I felt the same way at 11:10 last night after the fifth (fifth!) Late Shift game in a row. If you want to find a way to chase me out of the bar quickly, just keep running those 10-question games all night long.

I felt the same way at 11:10 last night after the fifth (fifth!) Late Shift game in a row. If you want to find a way to chase me out of the bar quickly, just keep running those 10-question games all night long.

On Tuesday as we were playing our third CD in a row waiting to see what LS looked like, it started to feel more like work than play. One of SD players, MIKEEE, who also likes CD, had already left saying he didn't want to play another CD. And I realized that we've never had to play CD three times in a row before, because back before BT Trivia was introduced, there were Wipeouts to break up the strings.

It seems as though originally, BT understood that any game, no matter how popular the format, becomes monotonous if played over and over again. That's why they had Wipeout providing relief from CD, and the premium games providing all kinds of format variety. And then because BT personnel don't play the games themselves, they lost the concept in August 2008 when they thought an endless string of BT Trivia games would make players happy.

If BT weren't spending so much time screwing with the software to do separate feeds and to offer unwanted choices to players on whether the premium game gets played, they could devote their attention to coming up with differently formatted games that would eliminate game format fatigue and keep people playing longer.

At any rate, we went home early last night rather than face again a third CD. And we actually love CD.

Brooke/AARDVK

The old schedule had nothing but 10-question BTT games after a certain time, too. All that's changed is the game's title and appearance; it still plays and wears on you in exactly the same way

No. I don't think we should be hypocritical about this. Most of us complained that we wanted Countdown back as the standard game. We certainly had as long or longer periods of Countdown before. It may not be particularly inventive or spontaneous but it's a solid game that we should be happy to see repeated so frequently. Especially if they actually do reduce the pop-culture content. Can't say I noticed that to date but I look forward to it.

However, I would like to see a new 1/2 hr. game inserted after every 2 CDs. There has got to be a writer at BT that can come up with an interesting new game played 4 or 5 times a day.

However, I would like to see a new 1/2 hr. game inserted after every 2 CDs. There has got to be a writer at BT that can come up with an interesting new game played 4 or 5 times a day.