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On each episode, contestants answer a series of questions that were put to 100 members of the general public in a previously conducted online survey, which had a time limit of 100 seconds. Series 2 saw audiences grow modestly; the format was tweaked prior to the start of Series 3, reducing the number of rounds and giving more time for banter between the hosts which had previously been edited out.

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Although the round follows a similar style to that of the "Possible Answers" format, there is no guarantee that contestants may find a pointless answer from within the list.Following a news-themed edition of Pointless Celebrities which aired on 27 October 2014, several fans criticised the presence of former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, who was responsible for the newspaper's infamous front-page report concerning the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Osman then approached comedian Alexander Armstrong to be the main presenter; the two men had been peers during their university days. New questions, new rules, and the opportunity to have the infamous electronic scoreboard on your smart phone or tablet. A pilot episode presented by Alison Sweeney as her assistant was Doug Mirabello was produced by Endemol Shine America and never aired.

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The game begins with two Elimination Rounds, in which teams must achieve as low a score as possible. Osman retired from co-presenting the main series in 2022, but he still co-presents Pointless Celebrities. Once a question is asked at the start of a round, the contestants are given details as to what constitutes a valid answer. This format allowed categories to be used in which no commonly agreed definitive list of correct answers might exist.Osman responded to this criticism with at least twenty comments on Twitter, stating that he had not known MacKenzie would appear until "about an hour before" recording, and that he had "strongly argued against it". We've never changed it, but have always done it in the same way, which is slightly shoddy, enjoying ourselves. They must specify which question they are attempting with each of their three answers and can only win the jackpot if any answer is pointless for its nominated question. An offshoot of the show entitled Pointless Celebrities was first shown in 2011 and as of April2022 [update] had reached series 15. This is the perfect companion to the Pointless board Game, allowing you to recreate this top BBC 1 quiz in your own living room.

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As of April2023 [update], the programme is airing its 29th series [1] and has had peak audience figures of over 7 million viewers. In some cases, the pictures have some of the letters in their correct answers filled in and/or serve as clues to items that must be named. It is played between the second elimination round and the head-to-head and is similar to the previously retired "Possible Answers" format. Series 2 to 5 – Both teams compete in a multi-question best-of contest; best-of-five for the Series 2 and best-of-three from the Series 3.Any correct answers the survey didn't think of are Pointless answers and therefore awarded a most desirable zero points. Questions follow one of three formats: Picture Board (occasionally using sound cues or with some letters of the correct answer filled in); Clues and Answers; or answers that have been scrambled/anagrammed or had some of their letters removed.

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In Series 1, this format was used three times in this round, before subsequent episodes used it no more than once. It comes with 341 questions, 27 Pointless trophy tokens, 9 head-to-head tokens, 8 playing pieces, 4 pencils, 3 question card holders, playing board, Pointless trophy and answer pad.As in "Clues and Answers," a new board is played on each pass, and an incorrect guess leaves that item available to opponents. As of Series 25, the most common format for the elimination rounds involves "Clues and Answers" for one and either "Open-Ended" or "Picture Board" for the other. Teams of two contestants attempt to provide answers that are not only correct, but also as obscure as possible. Once a question or pass is complete, depending on the specific format of the round, any remaining pointless answers are stated along with the high-scoring answers given in the survey, usually the top three.