QI | Which Board Game Ends In Fire?
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This clip is from QI Series G, Episode 3, 'Games' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Phill Jupitus, Sean Lock and Liza Tarbuck. - Zábava
"Dead people just joined in" is one of my favourite punchlines of this show. It never stops to make me laugh!
I can't get over the sheer joy in Sean Lock's face when he invents ghost boxing! :D
Sunny Bear I like how he sings the title to the theme of Ghostbusters.
Hahaha, I hadn't even thought of that! ^^
If they showed it on telly it would be an empty ring and a medium-referee would sit in one corner of the screen, next to a chandelier, and talk you through the match in a spooky voice.
Hirohiko Araki would like to have a word with him
It would be like Saturday 3pm Football where you can't see any of the action but there's someone else watching who tells you about it.
Every time this gets uploaded, I think its going to be Jumanji
Magmafrost13 Whoa, unreal. I had the EXACT same thought.
I, uh, thought it was a game that starts with "J" and ends with "umanji"
Jhutes & Lumanji
how do you keep forgetting lol
That's exactly what I thought too
Magmafrost13 I did, but the 1972 made me question it
When he said it was in a film, I thought "Damn, they played Jumanji for real back in the old days ?"
Same hahaha 🙈
Ghost Boxing? I think you mean... _Fright_ _Club_
DevilsToast dead poets boxing club
WW2 in the air? I think you mean... _flight club_
It's Ghost Boxing because the first rule of Fright Club is you do not talk about Fright Club.
Teee heee
BOO!
"Dead people just joined in" hahahaha! Alan is a absolute classic with his wit.
And ALAN is a JOY to look upon!!!!!
What board game ends in fire?
That would be Intercontinental Thermonuclear War.
A strange game. They only way to win is not to play.
Just like in real life.
@@11Survivor Back in the 70's there was actually a game of this kind. Kind of a more direct game of Risk, where you blew up other people's cities. It's the only time I've ever asked, "Do you have change for ten million people?"
You're actually close: The wargame "The Next War" does include optional rules for the use of nuclear weapons. The rule for strategic nukes is "soak the map in lighter fluid and apply a lit match."
@@geraldfrost4710You could play nuclear Risk. I can’t remember the precise rules, but I think I remember you had to use two sets of the game.
Sean has so many brilliant points in such a compact amount of time 👏👏👏
That would be an incredibly weird interpretation of 12 Angry Men where Juror 1 goes: "Well, to settle this debate -- bring in the Ouija board!"
Every ghost boxing match has to end with "stop, stop! He's already dead"
This deserves more likes than it’s got; so have one from me haha. 👍
All the best. 😀👍
Every board game ends in fire at my house!
Why Not? Monopoly ends in tears, divorce and adoption
Even dinner?
"Not a board game", you say?
It is at my house.
Sore loser?
Sean Lock's mind is an amazing and wonderful place!
RIP
Was.
@@angrytedtalks Sadly so. He's very much missed.
I have a game called "The Downfall of Pompeii", where eliminated people get thrown into a scale model of a volcano.
We use a real volcano in my household.
Canadian Ninja Is it Vesuvius?
@@DylanDude Vesuvi, eh?
I wanna see people try to communicate with the dead through connect 4.
Kez A Jay. 4 horsemen of the apocalypse coming up immediately!
RIP Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58
You will be remembered as a legend.
time to contact him witb ouija board then
Can you burn a Luigi board?
Yes, my friend from my second college recomends burning them
‘Luigi’ board 🤣
is there a matching Mario board???
Luigi board? Smh...
r/wooooooosh
@@ezekielmartin4323 r/wooooshwith4o's
Excuse me, there *was* a film of mousetrap. It was called Mousehunt. Nathan Lane and Lee Evans with a side of Christopher Walken. I loved it and its slapstick comedy but it recieved mediocre reviews from most.
There have been a couple films named "Mousetrap", but the first was from 2010, so it may not have been released when this was filmed.
Always loved that movie. I've never liked slapstick much, but the cast chemistry and direction was amazing. Not to mention the soundtrack.
I don't think Mousehunt was based on the game Mousetrap in the slightest.
@@jim191185 the author of the books that Mousehunt was based on has said that they were inspired by, amongst other things, the boardgame Mousetrap.
mr Brown
Fair enough. But apart from the mouse, I don't remember any similarities in the film. Been a long time though.
"Your attempt to contact Elvis is important to us..."
Ouija board used to figure out if the guy was guilty -> The jury subconsciously agreed he was guilty and it came out on the Ouija board -> The guy was retried by a different jury and ultimately found guilty
That makes sense
If dead people want to communicate with the living through a board game it would be Cluedo surely?
Swoooze only if they where murded i would think. but why not keep on living in games like sims?
The sims is not a board game. I imagine it would take quite some programming expertise to haunt a digital gamesave, and not many people with that skill set have so far died. Perhaps in the future, hauntings of such games will become more common ;)
How can you tell if the npc's you encounter are not ghosts? If i could haunt any game. i would defintly haunt a computer game
Nah, it's got ti be mouse trap
Shame the murder trial jury didn't use Cluedo, the defendant could have gotten off because the victim told the jury the killer was Col. Mustard, in the library, with the lead pipe.
Sean Lock is a national treasure.
HES GOOD BUT I WOULDNT GO THAT FAR🙄
@@england8186 I suggest you do a little more research...
@@Fluffyudders SHUT UP
Was.
@@angrytedtalks Well exactly - I made the original comment 2 years ago.
'I think it's loneliness' amazing 😂
"If they didn't like it, they could go to hell..." wonderful finishing quote there...
Stephen looks so exasperated when he hears mousetrap. 😂
He's also incorrect. There was a movie about mousetrap
I've only recently found this show. I want to watch all of it, this show is its namesake.
I would classify a Ouija Board as more of an old time "party game" than a board game.
Either way, I clearly recall advertisements for it in the early 90's, so it seems The Exorcist didn't completely kill off interest.
You have that backwards. Advertising is not in indicator of something being popular.
Party games using a board are a board game, most board games can be party games. No one said it was ever killed off, they popularity dropped off. Compare the popularity of Ouija and Monopoly today, then consider that Ouija used to be as popular Monopoly is now. Fuck I have three Monopoly sets I think and I don't even like Monopoly anymore, one of the lamest board games, if you look at all the other cool ones out there.
@@jeffc5974 Nobody said it was _popular_ in the 1990s; just that it wasn't completely dead.
I'd classify it more as a *toy* than as a game.
We played with one at a birthday party when I was in middle school in the mid-'90s. By we, I don't mean me so much as the birthday girl and a few other people. I was convinced that the Ouija board was satanic.
I reckon if I were dead, I'd have a far easier time trying to communicate through a game of Boggle.
The thumbnail is truly magnificent.
Sean Locke is brilliant
why thank you
Is everyone just going to ignore that right at the end Stephen that " if they didn't like it they could just to hell" referring to the kids who go it as presents 😂😂
Nobody's ever "won" a game of tag either, that's still considered a game.
Kind of. But you can say yes I'm faster than you or more stamina or simply hid for long enough where you don't need definitive ending to it. PLUS there are direct objectives (or well in this case kind of 1 objective for running and another for chasing). So in a way unlike WE-HA = Ouija, you have some sort of objective to achieve.
True but at any one time you can be winning or losing. It's just a perpetual game which unsurprisingly people don't play in perpetuum.
That's interesting. I wonder how long the longest game of tag is? This could be a great fund raising challenge. The Longest Ever Game Of Tag. Or, The Great Tag Challenge. One person gets filmed tagging someone, they have to then go off and film themselves tagging someone else. You could get celebrities tagging each other. Just an idea. ; )
The important distinction between Jumanji and Tag is not whether you can win but whether you can directly interfere with other players. You _can_ win a race, but racing is still not a game. Games are not merely competitive, but they also allow players to interact with each other. To win a game of basketball or poker or Quake, I have to interact directly with my opponents by blocking their shots, calling their bluffs, or killing them before they kill me. Even single-player games like solitaire or Super Mario Bros. require you to compete against an artificial intelligence (the deck or the cartridge).
Not only does Ouija not allow one to compete against his or her opponents, it doesn't even include the notion of opponents at all. It is not even a competition. It is merely a toy like a doll or a top.
I've won tag. it's not complicated
4:56 *Revelation. There is no “s” at the end.
I sent a message to Elvis via an Ouija Board. It came back marked "return to sender." 😁
I'm still trying to popularise a nickname for the Glasgow City Council - the weegie board!
How's it going? :)
There was a game which I unfortunately cant recall the name of, but it was a warfare strategy game where you played world war 3 using a large paper map (presumably of Europe) and moved your armies using paper markers. And it had the rule that stated: "to simulate use of nuclear weapons, soak map with lighter fluid and apply a lit match"
It might seem a bit tongue in cheek, but I honestly can't think of a better way to show to a player how bad the idea of using nuclear weapons are in conventional warfare as it basically just an act of "I'm tired of this game and don't want to play it anymore"
genius
Cuffzter
Ninja'd by 5 months.
Sounds like a more fun version of Risk...
There was an underground ghost boxing club and people would bet on it but they rioted because 2 days into the fight it was announced that it was a fight to the death.
Which board game ends in fire?
Easy: Crossfire, the 1970’s Milton Bradley game. I had it as a kid ... hours of fun.
thank you, Penn & Teller
However successful The Exorcist became, that was a bit unfortunate for Parker Bros! "Great idea for a film -- let's involve a ouija board, they're popular right now" Film makes megabucks, ouija board sales tank...
Those Parker Brothers had it coming.
@@Lowlandlord They did steal the idea of Monopoly and changed it from anti- to pro-capitalism
That's a baller ass suit the host has on
Because he's not known in every part of the world!!
Boi. That’s Steven fry and wait what part of the world is he not known in. I bet it’s America.
'the host'
I have one of these boards !!
Steven Fry doesn't know that Mouse Trap has indeed got an incredibly funny film based on it...Mouse Hunt!
Before I watched this clip, I imagined the game to be Dungeons & Dragons. Haven't had a fiery lake of sulphur happen to me just yet, but there's no rules that say you can't do it for fun lol
Although knowing dungeons and dragons, there would be a lot of rules about HOW to do it if more people started doing it ;-)
@@Snowshowslow Immersion in lava: 20d6 fire damage per round plus suffocation.
Hasbro bought Parker Brothers, and with it the Ouija board trademark, in 1991. As a company, they were fully absorbed a few years later. As a brand division of Hasbro, they ended in 2009 - about the time of Series G here.
I really need to know more about that court case
I love Sean's opening line.. I hope its showjumping.. I hate showjumping... I miss his quick fire dry wit
Sean Lock'... Truly missed. R.I.P.
MVP goes to Sean Locke at the end, sparing us from Phil's unfunny joke about balloon animals
The court case was R v Young (Stephen) (Citation: [1995] QB 324; [1995] 2 WLR 430). However, the jury was not dismissed by the judge as stated in the clip. It was some weeks later that the revelation was published in the News of the World that some of the jurors had employed a makeshift ouija board made of a piece of paper and a wine glass. It was subsequently brought before the Court of Appeal (see citation) where the appeal was allowed and a retrial was ordered. In other related 'games and juries' examples, a jury in a 2008 Australian case was dismissed as some of the jurors had been distracting themselves from a long trial by playing sudoku in the jury box [Citation: R v Lonsdale and Holland (District Court of NSW, Judge Zahra, June 2008)]. It may be surprising for the public to hear of juries conducting themselves in such a manner, but in these instances the media coverage was the unusual factor in that the majority of jury misconduct cases are not reported in the press.
I would assume that the majority of jury misconduct cases are not reported anywhere or noticed even. The number of court cases that are dismissed on appeal because the judge gave the jurors improper instructions is kind of staggering, you assume a fucking judge knows how to do his job properly.
"Which board game ends in fire?"
Uh... Flashpoint, fire rescue?
I've never made a balloon animal in my life, yet I get the same punishment.
This made me miss Sean Lock terribly.
Interesting how the word game has become to mean competition rather than having fun.
Well, there are two philosophies to boardgames, and the traditional dominant one has been to win by knocking opponents out of the game. German (at least the board game geeks I know attribute it to the Germans) game design theory centres around everyone playing and having fun until the end. Monopoly, where you eliminate players 1 by 1 versus Trouble/Frustration where even on the last round everyone has a turn. Trouble was invented by a pair of Czech brothers who fled to New York in WW2, the Kohner Brothers. Games like that have become more popular in the last 30 years, I doubt Alan or Stephen have played many board games in that time.
Got an add about forest fires in Australia.
The game is used in the TV series Breaking Bad, when Tuco's cousins talk with Hector Salamanca in the nursing home. It was on the shelf in the day room, why the old folks play it who knows!
3:39 ghost boxing is the only way I can describe jojo's bizarre adventures
Sean Lock is funnier on QI than on his stand up act.
Andrew_Owens Sean lock is always funnier in groups, he plays off of other people and likewise he is great for other comedians
@ZsideFamFan it's interesting because Phil Jupitus is so unfunny when bouncing off other comedians I wonder if his stand up is amazing
Oh god, there's always one tiresome bore like you who thinks they're a gatekeeper to what's funny and what isn't.
Nobody gives a fuck about your miserable opinion. Fuck off and watch some Benny Hill reruns or something.
Alan's face in the thumbnail 😆
Oh my god I got the right answer, I think this is my greatest accomplishment
In case three years down the line you still feel the same, I would like to offer you my sincere congratulations and this cup 🏆
@@Snowshowslow Thank you, good Sir!
I had a religous studies teacher in secondary school who warned us about the dangers of ouija boards needless to say I think she was mad
So you think people who warn about ouja are mad, but those who use them are sane?
most RE teachers tend to be religious so it's not out of the question.
Is a ouiji board really a game? I don't remember seeing a film with a Ouija board with "alright who won?"
I read the title and immediately guessed Monopoly.
Ghost Boxing!!!
ON SKY SPORTS 2!!!
Chardee MacDennis
The sequel electric bogoloo. The horror level definitely ends in fire
the game of life
There's a board game that both starts and ends in fire, as the idea is to rescue as many people from a burning building as possible before the fire kills all the fire rescue team. Ah, somebody before me mentioned it. Flashpoint, Fire Rescue.
Well. That explains why it never worked for me. ... I’m Dyslexic 🤣
Dyslexics of the world... Untie!
Ghost boxing! That's the spirit!
Trivial Pursuit! Because Dad has memorized all the questions and answers and we’re tempted to burn the board and the cards
Heh? Film in 72? The film The Exorcist came out in December 1973. The book came out in 71. Facts are difficult. Where is the “ahogaah” klaxon for the host?
“There is no film of Mousetrap”
Not of the board game, true.
The puck can be controlled by any player or players who desire to. I made a board and puck for a wine laced dinner party. The first message came out spell backwards. Very creepy. The final came out as my name. That thought my friends how easy it is to do magic.
I had a ouija board back in the 70's with the name Waddingtons on it, a girlfriend though it away without telling me, as it scared her even to have it in the house. I wasnt best pleased!
Sean Lock was awesome
Not monopoly, that game only ends when hell freezes over
He was referencing 'Mouse Hunt' the movie, not Mouse Trap.
They tried to bring back the Ouija board as the Ouya game console. It didn't work.
“You have summoned Beekzebub; move back two squares.”
I got that one. 😀
My guess was Battleships. But Lava.
At 5:44--"Ghost boxing"??? It sounds rather like a rather intriguing take on the 1960s American toy, "Rock-'em, Sock-'em Robots".
The Thumbnail looks like Susan Boyle 🤣
Lmao, the description commemorates Scrabble and my dumb ass thought the game ending with fire was Scrabble
Look up "automatic writing" it is a true psychological phenomenon.
A LUIGI BOARD?
"It was not originally supposed to be dead people"
*Dead people joined the game*
In the Philippines, we have a board game that does end in fire, if you lose. It’s called “Sungka”. If u wanna know what it looks like, look it up. Basically you have shells, and you got to take all of it until theres nothing left, and the loser will have his house burnt down.
Not sure if I got that right, it’s from my ancestors.
Pretty ominous place to end the video😂
Knew that one.
When I was in psych ward us patients made ouija boards to pass the time. When the staff found out they were angry and banned ouija boards. I never understood why the staff were so angered by a game. Does anyone have an idea why they reacted that way?
two possible options (ok three) first, given that the board was to open up the hidden self, a psych ward full of psychiatrists whose job it is to do that would be angry about it, who wants the sick to heal thyselves? Secondly, someone was a fundamentalist Christian and got angry because the bible said they should, but thirdly and I think this is more the case, letting the institutionalised have freedom causes anger and anxiety in some since they believe that makes them hard to handle. Mostly I'd go with two and a side order of three. There are always people in charge who can't deal with the different, and after all, psych ward patients are (supposedly) as different from the norm as you can get. Hope you are doing well enough to have left and try your hand at some self reflection on a new board of your own making.
@@ValeriePallaoro Thank you for your response, much love. I have left psych ward. What exactly are they afraid of? I feel like there’s something I’m missing. I think I will try the board. I am aware I am weird but earth I feel is weirder. I wish you happiness 💚
So fun fact there is a game called conquest for africa called the hardedt board game ever made
Games take up too 300 hours and include concepts like the italian troups needing more water per unit to boil there spaghetti
Ends in all the players thrown into a lake of fiery sulfur??? ...I've been playing this game wrong.
Shit, I just realized I could probably contact Sean Lock's ghost now.
If I'm a conspiracy theorist, and I'm trying to convince people my theory is true, I'm going with "Elvis is alive" over "Elvis is a ghost" ten times out of ten.
I’m pretty sure I’ve played a game or two of Monopoly that ended in people being thrown in a burning sulfur pit.
LOL'd out loud at the Elvis email thing. He died before the internet (1989), but after ARPANET (The (1971 was the first ''message'' sent, 1975 it became operational) he wasn't a secret government operative was he? :p Hmm, gives the whole ghostwriter in the sky thing a new twist (A popular fantasy novel genre by Piers Anthony, 48 very popular novels in the series so far) thought it's a take off of Johnny Cash and his ''Ghost Riders in the Sky'' hit I think?.
We used to play this as a family game at Christmas back in the 60s. We used Lexicon cards arranged in a circle and an upturned glass. It was always played as a mock seance, not contacting our inner selves as QI would have it.
Not QI would have, back in the 60s is 70 years after it was introduced and it was on it's third company at that point, none of the companies could agree with where the name came from or who invented it or basic marketing. QI is not telling you how to play the game, they are telling you when it was made it was not for the purpose of a seance. They also mention that it was used for a seance during the war.
I’ve always wanted to watch two Blue Whale ghosts fight.
...on the acropolis where the Parthenon is
How did the jury get 12 hands onto the board?
RIP Sean 2021