The game portray the Jeux Sans Frontières (English: Games Without Frontiers or Games Without Borders, Italian: Giochi senza frontiere, Portuguese: Jogos Sem Fronteiras, Welsh: Gemau Heb Ffiniau, Spanish: Juegos sin fronteras, Dutch: Spel zonder grenzen, German: Spiele ohne Grenzen), Croatian: Igre Bez Granica) the Europe-wide television game show.

In its original conception, it was broadcast from 1965 to 1999 under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union and featured teams from different European countries in outlandish costumes (often large latex suits) competing to complete bizarre tasks in funny games.