Bob's Full House

The Good
The drawing of Bob is quite good. And there are plenty of questions to sink your teeth into.

The Bad
This just isn't a very exciting game structure. It makes no difference which number you chose, so the bingo aspect is superficial and tacky, and all you're left with is a succession of questions. As there's no penalty for getting a question wrong, you can just buzz in and guess every time in rounds 1 and 3.

Contemporary knowledge-based British game shows such as Blockbusters, Bullseye and Fifteen To One had much more interesting structures. The only merit it did have was Bob's jokes, which are absent here.

As a game, it has a much bigger flaw however. When you're required to key in an answer, you are told how many words of how many letters the answer is. This makes things much easier than they need to be, especially as you can guess every time. There are even multiple-choice questions where only one of the answers fits the question space. It's like one of those 0898 phone-in competition questions when they gave you the answer 30 seconds ago, only this time nobody gets £1 simply from your attempt.

The Bottom Line
If you want to pay tribute to Bob Monkhouse, burn every copy of this tedious, badly-designed, bland atrocity. Domark produced some truly awful licensed games in those days, and this is as bad as any.