Big Brain Game
Revision as of 12:18, 25 April 2006
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Host
Co-hosts
Team captains: Rufus Hound and Sara Cox
Broadcast
Hanrahan Media for Sky One, 2005-6
Synopsis
Britain's official sponsor of Sudoku, Carol Vorderman, leads two teams of three people each consisting of an ordinary member of the public and ably assisted (... or not!) by team captains Rufus Hound and Sara Cox and another celeb through five rounds of hot puzzling action. Each round is designed to test a different area of the brain (creativity, logic, spatial awareness (usually by way of a hilarious practical task) and we forget the final one. Oh that's it, memory), finishing with the Total Brain Workout on the buzzers.
The winning and the losing MOTP then play alone for £10,000. Our winner is challenged to put together the Big Brain. To do this they must correctly answer four questions, one each in the four areas described above. They are given one minute total for thinking time (time doesn't run down whilst the question is being posed), and if they don't know an answer they can pass and come back, as only by getting all four questions correct will they walk away with the prize. However, if they're really stuck and their opponent thinks they know the answer, they can "buy" the answer off them at £2,500 a pop. But just one wrong answer means everyone leaves with nothing.
A surprisingly entertaining hour.
