Description
In Pointless, contestants try to score as few points as possible by plumbing the depths of their general knowledge to come up with the answers no one else can think of.
Every question has already been asked before the show to a panel of 100 people – to find out the most obvious and the most obscure answers. Pairs of contestants compete for a cash prize by finding the least obvious answers and scoring the fewest points. Points correspond to the number of people who answered the survey.
The holy grail is a pointless answer – a correct answer that none of the 100 people thought of.
If a contestant is able to find that answer in the short time allotted he earns the unbeatable score of zero. In the end, the person with the lowest overall score walks away with the cash prize.
Additional information
- BBC1 (UK) – The BBC’s No.1 highest rating daytime quiz and game show in 2022. S29 launched March 2023
- Successful celebrity version with S16 launched in 2022 on BBC1 in the UK
- TV2 Zulu (Denmark) - Coming back for S5 in 2023