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 the tile shuffling in the endgame, where it looks like they’ve got to try and make a twenty-letter word (or as best they can in the time they’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).
We’ll be pitching Sonic Blastman: The Quiz to Channel 4 next week.
In other news, I can’t see us leaving Twitter whilst it still has utility value and until something better comes along (Christ I’m still occasionally posting to Facebook), but would always recommend looking at the Bother’s Bar Discord where stuff like this usually turns up.
I suppose it makes sense for them to allow words up to the 20 letters within the slider puzzle. I wonder if these two examples were actually solvable to 20-letter words, or if they just chose random sets of letters
Just watching Raise the Roof on YouTube. It strikes me that this show would’ve actually benefitted from “slower pace to get to know the players better”. After all, we see their families as well. Wouldn’t’ve it been nice to hear from them and why they are after their dream house?