YMMV / The Adventure Game

• Les Yay: In series 2, Gnoard was the very affectionate partner-in-crime of Lesley Judd, who stayed behind in series 1 "because she was having so much fun on Arg".
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Successful crossings of the Vortex grid were rare enough (of the 44 contestants who had to cross the grid in Series 2-4, just 14 avoided evaporation) that any contestant who managed it is awesome, but in a class of their own are the team from Episode 5 of Series 4, consisting of Fast Forward actress and former That's Life! presenter Joanna Monro, former Doctor in the House and It Ain't Half Hot, Mum actor and writer George Layton, and schoolteacher Val Prince, all three of whom crossed the grid successfully, the only time this happened in Series 2-4.
  • The team from Episode 3 of Series 2, consisting of mathematician and Rubik's Cube expert David Singmaster, Nationwide presenter Sue Cook, and marketing executive Philip Sheppard, was the only one to successfully identify Lesley Judd as The Mole, thus allowing them to finish the puzzles as a trio instead of a duo. As icing on the cake, Singmaster and Sheppard also became the only contestants in the whole of Series 2 to successfully cross the Vortex grid (Cook wasn't so lucky).
• Periphery Demographic: The Adventure Game was intended for audiences of children, one reason most of the TV actors who appeared as contestants were chosen from children's series (especially Play School and Swap Shop). However, it gained considerable popularity among adults who either enjoyed trying to spot the solution to a puzzle before the contestants did or took pleasure in watching the less capable contestants founder in their attempts to understand Ron Gad's backwards speech or fish a key out of a long, narrow column.
• Retroactive Recognition: Darong, an Argond who only appeared in Series 1, was played by Moira Stuart, then best known as a continuity announcer on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4; she is now far more well-known as a television newsreader, a career she began the year after her appearance in The Adventure Game.

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