My Xmas Gift to You

Merry Christmas everyone, as someone once said.

Now it’s gone 6pm so you’ve probably already had your Xmas dinner. But hey! You’re probably seeing other people over the next few days, and there’s a fair old chance you might still be doing some critical gamage this evening. Well here is my gift yo you: inspired by the brilliant 21 Questions Wrong and the at best mediocre Millionaire Hotseat, I’ve created the game you’ll ALL be playing over the next few days: 21 Questions Wrong Hotseat!

Before you do that you will need to make sure that a) you’ve heard this week’s brilliant Fifty 50 Show as it contains this week’s Christmas Special and b) You listened to the episode from two weeks ago where Jonathan wins a lifechanging sum of money. Oh and c) your frieds you will be playing with have not heard them. Here is a composite set of 21 questions drawn from the last two episodes, we try and reuse the questions we don’t get round to so they’re drawn from the last two episodes, this is better printed out (Note: I’ve also fiddled with the script format a little in an experiment to see if it’s easier for the writers and hosts to work with). You as host will also need to provide a) some sort of countdown clock and b) a prize of some description which might not even get won.

You can play this with any number of players, seven worked quite well this afternoon:

• First of all you need to determine your time limit, anywhere from 4-8 minutes. You should use your judgement to detemine how long this should be based on your speed as quizmaster, the amount of people playing and their level of quiz prowess. Eight minutes for a group of non-quizzers who had had a bit to drink and seven year old worked out well.
• Start reading out the questions to player one. The object is to answer each question WRONGLY. Whenever they give the inappropriate answer or hesitate too long in answering , the host immediately starts from question one to the next person in line. If you run out of people, go back to player one. Players may interrupt the quizmaster.
• If the timer runs out, the person currently on a run is allowed to complete their run until they stuff up or indeed win.
• The winner is the person who successfully manages to run the list. They win the prize. If nobody manages it, you get to keep the prize. Despite this conflict you will have more fun the better and faster you keep it going.

That’s it! Have fun! I hope you got everything you wanted!