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You Say We Pay
There isn't one! Although there's a sticker on the front that says "As seen on The Richard and Judy Show, the hugely successful quiz from the UK's favourite TV couple." Hang on a minute! That's Ant and Dec, surely? How does it work? You begin by choosing your mode, On Your Own (in which case the person in the hotseat chooses a player to give them the clues - quite correctly there's no one player mode here really, it demands people), Two's Company (the best mode in terms of pure gameplay we think, you play in teams of two, although it's a pretty easy game to just adapt for more) and Crowded House (where everyone offers clues to the person in the hotseat). You'll play a four round game, with rounds seemingly randomly chosen. The most important one and the one that will come up the most is the classic You Say We Pay game - one contestant sits so they can't see the telly whilst others give clues to the thing on screen. You have a maximum of ten seconds to describe each one, and sixty seconds total for the round. Just like on telly, when the sixty seconds runs out you can have the rest of the ten seconds to finish the one you're on (which I'm guessing is the game's equivilent to Richard going "ooh go on we were rubbish you can have another one"). You tell it when you've got one, when you want to pass or when you have made a mistake by pressing an arrow key on the remote, which is always in big type on screen so you can't get lost. Other modes include acting things out and doing impressions. There's also a "Go Fetch" game, where you're shown things and have to run around the house to find them and bring them back before time runs out (you remember The Main Event, don't you?) . Richard and Judy keep score. Is it good? It's a laugh riot, put simply. If you buy this, you WILL have fun. It's been scripted for people who probably don't know what a game or what a DVD player is in mind, but don't worry, you can rest assured the Richard and Judy intermarital banter has made it in. Good. The games are pretty self-explanitory except for Go Fetch (which is a fun game, but actually doesn't fit in too well with the spirit of the DVD) so no problems there. Playing the game itself works like a dream - people describe, one person in charge of the remote pushes the button to tell the machine whether you're correct or not. It's surprisingly horrifically intense. The only real big flaw on the horizon is that I'm unsure how many different objects there are up for description - during a game of Best Impressions we had a large amount of repeats. Despite this, if you're the sort of person who has access to lots of people (And it really is no good on your own, we reckon four players minimum to get the most laughs out of it), we think this is the sort of thing you might break out for a drunken game of when you can't be bothered to set up Articulate. It's almost certainly the sort of thing that will go down well after Christmas dinner. Pity there's no Midday Money coming out. |
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