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''For the music festival please see [[The Bamboozle]]''

'''''Bamboozle''''' is a quiz game featured on [[Channel 4]] [[Teletext]], once on page 140 but now page 390. It is generally geared towards teenagers. It is 'presented' by virtual host Bamber Boozler, who derives his name from thatthe ofword "bamboozle" (not, as an understandable misconception has it, from the former ''[[University Challenge]]'' quizmaster [[Bamber Gascoigne]], and his appearance from [[Magnus Magnusson]], host of the [[quiz show]] ''[[Mastermind (television)|Mastermind]]'' from [[1972]] to [[1997]]. The game uses Fastext keys (different coloured buttons on the TV remote control) to select the desired answer from a choice of four.

The game originally had 25 questions, later reduced to 15 and currently 12. The player must answer all questions correctly in order to complete the quiz, but is allowed multiple attempts to do so. Initially, if a question was answered incorrectly, the player would have to start again from Question 1, however this was later amended so that a maximum of three questions would need to be answered again. After completing the quiz, there is a score table with themed responses according to how many questions you got right at the first attempt.