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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by jmangin on November 06, 2025, 10:06:47 AM »
The Challengers over any "Ultimate Challenge" format that stuck to/fell from the wall that month.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by Ian Wallis on November 06, 2025, 09:50:30 AM »
Since it was mentioned in the other thread I'll throw in Card Sharks.  Even when I was a teen watching the show for the first time I found the questions fascinating and the card play was interesting.

Maybe the original Chain Reaction too.  Was never a huge fan of the one-word-at-a-time question format which Stewart really milked to death.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by ChrisLambert! on November 06, 2025, 08:49:22 AM »
Obvs. the "EEYOOOOOWWW" Stinger scream from the second season of $1M Chance of a Lifetime.

Obvs. :)
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by Loogaroo on November 06, 2025, 08:34:28 AM »
I'd like to nominate the "man lost" sounder from Hit Man.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by parliboy on November 06, 2025, 08:18:49 AM »
Any Split Second besides the last one.  I know GSN shows are formulaic in certain ways, but the end-game of their Split Second was a great improvement.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by MikeK on November 06, 2025, 07:34:30 AM »
Likely unpopular opinion:  The Big ShowDown.  The game is an amazing game of strategy.  The end is dumb luck by rolling dice.

Musical Chairs too, especially that first incarnation of the bonus round.
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The Big Board / Re: Go! episode order
« Last post by tvwxman on November 06, 2025, 07:26:35 AM »
Quote from: aaron sica on November 04, 2025, 07:11:48 AM
In the east coast at least, Go's competition was possibly two other game shows - I say "possibly" because it definitely wasn't the same in all markets. ABC's noon offering was Feud, which at this point was a year and a half away from ending its right (and no doubt not being carried in most markets because noon news). CBS's "noon" offering was Tattletales, which was either carried at other times (9:30 a.m. in Philly and maybe Baltimore) or not at all. "Noon" in quotes because the official time slot of the show was 4 p.m.

If you lived in a market that had tv stations that knew what they were doing with their news product, chances are you never saw the noontime game shows...... Miami/Ft Laud definitely is a solid example of this.
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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 »
Quote from: Kevin Prather on November 05, 2025, 06:34:11 AM
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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