watch the less impressive it feels, I can only imagine what the contestants are seeing that they seem to think is wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get four questions in half an hour. Answers automatically locking out once half the players have selected it is a vaguely nice touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, we must be about due the next tranche of Netflix&#8217;s What We Just Watched stats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s excitement is German, it&#8217;s on Amazon Prime, it&#8217;s an eliminatory quiz where all the answers are either &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;no&#8221; in 24 incredible virtual worlds. And you can watch it! But I wouldn&#8217;t bother. If you had said Yes or No Games was a 15 minute kids Saturday morning quiz segment you might\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15327\">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-15327","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-3Zd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327","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=15327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}