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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: wdm1219inpenna on April 12, 2008, 09:09:40 AM
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At my current place of employment, I had the privilege of hosting an informal holiday trivia type game. No prizes were awarded, it was just for fun, but I had a blast standing up in front of my co-workers, asking questions and getting various responses. One of the names in one of the questions I butchered big time, so when someone yelled jokingly to me the correct pronunciation of the name, I replied "Well then I guess the answer to this question would be none of the above.", which got a good laugh from the crowd.
Currently I host a very informal version of "Match Game" with 25 of my co-workers. I come up with 5 questions per week, 1 per day, and I write down the first 3 answers that occur to me. I award 1 point per match on Monday, 2 points on Tuesday, all the way to 5 points on Friday, for a possibility to get 45 points total. Twice, the weekly winner won with 41 points. I enjoy getting all the answers, and even came up with a designation for worst answer of the week. I print out the scoresheet at the end of the week for all to see, and it's rather fun, even though it isn't for any prizes of any kind.
My only other public performances came with me in disguise, wearing a Santa Claus suit. I've done children's parties and a few times I went to a home for the aged to perform with my cousin and some of his musician friends. I'd love to find an opportunity to host a "live" game elsewhere sometime, maybe even with prizes somehow. The closest I've come other than these situations is hosting netgames online. They are fun, but all the cash & prizes are fictional.
Whenever I train someone on a new project in my office, I kind of take a Bob Barker approach to explaining it slowly & clearly (at least in his earlier years when he was less prone to having senior moments and was allowed more than 12 seconds to explain rules of games). Having grown up on game shows during the 70s & 80s I believe has helped groom me to be able to emulate how a classic emcee performs, and has defintely helped me when training others on projects at work.
Have any of you ever had a chance to do any kind of live game hosting? I'd be curious to hear about it.
Regards,
Bill
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At my university, we do a Family Feud production once a week. We usually get a great turnout, since it's usually student organizations playing against one another. Next week, however, we are actually going to have a Family Feud, since a couple of my classmates have parents and siblings who came here as well.
We don't play for prizes during the "regular season", but for a trophy that changes hands, similar to a belt in pro wrestling. The winners usually tout the trophy at lunch the next day, so it's fun to watch the friendly rivalries that come about.
At the end, the 4 teams with the most points play in our Tournament of Champions. The overall winners get gift cards, so outside of the trophy, that's the only real expense over the course of the schoolyear.
I have hosted since we started last school year, and I have had a blast so far. Since I'm a junior this year, I'll have to start looking for my replacement pretty soon.
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Once in a while, I "co-host" PlayCafe. I also had the chance a couple of months back to remotely host a full episode of the live game show. It was a pretty cool experience, and it definitely just continues to help me strive to do more with game shows in my professional life.
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Yes. (http://\"http://wkar.org/quizbusters/\")
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Matt, I think this is one of those times where your sig actually works with your post :)
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I hosted probably the first ever North American playing of Numberwang! last week.
--Mike
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Yes, if you count hosting games that my students play. We do a weekly "Deal or No Deal" game, as well as versions of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and "Greed." Also, in the summers I return to Georgia's Governor's Honors Program to host and/or produce a variety of games for the math students to play, including "Identity," "The Gong Show," "1 vs 100," "Pyramid," and "Family Feud," among others. (We're tentatively planning "Duel" for this summer as well.)
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[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'183874\' date=\'Apr 12 2008, 03:13 PM\']
I hosted probably the first ever North American playing of Numberwang! last week.
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We should consider that one for the GHP tournament... yeah...
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I have hosted games for Bible Study at Church, including versions of the Feud, Whew!, Hit Man, Weakest Link, and Win Lose or Draw. We used to have game night once every 2 months when I ran these games (and others) using my computer and a big-screen tv!
Eric
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I did J! with a very (at least to me) well done Powerpoint and Flash game controls for several classes in high school. Even incorporated PYL too. Password was going to be one other one, but time just ran out.
/would have done Numberwang in a hearbeat
//the math teacher would have approved
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I also forgot to mention that when I was in second grade, my teacher knew of my game show interests, so she would allow me every once in a while to make Jeopardy! games based on the material we were learning. I borrowed a Jeopardy-like board that had pockets labeled with point values were one could put index cards with the "answers". She'd then let me host the game with classmates as players, and I'd even take the game sometimes to other classrooms. Good times.
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A few years back for my great-grandparents' 60th wedding anniversary celebration, I hosted a quick game of TPIR's "Bonus Game" using grocery items instead of small prizes and $100 being the bonus. It wasn't anything fancy. My mom played the role of Rod and my brother was the SFX guy. He used my laptop to cue dings, buzzes, music cues and the like. I cut a piece of notebook paper into 4 pieces and wrote Higher/Lower $(actual price) on them, then folded the pieces in half and wrote the fake price on the outside. About as technologically primitive as you can get, but the entire room was into it, screaming "HIGHER!" "LOWER!" like the crowd on the actual show. It was a thrilling experience.
My first year in college I decided it would be a great idea to try out one of my old netgames in real life for my Mass Comm 101 class. How do you spell disaster? N-U-M-B-E-R-P-L-E-A-S-E-L-I-V-E, that's how. :)
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[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'183874\' date=\'Apr 12 2008, 03:13 PM\']I hosted probably the first ever North American playing of Numberwang! last week.[/quote]
Oooh, sorry. I hosted a game with one of my classes within a week of Numberwang first being introduced here. The students gave me strange looks, even weirder than usual.
/still enjoys throwing out the occasional "That's Numberwang!" when a student gives an answer
//still enjoys getting the stranger than usual looks from the students
///I've done Deal or No Deal, Jeopardy!, Password, and emceed a schoolwide battle of the math classes for each of the last two years.
////Unsurprisingly, my team has won both times.
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I hosted two times for school, Once around 2000 doing Jeopardy, and again around 2003 dubbed "Othello Blockbusters." I did ok, I'm just always scared to mess up the questions.
Around a few months ago some of my friends who are Broadcasting majors (Myself included) wanted to put on a game show, I gave them some DVD's to look at, Then I get dragged to create the format and host the show. Since then the idea is good as dead.
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For three years at work I hosted a quarterly game show that I created, a panel show with the emphasis on humor. It had absolutely nothing to do with the business (aside from a couple questions I stuck in the first two shows to convince the powers-that-were that it was slightly germane to our work) and was exceptionally popular. I had never intended to have a continuing champion on the show, but the guy who won the first game was the kind the audience loved to hate (in a friendly sort of way--he's still there and we jovially boo him every time he wins an award), so I knew I had to bring him back. He ended up winning seven games. People who experienced the show still talk about it almost nine years later.
A few years ago there was a special event during which the company was putting on versions of Family Feud and Hollywood Squares. I hosted two games of FF and appeared as a celebrity (doing my best Paul Lynde impression) on HS. I also took the liberty of writing joke responses to the rather dry, business-related questions they were using, which all the other squares appreciated. (I kind of wish I'd offered to host that one, even though it would have denied me the opportunity to be Paul Lynde, because the host we got had very little control over the proceedings and just let one of the contestants run away with the show, the result being we only got through one or two games.)
At church for several years now I've been hosting a Bible quiz in two different formats, both of which I invented. I didn't want it to be just a straight quizzer, so I mixed it up a little and came up with ways to involve the audience. We're doing another one in two weeks. We also have board game nights from time to time, and I always bring several of my home versions and am never at a loss for contestants, who know I will run the game smoothly and with an abundance of humor.
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I work at the Student Programming Center here at La Salle University (brother gotta eat, riiight?) and every so often, I bother my boss to let me put on a few game shows for our Late Night La Salle program, which has programming on Friday and Saturday nights, presumably to stop kids from drinking their livers into oblivion. The game shows that I've hosted include Wheel of Fortune (yeah, La Salle's the organization that bought pds319's sweet replica), Deal or No Deal, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader (which we changed to ...Smarter Than an R.A.), Pyramid and Family Feud. We even were so daring as to try Game Show Marathon, with Jeopardy!, Press Your Luck, and the Price is Right.
I'm always looking for better ways to stage things. I love figuring out how to turn a game show (that let you edit and cut things that do not affect the outcome of the game) into a live stage show (with slow pacing and all). It's a fun time.
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Lots. It started in Junior High, and still doing a few each year for church, Kiwanis, senior centers and the like. Lately, 1 vs 100 has been going over well because of the audience involvement, vs just passive watching. Or as we call it, 1 vs. the rest of you bums. It looks like the local access channel is open to trying a third game show, which I'm adjusting to make each program self-contained. And everbody who's on board here will vouch that it's always harder than it looks - especially when you're on the spot as judge and jury when calling plays on contestants. But fun? Yes.
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As the former Campus Connections Chair for Zips Programming Network, I hosted:
Akron's Price is Right (won an award for)
Survey Says (4 times)
College Bowl
What's the Big Deal? (a terrible, terrible hybrid show)
To Tell the Truth: What's her Line?
The first two are still being done on campus. I'm so proud.
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In my theater class at college, one of the groups wanted to do a game show. I suggested "Definition", and I ended up creating the puzzles and hosting. Round one wasn't taped because some idiot forgot to push the record button on the video camera. Also, we learned a very important part of a show: rehearsing. I tried to get that game onto the college TV station, but we were not successful (even though the head of station loved the game).
The other game I hosted was called Treasure Hunt (but it's based on the 80s British show). I did five (two for college, and three for small children) in which I hosted and created all of the clues. On one of them I got the associate Dean involved and she said it was really fun for her to see students coming into her office breathing heavily at 4PM on a Friday afternoon. Those were a lot of fun, and hopefully I will get to another one some day.
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[quote name=\'pacdude\' post=\'183955\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 03:14 AM\']The game shows that I've hosted include Wheel of Fortune (yeah, La Salle's the organization that bought pds319's sweet replica), Deal or No Deal, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader (which we changed to ...Smarter Than an R.A.), Pyramid and Family Feud. We even were so daring as to try Game Show Marathon, with Jeopardy!, Press Your Luck, and the Price is Right. [/quote]
What happened to Countdown on the radio, since I think we discussed that before?
I haven't hosted game shows as of yet, but I've hosted and co-hosted other competitive events, and I hope to soon. I have a couple of ideas in the tank, though, so hopefully I can get the programming knowledge and get my foot in the door at some convention somewhere.
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[quote name=\'pacdude\' post=\'183955\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 03:14 AM\'](which we changed to ...Smarter Than an R.A.)[/quote]
Man, sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'183976\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:05 AM\']
What happened to Countdown on the radio, since I think we discussed that before?[/quote]
Hopefully it was concluded that trying a show like that on the radio, with full half-minutes of nothing happening, is a perfectly awful idea.
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The last show I did was Whew! back in 2003. I also did a Match Game in 2001 and Password 99, and my first Match Game in 1998 in my small living room. I've been wanting to do another game show production, perhaps in connnection with the Independent Study I am doing at Towson. However, I am doing more work with comedy and clown. I actually pitched the idea of doing Match Game to my teacher and he seemed to like the idea. We'll see.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183978\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 01:01 PM\']Hopefully it was concluded that trying a show like that on the radio, with full half-minutes of nothing happening, is a perfectly awful idea.[/quote]
There were two episodes. There's a reason for that. Plus, most of my friends are stupid and bad Countdown players. If you'd like to hear how bad it went, a couple podcasts are here: http://wexpradio.com/spotlight/?cat=13 (http://\"http://wexpradio.com/spotlight/?cat=13\")
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As a student at Boston University, I've had some fun working at the student-run television station and hosting "What's that From," a movie trivia show. The prizes aren't huge, but for kids on a college budget, it's not bad. You can check it out at http://www.butv10.com/videolibrary.php?index=17 (http://\"http://www.butv10.com/videolibrary.php?index=17\").
-Rick Z
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Los Angeles has three major game conventions (http://\"http://www.strategicon,net\") per year. I have hosted my own version of Charades and TV Trivia games for nearly twenty years. I write all the material myself.
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Close but not quite: In high school, we convinced our Spanish III instructor that we'd really immerse ourselves in the language if we could do The Hollywood Squares in Spanish. I was supposed to be the host, but I wanted the center square instead so that's what I did. I have this written up as a story and I should post it to my website one of these days...
Direct hit: Later in life, I hosted several different games for a social club I belonged to as the feature of their Game Night. My favorite of these was "Name That Tune" which had some modifications, including "Name The Artist" where I would play an obscure track and challenge the contestants to figure out who was singing. (The reaction when I played a Bryan Adams disco-like track called "Don't Ya Say It" was precious, and it stumped the panel as well. This was back when Mr. Adams was at his peak popularity.)
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Family Feud in high school.
I had a friend tape one of the shows. I watched 10 seconds of the tape and destroyed it.
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Hmm... quite a bit actually.
High school - Dating Game, Family Double Dare.
University - Who wants to be a hundredaire?, Win Ben Stein's Money (both for my residence)
Teaching - for the whole school - TPIR (one bid, one PG). In my classes we've played Wheel, J!, Deal, NYSI, Feud, Pyramid, Countdown Letters (daily) and of course, that new classic, Numberwang. And as I write this, my class is writing a test where the bonus question is to write out a number, in french words, that they think is Numberwang (yes, I can get away with this!)
Outside of my normal job I've done quite a few "game show marathons". My coworker and I have presented twice a workshop called "Game Shows in The Classroom", to enlighten teachers on how to make their classrooms a much more fun place :) For that we play a line up of TPIR one bid/Feud/TTD/Deal/Squares/Countdown letters/Le Cercle.
Last year I designed something for my scuba club called "Reach for the Bottom" in GSM style, using two teams. We played TPIR one bid/Feud/TTD/Wipeout/MG/Pyramid WC/J! and it went well, people really liked it... this year I'm switching out Wipeout/MG/Pyramid for Are you smarter, LMAD, and, if I can write a good board or three, NYSI.
Last month my friend's sister had a wedding shower and I got called in to host the GSM. We played TPIR one bid/Feud/J!/BAM/Pyramid WC/$ale and everyone really enjoyed it. We even had the WC beaten, which surprised the hell out of me.
Oh... and while attending school in Newfoundland, I hosted two seasons of a hybrid game show on the campus radio station. It was a mix of general trivia, a bit of word association, a bit of pass the buck, some really bad puns, and a lightning round. Season one actually saw a ToC (we gave away $100!) and an april fool's show where I played and I flat out lost. The shortened season two in the summer built in returning champs and a $ale shopping round. We had one team get within 5 points of winning the jackpot only to lose. I have kept all of the recordings, happily.
So yes... even though I teach for a living game shows are definitely part of my life!
Cheers
Ryan :)
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Most of my last two years of college involved doing game shows...
I took it seriously too. It started as a semi-annual event, and I did shows based on set simplicity as well as playalong factor. My first show was "Match Game 2002."
Because of the success of the show, some members of student organiztaions asked if I could do a show a month the next semester, to which I immediately accepted.
I did multiple versions of "Match Game," "Family Feud," "Password Plus," and the "Pyramid." Ah, good times!
On top of that, in 2006, I did a show for my church called "Quizzical," which was my own concept but admittedly borrows elements from other shows, especially Jeopardy and $ale. I wrote the treatment and am working to see how I can make it work before I present it.
The Inquisitive One
/top prize for my show: $25,000
//you have to work for it