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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Steve Gavazzi on November 23, 2025, 04:38:52 AM »
Quote from: Neumms on November 23, 2025, 01:20:55 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."
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Neumms on November 23, 2025, 01:20:55 AM »
Match Game never mentioned when using the “sudden death” tie-breaker what happened if the contestants wrote the same answer.

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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by trainman on November 23, 2025, 01:14:45 AM »
Quote from: Ian Wallis on November 21, 2025, 03:28:52 PM
I don't watch the show every day anymore but I'm pretty sure there was a case earlier this year where a $5 wager was made on a Daily Double.

Alex would sometimes comment after someone made that wager, "$5, our minimum bet," but I don't think Ken has ever specified that (it really only happens once or twice a season, if that).
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The Big Board / Re: "I'm still hoping for (more) episodes of this to surface..."
« Last post by jw2001 on November 21, 2025, 11:49:35 PM »
Double Dare (1986) - The first taped episode (The Express vs. The High Flyers, features the Nightmare obstacle), but in pristine quality. That particular episode never aired on Nick GAS (as far as I know), nor is it available on Paramount Plus. I have a VHS copy but it's in rough shape.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by JasonA1 on November 21, 2025, 09:19:29 PM »
re: the 2-point minimum on Family Feud, Scott was saying that it hasn't come up on the air in decades.

-Jason
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The Big Board / Re: "I'm still hoping for (more) episodes of this to surface..."
« Last post by Game Girl on November 21, 2025, 08:42:47 PM »
I always I am excited any time a 7 keys episode resurfaces. (which is pretty rare) I just love shoots and ladders, so I was excited when I found this game show that use that concept. The Magnificent Marble Machine is another game show I would love to see more episodes of.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by TLEberle on November 21, 2025, 08:36:38 PM »
I’m positive I’ve heard Richard mentioning that a minimum of two respondents were required—can you really say that one person answering flugelhorn is a popular answer?
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by SamJ93 on November 21, 2025, 08:22:59 PM »
Quote from: MSTieScott on November 21, 2025, 04:05:29 PM
More in the spirit of the question initially posed at the beginning of this thread: I wonder whether Family Feud viewers ever wonder why a Fast Money answer is never worth 1 point. I don't think that's been explained for literal decades.

I don't think I've ever heard it explained before either--what is the reason? And I'm pretty sure I've never seen a 1-point answer in the front game, either, although I'm admittedly not a regular viewer of any version.

One more that I thought of: on Catch 21, Alfonso frequently glossed over the rule in the bonus round that the contestant is not allowed to quit the game immediately after power-chipping a card. It took a few episodes for me to figure that out.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 21, 2025, 07:19:28 PM »
Quote from: TimK2003 on November 21, 2025, 04:44:40 PM
Did Card Sharks require contestants to explain their predictions before giving their answer?  I don't think I ever heard a CS host tell a player flat out to come up with a one- or two-sentence answer before giving a number of a higher/lower answer...sometimes the hosts had them expound on their reasoning, but that was at the host's discretion.
Dunno how heavily it was enforced, but for a show offering $30K a day when that could still buy you a condo, I imagine Goodson and/or Todman definitely didn't argue against the practice. I also imagine simply saying the number would get monotonous quick.

EDIT: meant to send this earlier but Tim and I are on the same page.
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The Big Board / Re: Unspoken rules on game shows
« Last post by Loogaroo on November 21, 2025, 07:16:13 PM »
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.
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