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Loogaroo:
Games where the main game is playing out the same process over and over again. The win condition generally involves either reaching a particular score threshold (like Joker's Wild being a race to $500) or playing a best of 3 match of smaller games (Card Sharks, High Rollers, etc.). Straddling works in these situations because it's easy to explain where the game state was when starting a new episode.
PYL probably doesn't work as a straddle because you're constantly jumping back and forth between question and spin rounds, and then having to carry over three players' scores, spin and Whammy counts from one day to the next would be a lot of info to debrief the audience on the following day.
TLEberle:
Scrabble managed until 1986 or so, but it was the same goal for both the crossword and the Sprint.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: alfonzos on January 23, 2025, 07:20:05 PM ---Your show is doomed if the title contains the word "Machine."
--- End quote ---
Not The George Michael Sports Machine.
Loogaroo:
I always thought that touting your new series as "TV's ____est new game show" was a kiss of death.
bulldog_06:
Today's game shows have the fakest contestants. The new shows have some of the worst. Watching tonight's episode of HS is an example.
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