Only Connect

[cyprusmoira]

Just to remind fans that the new series starts tonight. I am hoping to improve my average of answering one question correctly

Moira

[suffolk]

Hurrah! Thanks for the heads up

[TeresaFoodie]

Am looking forward to it. I'll be lucky if I even get one question right!

[earthmaiden]

[aero280]

Just found out in time. Settling in front of the TV with a bottle of Oktoberfest Bier!!!

[TeresaFoodie]

I was reminded last night that I am red hot at the missing vowels round, but other than that, I'd have to get my coat.

[suffolk]

I love doing the Walls ... was successful with both last night (polishing halo )

I'm not so hot on the missing vowels tho'

[earthmaiden]

Well done Suffs! I am still wondering what the first wall last night was all about! I usually get the ones the teams get stuck on and vice versa.

[Ratatouille]

I'm out of practice with the walls. I completely forget about words to which you can add the same other ! Or perhaps I'm just showing my age?

[Herbidacious]

Every time I read this thread topic I think of E.M. Forster! (Howard's End.)

[WWordsworth]

J absolutely loves it.
He's pretty good at the connections, we both like to have a go at the walls.
I can't be bothered with the missing vowels round.
Strange really because I also tune out for the final round in Pointless.

Really enjoy the last round of Tipping Point though.

[suffolk]

Really cannot be doing with Pointless ... I find it so tedious ... pointless in fact

[TeresaFoodie]

I'm not the only one to think Pointless is pointless then, phew. So boring! I'm not sure anything out there at the moment could beat Letterbox for being a waste of time though. I think I managed five minutes of the first episode and that was enough.

[suffolk]

Totally agree Tezza ... even Mel G appears less than enthusiastic about it ... in fact she seems totally unconvinced that it's of any use whatsoever

As Eggheads is on earlier nowadays we record it and watch it when Letterbox is on ... that's fooled 'em

[earthmaiden]

I have never heard of Letterbox.

[suffolk]

I have never heard of Letterbox.

Not a situation that needs to be rectified EM

[aero280]

It's just Hangman...

[suffolk]

It's not as good as Hangman ...at least with Hangman someone gets to draw something ... Letterbox is just plain boring.

[aero280]

I'm off-air for a while. Pointless has started!!

[PatsyMFagan]

I found Only Connect tonight … did get some of the connections, but didn't fare well on the walls … however, perhaps that's because I am jet lagged, or is that just an excuse

(hello everybody )

[suffolk]

I kept shouting at them re the ‘gross’ row on that wall but they didn’t listen ... also the ‘walk the walk’

[TeresaFoodie]

I got the mathematics one tonight no problem. 1+1=2...whatever the rest of it was... flowed quite easily for me right up to the fourth link, and I said it before they said it and I was dead chuffed that I got it right! Then I hit the two walls, then the missing vowels on politics for starters left me wanting to turn the TV over! So it was a topsy turvy episode for me which resulted in me needing a bit of moon watching and a cuppa.

[scullion]

i caught a little of letterbox yesterday (i had had the budget on) - even mel seemed to be struggling to be interested/enthusiastic - dire.
haven't watched last night's 'connect', yet, as i was out.

[suffolk]

even mel seemed to be struggling to be interested/enthusiastic - dire.

That's my impression too

[PatsyMFagan]

Bill Turnbull also hosted a quiz show after leaving the Breakfast TV sofa … that too was dire. The current male host on breakfast tv (can't remember his name) is also hosting a quiz show of a similar calibre.

[cyprusmoira]

I would like to put on record that I got one answer corect on the first clue last night

Moira

[suffolk]

[earthmaiden]

Well done Moira! I thought the first wall was rather challenging.

[cyprusmoira]

I thought the first wall was rather challenging.

I thought that both walls were very challenging, I can usually get half the tiles but not last night


Moira

[StokeySue]

I enjoy Pointlesswhen I watch it with someone else on a Saturday night with a glass of wine - we can play along and we tend to wander off into conversations related to the categories, not so much if I watch it alone. It’s meant to be a different kettle of fish to Only Connect of University Challenge and at least it’s not as dull as Eggheads (nothing is as dull as Rggheads)

I find Only Connect quite difficult, as you need to be able to read the screen at a glance, but I did quite well on the various sequences and then I seemed to know more answers than usual on UC

[earthmaiden]

I find the same problem with Pointless. My eyesight is alright but they flash the questions up then concentrate on the players. I want to read all the questions, I have less interest in the players!

[StokeySue]

I am now so used to having to remember what people say, because ther will be no legible notes, and Alexander Srmstrong reads very clearly, so I’m fine with Pointless most of the time

[Ratatouille]

I
I find Only Connect quite difficult, as you need to be able to read the screen at a glance, but I did quite well on the various sequences and then I seemed to know more answers than usual on UC

We must have been on the same wavelength last night Sue! I somehow found some chemistry in the depths of my brain and Mr R said in astonishment "How on earth did you know that?" I hit him

Neither of us could do the first wall in OC this week.

[aero280]

I am enjoying the quirkiness of Richard Osman's "House of Games". It's in the old Eggheads spot and is far more entertaining than more news of Brexit.

[TeresaFoodie]

Loving House Of Games too Will. Definitely more watchable than Pointless, Eggheads, Letterbox, and Only Connect is about as frustrating to me as playing a round of golf - I can't do it.