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  • Published: 8 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781473534612
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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Only Connect

The Difficult Second Quiz Book




From Victoria Coren Mitchell and the team at the world’s most fiendishly difficult quiz show, a brand-new compendium of Only Connect connections, sequences, and brain-busting challenges.

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If you have to ask… you’re in the right place.

The fiendishly difficult quiz is back – and this time it draws on years of Only Connect brilliance.
From the cult BBC series Only Connect comes the all-new official quiz book, packed with the kind of gloriously lateral-thinking puzzles that have made it the toughest quiz on television.

Compiled by Only Connect question-setter (and former champion) Jack Waley-Cohen, this brand-new volume features 200 questions, including never-before-broadcast material and puzzles exclusive to the book.

Inside are 9 complete quiz games, each following the classic four rounds, building towards your own grand final. Think you could make the show? Try the bonus audition round, based on real audition questions designed to separate the merely clever from the truly obsessive.

Expect baffling connections, tortuous sequences and answers that arrive just too late. You’ll be hunting vowels, scaling walls and making leaps of logic that feel impossible – until they aren’t.


With an introduction by host Victoria Coren Mitchell, this is the perfect quiz book for trivia lovers, puzzle fans and Only Connect devotees alike. Whether you’re playing solo or assembling your own team (agonising over the name optional but encouraged), it’s the full Only Connect experience at home.

So, fingers on buzzers. No conferring. And please, try not to say what everyone’s thinking ...

  • Published: 8 October 2026
  • ISBN: 9781473534612
  • Imprint: BBC Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
Categories:

About the author

Jack Waley-Cohen

Jack Waley-Cohen featured on the first ever episode of Only Connect, with his team – the Lapsed Psychologists – reaching the final. He runs various businesses – including, of course, a quiz company – and started writing questions for the show in 2014. In 2017, he took on the role of Question Editor with his colleague, David McGaughey.

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