{"id":8715,"date":"2015-06-24T21:43:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T20:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2015-06-24T22:05:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T21:05:26","slug":"well-this-was-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8715","title":{"rendered":"Well this was surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite bit of <strong>The Crystal Maze<\/strong> was when they went &#8220;WHAT HAVE I GOT TO D&#8230;oh it&#8217;s alright I saw this on telly last week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In general would people prefer all classic games or some new games too? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crystalmaze?src=hash\">#crystalmaze<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Crystal Maze (@CrystalMazeHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrystalMazeHQ\/status\/613783370154278912\">June 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Surely, surely, most of the\u00a0<em>idea<\/em>\u00a0of <strong>The Crystal Maze<\/strong> and why it worked as a returning show was that it constantly threw new things at contestants (and indeed shouting viewers) to work out. Surely that <em>is<\/em> the experience and to me it&#8217;s a bit worrying the question has to be asked in the first place. Of the 300-odd games the Maze had over its six year run, 90%+ were unique\u00a0concepts, others used existing apparatus in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know what the plan is regarding what you get for your money, for a team of eight players I want 16 games, four per zone, two per player *minimum*, accepting that the puzzle dungeon if\u00a0you get locked in counts as a game. Each game is going to need to be reset before the next team come round &#8211; if it all hangs together properly it&#8217;s going to be quite some\u00a0feat.<\/p>\n<p>I do want this to be brilliant, but I do wonder if they&#8217;ve bitten more than they can chew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favourite bit of The Crystal Maze was when they went &#8220;WHAT HAVE I GOT TO D&#8230;oh it&#8217;s alright I saw this on telly last week.&#8221; In general would people prefer all classic games or some new games too? #crystalmaze \u2014 The Crystal Maze (@CrystalMazeHQ) June 24, 2015 Surely, surely, most of the\u00a0idea\u00a0of The Crystal\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8715\">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-8715","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-2gz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","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=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}