Saturday, 7:15pm UK / 8:15pm Europe
ProSieben or naughty internet streaming
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This year we’ve already had a postponement and a cancellation (which happened to coincide with a Saturday I couldn’t do and Lewis Murphy moving country. Coincidence? It seems unlikely.) but THIS SATURDAY Raab IS BACK and there’s €1.5m on the line if a member of the public can best him over fifteen mystery challenges. German Eurovision hopeful Ann Sophie and Stefanie Heinzmann provide the musical entertainment.
And again Bother’s Bar will be providing a live English commentary service throughout the evening, and during the boring bits there will be quizzes by TV legends David Bodycombe and Daniel Peake.
We’re likely to be around for five or six hours so do listen in and tweet us.
Here is our commentary stream. This stream is commentary only. You will need to have a naughty stream running at the same time for the visuals. We are likely to be about 15-20 seconds behind the visual stream (and about a full minute behind if you’re watching an actual satellite feed), sorry.
This is the stream we will be watching.
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Tschüß!
Since I saw you speculating on the Twitter, yesterday’s daytime ratings:
Pointless 2.68m (25.9%)
Paul O’Grady 1.47m (15.0%)
Tipping Point 1.45m (21.6%)
Eggheads 0.97m (7.5%)
Rinder 0.75m (17.3%)
Dickinson’s Real Deal 0.71m (14.6%)
Decimate 0.62m (13.3%)
Coach Trip 0.61m (5.6%)
Four in a Bed 0.57 (6.5%)
Live Snooker 0.43m (6.1%)
Come Dine With Me 0.40m (6.0%)
Deal or No Deal 0.31m (6.3%)
Countdown 0.30m (7.1%)
Appreciated, thanks Paul.
the definitive title of the Italian edition of “Who’s Still Standing?” is going to be “Caduta Libera” (“Freefall”)
Quick point of clarification – In the game Ubongo on tonight’s Schlag, they were actually playing Ubongo 3d, not Ubongo. Ubongo is basically tangrams but more square based, Ubongo 3d adds the two layer thing. I’d have tweeted it at the time but I didn’t know until I just looked it up for other reasons, and my twitter client seemed to break a couple of hours into proceedings.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/46396/ubongo-3d and https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16986/ubongo for reference.
Will you be putting up the quizzy bonus bits like last time?
Yes probably, but I’m currently hugely busy with work so it might take a while.
David, I loved your board of questions you were playing – had you written those yourself of borrowed them from somewhere else?
Borrowed from here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drumond-Park-1660-Shout-Game/dp/B00JJOCGB4/ref=sr_1_1?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1430068702&sr=1-1&keywords=shout
You get a lot of game for your money – 300+ sets of questions for £14 can’t be sniffed at.
The TENSION-FILLED, BRILLIANTLY BALANCED format tweak was mine. In the original, one team gets a minute to solve as many of the questions as possible. And I think that’s it – you just take turns.
I was idly thinking in my head I wonder if there is any merit in a rule where if your opponent can’t pick up at least one of the missing ones, the first player gets all ten points regardless.
That was a good tweak, (not just because it helped me win with the anagrams 😀 )
I’ve been considering going to a local charity shop before each SdR and buying and old board game and playing a game with those questions. May do that next time – we’ll see!
Very small review/explanation of those motorised balance board things they used on Saturday in the fourth part of this week’s Gadget Show
In other news yesterday (27th Apr), under the radar, DoND had it’s best ever opening round – the lowest 4 and £100