Genius Game rules explained as ITV viewers dub David Tennant show ‘impossible’

After a brand new recreation show hit screens tonight, many viewers have been left scratching their heads about the way it truly works.

Hosted by Bafta and Emmy award-winning actor David Tennant, Genius Game relies on a format that originated in South Korea.

Taking on the function of The Creator, he leads the sport that invitations the nation’s most sensible minds to participate within the final TV problem.

Ahead of the show premiering, ITV teased: ‘Genius Game is a brand-new actuality recreation show that may see strategically minded gamers, chosen not only for their excessive mental prowess but in addition their social IQ, face the last word battle of survival.

‘To win, contestants will participate in a host of never before seen games all designed to not only test their intellectual acumen but encourage them to carefully and creatively use the art of manipulation to outfox their opponents and win a cash prize.’

However, after the primary episode left many individuals ‘baffled’, right here’s a break-down of what we all know concerning the recreation.

How does David Tennant’s new gameshow work?

Genius Game contains a various group of 11 contestants, together with against the law author, forensic scientist,  DJ, comic and GP.

They have been every chosen for his or her strategic pondering, social intelligence and various backgrounds.

On the show, the group should work collectively on a collection of video games designed to check their mental and teamwork abilities, following steerage from The Creator.

In his function as The Creator, David guides gamers as they try to navigate every uniquely crafted problem.

Each episode revolves round one key ‘Main Match’ wherein the entire contestants take part in a gaggle activity, with one winner ultimately incomes a ‘Token of Life’ that grants them immunity from elimination on that night time.

However, the participant who ends in final place in that spherical is then compelled to pick out one other contestant to face within the head-to-head ‘Death Match’ on the finale of every episode, with the loser then being eradicated from the competitors.

As the sport progresses additionally they accumulate ‘garnets’, a kind if forex that may have an effect on

Some of the video games from the Korean model will function within the collection as properly as some new introductions.

Speaking concerning the show, ITV’s head of leisure Katie Rawcliffe mentioned: ‘This thrilling actuality format is designed to maintain not simply the gamers however the viewers on the sting of their seats with every episode containing compelling gameplay and thrilling twists.

‘David Tennant is the perfect ringmaster to preside over this battle of brainpower, teamwork and deception. We’re delighted to be bringing Genius Game to the ITV viewers.’

What prize does the winner of Genius Game obtain?

The final remaining contestant within the show wins the title of ‘The Genius’ and claims the prize of as much as £50,000.

Genius Game airs Wednesdays at 9pm on ITV1.

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