Mastermind

Moby ID: 27363
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Description

Adapted from the venerable British quiz show, Mastermind allows you to become a contestant on that program, competing against up to three others. You face two rounds of questions; the first round will see you answering a set of questions based on specialized field of your choice, while in the second round you must answer a set of general knowledge questions. Both rounds have a time limit of 2 minutes. Any question may be passed (skipped), so that you may answer more questions in the allotted time.

The person who gets the most questions right wins the contest. If a tie occurs, the person with the most passes is the loser in the contest. If a tie occurs between two players with an equal number of passes, the contestants must answer a set of five questions - all five questions being the same between contestants - as a tie breaker.

The host of the Mastermind game is (the now-late) Magnus Magnusson, who also hosted the real life Mastermind program for its entire first run from 1972 to 1997. If you run out of time in a round while he is posing a question to you, he'll state Masterminds’ "I've started so I'll finish," catchphrase that he coined during the course of the program, finishing up the question and allowing you to answer it.

Mastermind sports over 5,000 questions to answer, and has 50 groups of specialized questions.

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Produced by
  • BBC Multimedia
Executive Producer
Development Managers
Design Manager
Senior Graphic Designer
Rights & Acquisition Manager
UK Sales & Marketing
International Distribution
Technical Director
Product Development Director
Director of Multimedia
Developed by
  • 3T Productions Limited
Graphics
Programming
Project Management
Executive Producer
Question master
Male Voice
Female Voice
Producer - Voice Recording
Producer - Video
Stills Photography
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Average score: 74% (based on 2 ratings)

Trivia

The BBC Mastermind Multimedia Challenge

In the game each player's score generates a specific code. Players were encouraged to send in their codes and those with the highest scores won a limited edition Caithness Glass paperweight that was engraved with their name and their score.

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Game added by Longwalker.

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Game added April 4, 2007. Last modified February 22, 2023.