Makers of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway board game blame DEAD employees for errors
TV duo Ant and Dec will be horrified to discover that the makers of their error-riddled board game tried to blame the clangers on two employees who DIED.
The Sun revealed yesterday that six of the 50 trivia cards contained shameful howlers - such as Stonehenge is located in Somerset - not Wiltshire - and German scientist Albert Einstein died in 1949 instead of 1955.
But last night Paul Lamond Games, who manufacture the quiz questions, shockingly pointed the finger at two members of staff who passed away “very suddenly” last year - just before the howlers were printed.
A spokesman said they were responsible for proofreading the cards and said the errors “crept in” as a result.
Richard Wells, managing director at Paul Lamond Games, said: “We have been made aware of a couple of mistakes in the first release of this game which we have now corrected for subsequent print runs.
“We take quality assurance very seriously and there were two people involved in typesetting and proofreading of the question cards for this game.
“Sadly both of them passed away very suddenly last year just at the point when this job should have been completed and obviously a few errors have crept in as a result.
“We apologise if this spoilt the enjoyment of the game for any of our customers.”
The company later tried to retract the statement after Sandra Robbins, secretary of the firm, commented “oooppps!” in an email accidentally forwarded to The Sun.
In a new statement, Mr Wells said: “We have been made aware of some mistakes with the answers to the questions within the first production run of this game.
“These have now been corrected and we would like to unreservedly apologise for these errors.
“Any affected customer can email Paul Lamond at [email protected] stating their name and full address and we will send out a replacement set of corrected cards free of charge.”
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Fans of the BAFTA award-winning ITV show forked out £19.99 for the Saturday Night Takeaway board game - to enjoy some family fun this Christmas but parents are furious at the raft of mistakes.
One blunder claims the Moon is just 225 miles from the Earth - the same distance as London to Blackpool - rather than 238,900.
Another question - which involved basic arithmetic taught to primary school children - asked ‘Which of these is greater? Three squared or two cubed?’ before wrongly giving two cubed as the answer.
The multiple choice round, called “Win the Ads”, is an end-of-game prize grab where players battle it out against the timer to answer as many questions as possible.
One dad, who bought the fun game for his two young children for Christmas, said: “It’s teaching them all the wrong things. I’d advise other families to save their money."