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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: JayC on January 28, 2004, 07:08:06 PM
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Today's Tonya certainly comes to mind. All the Samoans do also. Old lady contestants in general annoy the hell out of me, because they are slow, dimwitted, and are probably only there just to hug and kiss Bob. Any other very annoying contestants you could think of?
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Anyone who has to consult with his "posse."
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9 out of 10 Clock Game contestants and the people who consult the audience when picking a number on Spelling Bee. I'm glad Bob has started pointing out to contestants "They don't know any more than you do."
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Anyone who bids $1 higher than the previous bidder. I'd honestly like to see TPiR use some sort of minimum interval that next contestant may bid, i.e. $50.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 07:35 PM\'] Anyone who bids $1 higher than the previous bidder. I'd honestly like to see TPiR use some sort of minimum interval that next contestant may bid, i.e. $50. [/quote]
SOmeone bidding $1 lower than the previous bid is worse strategy than bidding $1 higher, but not necessarily as annoying. Then there's the "I don't know how to play CHeck Game but everyone in the audience does" bit.
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My pet peeve is when a contestant says "I've been watching since I was 2!" or something like that, then doesn't know how to play Double Prices or One Right Price............
Tyshaun
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 07:52 PM\'] My pet peeve is when a contestant says "I've been watching since I was 2!" or something like that, then doesn't know how to play Double Prices or One Right Price............
Tyshaun [/quote]
Or those that say they've never seen the Clock Game, Bob seems to make a big deal about some of those. On some of those cases, the player wins both prizes with time to spare. Another thing that's happened a couple of times this season: A player will think the price of the prize in Range Game is a certain price, and will then stop the range finder a bit before the price appears in the red window.
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Two words:
HIT ME
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 10:50 PM\'] Two words:
HIT ME [/quote]
Couldn't agree with you more, Chris.
Quite simply, hands down, the *easiest* pricing game on TPiR. It's that game that when I see it played wrong, makes me want to jump through my set and strangle the contestant.
Absolutely no reason why that game shouldn't be won each and every time.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 06:35 PM\'] Anyone who bids $1 higher than the previous bidder. I'd honestly like to see TPiR use some sort of minimum interval that next contestant may bid, i.e. $50. [/quote]
We've had this discussion before. I stand by my point: If you think you'd get mad when someone after you bids $1 more, you'd get twice as mad if someone before you bid $700 and the actual price was $749 (using your $50 figure).
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 07:08 PM\'] Today's Tonya certainly comes to mind. All the Samoans do also. Old lady contestants in general annoy the hell out of me, because they are slow, dimwitted, and are probably only there just to hug and kiss Bob. Any other very annoying contestants you could think of? [/quote]
Respect your elders.
Someday, you'll be married to an "old lady".
The annoying contestants are easily the college students with the customary "BOB RULZ!" T-shirt.
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Or how about those contestants that completlely "ignore" the Zero Rule in Ten Chances. That's my biggest pet peeive there.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 11:19 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 10:50 PM\'] Two words:
HIT ME [/quote]
Couldn't agree with you more, Chris.
Quite simply, hands down, the *easiest* pricing game on TPiR. It's that game that when I see it played wrong, makes me want to jump through my set and strangle the contestant.
Absolutely no reason why that game shouldn't be won each and every time. [/quote]
The game should be won more often than it is, at least 90% of the time it should be. Sometimes the Ace or the Ten won't be 100% obvious. I have seen episodes with two or three of the given prices ending in zero, and the card behind one of them is an eight. Then sometimes there'll be a given price that hides a two or three that's less than the product whose price will hide the ace.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 11:19 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2004, 10:50 PM\'] Two words:
HIT ME [/quote]
Couldn't agree with you more, Chris.
Quite simply, hands down, the *easiest* pricing game on TPiR. It's that game that when I see it played wrong, makes me want to jump through my set and strangle the contestant.
Absolutely no reason why that game shouldn't be won each and every time. [/quote]
Then of course there's the end in zero rule on Ten Chances, which still causes some players not to win all three prizes when they don't hear the audience chanting prices that end in zero.
Bullseye is not much more difficult than Hit Me, as there's usually a product where picking two or three of it will guarantee a fast win, and then you see players picking one of the less expensive items, or then racking up $7 from one item and picking one or two of a less expensive item, confusing Bullseye with Grocery Game.
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Bullseye is not much more difficult than Hit Me, as there's usually a product where picking two or three of it will guarantee a fast win, and then you see players picking one of the less expensive items, or then racking up $7 from one item and picking one or two of a less expensive item, confusing Bullseye with Grocery Game.
Zach's point about contestants confusing Bullseye with Grocery Game brings to my mind just how similar the game mechanics are for both games. To wit:
BULLSEYE
Pick a product, pick how many of that product to meet a predetermined price range to win.
GROCERY GAME
Pick a product, pick how many of that product to meet a predetermined price range to win.
The only real difference between the two is one game tries to hit the range with one product at a time while the other tries to hit the range with multiple products.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 29 2004, 05:48 AM\'] The game should be won more often than it is, at least 90% of the time it should be. Sometimes the Ace or the Ten won't be 100% obvious. I have seen episodes with two or three of the given prices ending in zero, and the card behind one of them is an eight. Then sometimes there'll be a given price that hides a two or three that's less than the product whose price will hide the ace. [/quote]
In virtually every case of duplicate zeros like you mention, you end up looking at two prices like this:
$23.60 $59.90
Now, come on, you don't have to be Einstein to figure out which one conceals the ten.
(Fact is, this trap is only gonna really come up when a price ends in .95 and they decide to hide the 8 behind it. Which means the last two digits of the listed price are ALWAYS gonna be ".60", and therefore should be easily dismissed, unless you plan to pair it up with the item that ends in .27, which can only have a 3 behind it. But I allow that's Advanced Hit Me strategy.)
The phantom Ace-Two situation you describe comes up even less frequently, and I can see where that could trip some people up, although even when THAT happens, it's paired with a .99 that is so glaringly obvious as to be painful.
But you'll agree that 99.99% of the Hit Me layouts we see on the show should be complete and total gimmes, and the game is allowed to get to the point where the house even DRAWS - much LESS wins - much too often.
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Even if you pick the "wrong" price ending in 0, proceeding to pick all the remaining products not ending in 0 would still give you 21 (two pairs which each add up to 10, plus the ace). That, too, is more advanced strategy, though.
(It's also the strategy I would use if I were playing. Saving the ace for last, of course, just to see how nervous everyone would get.)
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The annoying contestants are easily the college students with the customary "BOB RULZ!" T-shirt.
Or better yet, the ones whose t-shirts read "We drove all the way from Bootylicious, Kentucky (or Buttwipe, Alabama, or whatever fake town you can come up with) just to see Bob!"
I guess those helped make TPIR the ultimate buttkissing show on TV (Sorry, Entertainment Tonight, E! News, and Excess Hollywood!).
Jonathan Allen
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OK, here's an intresting Hit Me delima between these two prices.
$21.00 $21.90
Which one hides the 10? Obviously, the one marked $21.90 but $21.00 may look like it's hiding a 10 but in reality it's concealing a 4.
Here's another one:
$3.29 $3.27
Which one is hiding the Ace? The $3.29 one naturally, but be careful when you see one that says $3.27. It could look like an Ace there but it ACTUALLY hides a 3.
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Jan 30 2004, 03:14 AM\'] OK, here's an intresting Hit Me delima between these two prices.
$21.00 $21.90
Which one hides the 10? Obviously, the one marked $21.90 but $21.00 may look like it's hiding a 10 but in reality it's concealing a 4.
Here's another one:
$3.29 $3.27
Which one is hiding the Ace? The $3.29 one naturally, but be careful when you see one that says $3.27. It could look like an Ace there but it ACTUALLY hides a 3. [/quote]
Notice that even you claim the answer is "obvious" or "natural" in both cases. Not much of a dilemma. And you make my point even further, which is that in the case of them trying to pull the wool over with two similarly-priced products, or two items ending in zero, 99% of the time one of them will not make a sensible price when you drop the zero (who the hell sets at ARP of $2.10?), and therefore that one can be easily dismissed.
The game simply should not be lost by anyone with even the slightest modicum of a clue.
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Another bit of TPIR game-playing annoyingness: Contestants repeatedly looking at the audience for advice during Race Game or especially Bonkers. One can get three or four trips to the prizes and back during Race Game if they don't look at the audience, and two at most when they look at the audience. On Bonkers, a player can get six or seven trips on average during the 30 seconds, if they don't look at the audience several times during the game, as a few recent contestants have done. As Chris L. said recently, NOT starting the guesses in that game with Higher when the given number is 0-4, or lower when the given number is 5-9, isn't great either(given that on about 60% of the playings, the correct combination is of that type).