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Ginger Fox Official PopMaster Board Game - Based On The Weekday BBC Radio 2 Quiz - Includes The Iconic 3-in-10 Question Round With The REAL Ken Bruce, 2+ players

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The quiz became something of a flagship feature for Radio 2. In 2019, the We Stop for Popmaster Tour took the show on the road for a week (even though Popmaster itself was conducted with phone-in contestants as usual) and Spring Bank Holiday 2020 saw an "All Day Popmaster" competition with members of the public playing against DJs - surprisingly, from both BBC and independent radio. There was another All Day event (with members of the public versus TV quizmasters and chasers) on Spring Bank Holiday 2021, along with a documentary marking (er) 23-and-a-bit years of the quiz. In addition, the previous Friday saw a rematch for the first ever contestants. In 2022 the all-day event became "Platinum Popmaster" to mark the Queen's jubilee, with the celebrity contestants being platinum-selling pop stars. Bruce has also done the quiz as a non-broadcast live event for Children in Need. The incredibly cheesy jingle that for a while was played when players successfully completed Three In Ten. We miss that. Set up the game board, give each player a set of answer tokens and place the playing pieces on the board. Shuffle the question cards and place them on the table. All players answer standard questions and move up the board one space for every correct answer given. Answer incorrectly, and you must stay where you are! Battle it out in the multiple-choice questions by answering questions from across the decades. Earn more points in the bonus rounds and see if you have what it takes to make it to the final round where Ken himself will ask you the 3-in-10 question.

In the advanced version, the gameplay is the same except the players can only POP bubbles in a row that are directly next to each other without any popped bubbles in between. Each player is dealt 2 bonus question cards and asks the player to their left to choose which of the two categories they want as their bonus round questions. We're sure people have scored zero in the past, but nowadays Ken will always give enough clues to the last question to ensure that they will get three points. This can often get so hilariously long-winded that it would probably have been kinder to just let them score zero. For the first time in living memory, an official zero score was heard on 23 June 2021 after the first contestant had scored only three points (unassisted), and in the circumstances it wasn't really on for Ken to offer help to the second. Another zero score was achieved on 31 December 2021, when Scott Mills was standing in as host. Put your chart music knowledge to the ultimate test with the official Popmaster Board Game. Based on the iconic Popmaster quiz – the cornerstone of the Ken Bruce national radio show for over two decades!

When you reach a bonus round, players ask the player to their left the corresponding bonus question, and if a correct answer is given, players move up the board. On 29 January 2021, winning contestant Shar Doherty used her "shout outs" to propose to her boyfriend. She later said that she'd been inspired to do it after hearing the "interval" song in Popmaster that day: as part of a musicals theme day, Ken had played Stanley Holloway singing "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady.

Players will take turns to choose on row and POP as many bubbles as they want (in that row only). You can pop a bubble by using a mouse or touchscreen. and various stand-ins including Mark Goodier, Richard Allinson, Stuart Maconie, Alex Lester, Gary Davies, Dermot O'Leary, Charles Nove, Aled Jones, Simon Mayo, Rob Brydon, Zoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman, Trevor Nelson, Scott Mills, etc.) Get your family and friends together and put them (and yourself) in the hot seat to see who will become the champion of the official Popmaster Board Game. Just like the radio show, simply answer multiple questions and hope you’re not “one year out”!The pilot TV series aired 8pm Monday to Friday with the final the following Monday, which had the effect of sidestepping any potential clash with The Hit List on Saturday, and reruns of Pop Quiz on BBC Four on Sunday. Though if that was the reason, they needn't have worried - firstly because it turned out that The Hit List aired much earlier in the evening that week, and BBC Four didn't put Pop Quiz on at all, and secondly because Popmaster proved an even bigger hit than anyone expected, easily beating More4's slot average every night across the week. Once you have played all 10 rounds, the two players with the highest score go through to the final round. The iconic 3-in-10 question from Ken Bruce himself! BBC Radio 2, 16 February 1998 to 3 March 2023 (as part of The Ken Bruce Show; approx. 6350 episodes) Pop It Master is created by Rad Brothers. This is their first game on Poki! How do you play Pop It Fidget Games?

During a period from July 2007 to January 2008 when all BBC phone-in quizzes were suspended due to mismanagement and defrauding the public, Popmaster was played using celebrity contestants. The first (and indeed, only) celeb to score maximum points was Richard Drummie from the aforementioned Go West - and what made this particularly impressive is that he did it without the outrageous giveaway clues Ken usually dished out to the celebrity players. For some obscure reason, people on the BBC staff were not allowed to appear but those who worked for the corporation as freelancers could - so Charles Nove was roped in as a contestant, but fellow R2 newsreader Fran Godfrey was barred. The player who gets the most correct answers in the 3-in-10 question wins and is crowned POPMASTER! Press the digital winner’s button to hear a message from Ken himself!Ken announced on 17 January 2023 that he was leaving BBC Radio 2 at the end of March. His new show on Greatest Hits Radio began at the start of April, and Popmaster went with him. The same week that the quiz made its GHR debut, 12Yard announced it was making a television version for More4, which duly appeared for what might be characterised as a pilot series less than thee months later. Use collapsible tabs for more detailed information that will help customers make a purchasing decision. Players will continue taking turns until one player is forced to POP the last bubble. That player loses the round, but don't worry! Flip the board and start over. The first player to win three rounds is the winner.

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