Author Topic: Password or Pyramid? (Read 5919 times)

joker316 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 29, 2008, 11:09:49 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'189270\' date=\'Jun 29 2008, 05:43 AM\']
As big of a Password fan as I am, the existence of a game like Pyramid is about as close as I'll ever come to acknowledging evidence of a benevolent God. There's just no question.
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Well said my friend.

And if I could go back in time, I would like to be a contestant on the original Password, move up to You Don't Say! and wrap up my "contestant career" on 100K Pyramid. The three best word association games ever invented!

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #16 on:** June 29, 2008, 12:38:54 PM »

Money aside, give me ABC Password - that's the version I first remember seeing while I was a child, and that's the version we have so little of left now. There was just a certain charm about it. I didn't have a chance to see Pyramid much in its first few years because of its time slots (couldn't skip school that often!)

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #17 on:** June 29, 2008, 02:03:44 PM »

I agree with Ian. Liz Montgomery as my partner, please.

tvwxman · « **Reply #18 on:** June 29, 2008, 03:58:39 PM »

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'189285\' date=\'Jun 29 2008, 02:03 PM\']
I agree with Ian. Liz Montgomery as my partner, please.
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100% Agreed.

Wait, what are we talking about ? Oh, "Password" Partners!

Yeah, that too.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:43:21 AM »

I'd probably take Password, in the Super/Plus era. Would honestly love to go on MDP, but I think I'm disqualified from doing so...

Would love to do Pyramid, but my biggest fear is getting flustered on TV during the front game. I kill at that* and Taboo during game night, but under lights?........

*Figuratively

/Although, I once cut a guy for buzzing me during Taboo
//'Twas just a flesh wound

clemon79 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2008, 01:57:29 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'189336\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 05:43 AM\']
/Although, I once cut a guy for buzzing me during Taboo[/quote]
"If you hit that button again, I will cut you."

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:06:47 PM »

I'd have to go with either version of the 80s Pyramid. Regular Password seems a bit too cut and dry. Also, while I enjoy watching them, I'm not particularly good at solving the puzzles on either Password Plus or Super Password.

I would prefer to be on the 80s version because it isn't one loss and done.

clemon79 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:20:12 PM »

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'189378\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 04:06 PM\']
I would prefer to be on the 80s version because it isn't one loss and done.[/quote]
Some of us don't plan on losing.

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:58:33 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'189379\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 06:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'189378\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 04:06 PM\']
I would prefer to be on the 80s version because it isn't one loss and done.[/quote]
Some of us don't plan on losing.

[/quote]Well fine, but when I get Nipsey Russell and you get Jackee Henry; no complaining.

kenbob_clarker · « **Reply #24 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:42:59 PM »

60s Password for sure. I recently found the 1962 12th Edition of Password at a local thrift store, and found out that I have somewhat of a gift with the game.

/Not to brag, of course...

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 30, 2008, 08:58:25 PM »

[quote name=\'kenbob_clarker\' post=\'189391\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 07:42 PM\']
60s Password for sure. I recently found the 1962 12th Edition of Password at a local thrift store, and found out that I have somewhat of a gift with the game.[/quote]So does this mean you're horrible at the 18th edition?

TLEberle · « **Reply #26 on:** June 30, 2008, 11:43:36 PM »

[quote name=\'joker316\' post=\'189277\' date=\'Jun 29 2008, 08:09 AM\']And if I could go back in time, I would like to be a contestant on the original Password, move up to You Don't Say! and wrap up my "contestant career" on 100K Pyramid. The three best word association games ever invented![/quote]I don't know whether I'm in the minority or the majority, but I don't see the greatness of You Don't Say. At all.

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'189378\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 04:06 PM\']I'd have to go with either version of the 80s Pyramid. Regular Password seems a bit too cut and dry. Also, while I enjoy watching them, I'm not particularly good at solving the puzzles on either Password Plus or Super Password. [/quote]What exactly does "cut and dry" mean in this case?

BrandonFG · « **Reply #27 on:** July 01, 2008, 08:41:28 AM »

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'189411\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 11:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'189378\' date=\'Jun 30 2008, 04:06 PM\']I'd have to go with either version of the 80s Pyramid. Regular Password seems a bit too cut and dry. Also, while I enjoy watching them, I'm not particularly good at solving the puzzles on either Password Plus or Super Password. [/quote]What exactly does "cut and dry" mean in this case?
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I'm guessing just a bit too simple. Give clue, hope partner gets the word early, lather-rinse-repeat. Me, personally, I love a good challenge, so I wouldn't mind, even if it meant just $250, or a few grand on the ABC version.

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #28 on:** July 01, 2008, 12:22:58 PM »

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I don't know whether I'm in the minority or the majority, but I don't see the greatness of You Don't Say. At all.

That makes two of us. I don't mind the show, and I know it was Tom Kennedy's longest-running hit, but I don't see how it could have been so popular for so long in the '60s.

I may be in the minority, but based on the '70s episodes in the trade curcuit, I actually like that version better.

joker316 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 01, 2008, 05:46:31 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'189422\' date=\'Jul 1 2008, 12:22 PM\']

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I don't know whether I'm in the minority or the majority, but I don't see the greatness of You Don't Say. At all.

That makes two of us. I don't mind the show, and I know it was Tom Kennedy's longest-running hit, but I don't see how it could have been so popular for so long in the '60s.

I may be in the minority, but based on the '70s episodes in the trade curcuit, I actually like that version better.
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I can understand your feelings (and I probably won't change your minds); but of all the offshoot word games that came out in the wake of Password's success (in the '60s), YDS! IMO was the best. I like to think of it as "phonetic Password".

And the '60's episodes were better, only because there weren't as many good celeb players in the '70s version, IMO.

My apologies for veering this topic off course.