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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TLEberle on May 26, 2004, 12:30:30 AM
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The subject thread really says it all. When in school, I always tried to work up a review game before a test. Jeopardy's been done, no one really gets "Split Second," I found out about "Blockbusters" too late, and so forth.
So, if you ever got to play an out-there game show in school, post away. If not, but you have a good one that will keep an entire class attentive throughout (eliminating players or teams is a REALLY bad idea) I'd love to hear from you too.
Thanks,
Travis
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'May 25 2004, 11:30 PM\'] The subject thread really says it all. When in school, I always tried to work up a review game before a test. Jeopardy's been done, no one really gets "Split Second," I found out about "Blockbusters" too late, and so forth.
So, if you ever got to play an out-there game show in school, post away. If not, but you have a good one that will keep an entire class attentive throughout (eliminating players or teams is a REALLY bad idea) I'd love to hear from you too.
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How about an H^2 style game, where you take nine students, and have them answer questions, and then have the two contestants agree or disagree...hey, it'll prove whether or not they studied. :-)
Maybe even give the nine "panelists" the answers or something. Just a thought.
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I remember playing an Outburst-style game where the class was split into groups and each group was given a category and had a minute or so to yell out as many answers possible that fit into the category. Depending on what you teach, you could make questions like "Cities in Canada" or "Things to do with Napoleon." Kind of like the opening round of Cram.
Also, game show related, but not really useful unless you teach a foriegn language, in Spanish class, when we were learning numbers into the hundreds and thousands, we played the Price is Right where we had to bid on everything in Spanish.
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When I was in fifth grade, on Fridays, we would divvy the class up into half, and play one of two games: either Dictionary Bee, where we would be given a word and race against a member of the other team to look it up the fastest, or (and here's the point) Name That Word, where we would be given a definition, and bid as to how many letters we needed to identify the word.
Both were played with our teacher-mandated paperback American Heritage Dictionary, which I think I still have kicking around here somewhere to this day. :)
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It's worth adding that if you have just a "game", rather than a game show, that's welcome as well.
As a note for the TPIR thing, my mom taught ESL for eons, and used to play "Clock Game" with numbers from 1-1000, with students calling out numbers, and she would say "higher" or "lower". Not quite the same as Clock Game, but it did teach the concept.
Fire away!
Travis
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I got to do this a lot in junior high, and on rare occasions in high school - mostly History and English classes. First was a Truth Or Consequences variation with a few simple stunts using ping pong balls, paper cups - the typical Beat The Clock game-type props. Also did Squares, The Face Is Familiar (cutting up fan magazine full-page photos into strips), and a few others that memory doesn't recall exactly which ones. Sometimes we did them as an "end of the week" goof-around thing, sometimes we worked the lesson questions into them. But it was a fun time, and I still do things like that for church parties and senior home get-togethers. As long as we didn't go too far off the hook, the teachers were cool with it.
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Squares seems to be popular in high school. I created a pretty fun H2 presentation prior to the final exam in my English class. It went over pretty well (considering that the squares were not briefed of the answers in advance). Heck the teacher got to be center square...hence every chance I could I'd refer to her as Joan Rivers.
Oddly enough, they liked the Squares thing so much, that I set up another game, Family Feud. Very cheapo. The teacher was the board holder and revealer (if only the presentation software was available back then...) and the buzzer was simply who could smack the podium i stood at fastest. One good thing about the Feud game...I got to kiss every gal in my class...and they didn't smack me back.
- Jim
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I have participated in a Family Feud show at my school. The shows have involved different clubs in school. The first show, had a very small scale feel to it. They used the buzzer from the taboo game for strikes, and the strikes were drawn on paper. The board itself wasn't that great either. Before the next show, I used my teacher the software online, and we have used it ever since. I also played in one show. My team the choir did not win, but when I went up for the face-off I got the #1 answer. Next year, we may do a Halloween show, and I wanna host.
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[quote name=\'adamjk\' date=\'May 26 2004, 05:09 PM\'] and I wanna host. [/quote]
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'May 26 2004, 06:31PM\']Yep. Obsession.[/quote]
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'May 26 2004, 06:21PM\']I dunno. I think I'm still going with "obsession". [/quote]
Imagine this. I'd defintely say you have an unhealthy obsession with Family Feud...and others seems to agree.
As an actual contribution to this thread...when a sex-ed group did a presentation at our school, they put on a game of "$20,000 Pyramid". Of course, I managed to mess up "STD"....
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I remember playing Password at one point. "The password is 'variable'...". lol.
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Twice last year, we played Password during World History to help us with vocabulary. We'd have to take 3 words about a famous person, event, place, etc, and have our person guess what it is with those clues.
I also remember playing Jeopardy probably a million times in middle school, plus in 6th grade we played a trivia version of family feud somewhat frequently, and in Math, we would sometimes play the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Online game, and "Who wants to have no homework tonight", where we would do math problems to work our way to having no homework. Oh how I miss 6th grade...
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In high school, we had this insane Global history teacher. He talked to puppets, but he was a great teacher. I guess in that case, you don't have to be sane to be a good educator. (But then again, isn't Global history an insane category?)
Anyway, if time permitted, he used to set up a game of "hollywood squares". 9 of us got our own box (celebrities), and two of my peers got to be contestants.
I don't know which ward he is now.....
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'May 26 2004, 12:54 AM\'] How about an H^2 style game, where you take nine students, and have them answer questions, and then have the two contestants agree or disagree...hey, it'll prove whether or not they studied. :-)
Maybe even give the nine "panelists" the answers or something. Just a thought. [/quote]
You just have to be sure they understand the basic of Squares. Once my fifth-grade Hebrew school teacher had us play "Hollywood Squares" and I was insistent that the host wasn't supposed to say "right" or "wrong" until the "contestant" agreed or disagreed. He insisted that it was straight Q&A -- and I was sent to the principal's office for a long lecture on why it was wrong to question a rabbi's wisdom. :-)
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Toward the end of my 8th grade year in my junior high days, we played "Tic Tac Grade".
Played pretty close to TTD. The teacher, Mr. Pat Hershey, had index cards with the category names on the board and, with each category, was an illustration (a la TJW).
Whenever a box was not won by the X or O student player, he had another student discard that card where a new category was (I think Mr. Hershey had ten total categories in each box). Thus, there was no shuffle after each turn.
Since this was Science class, there were lots of Science questions -- but a few general knowledge subjects in there (Current Events, Rock Music, etc.).
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A year earlier in Health class, as part of learning about the dangers of alcoholism, came Celebrity Squares. Yup, play just like HS. We had 27 students in the class -- so 9 of them were the celebrities, another 9 made up "Team X" and the remaining 9 "Team O". After each game, the roles rotated.
Oh, and the game was hosted by Mrs. Sylvia Caldwell.
(And no, we didn't have any red boxes on the board...in either case!)
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Hmm...Winning Lines that aired shortly, hosted by Dick Clark
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You just have to be sure they understand the basic of Squares. Once my fifth-grade Hebrew school teacher had us play "Hollywood Squares" and I was insistent that the host wasn't supposed to say "right" or "wrong" until the "contestant" agreed or disagreed. He insisted that it was straight Q&A -- and I was sent to the principal's office for a long lecture on why it was wrong to question a rabbi's wisdom. :-)
Did it have a 'Mr. X" and "Miss Circle"? If so, since the "MC" was ruling the "stars" before the "contestants" had a chance to answer, it practically made the contestants useless.
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 26 2004, 09:40 PM\']
You just have to be sure they understand the basic of Squares. Once my fifth-grade Hebrew school teacher had us play "Hollywood Squares" and I was insistent that the host wasn't supposed to say "right" or "wrong" until the "contestant" agreed or disagreed. He insisted that it was straight Q&A -- and I was sent to the principal's office for a long lecture on why it was wrong to question a rabbi's wisdom. :-)
Did it have a 'Mr. X" and "Miss Circle"? If so, since the "MC" was ruling the "stars" before the "contestants" had a chance to answer, it practically made the contestants useless. [/quote]
Exactly. Unfortunately I didn't have Rabbi Marshall, Rabbi Davidson, Rabbi Bergeron or even Rabbi Bauman to help argue my case. :-)
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'May 26 2004, 08:43 PM\'] [quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 26 2004, 09:40 PM\']
You just have to be sure they understand the basic of Squares. Once my fifth-grade Hebrew school teacher had us play "Hollywood Squares" and I was insistent that the host wasn't supposed to say "right" or "wrong" until the "contestant" agreed or disagreed. He insisted that it was straight Q&A -- and I was sent to the principal's office for a long lecture on why it was wrong to question a rabbi's wisdom. :-)
Did it have a 'Mr. X" and "Miss Circle"? If so, since the "MC" was ruling the "stars" before the "contestants" had a chance to answer, it practically made the contestants useless. [/quote]
Exactly. Unfortunately I didn't have Rabbi Marshall, Rabbi Davidson, Rabbi Bergeron or even Rabbi Bauman to help argue my case. :-) [/quote]
What about Rabbi Alf? ;)
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[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'May 26 2004, 09:44 PM\'] [quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'May 26 2004, 08:43 PM\'] [quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 26 2004, 09:40 PM\']
You just have to be sure they understand the basic of Squares. Once my fifth-grade Hebrew school teacher had us play "Hollywood Squares" and I was insistent that the host wasn't supposed to say "right" or "wrong" until the "contestant" agreed or disagreed. He insisted that it was straight Q&A -- and I was sent to the principal's office for a long lecture on why it was wrong to question a rabbi's wisdom. :-)
Did it have a 'Mr. X" and "Miss Circle"? If so, since the "MC" was ruling the "stars" before the "contestants" had a chance to answer, it practically made the contestants useless. [/quote]
Exactly. Unfortunately I didn't have Rabbi Marshall, Rabbi Davidson, Rabbi Bergeron or even Rabbi Bauman to help argue my case. :-) [/quote]
What about Rabbi Alf? ;) [/quote]
I don't think Alf could be a rabbi -- I thought cats weren't kosher. :-)
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I couldn't help but do some gratiutous self-promotion...(chris and john are probably sick to death of seeing this by now)
Survey Says at UA (http://\"http://www.uakron.edu/upb/surveysayspics.php\")
Survey Says 2 at UA (http://\"http://www.uakron.edu/upb/survey2.php\")
It's the first prize-giving game show version of Family Feud at The University of akron in years...(the last time Feud was done, it was done when Ray Combs was popular)..The first time, I'll tell ya what- it didn't go very well. 75 people came, 9 teams. The second time "part of old-school week" was, EXCELLENT. 175-200 people came, 12 teams, lots of fun.
And to think- I get paid to do this.
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'May 26 2004, 04:05 PM\']Twice last year, we played Password during World History to help us with vocabulary. We'd have to take 3 words about a famous person, event, place, etc, and have our person guess what it is with those clues.[/quote]
In that case, you were really playing Stumpers! then, weren't you?
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[quote name=\'gameshowsteve\' date=\'May 26 2004, 10:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'May 26 2004, 04:05 PM\']Twice last year, we played Password during World History to help us with vocabulary. We'd have to take 3 words about a famous person, event, place, etc, and have our person guess what it is with those clues.[/quote]
In that case, you were really playing Stumpers! then, weren't you? [/quote]
Care to tell me what Bumpers is? I honestly don't know.
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'May 27 2004, 01:18 PM\'] Care to tell me what Bumpers is? I honestly don't know. [/quote]
"Bumpers" is nothing.
"Stumpers" was a short-lived NBC offering that Allen Ludden hosted before he got Password Plus that involved teams of three trying to idenitify famous people, places, and things, by using clues to the other team selected from a given set. Think of it as "Password Minus" and you begin to get the idea.
It was a Lin Bolen creation. That in an of itself should speak volumes.
I'm pretty sure it did 13-weeks-and-out, and really the only notable thing about the show was that the set was pretty snazzy, particularly in its transition from front game to bonus round.
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[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'May 27 2004, 01:18 PM\'][quote name=\'gameshowsteve\' date=\'May 26 2004, 10:01 PM\'] [quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'May 26 2004, 04:05 PM\']Twice last year, we played Password during World History to help us with vocabulary. We'd have to take 3 words about a famous person, event, place, etc, and have our person guess what it is with those clues.[/quote]
In that case, you were really playing Stumpers! then, weren't you? [/quote]
Care to tell me what Bumpers is? I honestly don't know.[/quote]
Well, two teams of two players tried to decipher vanity license plates, and the winners went on to the bonus round where they tried to avoid the dreaded STOP sign.
Wait, you meant Stumpers!, didn't you? :)
Hosted by Allen Ludden, and aired the last 13 weeks of 1976, it featured two teams of three (2 civilians, 1 celeb), who were given a word and three one-word clues to it. They gave those clues to the other team (in what they feel is order of decreasing obsurity). The earlier the opponents solved the stumper, the more points they got.
The bonus round (which I thought of upon reading your post) had similar puzzles, but teammates gave the clues in order of increasing obscurity, in an effort to solve ten of them in sixty seconds for $10,000.
Not a bad format, but unless the contestants were a lot better during the rest of the run than in the episode I have, somewhat painful to watch.
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Ah, the post ahead came in as I wrote this, so I'll dump the rules and just elaborate a bit. Off the top of the head, if the subject was Ryan Seacrest, the three clue words words might be "American" "Idol" "host". ( I can't wait for some of the alternative clues bound to spring from this...) You decided which clue words you wanted to give the opposing team, as the sooner they guessed the subject, the more points they would score. If you decided to give them "host" as the first clue, they would rattle off possible answers, hoping to guess the subject. If they failed, you'd give them another clue word. You'd have to decide whether to give them "American" or "Idol" next. You just tried to keep them stumped as long as you could.
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This past year, we did a really simple review game in political science class called "Political Science Family Feud." It's not really FF, though: the class splits into two teams, and each member of the team goes to a desk in the middle of the room to "face off". The teacher reads a question, usually straight off the test, and the person who "buzzes in" (slaps the desk first) can answer. Two points if correct; if not, the other player has ten seconds with the help of his teammates to steal for one point. The team with the higher score at the end of the period gets +3 bonus on the test.
A game we've done in math analysis is "Wheel" of Fortune: the class splits up into our assigned small groups (seven of them, usually), who play as teams. We go around the room in a somewhat clockwise manner; the first team draws a point value out of a bag. A problem is read; if the team gets it right, they get to call a letter in the puzzle; if not, the problem goes to the next team; same thing for them. (I think we once had a problem go around the entire class twice.) After a question is answered right, and a letter guessed, then next team gets to draw, and the process continues. Points are multiplied for multiple letters, and a bonus is given for a puzzle solve. The team with the highest score at the end of the period gets +3 bonus on the test.
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I remember playing at school Win Lose Or Draw. It was the end of term and our Home Ec teacher had nothing for us to do so someone had the bright idea of playing this. The game lasted 2 rounds before we quit because nobody got the answers. (Robin Hood was one)