I do love a board game! So today I have a copy of the Pointless game from University Games available to give away to one of my lucky readers….
Can you name a country beginning with the letter M that no one else would think of? How about Mali or Micronesia? Can you think of a character from Toy Story that nobody else would remember? We all know Buzz Lightyear, but who remembers Wheezy the penguin? Put your obscure and pointless knowledge to the test with this board game version of the popular BBC2 quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong. Fight against your natural instincts as you try to score the least number of points by guessing the least popular answers to general knowledge questions.
In Pointless a series of questions is presented to the players. These questions have also been surveyed to a group of 100 other people. It’s the players’ job to think of an answer that is not only correct, but also the least popular among those surveyed. For example, if the question asks you to name a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Titanic is not a good answer as 88 people in the survey gave this. Anybody who says The Man in the Iron Mask gets a much better score of 6 points. Any correct answers the survey didn’t think of are Pointless answers and award a most desirable zero points. Who will carry off the Pointless trophy among your family and friends?
For 2 to 4 players or teams and ages 10 and up.
Competition
I have a Pointless board game up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning it, enter using the rafflecopter below. The competition is open to UK entrants only and closes at 12am 15th July 2016.
What appeals to you about this game?
I enjoy watching Pointless on tv so this game appeals to me very much!
I love that it tests your brain and would be a fun family game x
I love watching Pointless on TV with my father in law x
like watching pointless on tv , the game should be as good
Could play this board game at home. Which would be great fun, as my fiancé really enjoys watching Pointless on TV.
me and the hubby compete when we watch the show so we could actually play for real
I’ve been on the show and love it
Oh! I do hope that whomever wins this game has loads of fun. It sounds so very exciting and different; however, I’m afraid my husband would win as he is full of tons of “pointless” knowledge. For example, the question about Leonardo Di Caprio had me thinking of the movie “Catch Me if You Can” and he responded with “The Beach.” To end my “pointless” ramblings, I was wondering if the game is ink available for purchase in the UK. It dies sound like something our family would really enjoy. Thank you in advance and much luck to all. ?Kimberlye?
He sounds good at this! I’m not sure whether it is, I’m afraid. It’s a University Games game, so perhaps try them over there?
I like the TV show
I really enjoy playing along with pointless at home when i watch it so i think the game would be great 🙂
looks fun to play with a large group
I love trivia! The TV show is absolutely awesome and addictive haha 🙂
It is a great game for the whole family to play x
great game
The fun you can have with the family
The fun you can have as a family xx
The fun you can have as a family xx
looks a fun game to play with the family, enjoy the show
I do enjoy the programme, so i bet the game is just as much fun, its using words which i enjoy
This game appeals to me because i enjoy watching the show and i love board games!
I love watching Pointless om the TV (i think i have a bit of a crush on Alexander Armstrong!) and also we often have games nights with our friends (2 other couples) so this would be perfect for our next one! Fingers Crossed!
everything we love it on tv
We enjoy watching the TV show 🙂
love this programme
I love the sound of this game – it sounds really original and lots of fun, one that all the family can play!
I love board games and I like the Tv show.
The smartphone compatibility.
I love playing along when I’m watching it, and I’ve always wanted to go on the actual show because I always seem to get the pointless answer! So this appeals to me very much, and the whole family can play!
I love the show!
I like watching Pointless but would never be good enough to appear on the show. This would be a nice substitute.
It looks great fun!
i like that you can play it as a family x
I enjoy playing along, and the repartee between Xander and Richard. Has improved my knowledge on certain categories.
I would love this as its our favourite teatime show, I’m sure we would get very competitive!
We love watching the show so it appeals the chance to play it ourselves!
Anything which would appeal to family members across the age ranges has got to be a winner when we have get togethers, Ages range from 10 – 86.
Love the show,this looks a brilliant game many hours of fun ahead
I like that my eldest daughter would be able to join in 🙂 I really enjoy Pointless so I think this would be good fun!
I love the show, and the game sounds fun too x
I love the tv show so would like to play this!
That the whole family can play it together
I love the show, would love to play it at home
Pointless is very entertaining
I love pointless on TV so would love this game?
the categories and trying to get the lowest score
I like watching the TV show, and think it would translate well into a board game.
I’m a big fan of Pointless and would love to be able to play it at home
I love the tv show so this is great
You can use your phone
I love Pointless, always watch it & me and my family get very competitive 🙂 this boardgame would bring some very fun moments!
Love the banter between Xander and Richard, makes you wonder what they edit out.
I like this because it is so different from other games and would be great fun playing for the family -it would really test our knowledge !
we like the show so im guessing it would be a great board game
I love watching Pointless on TV would love to play with the whole family would be fun !
I love having a variety of board games, the TV programme is great, so hopefully this will be just as fun.
A test of your general knowledge
Love watching it but think it’d be great for family time!
I like watching the game on TV but think it’d be a good brain game to play at home with the family!
trying to think of correct but obscure answers
I love watching Pointless and I’d love a new game to bring out for family get togethers like Christmas!
it looks like it will be a laugh
I love the TV programme and always love trying to guess which would have been the `pointless` answer.
I love that you can get the whole family involved! x
This looks amazing!
Love ‘Pointless’ have been on as a contestant. Hope I do better in this competition than I did when I appeared!!
To challenge my husband with general knowledge (and hopefully win!)
i love watching the show with my partner, its the kind of game we would play, especially at christmas with the family
Always been a family fav of ours
We love the board games from our favourite tv shows xx
Think it would be a fun family game to play. We love watching the programme.
i love the pointless program!
I love the banter between Alexander and Richard. Think it was the main reason I started watching Pointless
I love watching Pointless on tv with the family, being able to play the board game would give us an excuse to get so involved in the question answering!
I like the game because I like the programme on telly.
Fab game!!
My fiancé and I were supposed to appear on the show a few years back, but due to unforseen circumstances we couldn’t attend. It would be lovely if we had the board game to play 🙂
I love quiz based games x
oh I love board games, unfortunately slightly more than the rest of the family, especially quiz based ones!
Oh, I do, too!
I love the pointless programme
I enjoy the TV show, so would love to try the game.
The fact that you can play together with a variety of ages
We have a game night every week with our friends and it would be so much fun to play with this 🙂
I really love the TV show so it would be fun to play this at home with the family
This is a perfect game for me as my friends alway say my mind is full of useless (pointless?) information 😉
I love watching the show so will be a novelty to play the board game
Looks like a great game for the whole family to play.
Just being able to play the TV Show at home with my family
I love watching pointless and always play along
I Love the TV show so will defo enjoy the game
We as a family love watching this game show and to have it as a board game would be amazing!!!!!
I love watching the game show on tv and I think this would be fun to play with family
We love watching it on television as a family and the game looks just as good!
love that you can play with your phone x
Sounds like a fab game 🙂 xx
Just the fact that I may be pretty good at it
The fact that I always shout along to the TV show!
I’m a hooge fan of the show 🙂
We love watching the game show
I love the tv show and my family get quite competitive watching it, this game version looks like good fun
I love watching Pointless on TV
i get to play the tv show…. at home!!
GREAT FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
I love watching the show and nothing better than good family board game
I love watching the show & it looks fun!!
I like the show and we love playing board games this looks fun
Learning something new. I’m also a huge fan of the show and have been watching iit from day one.
I watch the TV show now and again
I watch the show every day on TV so think this would be fun!
It looks like it would be a lot of fun to play with my nieces
I love pointless. How brilliant to be able to play as a game
We all love watching it so it would be great to try out the board game x
its very pointless like the tv programme ..love it
Love the show
I love a bit of obscure trivia!
This is a game that will really make you think! Great idea!
love the fact it makes you think about the answers, not a game of chance
love watching this show and playing along with it
We’re always playing along on the telly so this looks like fun!
I love watching the TV programme and trying to guess the answers, but it appeals to me because it’s a bit different from other games and also quite simply to understand. x
Would love to play the game I like to watch on TV
My daughter and I love watching the TV show so I’m sure we would love the board game x
Love the show
fun and competitive game to play with the whole family
I like the TV show so would love to give this game a go.
I watch it on tv and I’m rubbish maybe I will be better at this. Grandchildren watch out grandmas about
Love watching this with our 16 year old, this game would be a fab way to get him to interact with the family rather than a screen!!
I love the TV show so it will be fun to play it for real
i love the tv show i’m sure i’ll enjoy the game just as much 😀
This game really appeals to me as it I can imagine it making everyone laugh, I like the idea of it
A bit of fun for the family
I love watching the show and would like to play at home.
It gets your brain thinking
Love the tv show, so would love this game!
It’s our favourite game show on TV
Having seen it on TV I think it would be fun to play.
My father in law who is blind and son love this game on tv, I’m sure playing the board game would be fantastic for the whole family to play as quiz games are great for us all
It would be a nice way to pass the time insead of telly and wine,we could have knowledge and wine (and hopefully id win) 🙂
I love the TV show so the game would be fun
I like that you can use it with a phone or tablet
I love the show. It took over the spot from The Weakest Link and what tickled me most was the ironic way Armstrong bent over backwards to be nice to contestants – completely opposite to Anne Robinson. So having the game would be a lot of fun.
Love the TV show, so being able to play it at home is great!
I love watching this every weekday tea time, so the game would be great to play.
I enjoy watching the show on the tv and my son loves watching the numbers count down 🙂
Pointless is mine and my partners favourite gameshow to watch on TV. It’s so unique!
I love quizzes so this would test my knowledge
I always watch the TV show and play along at home!
I’m a quiz show addict and I love watching Pointless and playing along so this would be great!
i love the tv show
I love game show so bet the game is just as fun
I love watching pointless with my mum and answering the questions ( or trying to ) so this would be so much fun with family plus engaging my brain 🙂
i love board games and i am so competitive, it looks like a great fun game
I like watching it on TV so it sounds fun to play with family
That it’s a family game that we all play on TV
Love the tv programme and always have a go so the board game would be brilliant for me and my family to play
I really like the show so it would be fun to play it.
I think it would be really exciting!
we like watching the show so this this would make a great family game and get our brains working
we always play along as a family on the tv show so to be able to play the board game would be great the competativness would be brilliant
I love playing along with the tv show so would be great to play at home
Looks like a good game for when you have a few friends round.
We always watch the tv show so would love to play this at home
All the family enjoy watching Pointless together so the Boardgame would be great
love the show.
love general knowledge.
love quizzes.
love being competitive.
and unlike on the show, there might actually be a good chance to win with this!
we watch it on tv so I’m imagining it’s fun to play
I loved tv show 🙂
I like watching it on TV so I expect the board game will be good fun xxx
Who doesn’t love pointless I would love to have fun with my friends
I love the tv show and always play along, I could play with my family without the tv being on
I love the TV show, am pretty much addicted much to my family’s despair, and the game will be another fun way of keeping my brain working.
wow I did not know they did a board game version of this. We love this show. The game would be great, so we could play it ourselves. We could do it all together as a family.And plus not to mention the educational benefits.
I like to show and this looks a fun game, we love board games in our family
I love the tv programme!
We love watching the show and always think we can do better so would be great to give it a go 🙂
I love watching it on tv and it would be great for the family to play xx
bEING ABLE TO WIN MY PARTNER 🙂
Making memoires playing it, looks awesome
Its something that we can play as a family, I ievisage a lot of fun and laughs
Brilliant game
We all love the TV show, so we would love this game and I like the fact that it gets your brain working.
i LOVE this game! Such an original format of knowing obscure answers! And I like the fact that the board game plays along on a smart phone or tablet as well, so I can imagine that the answers are updated!
Because i’m a fan of the Pointless tv show and would love to give it a go
Definitely a game that makes you forget your first impressions and dig deep for that elusive answer. Great fun.
Great prize
Trying to think outside of the box really appeals
My other half does really well getting pointless or low scoring answers when we watch the programme. Me not so much. I could really do with the practice and the chance to revise (cheat 😉 )
I’ve played it at friends’ and it was really good fun. Love the TV programme too.
Our family love games that challenge our trivia- filled brains. We are also very competitive so I would enjoy beating them all 🙂
We love playing board games together as a family, and love watching quiz shows on TV! We always compete against each other when Pointless is on, so we would love the opportunity to play the game for ourselves!
It’s pointless, need I say more lol, no I love the show and am always shouting at the tv so this is perfect.
I love watching Pointless and I’m a great fan of quiz/board games.
I love the TV show so I would love to give this a go
love the gameshow, would love to play the board game
I love the fact that the whole family are together interacting playing our favourite tv game.
I love love love pointless…I want to apply to go on it but need some practice first…this board game would be perfect!
Would be great to play with family
I’ve seen the TV show and my family are getting tired of Uno 🙂
i love pointless and i’d love t be able to play it in my own house with my family!
learning new things as I play
I love watching this on telly, and my sons enjoy it too.
it’s pointless! lol