Pointless Board Game

We are big fans of the show and bought this for Christmas thinking it would be as amusing as Richard and Zander but it is too complicated and none of us can be bothered to play it. In fact we have only played it once and that is all. What a waste of money. The problem lies in the translation from the telly format to board game; it has been poorly thought out and ill-conceived. Don't bother with this one, wait until they bring out a DVD version. Alternatively if you are looking for a nice family board game, try  Sequence Board Game which is easy to understand and play, or for a Q&A board game, dust off your Trivial Persuit. Sequence Board Game

Great game but don't expect it to be same format as the tv show series. Box and all question cards and accessories have a high finish surface, the box slots would benefit from being able to prop cards erect during play (rather than a slippery pile) There is an Extra addition of an app for phone or tablet to display interactive countdown stack during scoring. Note: If you are the quiz master and accidentally b type a wrong score number to an answer given by a player into the phone app - there is no undo button to change it but you don't have to use the phone facility.

It's a bit lo-fi and the questions can seem a bit too familiar (no one wants to try and remember the answers from the TV show, they want new questions!), but the format works pretty well. Unlike a lot of games, you don't have to give up hope after the first couple of rounds as you're still usually in with a chance of winning even if you've been outplayed this far. Well either that, or you get knocked out and get to do your Xander/Richard impressions as question master for the remainder.

Kept a few of us occupied for an hour or so, but not a game that will be brought out time and time again...

Well thought out version of the Pointless quiz show with each round mimicking it's TV counterpart nicely. The rules took a few minutes to decipher, but after a trial run it all fell into place and was good fun, including my wife doing the sound effects as she moved the counters around. It would probably work better as a video game, but as it doesn't exist other than as a single player phone app this is the next best thing to being on the show.