The Link (game show)
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Mark Williams |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 65 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
STV Productions in association with Linkee TV and BBC Scotland |
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| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 5 May 2014 – 17 July 2015 |
The Link is a BBC game show that aired on BBC One from 5 May 2014 to 17 July 2015 and was hosted by Mark Williams. It is based on the trivia game, Linkee.
Three teams of two contestants attempt to answer general knowledge questions and identify links between the answers to each question. After correctly identifying the common bond between the answers, the team then removes a number of links attached to six cash amounts displayed on a screen: £125, £300, £500, £750, £1,000 and £2,000. The cash amounts are suspended by links, with higher cash values suspended by a larger number of links: only one link for the £125 value, and six links for the £2,000 value. The fewer answers it takes a team to identify the common bond, the more links the team is able to cut from the cash amounts.
All questions are toss-ups, and any member of a team can buzz-in and attempt to answer the question. If the contestant answers the question correctly, the team can confer before providing their guess to what links the specific set of answers. For example, connecting the answer "Harry" to the question "Name Prince William's younger brother" and the answer "Draco" to the question "Eltanin is the brightest star in which constellation?" would produce a link to Harry Potter (which features the characters Harry and Draco Malfoy). The fewer answers the team requires to decipher the common bond means the team can cut more links from the cash amounts suspended on the screen. If the team needs only one answer to decipher the common bond, the team can cut four links from the cash amounts. The number of links to cut reduces to three for needing two clues; two links for needing three clues; and one link if all four clues are needed.
Once the common bond is deciphered, the team cuts links to any cash amount(s) of their choice—either from one cash amount, or links distributed among multiple cash amounts. Once the final link to a particular cash amount is severed, that amount "falls" and is added to that team's bank, regardless of which team removed any other links to that specific amount. After all the links from all cash amounts have been cut and all money has been banked, the two teams with the highest totals go forward to the second round. The team with the least amount of money at the end of the first round leaves the game empty-handed. If there is a tie for second place at the end of the round (only possible at £0), a tie-breaking link is played for £125 in the same manner as the first round and the first team to guess the link adds the money to their bank and moves on to the next round.
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