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Seems like, by around season 32 of TPIR, in Card Game, if you drew an ace, the unwritten rule became "give me your total bid on the car" rather than being given the option of playing it immediately or holding it for later. Bob still said they were wild and that you could make them any amount you wish, but by that point I rarely heard him discuss holding the ace. Time constraints surely had something to do with that.
Not only that, but as the sell to the front game was to test the players' abilities to "judge human nature", it becomes really boring really quickly if there's nothing something to add personality behind the guesses the contestants make. Particularly with the NBC version (since it's the one I've seen the most of and enjoyed the most that I'll comment upon it), they were good at casting energetic personalities who could spin good yarns for why they think thirty kids out of a hundred (or more or fewer than that) have ever been bullied out of their lunch money, or other platitudinous questions
I think contestants on Card Sharks were probably encouraged to explain their logic for another, more cynical reason as well. Longer explanations lead to longer questions. Longer questions lead to longer games. Longer games means fewer trips to the Money Cards each week.
It's the same reason Password Plus and Super Password would air deadball puzzles - the fewer bonus rounds you play over the course of a week, the less money you have to shell out.
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.Even without the zero, there's only six combinations.
Yes. Often the first block placed was the Level 6 block by the civilian.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:Quote17. When blocking, I may start on any level, but having selected a level, I can not put a block on a lower level.
I think they ended up dropping that when the celebs came on.
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:Quote17. When blocking, I may start on any level, but having selected a level, I can not put a block on a lower level.
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.