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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by JasonA1 on December 10, 2025, 10:43:11 PM »
"If I recall correctly" talking about the co-author of "The Memory Book."

-Jason
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by TLEberle on December 10, 2025, 08:34:58 PM »
Intend your puns! What was the pun? Seemed like a bit of a divergence to drop the tidbit.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Bob Zager on December 10, 2025, 08:20:24 PM »
Harry Lorayne tried to remember 10, three digit numbers back in 1980, on The Guinness Game.  He was unsuccessful.  His co-author of "The Memory Book," former pro-basketball player Jerry Lucas, was a contestant during season two of $128,000 Question, taking winnings of $16,000, IIRC (no pun intended).
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The Big Board / Re: Ebay The price is right Plinko Chips
« Last post by Clay Zambo on December 10, 2025, 11:09:28 AM »
Not these, obviously, and not the smaller ones from that 3D-printing Etsy seller, but I really want a set of Plinko-chip coasters.
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The Big Board / Re: Ebay The price is right Plinko Chips
« Last post by ClockGameJohn on December 10, 2025, 01:37:49 AM »
Quote from: MSTieScott on December 02, 2025, 07:20:42 PM
I did know that the actual Plinko chips used on the show are kept in a locked container, and there are only ten of them.

There were actually at least 11 originally made in 1982. As you know, like most every other game on the show, a duplicate set of small props exists. For Plinko, there was at least one “test” Chip used by the stagehands or staff when testing the board so that the chips on air would not get damaged or visibly worn. It would actually make sense that that made a full set for that purpose, but I can’t say for certain. I do, however, know the whereabouts of a test chip marked “Stage Right Props.”

Quote from: MSTieScott on December 02, 2025, 07:20:42 PM
In the end, we concluded that while his chip looked real, it was possible it came from the live show.

The value and condition (and approximate size) leads me to believe the same thing for these. I have a set of them which look very similar (and off colored from the real chip).
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Argo on December 09, 2025, 11:22:24 PM »
Quote from: aaron sica on November 26, 2025, 11:58:19 PM
Not sure if it’s the same person or not but there was a Harry Lorayne who hawked a “Memory Power” on Amazing Discoveries in the early 1990s.

Here's Harry in action on Paul Daniels show from 1980.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Kevin Prather on December 09, 2025, 09:11:37 PM »
Quote from: TLEberle on December 09, 2025, 08:35:08 PM
I think the notion is that it would be kinda weird and not great if every time you spin we get a look at not your smiling face but the top of your dome.

I've also heard it said that the producers would rather have you spend that time studying the puzzle.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by TLEberle on December 09, 2025, 08:35:08 PM »
I think the notion is that it would be kinda weird and not great if every time you spin we get a look at not your smiling face but the top of your dome.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by PYLdude on December 09, 2025, 08:13:41 PM »
While I wouldn’t doubt that a guy who won $60k plus on Wheel would be made aware of the rules, how exactly are you not supposed have your eyes on the wheel even for a second? And how easy was it to finesse the wheel?
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by whewfan on December 09, 2025, 05:17:20 PM »
A few I can think of...

Philip Cousin told me when he was on Wheel, they told him and the others not to look at the wheel upon spinning it. They didn't want anyone trying to finesse the wheel spin to land exactly where they wanted it, and if they suspected you looked at the wheel, they'd make you re-spin.

Randy Amasia told me and a group of game show fans that on Whew!, they were discouraged from saying "I don't know" as a response to a blooper if you didn't know... either make a wild guess or say nothing, not that it was a rule, just something they discouraged.

Not really a rule, but Frank Wayne later had an aversion to potential contestants saying "I don't believe it!" on TPIR. He would discourage the producers from picking contestants that uttered that phrase in line.

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