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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Dbacksfan12 on July 28, 2007, 04:55:37 AM
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Of all of the game show games out there, which is your favorite?
And, if the game is not your favorite, which game do you think was adapated the best?
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'158900\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 01:55 AM\']
Of all of the game show games out there, which is your favorite?
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Password.
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Favorite: The Who, What or Where Game.
Best adapted: Concentration.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'158900\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 04:55 AM\']
Of all of the game show games out there, which is your favorite?
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Wheel of Fortune Deluxe. Not any of these crappy "we've got $5,000 on the wheel ALL THE TIME!!!111!!!", but the one with the wedges.
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Favorite: (Classic) Concentration.
Best adapted: High Rollers '88.
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I would love to poll this group to see which home games are owned, played and popular. Anyway, some game make the leap from the tube to the box unadulterated. these boxed games capture the their television counterparts exactly: Blockbusters (Milton Bradley screwed up the Gold Run and Waddingtons made it a separate game), Break the Bank (Milton Bradley), By the Numbers, Card Sharks, Deal or No Deal (but it's a dumb game), Dealer's Choice, Diamond Head Game (except the bonus game which calls for a wind chamber), Double Dare, Down You Go, Dream House, Eye Guess, Family Game (lose the superfluous gameboard), High Rollers (Parker Brothers), I'm Telling, Jeopardy! (Parker Brothers), The Match Game (no bonus game though), Newlywed Game, Now You See It, Pyramid (Cardinal and Endless Games editions), Password Plus, Pay Cards, Snap Judgment, Talk About (assuming you have twin isolation booths at home), Top Secret, Twenty One (see Talk About comment), Two for the Money, Weakest Link (although it doesn't make sense unless you're playing for money), What's My Line? (Whitman), Deluxe Wheel of Fortune (no bonus game though), Who What or Where Game and Word for Word.
My favorite: Concentration (any Milton Bradley edition except first). Concentration did not make the above list because the prizes are placed on the gameboard randomly. On the series, the best prizes revealed the least helpful parts of the rebus while the worst matches revealed the most helpful rebus clues.
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'159002\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 04:31 PM\']
My favorite: Concentration (any Milton Bradley edition except first).
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Just curious since I have the First Edition--did it not make the cut because of how some of those first 59 rebuses were depicted and didn't translate smoothly enough into the actual wording?
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'158906\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 08:30 AM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'158900\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 04:55 AM\']
Of all of the game show games out there, which is your favorite?
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Wheel of Fortune Deluxe. Not any of these crappy "we've got $5,000 on the wheel ALL THE TIME!!!111!!!", but the one with the wedges.
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Second!
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I just came back from the home of some friends; after dinner, we (at Peter Sarrett's brilliant suggestion) used the box of word-cards from a Pictionary set to play Go and had a complete and total blast doing so. This hardly counts as a Go home game, but it was the next best thing.
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159015\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 08:58 PM\']
I just came back from the home of some friends; after dinner, we (at Peter Sarrett's brilliant suggestion) used the box of word-cards from a Pictionary set to play Go and had a complete and total blast doing so. This hardly counts as a Go home game, but it was the next best thing.[/quote]
I'd never heard of doing that, but that's a pretty creative adaptation. As I say on my website, if you've got couples, the Men Are From Mars/Women Are From Venus board game is, as a board game, terrible, but the questions make perfect Tattletales material.
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..and thanks to Matt's suggestion, I just finished a TattleTales home game a couple of weeks back, and he's right on the mark. Another one that can be converted - Hersh's old Name Burst can give you some (somewhat) fresher names for You Don't Say. And, oh..as far as TalkAbout goes, if you played the game in an area with a room immediately off it -like a dining room with a bedroom close by - put a radio in there and make it the isolation area.
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Deal or No Deal (but it's a dumb game),
Although I don't own the Deal or No Deal game, there is one thing I don't like about the versions I've seen online - that is that the bank offers are usually weird amounts - like $28,247. You never see that on the real show.
Oh well...minor nitpick, I know :)
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'159048\' date=\'Jul 30 2007, 08:27 AM\']
that is that the bank offers are usually weird amounts - like $28,247. You never see that on the real show.
Oh well...minor nitpick, I know :)
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I don't think so. That's lazy, lazy programming, and it's really easy to fix: just take whatever number their formula spits out and shoot it through some function that rounds it to the nearest thousand or $500 or whatever.
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159015\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 08:58 PM\']
I just came back from the home of some friends; after dinner, we (at Peter Sarrett's brilliant suggestion) used the box of word-cards from a Pictionary set to play Go and had a complete and total blast doing so. This hardly counts as a Go home game, but it was the next best thing.
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Now that I think About it, Taboo could be used For Super Passoword/Password Plus. But then again Why not just use the Actual P+ board game? Well, at the time we got taboo, We never heard of Password Plus or rather a board game of it. So 6 1/2 of the other.
/I think I said that saying right.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'159020\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 10:37 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159015\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 08:58 PM\']
I just came back from the home of some friends; after dinner, we (at Peter Sarrett's brilliant suggestion) used the box of word-cards from a Pictionary set to play Go and had a complete and total blast doing so. This hardly counts as a Go home game, but it was the next best thing.[/quote]
I'd never heard of doing that, but that's a pretty creative adaptation. As I say on my website, if you've got couples, the Men Are From Mars/Women Are From Venus board game is, as a board game, terrible, but the questions make perfect Tattletales material.
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A few years back, a game called "Talkin' Tango" was released, which, like "Go," you and your partner had to construct a sentence/question to get somebody to say the words.
I don't own the game, nor do I know if it's still being marketed, but here is what it looks like:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494 (http://\"http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494\")
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[quote name=\'William_S.\' post=\'159838\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM\']
/I think I said that saying right.
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Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
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[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'159848\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 11:33 AM\']
A few years back, a game called "Talkin' Tango" was released, which, like "Go," you and your partner had to construct a sentence/question to get somebody to say the words.
I don't own the game, nor do I know if it's still being marketed, but here is what it looks like:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494 (http://\"http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494\")
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Sadly, it's out of print. And I hardly ever see it on eBay, even.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'159857\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:04 PM\']
[quote name=\'William_S.\' post=\'159838\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM\']
/I think I said that saying right.
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Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
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Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible. I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
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http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewIte...p?idProduct=569 (http://\"http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=569\")
Patch put it back out as a travel-type game called Back and Forth. Here's the link.
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[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159862\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:41 AM\']
Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible. I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
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I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.
"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."
And so it should be, dammit. :)
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'159864\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:43 PM\']
http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewIte...p?idProduct=569 (http://\"http://www.patchproducts.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=569\")
Patch put it back out as a travel-type game called Back and Forth. Here's the link.
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What a bargain!
You're the man! Thanks!
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'159865\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 01:48 PM\']
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'159862\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:41 AM\']
Illegal by the book, but usable if everybody agrees that phrases are permissible. I don't have a Taboo set handy; I wonder how it'd work.
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I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.
"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."
And so it should be, dammit. :)
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Anybody give that note to the writers of Password Puzzles?
I'm not saying I disagree, I'm just sayin'--that sloppy slope has been long slipped.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 10:48 AM\']
I suppose, but I don't like the slippery slope that sets up.
"The Password is always a SINGLE word, not hyphenated and NOT a proper noun."
And so it should be, dammit. :) [/quote]
Yes. Please tell that to the brilliant folks who thought "New York", "San Francisco", and "ice cream" should be up on the board.
EDIT: See what happens when I get distracted? I get beaten to the punch...
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I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.
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[quote name=\'Steve McClellan\' post=\'159872\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 12:00 PM\']
Yes. Please tell that to the brilliant folks who thought "New York", "San Francisco", and "ice cream" should be up on the board.
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I completely agree. Doesn't mean it's a tradition that should be upheld. :)
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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[quote name='clemon79' date='Aug 7 2007, 10:04 AM' post='159857']
[quote name='William_S.' post='159838' date='Aug 7 2007, 12:59 AM']
/I think I said that saying right.
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Not really. Though you did get your point across. (Which I don't agree with...yes, Taboo cards have five words connected with a common theme on them. That does not make them good P+ puzzles. Further, many of them have PHRASES on them instead of words, which makes them utterly ILLEGAL P+ puzzles.)
[/quote]Not like we play it all that much on Friday nights, but I thought it was very dirty pool that the five Taboo items could be phrases rather than words. It seems far too easy to constrict the clues that way.
(But then, that's why we have Password, Paired Up and Tie One On. </vin scully>
[quote name='Clay Zambo' date='Aug 7 2007, 10:38 AM' post='159860']
I don't own the game, nor do I know if it's still being marketed, but here is what it looks like:http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494 (http://\"http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/5494\")
[/quote]Sadly, it's out of print. And I hardly ever see it on eBay, even.
[/quote]For what it's worth, I think it's a poor substitute for the real thing. To play Go, you need two things: a stack of words and a clock.
Combining those two things into one program is one in a long line of programming projects I have on the far burner. But if you really want to, there are stacks of board games at the Goodwill that would help you out.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'159896\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 05:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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And when the first two-word clue was put on the board, I remember Ludden saying that place names of more than one word were now passwords (not to mention all proper names and hyphenated words).
I would assume that when developing "Password Plus," everyone responsible realized early on that doing puzzles without proper names would be often impossible. (Knowing that someone around here would know for sure.)
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'159896\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 06:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'159875\' date=\'Aug 7 2007, 03:30 PM\']
I even recall a celeb (mildly) complaining about it to Allen Ludden--his response was pretty blase.[/quote]
Actually, I remember early in the run, a celebrity asked about the looser rulings and Ludden, with barely hidden contempt in his voice, said "That's the way we do things now."
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I'll guess Tony Randall.
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I will now return, and realize that my recall is awfully fuzzy. Maybe it was later in the run.