Are You Observant? (game)

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Are You Observant? was one of the comical "game" sections of Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett's The Doctor Who Fun Book.

A mockery of usual "how many details about a given picture can you remember form a glimpse?"-type test, it presented a picture of a zoomed-out starfield and then demanded answers about what was going on at a human scale on various planets located within said starfield, as though they had been visible.

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If you're a keen Doctor Who viewer then you will know that the planet Earth is a favourite target in the Seven Galaxies. Due to this situation it is imperative that we remain ever vigilant against surprise attacks. We therefore present a simple test for you to determine whether your family has been infiltrated…

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  • This story gave yet again more details about the mysterious Snipes, an alien race used in two other works within The Doctor Who Fun Book (The Universe Marathon [+]Loading...["The Universe Marathon (game)"] and The Final Script [+]Loading...["The Final Script (comic story)"]) and suggested by a footnote in the former of these two stories to be slated to become a recurring enemy of the Doctor in the then-nonexistent Season 33 of the TV series.