{"id":2661,"date":"2010-12-07T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T16:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2010-12-08T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T09:53:09","slug":"boardgame-remix-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"Boardgame Remix Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right, not strictly gameshow related but being mentioned because it might be of interest to the sorts of denizens who hang around Bother’s Bar during a slow news\/can’t be\u00a0bothered week: The Boardgame Remix Kit<\/a><\/strong>, which I will buy this evening (although won’t have the chance to explore fully because I’m playing poker) for the bargainous \u00a32.99 and seems like a fine idea in principle, and more than one person has tweeted me about it and geek comedian\u00a0Tom Scott is involved\u00a0in playtesting\u00a0so I trust it IMPLICITLY.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Buzzerblog have videos of the US Million Dollar The Money Drop<\/strong>,<\/a> I don’t think the set looks too awful all told – more like the European set but with more screens than I was expecting.<\/p>\n

Also, intrigued by Simon Cowell’s response to the The X Factor<\/strong> fix allegations:<\/p>\n

“There has always been a sing-off when there are five people left in the competition. This is a lot of nonsense about nothing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er, no there hasn’t. In fact correct me if I’m wrong, but the public tend to be the final arbiters from the final six downwards usually. I don’t believe The X Factor<\/em> is a\u00a0fix (although insinuating it was only going to be viewer votes is a bit off)\u00a0and I understand that controversy is usually good for the show, but I think they’re beginning to \u00a0get to the point where the public might actually switch off – they’re already happy enough to not buy the record.\u00a0Although they probably won’t\u00a0switch off this\u00a0week being the final, obviously.<\/p>\n

Edit: <\/strong>Alex says: “I\u2019ve checked, and it was final 4 in series 1 and 3 (2004\/2006), and 5 each other series.” So there we are.<\/p>\n

Edit Edit: <\/strong>Right, quick review of The Boardgame Remix Kit<\/strong> – if it was all as wildly inventive as their Cluedo meets Dawn of the Dead idea then I would have no hesitation in recommending it, regrettably a lot of it doesn’t have the same sort of mad inventiveness and is really a book of new house rules for popular games. I think I was expecting more re-purposing so I’m not sure I could recommend buying a physical copy at the price therefore, but the iPhone app also comes with\u00a0working built in timer and dice which is harder to get right then you’d think if other ‘boardgame replacement’ apps are anything to go by. There are worse things you could spend \u00a32.99 on, especially if you think This Sort Of Thing is worth supporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right, not strictly gameshow related but being mentioned because it might be of interest to the sorts of denizens who hang around Bother’s Bar during a slow news\/can’t be\u00a0bothered week: The Boardgame Remix Kit, which I will buy this evening (although won’t have the chance to explore fully because I’m playing poker) for the bargainous\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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","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-GV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}