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.

Osman then approached comedian Alexander Armstrong to be the main presenter; the two men had been peers during their university days. The first 27 series were co-presented by Richard Osman, who announced on 8 April 2022 that he would step down from the role to focus more on his writing career, although he would still co-present with Armstrong on Pointless Celebrities on a short-term contract before leaving the series fully. It will also keep records of your team or individual scores, pointless trophies won, and who is the current pointless champion. Armstrong, who the previous year had been lined up to present Channel 4's Countdown only to back out for fear of being pigeonholed as a presenter, [9] agreed to present what was perceived as a lower-profile show, with the presence of Osman helping to convince him. BBC Daytime re-commissions Pointless Archived 4 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine BBC Press Office.Possible Answers – Introduced in Series 2, contestants are given a board of potential answers to a question and must each pick one, attempting to find the obscure ones on the board and avoid picking out a wrong answer. A modified version of this format is sometimes used in which the contestants must name items that belong to any of several sub-categories (e.

In 2016, Richard Osman told the Belfast Telegraph, "It's never been a show that's had posters, or trailers, and it's presented by these two slightly inept guys. For the first round, it requires the Question Master to place the card into the plastic sleeves to cover the answer.This format allowed categories to be used in which no commonly agreed definitive list of correct answers might exist.