SmartLess Presents ClueLess
SmartLess Presents ClueLess is a bite-sized, biweekly podcast (10-12 minutes an episode), in which our host, Emmy-winning writer Elliott Kalan, guides the listener through different puzzles, brainteasers, & conundrums to see if they’re faster than this season's contestant Sean Hayes!
Episodes
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) are boiling over to tell you all about National Pasta Month! That’s right, October is the month to celebrate pasta, and you can expect a quiz about food mascots, fun facts about pasta names, and a mini-game called Pasta, Italian Inventor, Or Active Volcano, which is almost painfully self-explanatory.
Puzzles in this episode are by Brock Ma...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like you to go completely mad - because it’s 10/6, Mad Hatter Day, the day when we do kooky things to celebrate the Mad Hatter’s tea party from Alice In Wonderland! You can expect to learn why this event takes place on 10/6, just why that Hatter was so Mad, and then we’ll have a game called T Party, where you have to identify double-...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like you to start your day with a cup of Good Morning, America - that’s right, today is National Coffee Day! You can expect short quizzes about fictional coffee shops and the origin of a famous coffee phrase, plus a history of where the coffee bean comes from, then we’ll play a mini-game that’s all about the Starbucks Secret Menu! Do...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like to tell you all about some very mini people: the Hobbits, from JRR Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings series! Today is Bilbo Baggins’ birthday (sort of, we’ll clarify that), so expect a quiz about what Tolkien fans are called, a history of where the word “hobbit” might have come from, and a mini-game where we ask you to identify mythic...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like to crack the book on International Literacy Day, with some fun facts and a word cloud game to identify a famous novel! Then, we’ll play a mini-round of Odd One Out where you have to tell us what book doesn’t belong and why. Big takeaway: read a book! Books are good!
We’ll see you next week for Hobbit Day!
Puzzles in this episode ...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like to share some fun facts and test your knowledge about Star Trek Day, which happens to be today, September the 8th! You’ll learn about its curious connection to the TV show Riverboat, you’ll try to solve a brain twisting math problem, and then we’ll play a mini-round of our game The Sort ‘Em Consortium, putting Star Trek series i...
On a new mini episode of SmartLess Presents ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan (and Producer Devon) would like to tell you all about American Chess Day, which happens to be today, September the 1st! We’ll have questions and fun facts about the history of chess, then a mini-game for you called Chess Opening, Film Noir, Or Russian Literature?, the rules of which are relatively self-explanatory.
We’ll see you next week for Star Trek Day!
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On this ClueLess Season 1 clip show retrospective, host Elliott Kalan guides you through ten of our favorite clips, featuring Season 1's constant contestant Sean Hayes, and all our favorite guests, like Scotty Icenogle, Ali Wentworth, Reyna Larson, Carrie Aizley, George Stephanopoulos, Jeff Max, and Jon Gabrus! You’ll hear questions and silly moments from some of our favorite games, like Word Centipede, Don’t Be A Ditloid, Bizarro ...
On this Season 1 finale of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and no-longer-constant contestant Sean Hayes sit down with Sean’s husband Scotty Icenogle to identify the Odd One Out! The five members of Pearl Jam are getting together to go on vacation, but they each brought one item too many to their hotel. See if you can identify which item doesn’t fit the group and why, and try to do it faster than Sean and Scotty. Keep track of your dis...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes sit down with Sean’s husband Scotty Icenogle for another gala performance of Bot Bops! Elliott’s non-branded digital assistant will regale you with five classic songs in its own cold, inhuman style, name the song for one point and the artist for another point! Keep track of your answers in order to solve the MegaClue!
New episodes every Monday (while...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s husband, the delightful Scotty Icenogle, to decipher another round of Don’t Be A Ditloid! Ditloids are brief word puzzles made up of numbers and abbreviations, and this time the category is simply Movie Titles! Once you’ve got the hang of it, the MegaClue will challenge you with an expert level Ditloid!
New episodes every Monday a...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome Sean’s hilarious friend Ali Wentworth back to contend with another round of The Sort ‘Em Consortium! For this game, Elliott will give you all the answers right away: they are zero, one, two, three, four, and five. Next, you’ll have to tie those numbers to six corresponding facts, using each number only once. Then, for the MegaClue, guess the ...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan invites constant contestant Sean Hayes and his good friend, the hilarious Ali Wentworth, to choose the Odd One Out! The Spice Girls have been asked to spend the night in a haunted mansion to win a million dollars for charity, but they each brought one item too many to this ghoulish sleepover - see if you can identify which item doesn’t fit the group and why, and try to do it faster th...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan invites constant contestant Sean Hayes and his good friend Carrie Aizley to swing through another round of Monkey In The Middle! Elliott will give you two words separated by a mischievous little monkey, the word “monkey” needs to be replaced with one word that will complete two common phrases. This is a fast and fun one, and the MegaClue will ask you to find a monkey that can replace ...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan invites constant contestant Sean Hayes and his good friend & business partner Carrie Aizley to play a few rounds of their new improvisational card game, Qu!ck Qu!ck Qu!ck (available on Amazon HERE), fun for players aged 8 to 108. Each player takes turns trying to answer three very silly prompts from randomly selected cards, whoever can complete the most cards in four 45 second rounds ...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes invite Sean’s good friend Jeff “JuJu” Max back for another spin through the chain of Linkuistics! We’ll give you one word which starts a two-word phrase or compound word, and the first letter of the second word, all you have to do is guess the correct phrase and keep the chain going. Once you get the hang of it, the MegaClue will ask you to create yo...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes welcome back Sean’s hilarious friend Jeff Max to tangle with the many limbs of the Word Centipede! Elliott will give you three words, and you have to figure out which new word can be added either in front of or behind them to create three new compound words! Can you do it faster than Sean and Jeff? And can you keep track of your answers to defeat the...
On this 60th episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan gives Sean a special learning segment ahead of his trip to London, an all new game - Slang Gang! Since Sean will no doubt spend much of his London stay hanging out on rooftops with chimney sweeps, we thought he needed a primer in Cockney rhyming slang, one of the most obscure and impenetrable types of slang on the planet. Can you guess what the Cockney rhyming slang terms mean be...
On this episode of ClueLess, Elliott presents SmartLess Presents ClueLess presents This Is Your Game: It’s A Numbers Game Edition, an episode that’s as long on memories as it is words in its title. Each iteration of the game concerns a different category, but the rules are always the same: we will give you two famous titles with their numbers missing, your job is to fill in the blanks, complete the equation, and answer in the form ...
On this episode of ClueLess, host Elliott Kalan and constant contestant Sean Hayes ask Sean’s good friend Jeff Max to accompany them on another tour through State Of Confusion! Elliott’s been traveling around these United States, and he’ll give you a brief clue describing his trip; find one letter to drop between the postal abbreviations of the states he mentions to solve the clue. Keep track of all the letters you add, you’ll need...
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