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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: aaron sica on September 19, 2025, 01:15:25 PM
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.....leading off this one with two examples.
1) TPIR's cliffhangers, so I can see "Yodely Guy" fall off.
2) The Gold Rush/Run on Blockbusters80, so I can hear the losing horns.
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Supermarket Sweep, so the contestants and David could walk together to the money, then be greeted with their hero's welcome by the other players.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders (I know it's strategy but it still irks me), so anytime they get on stage I root for them to lose their pricing game. Because I'm petty.
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People getting a Whammy on Press Your Luck, primarily to watch all of the various, funny animations. But of course it's particularly satisfying when the contestant is annoying!
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I guess this question could be taken a number of ways, but the first thing I thought of is there are some contestants here and there where I didn't want to see win (and not just because of whammy animations or anything like that). Whether it's because they're "annoying" as jw2001 said, or maybe because they'd won enough money already and I wanted to see someone else win, or maybe the $1 "upbidders".
I'm not really a fan of Steve Harvey's Feud (just because it's on so many damn times), but sometimes there are families on there that I'd like to see quietly disappear.
It seems more often than not the contestant(s) I'm rooting against end up winning anyway.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders (I know it's strategy but it still irks me), so anytime they get on stage I root for them to lose their pricing game. Because I'm petty.
See, I'm completely the opposite. I'm of the opinion that if you are the fourth bidder, there are only four possible rational bids, and I get irked when they win while making a different bid.
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See, I'm completely the opposite. I'm of the opinion that if you are the fourth bidder, there are only four possible rational bids, and I get irked when they win while making a different bid.
That's fair, when you put it like that.
I'll also add any Deal or No Deal contestant who said "[Six-figure offer] is not enough...No Deal!" I always got a good laugh out of them going home with $50 due to their greed.
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I remember when studio audiences could be heard rooting against contestants. For some reason, on one of the versions of NBC High Rollers, once a contestant won over $20,000, the audience tended to start rooting for the challenger.
Does rooting for challengers to lose so I can see the champions go for bonuses (e.g. rooting for a third-day champion to win on $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime, or even something like rooting for a Pyramid contestant who won their first game of a day to win their second one as well) count?
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Moreso in the 80s reboot of Treasure Hunt, I liked when contestants would wind up getting Klunked, as they at least had another guaranteed shot at picking the winning jack-in-the-box in the next game for another chance at a decent prize.
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I know we've discussed the ratio of male-female contestants on certain shows in the past, but I found that on '80s Pyramid, whenever there was a male contestant I always rooted for them (and against the female) because if the male contestant lost, it could be over a week before we saw another one.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
That's actually really clever. It eliminates the luck-of-the-draw aspect when one player wins Golden Road and another wins Double Prices.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
...Doesn't that encourage $1 upbidding?
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It might encourage someone to get closer to the ARP than just sliding by, especially if you think there is some room to maneuver. It becomes more a test of pricing than game theory.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
...Doesn't that encourage $1 upbidding?
Not if you bid $801 on a $1999 item after Cletus won by bidding $1300 on a $1350 item.
And $1 would be completely obsolete, replaced by something more pragmatic like $300 or $400.
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I guess it's more of an after-the-fact but I like it when clues get cuckooed/buzzed in Pyramid, and having the host explain the judgement call if it's not obvious why.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
The more I think about it, the more I like it. Would make one-bids interesting seeing how far off contestants are at times. Granted, the actual retail prices surprise me at times too.
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Never been a fan of $1 upbidders (I know it's strategy but it still irks me), so anytime they get on stage I root for them to lose their pricing game. Because I'm petty.
See, I'm completely the opposite. I'm of the opinion that if you are the fourth bidder, there are only four possible rational bids, and I get irked when they win while making a different bid.
That's the camp I've been in for a long time.
WRT the original topic, I enjoy schadenfreude. Therefore, anyone who won less than $1000 on DonD when given a huge offer previously fits the criteria.
The British thwarted that maneuver by giving the advantage of spinning last in the Showcase Showdown to the person who bid closest to their one-bid item.
I don't see how this thwarts the maneuver at all. If the item is $805 and I bid $801, I've made a better bid than an item that's $1000 versus four "unique" bids of $450, $500, $550, and $399.
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Stealing the idea from the scary thread...
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/press-your-luck/images/f/f7/Whammy.gif)
When my sister and I watched PYL, whether original broadcast or USA reruns, my sister and I rooted for the Whammy, for both the comic relief and because the animations were cool tech for the mid-80s.
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It might encourage someone to get closer to the ARP than just sliding by, especially if you think there is some room to maneuver. It becomes more a test of pricing than game theory.
This is exactly what I see it as doing. It doesn't fully prevent one-upping someone or completely eliminate the situations where it's the best strategy, but it changes the fourth bidder's strategy to be the same as the second and third bidders -- basically, you only one-up someone if you think they're particularly close, and otherwise you go for the lower end of your best guess for what the price is.
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There are definitely contestants I have rooted against because I haven't liked them. I had a friend who was up against James Holzhauer on the second taping day of his Jeopardy! run and supposedly he kept up the "Jeopardy! villain" kayfabe to the point where the contestant staff were complaining at him and this friend took an intense dislike to him as a person. I've softened since then, but it's a good example.
But mostly, I don't know contestants well enough to really dislike them enough to actively root against them. However, I absolutely pick favorites, even in person at the Price Is Right tapings that I've been to in the last year. I would root for anyone playing their regular game on stage but I caught myself holding back on giving advice from the bidders if they were competing with someone who I had spoken to in the waiting room before the show or someone who I knew through online TPIR/game show fandom.
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I was the weird kid that liked the illegal clue sound on Password Plus/Super Password. The more illegal the better.
I also enjoyed watching the benches move on Hot Potato. Hot Potato nirvana was a long pass and a wrong answer - a full light show/sound effect and bench movement.
I think the Supermarket Sweep vegetables were underplayed. And should have been more aggressive in stealing shoppers carts.