Pointless Board Game

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.

The concept is the same at the tv show - try to get a correct answer that as few of the 100 people asked could come up with. There is a broad range of topics making it a good multi-generational family game rather than a game where one person wins all the time. The rules and scoring are a little complicated as every round has a different format of question and a different way of establishing who is eliminated. It's certainly not too complicated for the game to be fun, but we did need to keep checking back to the instructions. Not my favourite board game (I'm a bit of a board game geek), but good for playing with people who aren't huge board-gamers as the concept is easy to grasp (especially if they have seen the progamme) and you can get through a game in under an hour.

played this a lot over xmas. Obviously cant be like the show but still entertaining if you are a fan. younger kids under 10 got bored after a while

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 Gamewhich is easy to understand and play, or for a Q&A board game, dust off your Trivial Persuit.

This game is very entertaining and you can play with only 2 players although it is more exciting with more. The questions can be quite tough but that adds to the fun as you can't just pick a category you're good at! Very good value for money and the questions are also very up to date and there's plenty of them for many games!

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.

Very like the tv game, and fun to the end. Everybody has a chance to win to the last question, with no elimination of participants. can be played with up to 4 players or 4 teams, or more if you don't bother with the scoreboard. Each team can keep its own score or you can have one scorer. The question master rotates so everyone plays.And we allow conferring at all times, it's more fun. Although a timer comes in handy when people take it too seriously!

My family and I love the game show so I thought it would be a good christmas present we did play it and the rules are slightly complicated but once you get your head around them it's an amazing game, you can also just use the cards as a quiz without the whole board game which is just as fun.