In making a passing reference to Only Connect the other day, I completely forgot to take into account the fact that it's tucked away on BBC4 and hardly anyone I ask, if I ask, has ever seen it. The most recent series has just finished, but if you're quick and you live in the UK you might catch some episodes on the iPlayer. If you're slow or you live somehere else, you lose. Sorry.
It's a quiz show where the aim is to spot the links between four fairly obscure items. In the first round the teams get points for picking the connection, while in the second the objects are presented in order and the teams have to guess what will be fourth in the sequence. Next comes a 'connecting wall' where they have to unjumble four mixed up groups, as per the walls you can play online here, and then finally there's this weird round where all of the vowels are taken out of a word or phrase, the remaining letters are randomly grouped together and they have to work out the phrase. So if the category was "names of blogs" the clue might be WHD STHT and the answer would be..... well, you've probably worked it out by now. I do quite like this round but I never quite understand what it's doing in the show, because it has nothing to do with making connections. Annoyingly, it's nearly always where the game is won or lost, too.
Coming up with questions is, as pointed out in this interview with one of the question-setters, harder than you might think. Here's my attempt: can you spot the connection between these four picture clues?
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