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The Big Board / Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by aaron sica on November 06, 2025, 06:43:07 AM »
Flipping over the other thread for the opposite.

Any shows where you preferred the main game OVER the bonus round?

I can only think of one - Classic Concentration. I much preferred trying to solve the puzzles (even if I was never very good at it) more than watching someone play for a car.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Ian Wallis on November 05, 2025, 10:49:11 PM »
I agree with Magnificent Marble Machine.  The front game was boring.  I remember watching it originally and it seemed forever until they actually played the machine.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 09:39:51 PM »
Winning Lines is often considered one of the worst formats with one of the best bonus rounds.
Even at 17, I thought the Wonderwall should've been the main attraction with a simple qualifier like a Fastest Finger. More than a decade later* nothing has changed.

*/Shut up that was only 12 years ago
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Winkfan on November 05, 2025, 09:21:10 PM »
Card Sharks.

Hear! Hear! Might I put in a good word for:
The Big Showdown; their bonus round was boss!
The Magnificent Marble Machine; I really enjoyed that one.
Now You See It; one of the better "play-along" ones.
Blockbusters; see under NYSI.

Cordially,
Tammy
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Nick on November 05, 2025, 08:26:08 PM »
I don't understand the premise of the question.  Isn't the bonus round supposed to be the most exciting part of the show, the one part everybody looks forward to seeing at the end?

If you're Frank Wayne producing The Nighttime Price Is Right, you're treating the Showcase that way.  I rather liked that approach, though I think it goes without saying the pricing games make for the far more exciting part of the show.

My hot sideways take: Jackpot was such a great game it didn't need a bonus round.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 08:25:07 PM »
Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by Nick on November 05, 2025, 08:15:57 PM »
The "vowels only remaining" chirps from Wheel, as the rarity of their sounding these days typifies how the game has shifted from trying to spin and call every consonant possible in order to earn the cash to win prizes, to being able to win the game without much spinning at all thanks to there being no such concept as "score money" in the game with numerous Toss-Ups and bonuses tacked onto just solving puzzles.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by That Don Guy on November 05, 2025, 07:54:57 PM »
Two from Celebrity Sweepstakes come to mind: the "scratch horn" when a question was scratched, which they didn't need in the final episodes as the contestants no longer wrote down their answers except in the Homestretch and All Or Nothing rounds, where scratches were edited out and replayed, and the "dinner bell" for when only one celebrity got a Homestretch question right (and the odds automatically doubled).
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The Big Board / Broken Quotes & Overquoting (PLEASE READ)
« Last post by JasonA1 on November 05, 2025, 05:42:01 PM »
Broken quotes and oversized quotes are getting to be a growing problem. If you make a post and see that your comment is buried inside a quote, please edit your post to be correct. The mods shouldn't have to go on a treasure hunt for what piece is a new contribution from you vs. what pieces are quotes from previous messages.

If this feels beyond your scope of board knowledge, a safe bet is to make sure the "end quote" tag comes before anything you have to say (it's the word "quote" inside of brackets with a slash before the word quote). And also look that there's not a "start quote" tag anywhere after your comment (that's just the word "quote" inside of brackets).

In our video threads, please do not keep including the embedded video(s) in your quotes. They come up full size in your message, and make the threads unnecessarily long. We know the thread's about that video -- it's in the original post.

Thanks!

-Jason
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by jcs290 on November 05, 2025, 05:31:47 PM »
I think it’s a sound effect? The pla-dunk sound of someone inserting a scrabble tile into the slot on Scrabble. It’s subtle, but always made me think as a kid that something mechanical was happening under the desk to catch and sort the tiles for the next game.

All the sound effects on that show were unique and amazing, but mostly forgotten outside of diehard fan circles.
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