If this implies a sort of hybrid of The Chase, Crystal Maze and The Traitors, don’t get your hopes up. Genius Game is more of a televised workplace away day that you wish you’d been able to get out of.
While explaining the game, Tennant reassures viewers: “Don’t worry – all will become clear when you see these clever people play.” This is not true. We aren’t even told what all this game-playing is in aid of: nowhere in the first episode is the apparent cash prize actually mentioned.
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Read MoreThe first task is a game of logic called “Gold Heist”, in which the players must steal loot from imaginary “vaults” of their choice. If too many of them go for the same vault, they end up in “jail” and frozen out of the game. If someone successfully “tips off” another person’s heist, that person will also end up in jail.
Because none of the players really understand what’s going on, the gameplay mainly involves people wandering around with a pen and paper and doing absolutely nothing. The game plays out with zero tension despite attempts at a storyline: Paul – “The Businessman” – really doesn’t understand the game and his “nothing’s personal” attitude makes him a target for one half of the group, who mastermind his downfall.
The only real puzzle worth solving is what on earth Tennant is doing here. Presumably he wanted to get in on that sweet Winkleman national treasure territory, but he’s almost admirably uncommitted – only appearing in pre-recorded video segments that add to the sterility of the whole thing.
‘Genius Game’ continues tomorrow at 9pm on Channel 4
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