Tragic Peculiar posted:I wish I could go on holiday in a giant hat. Dammit beaten to it!
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Jan 30, 2012 01:54
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Mickolution posted:How does it work? I've not got it with me at university and we only played it once so my recollection is hazy so if I'm wrong I'm sorry. The players are all one team, like on the tv show and each of you takes it in turn to answer questions on a specific category and you pick the egghead you want to face. You answer the question and you turn it over to see if got it right, and if the egghead did. If you beat the egghead in your head to head then you are in the final, if not take a seat chump. After doing that for each egghead you get to the final where the number of questions you have to answer correctly in a row to win is based on the number of Eggheads left, if you do that then your (the human) team wins. The end. Looking on the internet it seems they've introduced a new version that looks less poo poo but I don't have that, as I only get my TV show board games from charity shops. So far my collection is small but growing. Others to avoid: Who wants to be a Millionaire? (No tension/interest in playing that at all, you might as well be reading out random quiz questions off the internet)and QI (the rules are a bit complicated, especially if you try and use the buzzer, and because of the multiple choice nature of it you can normally spot the dodgy answers that lose you points quite easily) I've got my fingers crossed that the Noel's House Party game I picked up in Age Concern for £3 is half decent but I've yet to convince anyone to give it a go!
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Jan 30, 2012 01:56
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How does the egghead answer? Think I picked up Who Wants To Be A Millionaire years ago for cheap. IIRC, just played it a couple of times.
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Jan 30, 2012 02:04
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Mickolution posted:How does the egghead answer? On the back of your card it just has a tick or a cross telling you if the Egghead got it right or not. Also another annoying thing for some people is you have to be super careful about how you put the cards back, because once you mix up the Egghead cards it can be a total fucker to sort them all back in to the proper boxes.
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Jan 30, 2012 02:06
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Jesus, that sounds terrible. I assume they get most of theirs right?
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Jan 30, 2012 02:19
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Mickolution posted:Jesus, that sounds terrible. I assume they get most of theirs right? Yep, the vast majority. I mean, I know its a game about Eggheads and you can't really have the Eggheads come round to everyone's house to play any time someone opens the box, but there has to be a way to get the players more interested in a game than simply "yes/no" on the back of a card. By far the best quiz show board game is Blockbusters, since you are split in to two teams and there's a bit of strategy involved too. Plus if you get the 80s version you get to answer some wonderfully outdated questions, my personal favourite is "What G is divided in to two and produces sauerkraut?" Germany And whilst its not strictly TV chat, I do love the old Trivial Pursuit questions where you are asked "What presenter brought some colour to Tiswas?" Lenny Henry oh the 80s, how innocent a time you were...
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Jan 30, 2012 02:31
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The only way I can see Eggheads working would be a DVD or computer game where they actually asked them the questions and it comes up on screen like on the show. A lot of work for them, though. I had that Blockbusters one when I was a kid but completely forgot about it until you mentioned it. Loved it. Had Wheel of Fortune too, which was fun.
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Jan 30, 2012 03:05
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Alan BStard posted:And whilst its not strictly TV chat, I do love the old Trivial Pursuit questions where you are asked "What presenter brought some colour to Tiswas?" Lenny Henry oh the 80s, how innocent a time you were...
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Jan 30, 2012 03:36
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Mickolution posted:The only way I can see Eggheads working would be a DVD or computer game where they actually asked them the questions and it comes up on screen like on the show. A lot of work for them, though. They have Eggheads on quiz machines in pubs which is basically this, it's literally impossible to win though. And CJ and Judith get a disproportionate amount of questions right.
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Jan 30, 2012 03:38
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Alan BStard posted:By far the best quiz show board game is Blockbusters... I've really indulged in Challenge's recent lineup of back-to-back Blockbusters, but it makes me wonder about the remake they're planning.
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Jan 30, 2012 08:39
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Paperhouse posted:I played an 80s version of Trivial Pursuit a few weeks ago with some friends, average age of about 21. It took us about 7 hours. Great fun though When I was living in Spain I played an 80s SPANISH version of Trivial Persuit. Completely impossible.
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Jan 30, 2012 11:24
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There's an Irish version that was available here a few years ago, but instead of the questions having an Irish slant (the ones that I find trickiest are the questions on UK rivers and the like), every drat question was about something Irish. Terrible.
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Jan 30, 2012 13:18
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With the 80s Trivial Pursuit I'm quite good on everything that isn't Entertainment, I just leave that wedge until last and hope something/one who is still famous crops up like David Bowie. I found the 80s/90s TV edition and I had no idea why I expected to have fun playing that. If anyone else finds themselves playing it, my protip is to always guess Russ Abbott.
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Jan 30, 2012 13:23
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reality_groove posted:
I love that it gives them an option of 2 question topics, to convince them it was their choice if it's really hard/stupid.
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Jan 30, 2012 13:51
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The Chasers could eat the Eggheads for breakfast.
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Jan 30, 2012 19:21
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So I'm half way through the new episode of skins and I still haven't seen any PLOT. e: Oh there it is at :43 e2: What the gently caress did I just watch? u fink u hard Percy fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 30, 2012 |
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Jan 30, 2012 19:23
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Jonnty posted:The last question was about some chapeau in France she'd been to the year before or something awful like that. One can go to a hat?
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Jan 30, 2012 19:27
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New series of Whitechapel starts tonight. Watch the first one if you haven't had the chance!
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Jan 30, 2012 19:28
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Quanta posted:New series of Whitechapel starts tonight. Watch the first one if you haven't had the chance! The first two, you mean.
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Jan 30, 2012 19:30
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Gram-O-Phone posted:The Chasers could eat the Eggheads for breakfast.  
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Jan 30, 2012 19:31
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  (..and the new one not in the photo)
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Jan 30, 2012 19:43
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feedmegin posted:One can go to a hat? Hahaha, I obviously(?) mean "chateau."
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Jan 30, 2012 19:52
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Gram-O-Phone posted:
New idea for Channel 5, Bradley Walsh: Stumpy gently caress. In which Bradley travels around the UK seaside resorts visiting other tiny light entertainment stars from years past to see if they'll degrade themselves for £50. This week David "Diddy" Hamilton. I can't believe Channel 4 haven't brought back Fifteen to One yet, it was the best quiz show they had for years.
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Jan 30, 2012 20:08
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Gram-O-Phone posted:
I love Anne! The new guy is a bit crap compared to the other 3. Oh and in other news America is remaking Only Fools and Horses: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16796364
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Jan 30, 2012 20:09
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Flatscan posted:The first two, you mean. I thought the second was pretty crap, sadly.
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Jan 30, 2012 20:11
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Quanta posted:I thought the second was pretty crap, sadly. It wasn't great, but then the Krays have been done to loving death in every medium imaginable so it's a bit hard to come up with something entertaining let alone new. I just watched the preview for tonight's episode, which looks good even if it is reminiscent of an episode from the last series of Luther.
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Jan 30, 2012 20:15
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Giedroyc posted:New idea for Channel 5, Bradley Walsh: Stumpy gently caress. In which Bradley travels around the UK seaside resorts visiting other tiny light entertainment stars from years past to see if they'll degrade themselves for £50. This week David "Diddy" Hamilton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmwGFX5pgXw I trust we've all seen this. Peak Walsh.
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Jan 30, 2012 20:22
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I just had the misfortune of watching "A question of taste" on BBC2. Jesus, that is the worst quiz show I have ever seen. It does not have a single redeeming feature.
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Jan 30, 2012 21:03
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Giedroyc posted:New idea for Channel 5, Bradley Walsh: Stumpy gently caress. In which Bradley travels around the UK seaside resorts visiting other tiny light entertainment stars from years past to see if they'll degrade themselves for £50. This week David "Diddy" Hamilton. Sounds like a 'celebrity' version of Wudja Cudja.
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Jan 30, 2012 21:13
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Paxo just said "Don Quick-sote" on University Challenge 
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Jan 30, 2012 21:19
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Some of the rhymes in the original only work if you pronounce it that way.
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Jan 30, 2012 21:22
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I'm looking forward to Whitechapel, although the last series wasn't as good as the first. I'm still bitter about them killing off McCormack. 6 episodes this time, apparently, with two different stories.
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Jan 30, 2012 21:24
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Manchester Burke is annoying / amazing... poor Newcastle Turner 
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Jan 30, 2012 21:27
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This has been a somewhat better episode of The Royal Bodyguard than usual (I just keep watching it for some reason). It's nice to see a bit of a divergence from the usual routine format. Still not the BBC's best comedy by a long shot, but the best episode of this since the Christmas one.
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Jan 30, 2012 22:28
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goatface posted:Some of the rhymes in the original only work if you pronounce it that way. Are you not thinking of another Don? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_%28Byron%29#Pronunciation
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Jan 30, 2012 22:31
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What did everyone think of Bird Song then? I enjoyed it, but I cannot remember a thing about the book so I don't know how true it was to it.
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Jan 31, 2012 00:34
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goatface posted:Some of the rhymes in the original only work if you pronounce it that way. It's a prose book (and x was nothing like a ck sound in then current spanish)
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Jan 31, 2012 00:42
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I saw a documentary many years ago that did something like this. It should that experiment where you get people to count basketball passes on a video, and they nearly all miss the guy in a gorilla-suit who walks across the screen. It ends with the presenter giving a really smug "don't believe us? how many times did you spot him" a montage of all the times the same gorilla man had appeared through the documentary, in really obvious places. It was awesome. Not TV related, but you should read the book "the invisible gorilla" by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/
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Jan 31, 2012 01:07
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Giedroyc posted:I can't believe Channel 4 haven't brought back Fifteen to One yet, it was the best quiz show they had for years. For realsies. 15 to 1 was the true gem of the channel 4 afternoon schedule. Countdown is overrated.
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Jan 31, 2012 02:10
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's a prose book (and x was nothing like a ck sound in then current spanish) There's plenty of poetry in the book, I'm sure I remember some of it only working like that. It's possibly just the translation I was reading deciding on an English pronunciation with a hard x, like has ended up in quixotic. Not sure about why Paxman chose that pronunciation though, especially when talking about a French version which probably would have spelt and pronounced it differently again.
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Jan 31, 2012 02:14
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