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Possible lost pilot--"The Ungame"

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SamJ93:
About a year ago, I previously shared a video from KamSandwich, a YouTuber who reviews obscure, weird and just plain bad board games. While his latest video is mostly unrelated to game shows, it does contain an interesting nugget worth noting here...

Apparently, there were two attempts at making a game show out of The Ungame, which isn't so much a board game as it is "non-competitive Candy Land with icebreaker questions." The sole existing source is this 1981 newspaper interview with the game's creator, who claims that the first attempt made it as far as the pilot stage, but she disliked the fact that the unnamed host made snarky responses to the contestants' answers, which is completely against the spirit of the game. A second attempt, which didn't make it far past the office pitch, would've apparently been a life-size board game involving giant dice and cards.

Any of our industry insiders here able to corroborate this, perchance?

Clay Zambo:
Three, if you count my attempt. But since I didn’t make anything successful enough to even pitch to a friend, I guess you wouldn’t. ;)

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