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Bullseye: The Board Game

This in theory should be very good. After all, everyone likes and remembers Bullseye don't they? So what do you get for your £15?

Well for starters you get a double sided magnetic dartboard and six magnetic darts. On one side, a normal dartboard pattern, on the other, a representation of the category board for round one. You're meant to hang the board up, but this is rather hampered by its wrap-up style. It's very difficult to get it to hang flat, and you need a pin that juts out about an inch to hang it from.

The category board works quite well. You have enough questions to last 51 games without repetition. Like on the show, one partner picks a category and the other partner tries to hit it on the board. Instead of flashing lights, you turn over cards to represent categories going. Sadly, there is only one level of difficulty to the questions rather than the easy £30, medium £50 and difficult £100 questions of the show (they're pretty medium).

Round two is pounds for points, and you can pretend to do the board revolve sound on the telly if you want. This plays exactly the same as on the show - there is a seperate deck of question cards for this general knowledge portion, but only enough for 22 games, bafflingly.

Round three is the prize board, and this works a little differently to the show. Five beds on the normal dartboard are coloured red, and the six prizes on offer are attained by landing in them or in the bullseye (Bully's Special Prize). You pick one special prize card for each bed. The host then reads out what's in each bed (although "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiin sixteen!" rather lacks the ring of the originals). Each prize is worth a certain amount. The team in the lead after round two gets first crack at the prizes, three darts each. The value of the prizes are added to the score. Anything left over can be won by the next highest team and so on until everyone's had a go or all the prizes are won.

Finally it's Bully's Prize Gamble, bu it isn't much of a gamble. The team with the most money get first crack at 101 or more in six darts to win what's behind Bully's Prize Board. Succeed, and the prize on the back of the card is theirs. Lose, and the next team down the line have a go. Given the value of the star prize, the rest of the game decides the order that everyone gets a crack at it, as invariably the star prize is worth much more cash than the rest of the prizes.

So it's quite faithful to the show whilst make a few neat concessions to the fact it's a home game. The game's big problem really is that everyone is really rubbish at darts. Seriously. And this is quite important when it's most of the game. Still, as long as one of you can convincingly "Bowen-it-up", you'll probably still have some fun.

Magnetic dart boards cost about a tenner. Most aren't double sided though.