In the UK there was the modern champions of TV games, The Chase and Pointless.  They was so dominant that opposing channels just  would throw anything at the wall to see what would even make a dent in the competition.

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In fact, it was so hard, that ITV just threw a game show out there, with no expectations.

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A giant hourglass, a ton of mini-games...

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And what did their brainstorm get?  A very stressfu!, but FANTASTIC and underappreciated gameshow.

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Two players worked as  a team... one player picked the categories and the teammate had to give 5 correct answers in a minigame  while an hourglass drained, and costs you money as it happened.

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Well, we don't have a giant hourglass, we don't have a stop-button, but we do have the ability to throw some mini-games together that you'll see at the start of some of our various episodes, sort of a "pre-show" to the main show..

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CURRENTLY IN USE

(AS YOU CAN SEE, A LOT IS RUNNING AS POSSIBLES)

 

We've adapted two variants of the subgames from 5 Minutes to a Fortune in a modified version to work with the "Flashcards" set of games

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GAME #1:  REFLECTIONS

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Words that have been shown in a mirror reflection format, but you didn't necessarily give the word but a topic associated with the word.  (Such as an opposite or the city of a professional sports team).

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GAME #2   FOLLOWING LETTERS

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Words related to a topic will be shown, but will be spelled out with either the preceding or following letters of the alphabet.  

 

Example Topic:   New York Boroughs:   PTDDMT =  QUEENS

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GAME #3:  PHONE DIALER

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Famous fictional Addresses:   22537 787338

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On the show ,contestants would be told a word and have to spell it out using only the numbers on a phone-type keyboard.  On ours, we'll show you the mystery number, which you'll have to decode.

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22537 787338 =  Baker Street
 

GAME #4:  DOUBLE DEFINITIONS

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A two word phrase is put together, but the players only see the definitions for each of the two words.    By only seeing the definitions, the players will have to identify the two word phrases.

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GAME #5:  MATH EQUATIONS

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Two partial titles will be shown around a math equation, and the correct answer is the resulting answer of the mathematical equation.    For Example:   ?  Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) / The ? Towers (Tolkein) = 20000/2 = 10000

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We've worked out the kinks and have this one available, but trying to find some hard clues to make it tougher than it currently is.

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GAME #6:  FLM CRDTS

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This would be a game of scrolling lists, similar to movie credits.  A series of characters, actors and a director will scroll up the screen at a rapid click.  The actors will be completely identifiable, but all the vowels will be removed from the actors name.   Simply name the film and move on.

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GAME #7:  SCRABMLED SLOGANS

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TISKATEACKLINGIDNASEPEKNOCITKNGI

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It's a game about advertising slogans and sentences.  All the words in a slogan will have their letters scrambled, with the spaces removed between words, but the words left in correct order.  A series of possible companies for that slogan will appear (but with the same scrambled words/spaces rules applied).   Name the correct company for the slogan and you get it right.

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It Takes a Licking and keeps on Ticking:   TIMEX!

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GAME #8:  FIRST LETTERS

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Do you know all the parts of a car?  Sure..  What if we spelled it out for you... of course, you'd know what we were looking for.  But what if we told you we spelled it out using the first letters of elements of the periodic table?  (Boron-Rhodium-Argon-Krypton-Einsteinium?)  A little tougher?   But doable.  but what if we only identified those elements by their number on the periodic chart?   (#5 - #45 - #18 - #38 - #99).  Now we're getting somewhere!

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Our first run was good, but the topic was as said by many "too easy".. so we're trying to figure out what to ramp it up using.

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STILL DEBATING HOW TO USE

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GAME #B:  EYE CHART

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A variety of definitions will be supplied in which the answers will be abbreviations, that will be shown in a very large "eye chart" format.

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Readability will be our primary concern on this one, but we think it might be doable.

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GAME #D:  WELL READ

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A pair of pages from a book will be shown, which will contain the answers to a variety of trivia questions.    We are definitely considering bumping this up our list of available games.   Note that this will likely include some of our hardest question, but we still have to work on readability.

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GAME #E:   MAD GABS

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We have a slight version of this created, but we're not satisfied with the settings, but this one will be worked on eventually.

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GAME #F:   OPPOSITES

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Again, we have this on a much simpler version at the moment, but we we're working on the settings and view to improve this one.

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NOT PLANNED ON BEING USED

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DUE TO GRAPHICAL REQUIREMENTS

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FACIAL REPLACEMENT

A photo of an individual will either be covered or replaced with another face.

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SPLIT PERSONALITY

Two photos are merged into a single photo with one player on the left, one on the right.

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COLOR WORDS

Words must be answered by supplying them in sequence by their colors not by their words.  

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PASSPORT

Identify a country by a passport stamp.

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SILHOUETTES

Images of items/people.  

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STORE SHOP WINDOWS

A store shop window with various items related to a person or persons in a category.

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TECHINCAL/LAYOUT ISSUES

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WORD SPELLING

Answers must actually be spelled out with words that fit a category.  Due to our show  being chat based,  we're not sure this technically possible with our current set up, as much as we would LOVE to get this one working.

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MAP GEOGRAPHY

A map with a city marked off and a quick fact/question about said city.   Not sure this one will be easy to set up to cover all possible cities.

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TOO EASY OR NOT DESIGNED FOR CHAT GAMES

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 REVERSE SPELLING  

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Answers must be given in the reverse spelling of their words.   This may fall into the NOT USED category due to the (in our opinion) simplicity on the chat lines.

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ALPHABETIC ORDER

Numbers must be put in alphabetical order. This one just simply won't work for a chat game.

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