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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by aaron sica on November 24, 2025, 07:00:33 AM »
I think the producers encourage the contestants to give some sort of reasoning behind their guess. One very good reason is to be sure they understand what's being asked. Sometimes I've seen a contestant misunderstand a question and give a reason that goes against the context of the question, in which the host advises the player what the question is asking as their reasoning doesn't match.

Looking at it through childhood eyes, when first watching the show in reruns (back when stations like KYW and WABC ran it in the morning), I hated the explanations and wished it moved faster. Through adult eyes, it would be painfully boring.

Host: How many of them said that they WOULD ___________
Contestant A: 58
Contestant B: lower
Host: It's actually HIGHER. Contestant A, you can play this card or change.

We'd have games moving at lightning speed. I don't think that's what the producers would have wanted.

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Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: "BBC Game Shows" FAST Channel on Amazon Fire TV?
« Last post by snowpeck on November 23, 2025, 11:57:45 PM »
It's not just you. It doesn't appear to be on Prime anymore. It is still on some other services such as Plex.

While searching for it, I did discover that Prime now has a FAST channel devoted to Saget-era America's Funniest Home Videos, but I digress.
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Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: "BBC Game Shows" FAST Channel on Amazon Fire TV?
« Last post by Sodboy13 on November 23, 2025, 09:33:57 PM »
There was a piece a couple of weeks ago about the death of channel numbering, and how getting rid of those reserved, memorable spaces means that platforms can just quietly yoink a channel whenever and all but the most ardent viewers of it won't notice until it's long gone. So it's more likely that you just lost your channel and not your marbles.
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Game Show Channels & Networks / "BBC Game Shows" FAST Channel on Amazon Fire TV?
« Last post by clemon79 on November 23, 2025, 09:13:56 PM »
Okay, this is driving me nuts.

For a while I was watching a "BBC Game Shows" channel on my Amazon Fire TV stick. Largely it was blocks of shows that would rotate in and out; some of the common titles were The Edge, The Answer Run, The Boss, Wonderball, and some others I'm prolly not remembering. (Sometimes they would run marathons of Bargain Hunt, which is not a game show. Fight me.)

Anyhow, I can't for the LIFE of me find it now. I would just pluck it out of Recently Watched, but it cycled off of that because I have been binging 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown on the Channel 4 app. I don't remember finding it anyplace obscure, it was just there. Where the heck was I watching it? Is it still a thing?

Thanks for any help. :)
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Chuck Sutton on November 23, 2025, 06:02:28 PM »
On Family Feud in the main game if a player gives two answers at once( accidently or intentionally)  the rest of family barred from giving second answer.

Steve Harvey will usually only mention the rule when other family steals with the answer.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by MikeK on November 23, 2025, 02:23:47 PM »
When playing Ten Chances on TPIR, I don't remember it ever being specified that the contestant is guaranteed the first prize. Realistically, if one of the three numbers is a zero, there could only be three incorrect guesses before the right price is obvious (and the audience would be screaming it!), so I guess there's no reason to bring it up.
Using the same "last number is a zero" logic, if the contestant knows that every price ends in zero (and that is an unwritten rule; Bob mentioned it at a taping I was at in 2001 when someone didn't know that), the contestant will win both small prizes and get at least one attempt at the car.

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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by PYLclark86 on November 23, 2025, 01:49:42 PM »
Speaking of Whew!, I don't recall them ever mentioning that you had to place your blocks from bottom to top. Per the contestant agreement:

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17. When blocking, I may start on any level, but having selected a level, I can not put a block on a lower level.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Bob Zager on November 23, 2025, 01:26:34 PM »
Although long extinct from television,  On Whew!, Tom Kennedy did not always following up his saying only one block on the sixth level, with, "that is if you choose."  I also recall once watching an episode and the contestant called for one of the clues on level six with lots of time on the clock.  The player either gave a wrong answer to the "blooper," or hit a block, losing five seconds.  The player then said "Longshot," and Tom Kennedy looked lost, and was cued or realized himself, the player could not call "Longshot," once he/she was on the sixth level.  If it were allowed, potentially there could've been just an incorrectly answered clue revealed on the board, and lead to being blocked out.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by thomas_meighan on November 23, 2025, 01:19:40 PM »
When playing Ten Chances on TPIR, I don't remember it ever being specified that the contestant is guaranteed the first prize. Realistically, if one of the three numbers is a zero, there could only be three incorrect guesses before the right price is obvious (and the audience would be screaming it!), so I guess there's no reason to bring it up.

When watching the show as a youngster (and before I was aware of the show's ins and outs), I sometimes wondered what they'd do if a contestant never got off prize #1, as there's only enough room on the right-hand side of the board for the car to slide to if the player never gets off prize #2.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Ian Wallis on November 23, 2025, 09:54:27 AM »
Match Game never mentioned when using the “sudden death” tie-breaker what happened if the contestants wrote the same answer.

My guess would be that that's because "what happened" was "it gets edited out of the show."

That's what happens.  A couple of times I heard Gene say something like "this is the third tiebreaker", which is confusing because the other two were edited out.
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