It’s Christmas time so let’s have a look at what we know is coming out this year.
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So without further ado…
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The New Crystal Maze Board Game
Or you can buy the old one for £99.99 if you wanted.
£18.16 for the full game, featuring 245 questions. I haven’t played it but Buzzerblog seemed to like it.
There also seems to be a sort of travel card game version for £12.97 right now.
£19.99 buys you the voice and doubtless also the soul of Craig Revel Horwood as you answer questions and dance-off whilst moving about on a 3D staircase.
A music quiz game rather than a singalong apparently, £9.99.
Not seemingly on Amazon, but The Entertainer are selling it for a tenner, a good fiver cheaper than other places. Sounds like it includes a replica Pointless trophy, probably about the same size as an actual Pointless trophy. Also sounds like they’ve changed the rules to make it like the show, not that anybody actually played the board game with the board game rules and the actual board.
Best of the Rest
Not new for this year but there’s Wogan’s Perfect Recall going for £4.99.
Books
2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks – Every year there’s a QI book and this year is no exception. And it’s under a fiver.
Music
Disappointingly, after last year’s cash grab we haven’t heard of any gameshow celebs releasing an album this year. Needless to say, we’re still hoping for an Armstrong and Walsh cover of I Knew Him So Well for Xmas Number One. Imagine.
Are we missing anything? Add them in the comments and I’ll add them to the list.
Evening Patrons
Having a trawl on YouTube (as I do) I came across an episode of Donny Osmond’s “Identity” which some might deem worth a watch!
I’m sealing in this YouTube link for you all:
https://youtu.be/MpNj0_8L5mw
It’s even worse than I remembered.
You might have to use the dark arts, but here’s the trailer for The Titan Games, the new US competition show with Dwayne Johnson as host/executive producer…
And how about a throwback to “friend of the bar’s” Tom Scott on Only Connect? Oh go on then….
https://youtu.be/c_Fa_fucl1o
To add to this list:
Video Games
Wheel Of Fortune – Nintendo Switch – US eshop account required (NO VPN needed) $19.99 (£15.39 converted)
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/wheel-of-fortune-switch
Jeopardy – Nintendo Switch – US eshop account required (NO VPN needed) $19.99 (£15.39 converted)
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/jeopardy-switch
Bundle – America’s Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! (physical copy) Amazon USA – $52.99 (£40.80 converted including shipping)
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Greatest-Game-Shows-Jeopardy-Nintendo/dp/B07HY67GZL/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1541420633&sr=8-2&keywords=America%27s+Greatest+Game+Shows%3A+Wheel+of+Fortune+%26+Jeopardy%21
I got the chance to try the Crystal Maze board game last night with a couple of my fellow gamers. (Thanks to the makers for actually letting me have one!) We thoroughly enjoyed it. Granted the team vs team isn’t strictly Crystal Maze but the concept works well. Most of the riddles are fairly straight forward (but it is designed as a family board game). Having multiple sets of riddles/puzzles for the challenges increases the replay ability somewhat. The silliest one by far is doing Star Jumps while reciting the times table… apart from that, they fit the theme well and you see a few vintage tv show puzzles in the box too. Using the hand as part of the dome game is a stroke of genius and I can safely assume having multiple people on the same team doing it will lead to a lot of craziness.
I’m gonna try it again in the next few weeks and record it with more people because it’s definitely worth trying.
I also would love to see a Team vs Team special of the TV Show if it was stretched to 90 minutes. I know it was hit/miss with Fort Boyard over the years, but as a one-off?
Updated with The Voice and Pointless.
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Unless they’ve changed the Pointless trophy along with the games, the “trophy” is a little card doo-dad with a picture of a trophy. Not that I have the game, but I’ve seen pictures of it.
Well nothing can match the majesty of an actual trophy, to be sure. Ta.
Actually the trophy is made of clear plastic with a hollow bit inside that does a decent job of mimicking the hologram. At 6 inches high, it is also – believe it or not – pretty close to the size of the real thing.
The questions are obviously from the show so you know what you’re getting. I feel some of the final R4 ones are strange choices to put in a game like this given the thousands they have at their disposal. PJ and Duncan singles?!
The anagrams are not in capital letters so quite hard to decipher on the small cards.
And here is David’s tweet with a picture:
https://twitter.com/davidjbodycombe/status/1063947930997002240?s=21
Ah, they must have upgraded it since the photos I’ve seen. Good to hear!
Do you plan to buy 5 Gold Rings? You say you haven’t played it, I think you should.