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quiz show that aired on BBC Two from 11 May 2015 to 19 June 2015. It was hosted by
John Craven John Raymond Craven, (born 16 August 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the BBC programmes '' Newsround'', ''Countryfile'' and '' Beat the Brain''. Early life Craven was born in Leeds, West Rid ...
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Josie Lawrence Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence; 6 June 1959) is an English actress and comedian. She is best known for her work with the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe, the television series '' Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' and as Manda Best in ...
provided the voice of "The Brain," an image of a disembodied human brain that posed challenges to the contestants and lit up in a variety of neon colours.


Gameplay

A team of four contestants plays each game, with one member designated as captain. The Brain is divided into six zones, each corresponding to a different category:
Logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...
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Memory Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered ...
, Orientation, Observation,
Language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of ...
, and Multi-Tasking. A zone is chosen at random, and the captain selects one team member to play two challenges related to it. Each challenge consists of a practice question, followed by three more questions; every correct answer on the latter adds three seconds to the team's "Brain Bank" for use in the final. The round ends once all four team members have played a pair of challenges; no zone is used more than once. Some challenges have an overall time limit. The team can accumulate up to 72 seconds in the Brain Bank by answering every question correctly. In the final, the team attempts to win up to £3,000 cash by answering questions similar to those faced in the individual challenges, but in a random order. The captain decides the order in which the four team members will play. The clock is set to two minutes, plus the total time accumulated in the Brain Bank. Once the team member in control answers two questions correctly, their turn ends and control passes to the next one in the order. If all four members complete their questions before the clock reaches two minutes, they win the entire jackpot; otherwise, the game continues and the prize begins to decrease by £25 per second. They win the remaining money for completing the round, or nothing at all if time runs out. Winnings are divided equally among all four members.


Reception

Ian Wolf of On The Box described it as "perfectly enjoyable" but at the same time lamented the asininity of the questions being posed by The Brain, further berating its low prize fund of just £750 per person. He also commended the fact that "just about anyone can have a go. Whether you know all the prime ministers or the elements of the periodic table is irrelevant. It is all about mental ability, short-term memory,
basic arithmetic The operators in elementary arithmetic are addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The operators can be applied on both real numbers and imaginary numbers. Each kind of number is represented on a number line designated to the ty ...
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spelling Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme). Spelling is one ...
, and so forth".


Cancellation

On 19 June 2015, the BBC had decided not to renew the second series of the gameshow after just one series and 30 episodes.


International versions

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External links

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