Whoever won the challenge draws six movie cards, at which point they choose three to act out, quote, or describe. Each hexagon contained a letter of the alphabet (except X and Z, although letter Z appeared occasionally during the Gold Run). If both were one correct answer away, all lit hexagons on the board would flash, indicating that the situation was effectively "Blockbusters either way" (later referred to as a "mutual space" on the board), and the next player to give a correct answer would win the game unless the contestant chose a panel which would not give them the win, which was sometimes used as a safety tactic to avoid handing the initiative to the opponent in case they gave the wrong answer. The show was always aired on the ITV network, although the first series was repeated on Channel 4 during the summer of 1984, in the Countdown slot.

None of these are complicated, and they aren't going to require you to swat up on the rulebook for hours beforehand. If the contestant answered incorrectly, the opposing team or player was given a chance to answer it after the host re-read the question. Even my non-gaming, not seen many films, wife got involved on the second play through and thoroughly enjoyed it!

The questions were generally too hard (at least in our opinion - you REALLY had to know your movie trivia. All regions aired Series 1, some stations moved Blockbusters to an earlier slot because the 5:15 pm slot was taken up by soap operas.

It was announced on 10 November 2011 that game show channel Challenge would revive the show in 2012, under the name " All New Blockbusters", with adult contestants rather than students. You would quite often spend nearly as long walking the isles and choosing what movie to watch as you would actually watching the movie! Ulster: Mondays to Fridays at 3:20 pm until August 1993, then switching to Saturday lunchtime until completed 15 January 1994. The winner of the match went on to play the Gold Run bonus round; if the pair won, only one player on the team could play, with the turns alternating at each Gold Run.Also, the categories of 'one word', 'quote it', and 'act it' make for some genuinely interesting interactions. Unlike so many of the best party board games, this one is keen to get your body moving as much as your brain. The head-to-head deck will give you plenty of categories to show off how awesome or terrible you are at naming movies. The player then has to decide which film they will describe in one word, which one they will use a quote from, and which one they will act. Se convirtió en uno de los juegos favoritos de mi familia porque es muy sencillo aprenderse las reglas.

Or, worse yet, if you are the one who is responsible for giving the clues, and you draw "The Great Escape," but you've never seen the movie, you're really stuck. Twenty new episodes, broadcast over two series, were recorded in the winter of 2018 and included two celebrity specials. Along with Seers that are able to check one other person's identity during the night and Drunks who swap player cards at random, you might become an Insomniac who can check their card to see if it's been tampered with. To make it easier, the rules say that the quote doesn't have to be a real quote, but something that a character in the movie might say.

It was then changed from September 1985 on Mondays to Wednesdays and Fridays to Saturdays at 5:15 pm. And it's never fun when you're playing a group game and there's one person who obviously has no idea and isn't having a good time. There are also some nice chatskis that come with the game, and the overall quality is quite good, at least for the first game.

From Series 5 (September 1987) TVS switched to Mondays to Fridays at 5:15 pm and Saturdays at 5:05 pm. It was remembered that I'd done TV programmes of much the same sort, such as Junior Criss Cross Quiz which I compered in the 1960s and which was also a question and answer show. Whilst some have questioned if it has enough replay-ability, I think this game has more than other well-loved titles from Big Potato, like Obama Llama.Review, how to play, editorial, useful links, similar games, FAQ, interesting facts and so much more. A 1997 edition featuring adults was produced for one series on BBC Two with Michael Aspel presenting.