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Bob Zager:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on May 16, 2025, 05:45:30 PM ---Is this the first time that two different companies will be allowed to sell full box (i.e. non-travel) versions of home games?
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No. Back in 2016, I assumed that Cardinal Industries, which was bought by Spin Master, became the new licensee to Family Feud games when their Disney Edition FF was promoted on their prime-time Celebrity series. Though in early 2017, Endless Games released their sixth edition game and within six months. their 40th Anniversary edition! A major difference Cardinal/Spin Master's games featured all regular and Fast Money round questions on cards, and two different pads of pre-printed paper for use during games, regular and Fast Money rounds. EG had all questions/answers (both regular and FM) printed in a booklet, and a dry erase folding board to write on! Also EG had Steve Harvey's photo on box cover, whereas Cardinal/SM did not.
By 2019, EG no longer had any licensing right to FF, and Cardinal/SM/Imagination Gaming began using the dry erase board concept, as well as featuring Harvey's photo on box cover!
I think, by my own observation, similar games just don't have to be designed 100% the exact same as I just described earlier. I could be wrong, but I am not a lawyer (IANAL), and never heard of any legal troubles during that time.
With the Pressman edition looking the same as we know it to be like, the Just Play version will have a differently designed puzzle board, a different wheel, and, of course, Ryan Seacrest's photo on the box, according to early viewing. Of course, back in 1999, Hasbro's prototype boxes for WOF, J! and HS home games featured photos of Vanna, Alex Trebek, and Tom Bergeron/Whoopi Goldberg respectively (the actual products DID NOT!)
Jeremy Nelson:
I received the large Plinko game from Costco as a birthday present this year- it's basically a larger version of the previous effort released at Target a handful of years ago, right down to the sound effects, the board coming in two pieces, and the chips falling off the board mid-descent more times than I'd like to admit. The game comes with 20 (!) chips- 10 pink and 10 blue. There's also a QR code for anyone interested in using the included pricing game rounds to determine who gets chips.
I'm happy with it because these are the things I would've loved if they made when I was 10.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on July 09, 2025, 05:31:26 PM ---The game comes with 20 (!) chips- 10 pink and 10 blue.
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Are there game rules that require that many chips? Because as a play-at-home exercise, it seems the total number of chips required to perform this exercise as many times as you wish...is one.
/Unless all the pink and blue is for a Price themed gender reveal party
Sodboy13:
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on July 09, 2025, 06:01:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on July 09, 2025, 05:31:26 PM ---The game comes with 20 (!) chips- 10 pink and 10 blue.
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Are there game rules that require that many chips? Because as a play-at-home exercise, it seems the total number of chips required to perform this exercise as many times as you wish...is one.
/Unless all the pink and blue is for a Price themed gender reveal party
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The game comes standard with 10 chips, 5 pink and 5 blue, as indicated on the box and on the storage slots in the back of the board. The extra pack of chips is one of those "Costco bonuses" that gives the buyer more a little more of something than a standard package for shopping there. Not a big whoop, but nice to have if, for example, you live in a house with two boys under age 12 and a very sniffy and chewy dog.
Neumms:
I’ve been checking Plinko’s price when I’m at Costco and it’s rather up and down: originally $99.99, a couple weeks ago $79.99, yesterday up to $89.99.
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