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Beat the Brain - BBC Two
Paul_Culloty
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Hosted by John Craven, it at least freshens up the quiz format by working different mental skills. Personally, I scored best on Observation and Language, but others might well have done better on Memory.
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Sorry you beat me to it, you probably posted yours whilst I was searching for a thread with no result. So I posted mine.
Different perceptions of this programme though.
Will give the first episode a watch later. No general knowledge apparently so that seems a bit different.
Expect I'll get used to it though.
Great idea though.
I've just watched yesterday's episode on iPlayer and think it's a good concept for a quiz show without general knowledge questions. I found Language and Observation the easier rounds but struggled in Memory with the noughts and crosses game (the colour sequence was a bit easier) and both the games in the Multi-Tasking round - the on/off the bus one was a nightmare!.
I find the voice of the Brain entertaining - it's Josie Lawrence, so she should be quick with off-the-cuff banter with contestants. Overall, I liked the format and will watch today's game to see if it continues to impress. I get the feeling it may depend very much on the likeability of the participating teams and on how much the games are varied.
Me too, but then, I am colourblind, so at a slight disadvantage on that one
I suppose some of the questions could be interesting (the numberplate observation thing was too simple though). However the whole format with the talking brain and so on was too children's TV for me, I'm afraid.
Still it seems to appeal to some - we are all different
I lasted about ten minutes too. I do usually like this type of quiz show but I felt that i had seen this all before and dissapointingly lost interest very quickly.
When i've done apptitude test etc. in the past it's always come out as me being best concentrating on a task at a time yet in this show the multi-tasking i've found to be the easiest overall.
Surely that's impossible as they have to answer 8 questions and the money pot is going down?
No. You get seconds for every question you get right in the main part of the show. If you get all your 8 questions right in the time you accumulated then you win the 3 Grand. They give you an extra 2 minutes, its when you start to get into that 2 mins that the cash goes down
So if you had 1 minute 50 seconds yourself and answered the 8 in that time you win the whole amount. If it takes you 2 mins 30 ( your time plus some of the 2 mins added ) then you get less.
Awful on the traffic lights.
You don't have to know anything about history, pop groups, football teams or anything else that doesn't interest you. Just exercise your brain.
Even the more intelligent quizzes like 'Mastermind' and 'University Challenge' rely on knowledge and recall. 'Only Connect' does to some extent, but that extends what you know into brain work.
I'm not too good on remembering a list of what I've just been told or just seen - I'd fail that part of the dementia test - so I was hopeless at remembering the sequence of colours, for instance, but great at observe, count, calculate and spot the differences.
It's a bit like the old IQ tests, now discredited as proving nothing.
I hope it proves successful, but would prefer it to be around the 8 pm time slot.
As for people not talking about it, time slot could be one reason and it's something where you have to think rather than just laugh at the answers given on shows like 'Pointless', even when you don't know the answer yourself. You can't just sit back and watch 'Beat the Brain', you automatically join in (at least I had to) and maybe that's not what the majority of viewers want.
I think it's getting into its stride (or I'm getting used to it), and the talking flirtatious brain (which is obviously Meera Syal, isn't it?) makes me laugh.
Funny to see John Craven back at tea time though, it's like being transported back to 1975. Maybe that's why I like it.
It took me a while to twig, but in the main the coins are exactly the same apart from just one, so it's easy to home in on the difference and you don't actually have to add them all up. Although I think for maybe the third one in each set of three they mix it up a bit.
I'm still not quite clear on how the traffic lights game works. Are you supposed to count the number of sets of lights, or the number of individual ones, or what...? It's always over too quickly or me to be sure.