| Genre: | Game show |
| Presenter: | Aeron Pughe |
| Voices: | Dylan Ebenezer |
| Theme Music Composer: | Marc Sylvan Richard Jacques |
| Country: | Wales, United Kingdom |
| Language: | Welsh |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 6 |
| Location: | Bounce Below, Llechwedd Slate Caverns |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Company: | Boom Cymru |
| Network: | S4C |
Y Siambr (pronounced as /cy/, meaning The Chamber) is a television game show, first broadcast in 2019 on the Welsh language channel S4C. It is claimed to be the first underground game show, filmed entirely in the Llechwedd Slate Caverns of Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales.[1] [2]
The programmes are presented by Aeron Pughe (who said he was "shaking with fear" when he first saw the location).[3] In each programme two teams of three players compete to win challenges on the four levels of caverns, via netted cages and zip wires suspended inside the caves. Examples of the challenges include:
After reaching the bottom of the cave, the winning team has to solve puzzles to crack a code, to be able to escape to the daylight.
The programme is produced by Boom Cymru and the idea was first conceived after one of the executive producers and his family visited Bounce Below's deep cave trampoline centre, at the Llechwedd Slate Caverns in Blaenau Ffestiniog. The concept took two years to come to fruition.
Each level of the caverns was rigged with equipment and cameras. With mainly unstable trampoline floors, camera crew were required to hang from the ceilings to get a steady footage.
The slate caverns were closed from 18 January 2019, with the production team and contestants filming the whole series from 25 to 29 January.[4]