Pointless (Laiorian game show)

Pointless was a Laiorian game show broadcast on Tyla'agegar 2 in Summer 2012, based on the of the same name. Its viewing figures were disappointing, and it wasn't picked up for a second series.

Gameplay
Teams of two contestants attempted to provide answers that were not only correct, but also as obscure as possible. The programme featured four teams per episode. On each episode, contestants answered a series of questions which was put to 100 members of the general public in a previously conducted online survey, which had a time limit of 100 seconds. Once a question was asked at the start of a round, the contestants were given details as to what constitutes a valid answer. If a team's answer was correct, they scored one point for each participant who gave it during the survey; an answer given by none of the participants was termed "pointless" and added nothing to the team's score. If the answer is incorrect, the team scored the maximum of 100 points. Once a question or pass was complete, depending on the specific format of the round, any remaining pointless answers were stated along with the high-scoring answers given in the survey, usually the top three.

The game began with two elimination rounds, in which teams must achieve as low a score as possible. The rounds were scored independently of one another, and the team with the highest score in each round was eliminated from the game. If two or more teams were tied for the highest score in either of these rounds, a "lockdown" tiebreaker was played among them, using the last question from the round and the same scoring rules. If the score remained tied, an "emergency question" was asked to break it. In the third "Head-to-Head" round, the two surviving teams competed against each other to find low-scoring answers; the first team to win two questions moved on to the final round.

Teams could return to the programme until they had either reached the final round once or been eliminated in two consecutive episodes, whichever occurred first. The team that reached the final round was awarded a pair of trophies to keep. They would then supply three responses to a question with many correct answers (e.g. name films directed by a specified director, or name a song by a specified singer). If any of the answers were pointless, they won the jackpot as it stood for that game; otherwise, the money rolled over to the next show.

The jackpot increases by KR 500 for every pointless answer given in any round except the final. If a team reached the final but failed to win the jackpot, the whole amount was rolled over to the next game and increased by KR 2 000. Once the jackpot was won, the amount was reset to KR 2 000.