In case you’ve never actually seen it, the show – fronted by Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong – involves teams of two having to guess, through a series of rounds, correct but obscure answers to questions. Each question is grouped in an entertainingly-misleading category to keep everyone guessing–literally.

Weekly on Saturday evenings at 5:40. Episode 9 was first broadcast on a Thursday due to Christmas schedules. For instance, if the question is " name a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio"; Titanic is not a good answer as 88 people in the survey gave this. However give The Man in the Iron Mask as an answer and you score 6 points. Any correct answers the survey didn't think of are Pointless answers and therefore awarded a most desirable zero points. So who in your family will carry off the Pointless trophy?Suitable for 2 to 4 players or teams. For ages 10 and up. Endemol UK – Brand new Pointless app launches". Endemol UK. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015.Series 26 took breaks on: 26 July–3 September, 28 October 2021–3 January and 20 January–11 March 2022. This is the perfect companion to the Pointless board Game, allowing you to recreate this top BBC 1 quiz in your own living room. It is NOT a Pointless game in its own right; and does not contain Pointless questions. It can only be used with the Pointless Board Game. Pointless is a game where you have to guess the most obscure answer to a general knowledge question. A bit like Family Fortunes but you need to guess the least number of popular answers as surveyed by 100 people. You'll be fighting your natural instincts as you try to score the least number of points by guessing the least popular answers to general knowledge questions. Comes with an instruction sheet that explains 3 different ways to play (depending on how smart you think you are). Each of our trivia collections contains entirely different questions (and categories). Collect them all to build the world’s most useless trivia library.

Can you get the fewest points - and maybe the all-important pointless answers - and become the Pointless champion in your own home? Replicating the witty and compelling BBC TV quiz show, you can bring all the fun to your living room. New questions, rules and the opportunity to have the infamous electric scoreboard on your smart phone or tablet, to add to the realism of the BBC’s No.1 family quiz show, there is plenty of Pointless fun to be had with this family fun game!_x000D_ Newzoids Series 2 Ep5 - Stoptober - Richard Osman". Archived from the original on 21 April 2023 . Retrieved 21 April 2023– via www.youtube.com. Series 1 – The teams take turns providing one answer to a question at a time and attempting to score as few points as possible. The lower-scoring team from the elimination rounds chooses one of two categories to be played. Each team is given an equal number of turns; if at least one team has exceeded 100 at the end of a pass, the round ends and the lower-scoring team wins. For round two, the Question Master places the card into the respective plastic sleeve and reads the questions and list of answers.

BBC One – Pointless Celebrities – Episode guide". BBC. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022 . Retrieved 8 April 2022.

As of Series 6 – Both teams compete in a multi-question best-of-three contest; while the format is the same since Series 3, all questions have five answers with each team choosing one. 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. Both teams may choose the same item if the second team to play believes that the first has answered incorrectly. The second team is invited to fill in as many missing answers as they can before choosing one. Now updated for even more Pointless fun! New questions, new simplified rules, and a replica trophy, all supported by an updated scoreboard app, adds to the realism of the BBC’s No.1 family quiz show. Pointless Celebrities is broadcast within a prime-time slot on Saturday nights and features some differences in how the game works. Celebrities are allowed to return in more than one episode with the same partner or a different partner and episodes tend to have a theme in regards to the celebrity contestants that took part - for example, a celebrity edition aired in December 2015 consisted of celebrities who were made famous on reality television shows like Big Brother and Made in Chelsea. [7] Some editions of the show end with a guest performance. BBC One – Pointless – Episode guide". BBC. Archived from the original on 14 January 2018 . Retrieved 30 January 2018. TRIC – The Television and Radio Industries Club – 2015 TRIC Awards Winners". Television and Radio Industries Club. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017 . Retrieved 26 February 2016.Ever since watching Pointless, the BBC2 British quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong, I have always wanted to try out the board game and challenge myself! Can I name the least popular answers to try to score the least number of points to general knowledge questions? Teams of two contestants attempt to provide answers that are not only correct, but also as obscure as possible. The programme initially featured five teams per episode, but the field was later reduced to four. 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. Once a question is asked at the start of a round, the contestants are given details as to what constitutes a valid answer. If a team's answer is correct, they score one point for each participant who gave it during the survey; an answer given by none of the participants is termed "pointless" and adds nothing to the team's score. Incorrect answers add a penalty of 100 points. 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.