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clemon79:
I like word games, and puzzle games, and here's why:

What I like about games in general is that they place the contestants in a closed system, give them a simple set of rules explaining how to excel in that system (this is usually \"earn the most money or points, and here's how you earn them\"), and then set about seeing who the best is. Watching a game show, then, is like an escape from everyday life. Welcome to our world, here's how our world works, and for the next half hour the real world doesn't matter. And, oh, do you think YOU could thrive in our world? Well, if yer gonna be in the LA area...

Anyhow. The reason I like word and puzzle games is because, under this concept, they provide the greatest removal from regular life. Price Is Right, you have to remember what things cost in the real world. Jeopardy requires you to know all KINDS of things about the real world. You can have not read a newspaper in a solid year and more or less get by on Password.
 
This is not to say that the other genres are worthless...hell, I'm as much a Loyal Friend And True of TPiR as anyone. But word and puzzle games seem to be the great equalizer. They test skills that can't be learned. You can memorize the encyclopedia, and kick ass on Jeopardy, but if you can't communicate it effectively, you're going to spend a lot of time at that desk watching the other guy in the Winner's Circle.

uncamark:
Personally, almost any show in a pinch, but given a choice I'll generally take a Q&A or a word game over something else.  LIke almost everyone else around here, I generally won't watch a relationship game more than the minimum number of times it takes to get the format (although if \"Singled Out\" was either in the first or last round, for some reason the remote would always stop--I liked to watch the parade of contestants go by and the last round music cue--unless it was one of the shows where Piano Boy used something else for the last round besides the standard cue).

And I have a prejudice towards Q&A because it's the genre that I think I'll do the best at--if I'm not flustered of finally facing cameras pointed at me and Alex or Meredith in the flesh across from me.

Matt Ottinger:
I'm torn too.  I admire a well-constructed puzzle or word-association game, and if you broadly include the panel shows in that general category, then virtually all of my favorites come from that.  However, I'm sure I would personally do better in a Q&A game, and of course there's a local one in particular that's helping me pay the bills...

dickoon:
For once in my life on this board, someone else is reading this topic at the same time as I am and I have a feeling that they're going to post exactly the same way I do here at about the same time.

I salute the daring, innovative adventure game show, particularly one with puzzles as intricate and crafty as The Crystal Maze, with a plot as fascinating as The Mole or with tension as dramatic or stakes as high as that of Interceptor. Actually, I salute the innovative game show that arrives ahead of its time pretty much full stop, though of course not every innovation is one in the right direction.

Paging Mr. B. Bother,
Chris

gameshowhost1:
I'm a huge fan of word games and always have been.  One of my all time favorites was Merv Griffin's \"Word For Word.\"  I have the home game and thoroughly love playing it with anybody who will sit down for a while with me.  I was always a \"Password\" fan and I have grown to really enjoy \"Lingo.\"  \"Scrabble\" was always a favorite, too.

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