Note to the Pointless team: if you have a contestant coming in whose name is Clint, maybe think about spacing the L and the I out a little? Or switching fonts? Just a thought.

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Fans of the BBC game show were left confused by Clint's uppercase name badge on Monday night, mistaking the word for something else...

https://twitter.com/geeyoung/status/790829953034117120
https://twitter.com/Antiguamann/status/790590292915261440
https://twitter.com/Brodrick77James/status/790598794001969152
https://twitter.com/PinkerbeIl/status/790592005634191361

And then there was the dawning realisation:

https://twitter.com/Listen2Jonnie/status/790589597239640064
https://twitter.com/JQW/status/790590368748306436

Of course, this is not the first time the game show, fronted by Richard Osman and Alexander Armstrong, has had a Clint. Clints of years gone by have suffered from the exact same problem.

Take this Clint from three years ago:

https://twitter.com/IAmLawton/status/334715579942457345
https://twitter.com/Teestainer/status/334716023418798081

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It might be time for the programme-makers to invest in a special Clint name badge... before things get really out of hand.

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