Unspoken rules on game shows

[Neumms]

I for one whenever I play along always try to associate the number selected with the prize shown... (e.g. Luggage under # 14, I think "Luggage needed for a 14 day vacation", or "Refrigerator under #23, I associate 23 degrees being cold, freezing even, like a Refrigerator...of course that logic could work with all 25 numbers on the board!

Do you or anyone remember a so-called “memory expert” who made the TV rounds back in the 70s? I’m sure he was a guest on Wonderama for one. Your strategy was what he suggested.

[TLEberle]

Harry Lorrayne?

[aaron sica]

Not sure if it’s the same person or not but there was a Harry Lorayne who hawked a “Memory Power” on Amazing Discoveries in the early 1990s.

[TLEberle]

I would have misremembered the spelling. I believe Eye Guess gave out his home study course to contestants that flubbed some number of questions consecutively.

[Matt Ottinger]

First national TV appearance was in 1958.

https://ivegotasecret.nicepage.io/295

[TLEberle]

He built a house by himself? Why would he keep that a secret?

[SRIV94]

He built a house by himself? Why would he keep that a secret?

Wasn’t him—next contestant (a female—at the time females weren’t known for housebuilding).

[Ian Wallis]

In the current Family Feud, once they get to the Sudden Death face off (if nobody reaches 300 points), what happens if both contestants miss?  I've never seen it but I'd imagine they'd probably edit it out of the show rather than going back to the heads of families for the answer.