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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Match Game never mentioned when using the “sudden death” tie-breaker what happened if the contestants wrote the same answer.