Ho ho ho dear, it appears to be Christmas!
Right, there was a lot of extra-curricular quizzing activity on our live Raab-cast on Saturday, including Mastermind, 21 Questions Wrong Hotseat and a full episode’s worth of Only Connect questions. I thought, for an experiment, it might be fun to collate those all together in one place. It’s been very hurrily edited (I’m no TV’s Michelle Martin) but the results of the quick cut and paste job can be found right here:
Maybe one day I’ll get round to doing “Who’s Shoes?” as a separate video.
In the meantime, if you would like to play the traditional Bother’s Bar festive game of 21 Questions Wrong HOTSEAT around your dinner table using the questions used in that video, you can print them off from here if you want.
Finally, GSN’s The Line debuted last night and lots of people have been trying to find our discussion of the UK Walk the Line pilot we were sent a few years ago. The video no longer works, but the direct link to our discussion is here. If you watched it in the US, let us know what you thought.
Oddly enough I was playing Captain Toad whilst watching Connect-o-spot and therefore got distracted and didn’t answer the Toad Kidd question. Alas!
I’m quite annoyed actually, nobody seemed to be breaking the street date for Captain Toad locally, so it looks like I’ll be having some fun with it in the New Year.
Huh, I thought all the GAME branches had broken it, Belfast and Birmingham have at least. It’s quite good anyway, worth the wait!
I’ve been popping into the local Cambridge ones daily and nothing on the shelves. Also been checking out Argos who I’d heard had been selling it, but not in stock alas.
For the record, GAME here completely broke street date. And also it’s a fun game, especially to play with girlfriend.
I guess I’ll throw in on The Line and say… it really wasn’t that good. The show had a high amount of repetition, and given it was given a 2 hour block, that really wore thin quickly. The hosts didn’t add anything of note to me, and the contestants just didn’t do anything to me. It is weird to see them trying to sell these personal stories for people who will be on screen for approximately 4 minutes max. They did these mini-games which could send you to the front or the back of the line, which struck me as unfair just because it seemed to deal some bad hands for no reason. The money was ok but nothing special generally speaking.
I get why GSN burned this off on December 23rd now: it just didn’t feel good enough for anything else.
Basically precisely in line with expectation really.