We're sure people have scored zero in the past, but nowadays Ken will always give enough clues to the last question to ensure that they will get three points. This can often get so hilariously long-winded that it would probably have been kinder to just let them score zero. For the first time in living memory, an official zero score was heard on 23 June 2021 after the first contestant had scored only three points (unassisted), and in the circumstances it wasn't really on for Ken to offer help to the second. Another zero score was achieved on 31 December 2021, when Scott Mills was standing in as host. Players will continue taking turns until one player is forced to POP the last bubble. That player loses the round, but don't worry! Flip the board and start over. The first player to win three rounds is the winner. When you reach a bonus round, players ask the player to their left the corresponding bonus question, and if a correct answer is given, players move up the board.

Get your family and friends together and put them (and yourself) in the hot seat to see who will become the champion of the official Popmaster Board Game. Just like the radio show, simply answer multiple questions and hope you’re not “one year out”! The player who gets the most correct answers in the 3-in-10 question wins and is crowned POPMASTER! Press the digital winner’s button to hear a message from Ken himself!On 29 January 2021, winning contestant Shar Doherty used her "shout outs" to propose to her boyfriend. She later said that she'd been inspired to do it after hearing the "interval" song in Popmaster that day: as part of a musicals theme day, Ken had played Stanley Holloway singing "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady. Put your chart music knowledge to the ultimate test with the official Popmaster Board Game. Based on the iconic Popmaster quiz – the cornerstone of the Ken Bruce national radio show for over two decades! Players will take turns to choose on row and POP as many bubbles as they want (in that row only). You can pop a bubble by using a mouse or touchscreen. The next player will choose any one row that has any unpopped bubbles and POP as many as they want in that row only. All players answer standard questions and move up the board one space for every correct answer given. Answer incorrectly, and you must stay where you are!

and various stand-ins including Mark Goodier, Richard Allinson, Stuart Maconie, Alex Lester, Gary Davies, Dermot O'Leary, Charles Nove, Aled Jones, Simon Mayo, Rob Brydon, Zoe Ball, Claudia Winkleman, Trevor Nelson, Scott Mills, etc.) Long-running Ken Bruce pop music quiz on Radio 2, and easily the best thing on in daytime on that station. Relaunched as "New Popmaster" in 2002(?) with a new "specialist subjects" twist whereby three of the questions are on a subject selected from a choice of two (originally three) and worth double points. In the early days there were often quite specific subjects (on a particular artist or genre) in the selection; nowadays these are rarer and the subjects tend to be pretty wide-ranging, like songs with colours in the title, "female singers" (so that'll be about half of all solo artists ever, then) and the much-hated "Name the Year". Please also allow for delays during busier festive periods where delivery times could be much longer. BBC Radio 2, 16 February 1998 to 3 March 2023 (as part of The Ken Bruce Show; approx. 6350 episodes)

What's In The Box?

Ken announced on 17 January 2023 that he was leaving BBC Radio 2 at the end of March. His new show on Greatest Hits Radio began at the start of April, and Popmaster went with him. The same week that the quiz made its GHR debut, 12Yard announced it was making a television version for More4, which duly appeared for what might be characterised as a pilot series less than thee months later.