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Title: Extremely inportant Double Dare (Trebek) Question
Post by: Adam Nedeff on January 13, 2006, 10:15:22 PM

So it's Friday and since I have no life, I'm burning bad-VQ episodes of Trebek's "Double Dare" onto DVD.  Anyway...

#1. Anybody know how many clues were prepared for each category?

#2. Did it ever come up where all of them were used in the middle of a "Dare" or "Double Dare" scenario, and if so, what happened?

Title: Extremely inportant Double Dare (Trebek) Question
Post by: TLEberle on January 14, 2006, 06:39:10 AM

Hm.  Interesting, because you can't NOT have another clue coming up, even if "The Beatles" was solved on "John, Paul, George and Ringo make up this musical group."  Nor can you edit out that puzzle and take away the $50.  I think I've seen puzzles go to 10 clues with no answer.  My best wild-ass-guess is that Alex says "One of you must guess correctly on this clue, or the puzzle is thrown out."  If they don't get it from the band members, nothing's going to help.  That might be a time for an edit, as well as new players.

Title: Extremely inportant Double Dare (Trebek) Question
Post by: JasonA1 on January 14, 2006, 01:16:55 PM

I got to imagine the last few clues of whatever number are written are so silly and obvious that it would likely not lead to a dare or a double dare and just be solved at that late point.

-Jason

Title: Extremely inportant Double Dare (Trebek) Question
Post by: uncamark on January 16, 2006, 12:50:38 PM

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Jan 14 2006, 12:16 PM\']I got to imagine the last few clues of whatever number are written are so silly and obvious that it would likely not lead to a dare or a double dare and just be solved at that late point.

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And it was 10 clues.  They only got down that far once or twice (IIRC), but from memory, the last clue pretty much laid it in your lap.  Still, it seems to me that one was a strikeout--and Trebek rubbed in the futility pretty heavy on the players.

Title: Extremely inportant Double Dare (Trebek) Question
Post by: ChuckNet on January 17, 2006, 11:04:26 PM

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And it was 10 clues. They only got down that far once or twice (IIRC), but from memory, the last clue pretty much laid it in your lap. Still, it seems to me that one was a strikeout--and Trebek rubbed in the futility pretty heavy on the players.

Anyone know if GSN ever aired this "strikeout" ep when they ran DD on wknds in 96-97?

Chuck Donegan (The Curious "Chuckie Baby")