Of all the lessons House of Games took from Taskmaster after Richard Osman appeared on the Dave/Channel 4 show, that thankfully wasn’t one of them. House of Games has always booked two men and two women per week as contestants, right from the start. Charity Begins at Home (of Games) House of Games: Give the answers to the two trivia questions. Both the answers are anagrams of one another. You Complete Me ( first played on Series 2, Episode 8): The pairs are given a question which has a two word answer. One of the players in a pair buzzes in with the first word of the answer and then the other player in the pair has to give the second word for them both to get a point.

Coming Up Next... ( only played on Series 2, Episode 5, Round 4): This round is played in exactly the same way as All in the Details from the regular show. However, in each subject, there are four statements to be filled in instead of three and then those filled-in statements are read as a script by a famous TV/radio personality [fn 4] via video tape (he/she also knows the subject). Win When They're Singing ( first played on Series 3, Episode 16): The players hear the introduction to a well-known song, then, after a few seconds, it is faded out. They need to buzz in when they think the first word is sung in that particular song to win themselves a point.You Complete Me: One player in the team must give the first half of the answer and the other player must give the second. Richard's Junk ( first played on Series 5, Episode 17): At the start of the round, all players are shown a picture of some of Osman's various junk items. Players are given 15 seconds to memorise the items before the picture disappears. Players are then asked a series of questions for which the answer is one of the items in the picture (often in a punning way). They must buzz in with the correct answer to earn a point. After each question, the relevant item is revealed and is not used in future questions in that round. After all questions are asked, the first player to buzz in and name all items in the picture that were not used earns a bonus point. The game was named Santa's Junk for Festive House of Games, with the items being presented in person by Father Christmas. Put Your Finger on It ( first played on Series 1, Episode 2): The players are given a picture question and have to point out who or what they think is the correct answer (it could be a specific person or an unusual item). Everyone plays on their own tablet. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( August 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Week 12 (27–31 January 2020): Kerry Godliman, Radzi Chinyanganya, Ebony Rainford-Brent and Hal Cruttenden Broken Karaoke ( first played on Series 1, Episode 1): The "House of Games" fictional karaoke machine is broken and can only show the first letters of each word of a particular song. The players must buzz in when they know the answer. The only clues that the players get are the year that the song was released or the genre of the song ( first seen in Series 4) and that the letters come up in time with the tune of the song. From Series 2 onward, if the song has not been correctly guessed by the time the letters are filled in, the initial letters of each word of the title are also provided as an additional clue.Comedian-writer-actor Jennifer Saunders appeared on the House of Games Night evening edition in November 2020, while her comedian-writer-actor husband Ade Edmondson and their daughter, actor Beattie Edmondson, appeared on the regular version in series two, three, and again in a Champions special week. (TV presenter Matt Edmondson has also appeared on the show, but is no relation.) But Richard Osman’s Famous Older Brother Hasn’t (Yet) Been On Dim Sums ( first played on Series 1, Episode 4 & last played on Series 3, Episode 90): The pairs are given an equation (e.g.? ×? = 18). The pairs are then given four questions with numeric answers, and must choose two that produce the correct answer. A correct sum earns the players a point. The (Not Quite So) Nice Round ( only played on Series 3, Episode 44): Same as The Nice Round except that each player, rather than nominating another player for giving a good clue, nominates a player to have a point deducted for a bad clue. Two Clues in One ( first played on Series 3, Episode 9): The players are given a category and are then given a clue to an answer related to that category, which has the same initials as the answer. Week 13 (23–27 January 2023): Harriet Kemsley, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Verona Rose and Jon Culshaw

Hidden in Plain Sight ( first played on Series 4, Episode 14): The players are shown a statement based on a category. There is also a certain string of letters in the statement that spell out, in their entirety, the answer to the category description. These strings of letters can be inside of one word or can overlap through several words. The player must identify the answer and where the answer is spelled out in the question for the point. Name Tag ( first played on Series 7, Episode 23): The contestants are given a question which has a name in its answer. They must buzz in and replace the name with that of one of their fellow contestants, who then gets the next question. Rhyme Time – bit of an Obama on a Llama one here – two trivia questions are asked, with the common factor being that the two answers rhyme. The player who buzzes in with the correct answer gets the point.

Arty-Facts ( only played on Series 2, Episode 1, Round 3): This is a pairs game. Before the show, each player is asked to represent something in a given category with a work of art in a particular medium. In the show, each player in turn is shown their partner's work, and they must identify what the work represents. If they are successful, they and their partner earn a point; otherwise, the other pair can make a guess and try to take the point. My Perfect Match ( first played on Series 5, Episode 5): Each pair is shown two characteristics that Osman claims he is looking for in his perfect match, along with two celebrities. They must select the celebrity with both shown characteristics to earn a point. Both celebrities share one characteristic. Correction Centre – a phrase is read out and one of the words in the phrase is incorrect – the player who can give the correct word that allows the phrase to make sense gets the point and gets the point. The Z-List ( first played on Series 3, Episode 55 & last played on Series 3, Episode 100): The pairs are given a category and have to write down a correct answer between them. The team who goes furthest down the alphabet (nearest to Z) wins a point each, and if the team gives the answer that is the furthest possible, they get 2 points each.

Get Your Junk Out ( first played on Series 2, Episode 3, Round 4 & last played on Series 2, Episode 6, Round 1): This round is played in exactly the same way as Richard's Junk from the regular show. However, instead of the junk items being shown on the screen, ten members of the audience physically hold up the junk items for the contestants to see (during the 15-second memorisation period and when the items are given as correct answers). Richard Osman's House of Games is a British quiz show produced by Banijay UK Productions subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC. The show is hosted by Richard Osman. It is played on a weekly basis, with four celebrities playing on five consecutive days to win daily prizes, and the weekly prize of being crowned as "House of Games" champion. Points are accrued depending on where each celebrity finishes on each day and the points are doubled on Friday's show. [2] [3] Format [ edit ] Outplay Osman ( only played on Series 3, Episode 39): The players have to write down one of the possible answers to a question. Osman then gives as many answers as he can think of in 30 seconds, and any player with a correct answer that he has not given gets a point.

Don't Cry For Me Guatemala ( first played on Series 1, Episode 1, Round 3 & last played on Series 2, Episode 5, Round 1): The players are given a question before the show in which the answer is (unknown to them) part of the lyrics of a well-known song. A live band then sings the song and cuts to the answers given by each player to see if they have completed it. Sorry, Wrong Number ( first played on Series 4, Episode 6): The players are given an instruction and a clue to an answer with a number in it. Players must buzz in with the answer correctly modified by the instruction. For example, if the instruction was "Multiply by 10" with the clue "Official residence of the UK Prime Minister", the answer the players should give is "100 Downing Street".