I was watching some Joker\'s Wild eps on Youtube, and I remembered there were a bunch of special categories later in the run like TTD had..
The ones I can really remember are:
Fast Forward- where you could answer as many questions as you wanted in the stated FF category until you wanted to stop, risking the money on every question
Mystery- where you didn\'t know the category, but it was worth double value (with those seven gold \"?\" cards in front of the podium- I wonder if they ever ran out of questions in a game)
Bid- where the contestants bid on the number of questions in the category they could answer, with a minimum of two
How Low Can You Go- where the contestants bid on how little information they needed to answer the question
Fact or Photo- they could hear a fact about someone or something related to the question or see a photo that was related to the question
Stumpers- these were questions that both players missed on a previous show. After hearing the question, the player could either try to answer immediately for double value or hear the two wrong answers that were given previously and then answer for normal value.
Anyone remember any others?
On a particular Fact or Foto question there was an instance where the contestant chose to see the picture but then was given so much background information that he could have answered the question if the picture was a blank slide.
That\'s why I didn\'t like that category. If you chose \"photo\", they gave you a fact anyway. Granted, it was something much terser, but still, they\'re telling you something like \"this is a landmark in Italy\" or \"this is a famous singer.\"
The only one I can add to your list is \"Take a Chance.\" You could answer a question yourself or pass it. If the person who answered didn\'t get it right, the other person got the money without having to answer it himself. (I think you made the choice without hearing the question.)
The one I remember was the \"Who What or Where\" category. Jack would always mention that it was based on the old TV show, which for years in the 70s made me think that the 3Ws was a B&E show and not Ron Greenberg\'s creation.
I don\'t remember a couple of these. If you took \"Bid\" for, say, $100, would you get $100 per correct answer or was it just for the amount on the wheels? And what was the penalty?
It was a Fast Forward category where you had to declare your intentions from the outset instead of making a go/stop decision after each right answer. You would score bid times spin if you fullfilled it, and if you got one wrong along the way your opponent could win the value of that question with a right answer and you scored zero for that turn.I don\'t remember a couple of these. If you took \"Bid\" for, say, $100, would you get $100 per correct answer or was it just for the amount on the wheels? And what was the penalty?
The one I remember was the \"Who What or Where\" category. Jack would always mention that it was based on the old TV show, which for years in the 70s made me think that the 3Ws was a B&E show and not Ron Greenberg\'s creation.
I\'d never seen that particular category, The Joker\'s Wild was never regular viewing for me. Still, there\'s more of a connection than you may realize. By the time the category would have turned up on TJW, Ron Greenberg was the show\'s producer.
(I think you made the choice without hearing the question.)
That would be colossally stupid.
It was a Fast Forward category where you had to declare your intentions from the outset instead of making a go/stop decision after each right answer. You would score bid times spin if you fullfilled it, and if you got one wrong along the way your opponent could win the value of that question with a right answer and you scored zero for that turn.
Ahhh, you didn\'t actually bid against the other player. I see. Did it play any better or worse than \"Fast Forward?\"
Ahhh, you didn\'t actually bid against the other player. I see. Did it play any better or worse than \"Fast Forward?\"
Given the rules you supplied who would ever voluntarily play that?The only one I can add to your list is \"Take a Chance.\" You could answer a question yourself or pass it. If the person who answered didn\'t get it right, the other person got the money without having to answer it himself. (I think you made the choice without hearing the question.)
The one I remember was the \"Who What or Where\" category. Jack would always mention that it was based on the old TV show, which for years in the 70s made me think that the 3Ws was a B&E show and not Ron Greenberg\'s creation.
I\'d never seen that particular category, The Joker\'s Wild was never regular viewing for me. Still, there\'s more of a connection than you may realize. By the time the category would have turned up on TJW, Ron Greenberg was the show\'s producer.
I, too, recall Jack always mentioning that. Now I see it as a nice gesture to Ron, a good guy, but then it was kind of a stupid category. It\'s not as if their other categories were filled with \"when\" and \"why\" questions.
Because he\'s straight but not very long?
They should have just left the bullseye permanently in the bottom window. Or scrapped the whole thing and just remade the 3 W\'s.
The only one I can add to your list is \"Take a Chance.\" You could answer a question yourself or pass it. If the person who answered didn\'t get it right, the other person got the money without having to answer it himself. (I think you made the choice without hearing the question.)
Given the rules you supplied who would ever voluntarily play that?
(1) someone for whom it was the only way to get to $500
(2) someone who didn\'t like the other categories on the board
I didn\'t say it was a good idea.
The one I remember was the \"Who What or Where\" category. Jack would always mention that it was based on the old TV show, which for years in the 70s made me think that the 3Ws was a B&E show and not Ron Greenberg\'s creation.
I\'d never seen that particular category, The Joker\'s Wild was never regular viewing for me. Still, there\'s more of a connection than you may realize. By the time the category would have turned up on TJW, Ron Greenberg was the show\'s producer.
I, too, recall Jack always mentioning that. Now I see it as a nice gesture to Ron, a good guy, but then it was kind of a stupid category. It\'s not as if their other categories were filled with \"when\" and \"why\" questions.
Exactly. It was really just a grab bag. I remember the first time I saw it on a GSN rerun, I thought a better idea would have been something like \"Bid,\" where Jack would announce a subject for three questions and the contestant could declare something like \"I\'ll take the Who and the Where.\"
Life is too short for bad ideas, and we have far too many of those kicking around here anyway.I didn\'t say it was a good idea.
Nevertheless, the question was what other special categories were used.
