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That Don Guy:
[quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 4 2003, 10:05 PM\'] The original idea behind my post was a contestant doing something that would ruin a game. Like Monty saying "Which curtain do you want?" and a contestant then running across the stage and looking behind the curtains. [/quote]
Didn't this happen on an episode of Sanford & Son once (where somebody - I think it was Fred (Redd Foxx's character) - was on LMAD and looked behind a curtain to see what was behind it before trading what he had)?

As for the 3 Strikes "incident", I remember one where a contestant looked like she was trying to see whether she had a strike or a number, and Bob more or less gave her a warning; she did it a second time (with the last number needed for the car), and you could tell Bob was not overly excited that she had won.  (And wasn't there a show from this season where the contestant had the strike and looked like he/she tried to drop it back into the bag before pulling it out all the way?  I think Bob half-joked about what the contestant tried to do, and did count it as a strike.)

The closest I can think of to "cheating" besides those incidents was a woman playing "Pick A Number"; she told Bob what number she wanted, then (obviously misunderstanding the rules) she pulled up the correct number herself (but since it wasn't the one she had said, she lost).

-- Don

DrBear:
I don't know if it's the same thing, but supposedly Samuel Goldwyn once blabbed to two WML panelists that he'd be that Sunday's Mystery Guest.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Dec 5 2003, 12:11 AM\']I don't know if it's the same thing, but supposedly Samuel Goldwyn once blabbed to two WML panelists that he'd be that Sunday's Mystery Guest.[/quote]
In that instance the two panelists immediately disqualified themselves, following standard procedure.

There was the one instance where Walter Winchell found out a Mystery Guest booking and put it in his column.  In that instance, the Mystery Guest came out and then Daly asked the panel to take off their blindfolds.  He then mentioned the incident without mentioning Winchell's name, did the plug for whatever the Mystery Guest was promoting, sent him/her off the shake the panel's hands and then immediately brought out another Mystery Guest that Winchell hadn't been tipped on.

Johnissoevil:
I must admit to a time I was tempted to cheat on one of GSN's Interactive originals, and hopefully, you people won't think any less of me, since I did make the right decision in the end.  I was watching the first airing of Whammy! one night, and I wrote down all of the info, when someone would Whammy, the right answers, etc.  I was going to use that info for the rerun later that night.  Just couldn't bring myself to do it.  Unfair disadvantage there, so I figured the hell with it.

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Dec 4 2003, 10:47 PM\'] [quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Dec 4 2003, 10:05 PM\'] The original idea behind my post was a contestant doing something that would ruin a game. Like Monty saying "Which curtain do you want?" and a contestant then running across the stage and looking behind the curtains. [/quote]
Didn't this happen on an episode of Sanford & Son once (where somebody - I think it was Fred (Redd Foxx's character) - was on LMAD and looked behind a curtain to see what was behind it before trading what he had)?

As for the 3 Strikes "incident", I remember one where a contestant looked like she was trying to see whether she had a strike or a number, and Bob more or less gave her a warning; she did it a second time (with the last number needed for the car), and you could tell Bob was not overly excited that she had won.  (And wasn't there a show from this season where the contestant had the strike and looked like he/she tried to drop it back into the bag before pulling it out all the way?  I think Bob half-joked about what the contestant tried to do, and did count it as a strike.)

The closest I can think of to "cheating" besides those incidents was a woman playing "Pick A Number"; she told Bob what number she wanted, then (obviously misunderstanding the rules) she pulled up the correct number herself (but since it wasn't the one she had said, she lost).

-- Don [/quote]
"Bubba, I won a watch!" That was Fred all right...funny episode too, even though they somehow let him keep the watch*. :-)

*I know, I know, it's TV.

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