one of the reasons why I like Pointless over The Chase is that Pointless is more accessible because it not just about whether or not you know the answer like in The Chase, but whether you chose to give an obvious answer or go for a more obscure one. In most rounds you're able to answer at least one question so it seems less elitist.
With
Pointless, I love that it rewards knowledge for being more trivial or obscure, so it's great if you get a round that's a topic that really suits you.
Some of the rounds can be killers, though, if it's a subject about which you know very little. If I were to be a contestant, I'd be more worried of making a fool of myself on
Pointless if I got something like sport or monarchs for my first round than I would about getting a couple of wrong answers in the cash builder on
The Chase. I know a couple of people that can't get their head round the premise of
Pointless, even when I've explained it's basically
Family Fortunes in reverse.
I love both shows for different reasons. In recent weeks I'm opting for
The Chase while I prepare dinner because I'm a bit fed up with Richard Osman's ubiquitousness (not that Bradley Walsh isn't, of course, but Osman's omnipresence bothers me more for reasons I won't rant about here).
