If there was ever a time not to take the $10,000 cash out offer before the 1% question, it was this week’s episode. This was probably the easiest 1% question ever across any version. I know there are standards that prevent question sets from being altered mid-game, but it almost felt like they showed a dead easy question to make the cash out decision more painful.
I’ve been watching a few reruns of Deal or No Deal (US) this week, and most of these couldn’t be more true.
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Same name, different show, different host
First image: new question board Second image: old question board
It looks good, I just wonder who made the decision to change such a minute detail and why midway through the show’s 35th season.
Go to 17:49. It's Password Plus. The word is "Harry". The contestants give clues "hirsute" and "furry", obviously describing "hairy". Sound-alikes are allowed. One of the contestants guesses "hairy". Tom Kennedy gives it to her (as he should).
The judge then says that "Harry" and "hairy" have different pronunciations so it can't be accepted. Everybody is incredulous. Tom Kennedy, who is not buying this judge's decision, suggests that perhaps in New York they're pronounced differently.
How is it possible? A riot should have broken out over that decision. There was an abrupt edit so I suspect that there was extended debate over this. But in the end, it was all upheld. One of the worst judge's decisions I've seen.
Love this show to death, reminiscent of childhood.
For the uninformed, 1 vs 100 was a mid/late 2000s game show where 1 contestant (The One) battled 100 others (The Mob) in a multiple choice quiz to earn money. Wrong answered marked elimination for both sides. The show originated in the Netherlands in 2000 and spread around the world, with only Switzerland and the Netherlands being the only countries to produce it today.
The format took on different rules and game changes as more countries bought it, most notably in the USA.
To my knowledge, there are 4 different versions of the game show 1 vs 100, and I want to ask which version is your favorite:
1) US s1:
The One battles the Mob with a top prize of $1 million. The One can choose to leave at any time in the game, meaning that the contestant does not have to eliminate all contestants to win money.
The One earns money per eliminated contestant, with values ranging from $1,000 to $10,000. Wrong answers caused elimination for both sides, and if the One gets a question wrong, their winnings were split among the remaining contestants in the Mob. At any time, elimination of all contestants resulted in an automatic million-dollar win.
2) US s2:
Similar to US s1, the One can win up to $1 million. Yet, the payout follows a ten-step money ladder where contestants are awarded fixed prizes per 10 mob members eliminated. In all other metrics, the format remains intact.
3) Netherlands:
In this version (and many European adaptations), in order for the One to receive any money, they must eliminate ALL 100 contestants in the Mob. No exceptions. Every question was worth €50,000 to the One, and the One was awarded the amount relative to the proportion of the mob eliminated on that particular question.
So, for example, the first question has 100 contestants in the mob, each one is worth €500. If a question is asked on 1 vs 20, each mob member is worth €2,500. And on 1 vs 1, the singular mob member is worth €50,000.
Wrong answers meant elimination for the One, and a new One is selected from the remaining contestants in the Mob. The One has no lifelines other than three skips, which take away 25%, 50%, and 75% of the winnings. Once again, the One wins the money only when all 100 contestants are eliminated.
4) UK/Switzerland:
This is a simplified version of the Dutch version. No matter the stage of the game, every contestant in the mob is worth £1,000. Successfully eliminating ALL 100 contestants resulted in winning all money + a bonus of £50,000. The skips take 50% each time.
A chance at bailout is offered when the One is revealed to eliminate all contestants, but right before announcement of the correct answer. In this case, the One can choose to bail with the winnings without the bonus, or risk their money to gamble for the bonus.
Which version is your favorite and why? Which should come back?
Edit: Reddit screwed my post up posting online.
Also, my favorite out of the four is Switzerland’s version.
Anyone know why they aired a repeat last Monday on FOX?
That doesn't happen in game shows, during a new season, 4 episodes in.
Impropriety? Lawsuit over unfair, badly researched content from a contestant?
My guess, after having worked with many of the people involved.
Absolute hack Aaron's (fall guy for Craig Brooks, GSN execs) email is the definition of game show rigging.
By "keep on standby," he means, they swap out the bonus round and other material when cheap-AF GSN flip-flops between "We're not giving enough money away! It'll affect ratings!" to "OMG! We gave too much money away this morning after questions were altered to manipulate ratings, illegally! Make everything in the tapings after lunch IMPOSSIBLE!"
definition of throw the hammer down:
To very strongly rebuke, criticize, condemn, or punish one.
Punish players unfairly, out of potential earnings...
This past week, the final jeopardy question was French film from 1993 whose title translates to "The Day With No End". What is Groundhog Day?
Wasn't it 6 or 7 years ago that the final jeopardy question was "a character in this movie says 'I have been stabbed, shot, poisoned, frozen, hung, electrocuted, and burned'
What is...Groundhog Day?
So now they're reusing answers for FJ?
There's literally infinite pieces of trivia that exist in the world and they go back to the same well twice?? Have they ever done that? Were they not aware that Groundhog Day had already been used?
Also,reusing Groundhog Day for Final Jeopardy is ironically something that is very Groundhog Day itself.
Not sure if this is the correct category but I have been thinking along time now and want to express my huge disappointment in The Price is Right this season specifically. I have been watching this show since the 1980s , yes I am old. Every show was bearable up until this season when the show when sideways drastically IMO. It is so over the top now, fake, phony etc. Unwatchable. And I loved watching it until this season. I guess people like fake shows? Totally rehearsed and so easy to see the faults. Anyways this has been building lol. Unfortunately I can’t watch it anymore and Lets Make a Deal just doesn’t do it for me.
Has anyone gotten more information AFTER having a zoom?? Curious how far along they’re getting in casting…
It kind of rubs me wrong when they are a CEO of a big company or are a record producer or an airline pilot, etc.
On the the show, he always said "Who WANTS to be a Millionaire". Emphasis on "wants". I could see emphasising "who" or "millionaire" but "wants" always struck me as odd.
I'm not familiar with his body of work. Did he have other weird pronunciation quirks like this? Whenever I did happen to catch an interview or something of him, he always seemed...off.
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