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There was always a level of cringe to Name That Tune à la Jane Krakowski and the awkward commentary before the final round from Randy (may his health improve!). But this new season is just… exceptionally bad in my opinion. Robin Thicke has all the personality and charisma of a wet paper bag; his personality might work on the Masked Singer, surrounded by all those loud personalities, but it does NOT fit the vibe of this show. Not to mention that when he sings… I assumed he was way better than what he’s shown here! And Jane kicked the cringe up about ten notches (no matter how hard she tries to make it be sexy, there’s NOTHING sexy about saying “Bid a Note”.)

The only reason I’m still watching is for the fun of playing along 😂 What do y’all think?

I have a few questions for anyone who may have been a contestant on Family Feud in the last few years.

1. When the team members are being introduced, is the leader of the team told to describe the family members with an adjective? (ex. "This is my hilarious sister" "This is my handsome, intelligent husband"

2)Are the contestants instructed to clap along to that damn song, even when they lose Fast Money? It just looks ridiculous.

Just curious.

…or do they just go by their impression (if not their agenda)? While sometimes it seems that they’re merely going by their feelings, occasionally it seems to me that some are putting their hunches aside and specifically voting for whoever is “statistically the weakest link,” which is sometimes told to the home audience via voiceover during voting. Is there something in the lectern display that shows them how well each player did during the round? Or is it merely coincidence that sometimes the hunch they play turns out to be the statistically correct one (even though, say, another player noticeably screws up and gives the impression that they’re the weakest)?

I figured this would start a nice and interesting conversation. I've always been a behind the scenes need so i like knowing what goes into the production.

It’s a straight forward quiz show suitable for daytime here in my Home country of the UK.

Take 5 contestants, select one at random, and the four other contestants are put in Isolation as they work together to try and win the chosen player up to £4,000 in cash.

There are four rounds of 10 questions for the Four players.
Round 1: True or False
Round 2: Maths questions
Round 3: The chosen one’s specialist subject.
Round 4: General Knowledge/Multiple choice
Each correct answer puts £100 in the pot.

After the four rounds have finished, the Chosen one must answer 4 questions correctly to win what’s in the pot. (One wrong answer, and you leave with nothing)
The Chosen one can get help from the Four, but the answer must come from the Chosen One.

After each game, a new contestant joins the other 4 players and we go again.
Each episode would have two games.

The players stay on until they are chosen to be the Chosen one.

I call it… THE POWER OF 4

What are your thoughts?

So, when I was a bit younger, I was really obsessed with a lot of quirky game shows. Many of which are probably known to most, such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Deal or No Deal, which are some of the biggest game shows in the UK. But one favourite of mine back in 2012, was called "Secret Fortune", hosted by Nick Knowles (before he had a beard) which combines DoND and WWTBAM in a way. It ran for 3 series on the BBC as one of their National Lottery Game Shows, but yet I've seen very little discussion about it since, so I just wanted to post about it and why I liked it, despite its relative obscurity.

The most shorthand way to describe it would basically be if Deal or No Deal had general knowledge questions. Much like it, you have 24 envelopes with random cash amounts in them, although unlike DoND, the lowest numbers are actually worth something, with the lowest you can win on this show being £100, as opposed to just a penny. The highest you can win is £100,000, with many high numbers below it, so you can definitely win some big money on it. Each game has two contestants attempt to take it on together, knowing that they'd win at least something, but don't know how much.

The game is essentially split into two halves. In the first, the two contestants pick 4 of the envelopes per question, across 6 different questions. Each question has four possible answers, with each answer allocated to a chosen envelope, with higher answers having higher amounts. So the aim is to try and give the highest answer to the question to retain the most money. The questions will usually be ordered in a list, such as which of these four songs had the highest chart position, or which of these four countries has the highest population, as examples. The contestants get rid of three amounts in the process and then find out if they get it right, but what I've always liked is that they don't get to find out the full order afterwards, just the highest. However the audience watching does find out the full order, so I always used to love working our what amount was where (and I was quite good at it).

After the first half, the contestants are left with 6 of the envelopes, one retained from each previous question. They then play 5 questions to whittle down the number to just the one they win, losing one envelope per question. The questions are still ordered in a way, with each answer corresponding to an envelope, although you don't know which one is getting thrown until you give the answer. Getting it right means you get rid of the lowest, but getting it completely wrong means you lose the highest, meaning you could lose anything depending on how you answer. There's quite some high stakes with these, as just one slight mistake could massively impact what you win, especially when there's some large gaps in the money left. Often contestants know where the big money is as well, so it can be tense wondering if the big money envelopes are going to show up for elimination or not.

I used to watch it back in 2011/2012 with my Mum (who was way better at answering the questions than 9 year old me) when it was on Saturday evening, and for some reason I was just obsessed with the format. Especially when it came to guessing not only the answers, but where all the money was in the final round. But once the show was discontinued after 2012, I never really heard anything about it. I think they tried to make a US version that didn't go anywhere, but that's about it. Which is a real shame, because I feel like it's got a format that would work really well, and already overlaps with many existing game shows. And trying to find episodes online is quite difficult as well, especially for earlier series, despite being a BBC show (although if anyone knows of them somewhere, I would be very grateful). But regardless, I think it's a curious and underrated gameshow, I hope people enjoy it as much as I did!

I am a fan of game shows and keep seeing ads for a $100,000 Pyramid and Match Game/Press Your Luck channels but the channels haven't shown up on my live guide. Do I need to update the app or are some channels not available everywhere?