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Game Shows based on playing cards
clemon79:
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on December 14, 2024, 05:39:40 PM ---In a genre that goes back to the earliest days of television, isn't that odd?
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I don't know that it is!
Ponder: rjaguar3's point about card games with hidden information not translating well to a flashing-lights big-money game-show format is pretty solid, which mostly reduces you at that point to open-handed casino games. And to the average Ammurican household TV viewer (particularly in the '50s through the '80s), there are exactly two of those: poker and blackjack. Gambit and its derivatives cornered the market on blackjack, which leaves poker, and there's pretty much only one way to play poker open-handed: basic draw poker. And even Pay Cards has SOME level of hidden information; they just made it part of the game by having the players draw their hands off of the game board.
If anything, give points to Card Sharks for coming up with a lasting format that was only BARELY derivative of an existing casino game...that was in turn then reimagined into an actual table game on its own.
Joe Mello:
If you extend the definition of "based on playing cards" to include games without physical cards, you can include things like Give-N-Take and Say When, which are effectively Blackjack with prizes in lieu of cards. You also have Concentration, which I would argue is the most successful "card game" game show of them all. I would not say that Twenty-One is based on a card game but it's certainly evocative of one and probably was meant to be.
While I would not classify them as card-based, I can see how Lucky 13 and 10 Seconds might look like trick-taking games (assuming you squinted and had 20/200 vision to begin with).
Neumms:
--- Quote from: Joe Mello on December 16, 2024, 04:13:30 PM ---I would not say that Twenty-One is based on a card game but it's certainly evocative of one and probably was meant to be.
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A foreign game, but Poker Face was the same thing. It could be a great game, though that title might seem like a bait-and-switch.
I’ve thought a game based on draw poker could work in which you answer questions (or something) for the right to change cards. I suppose that was Spin-Off, closer to Yahtzee of course but both with essentially poker hands.
trainman:
--- Quote from: Bob Zager on December 16, 2024, 01:13:04 PM ---Re: Championship Bridge, what does not make sense to me is the IMDB website classifies the series genre as "Sport."
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The Charles Schulz/Jim Sasseville sports-themed comic strip "It's Only a Game," which ran from 1957 to 1959, had one "bridge" panel every week.
vtown7:
--- Quote from: Neumms on December 17, 2024, 12:29:10 AM ---
--- Quote from: Joe Mello on December 16, 2024, 04:13:30 PM ---I would not say that Twenty-One is based on a card game but it's certainly evocative of one and probably was meant to be.
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A foreign game, but Poker Face was the same thing. It could be a great game, though that title might seem like a bait-and-switch.
I’ve thought a game based on draw poker could work in which you answer questions (or something) for the right to change cards. I suppose that was Spin-Off, closer to Yahtzee of course but both with essentially poker hands.
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Side note: I thought the original name of Poker Face that was used in Australia - (The) Con Test - was a brilliant name and wish they have had kept that for all versions.
R.
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