Storybook Squares

You Should Be So Lucky

September 2025 •English

You Should Be So Lucky! was a BBC children's television programme hosted by Colin Bennett in the character of Vince Purity. It was a game show, during which contestants played on a giant snakes and ladders board. Points were earned by their team partners through talent tasks.

La carte aux trésors juniors

September 2025 •French

Bamzooki

September 2025 •English

Bamzooki is a mixed reality television gameshow on the BBC which features a toolkit developed by Gameware Development. The first series aired in March 2004 on CBBC. The show was presented by Jake Humphrey. It has occasionally featured specials with Sophie McDonnell. In July 2008, it was announced on CBBC on BBC One that Bamzooki was returning. A new thirteen part series began in November 2009 and was now hosted by Barney Harwood and Gemma Hunt.

Bad Influence!

September 2025 •English

Bad Influence! is an early to mid-1990s British factual television programme broadcast on CITV between 1992 and 1996, and was produced in Leeds by Yorkshire Television. It looked at video games and computer technology, and was described as a "kid’s Tomorrow's World". It was shown on Thursday afternoons and had a run of four series of between 13 and 15 shows, each of 20 minutes duration. For three of the four series, it had the highest ratings of any CITV programme at the time. Its working title was Deep Techies, a colloquial term derived from 'techies' basically meaning technology-obsessed individuals.

American Ninja Warrior Junior

September 2025 •English

The next generation of "American Ninja Warrior" begins, as some of the show's biggest fans now get an opportunity to compete for the chance to be named American Ninja Warrior junior champion.

GamesMaster

September 2025 •English

GamesMaster was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.

Asra

September 2025 •Welsh

Primary school children compete to win stars in this other-worldly series.

Legends of the Hidden Temple

September 2025 •English

In a Temple filled with lost treasures and protected by mysterious Mayan temple guards, six teams of two children compete to retrieve one of the historical artifacts in the Temple by performing physical stunts and answering questions based on history, mythology, and geography. After three elimination rounds, only one team remains, who then earns the right to go through the Temple to retrieve the artifact within three minutes and win a grand prize.

Double Dare

September 2025 •English

Two teams of children answer questions and perform stunts all-the-while getting messy.

Escape from Scorpion Island

September 2025 •English

Escape from Scorpion Island is a BAFTA-nominated BBC children's TV adventure game show in which contestants try to 'escape from an exotic island with a mind of its own' by doing various challenges to improve their chances of escaping. Series 1 was made by RDF Television for CBBC. Series 2 onwards were produced by Foundation/Freehand for CBBC and ABC Television in Australia. Its fifth series was broadcast in 2011. A sixth series was confirmed and due to air in late 2013. Each series contains a different number of contestants who work in set teams to try to escape the sentient island. The contestants are children who are 11–14 years old. Each series introduces a different number of contestants, new challenges and different storylines.

Raven: The Secret Temple

September 2025 •English

Raven: The Secret Temple is a BBC Scotland children's adventure game show, and the second spin-off to the main series, Raven. It comprises one series, which aired first on the CBBC Channel, and then during CBBC on BBC One in the United Kingdom, in 2007. In this series, warriors compete as teams and attempt to collect as many jewels as possible by completing fourteen tasks, so that they may find and enter the Secret Temple.

Trapped!

September 2025 •English

Six children begin their journey at the top of a gothic fairytale tower. They work together as a team to complete the challenges, but to escape each floor they must uncover the saboteur among them.

Jungle Run

September 2025 •English

Adventure gameshow where four plucky school kids race through the ‘jungle’ tackling fiendishly tricky puzzles and challenges. But, they best beware for there are traps around every corner.

Get Your Own Back

September 2025 •English

Get Your Own Back was a British children's game show, which ran from 26 September 1991 to 31 March 2003. It has been presented throughout by Dave Benson Phillips with the addition of Lisa Brockwell as a co-host from 2001 to the programme's end in 2003.

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

September 2025 •English

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is a television game show format based on posing grade-school level questions to adults, hosted by Jeff Foxworthy. This television show began broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company network as a special in the United States and Canada on February 27, 2007, and it grew to be popular enough that a half-hour-long syndicated TV series was developed by the owners.

The Crystal Maze

September 2025 •English

Maze Master Adam Conover takes families on an adventure of a lifetime across themed zones for physical and mental games that earn crystals in return for time in the exciting Crystal Dome and a chance to win the $25,000 grand prize!

Nickelodeon Arcade

September 2025 •English

Kids answer questions, solve video puzzles and compete on traditional video games for the chance to be transported (through TV magic) into an interactive video playground.

Skatoony

September 2025 •English

Skatoony is a children's live-action game show, pitting live-action kids against cartoons. The show is co-produced with Talent Television, Blink Studios, Marblemedia, Teletoon Productions, and Smiley Guy Studios, and is used to air on Cartoon Network in the UK. It is hosted by 'Chudd Chudders' and 'The Earl'.

50/50

September 2025 •English

50/50 was a British children's game show that was broadcast on BBC1. It was broadcast from 7 April 1997 to 12 July 2005. Two schools in the UK put forward 50 students, each child given a number from 1–50 which they wear during the show, before each round a random number generator picks which students will take part in the next game. The t-shirt colours were originally green and orange but this was changed to blue and yellow. They sit opposite each other in raised seating while the game takes place in between them. Most of the children will not get an opportunity to play in a game, but there are question rounds and observation rounds where points are won by the number of correct answers. The games usually consist of inflatable obstacle courses similar to those found in Get Your Own Back, Fun House and Run the Risk.

Games World

September 2025 •English

Games World was an entertainment video games show that was broadcast on Sky One each weekday from 1 March 1993–2 October 1998. The overall concept of Games World was similar to GamesMaster.