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Post by Flowgli on Sept 3, 2013 22:14:07 GMT -5
Well, today, I watched an episode of the new season of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and Cedric the Entertainer is there as the new host. The shuffle format is still in the game.
And tonight, the season one finale of The Chase aired. A commercial for season two has aired, so I'll be looking forward to the second season of The Chase, which will premiere sometime this fall.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 11, 2013 11:13:39 GMT -5
Okay, there are a few more new things in game shows that I saw or heard of, so I'll post them here, right now.
First, this Monday, a new game show called The Million Second Quiz premiered on NBC. The host is Ryan Seacrest from American Idol. The Million Second Quiz is not the first game show that Ryan Seacrest hosted; back in the '90s, he hosted a kids' game show called Click.
Second, speaking of kids' game shows, a revival of Win, Lose, Or Draw will premiere this fall on the Disney Channel. It'll be like Teen Win, Lose, Or Draw, except the word "teen" will not be in the title, and new motion-control technology will be used instead of paper and markers.
Third, it has been announced that The American Bible Challenge has been renewed for a third season, and it will premiere sometime next year.
And that's my update in this thread for now.
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Post by RaceFanX on Sept 11, 2013 20:57:22 GMT -5
Million Second Quiz is a dud, I watched a bit and it's big money but too confusing (remember how popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was because it was simple). You have like watch their chat, and thier stream, and the game makes no sense. Some of the questions are current events so its going to date itself within a few days, it's a mess.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 11, 2013 21:56:07 GMT -5
Yeah, The Million Second Quiz has some things in gameplay that made me find it confusing. That's why I didn't even bother to explain how the game works on my last post in this topic.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 16, 2013 22:03:42 GMT -5
Today, The 30th season of Jeopardy! and the 31st season of Wheel Of Fortune premiered.
Gameplay in Jeopardy is still the same as it has been for many years. The only change made for its current season is the set.
There is something new added to gameplay in Wheel Of Fortune, and that is an "Express" wedge with a value of $1,000. This wedge comes into play in round three. If a contestant lands on the Express wedge and calls a letter that's in the puzzle, they get $1,000 apiece and the option to keep picking letters for another $1,000 apiece without spinning the wheel. But if they call a letter that's not in the puzzle along the way, they lose all the money they accumulated in that round.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 27, 2013 11:58:53 GMT -5
Today on The Price Is Right, they're celebrating the 30th anniversary of one of the best pricing games in the show, Plinko. In today's show, Plinko is the only pricing game being played, and there's something different in the game each time it's played. That difference is what can be won. Here's the following of what can be won on each Plinko game in the order they were shown.
1st: $50,000, as normal
2nd: $40,000 and a car
3rd: $50,000, with the $1,000 slots replaced with an all-terrain vehicle and an air hocky table
4th: $40,000 and an SUV
5th: $40,000 and a trip to London
6th: $50,000, with the $1,000 slots replaced with an elliptical trainer and a computer
In any case, once a Plinko chip lands on a slot displaying a non-monetary prize, that prize is won, and that slot is removed, revealing the amount of cash behind it.
And speaking of The Price Is Right, its 42nd season premiered this Monday, and a new pricing game is introduced. It's called "Do The Math". There are two prizes in this pricing game, and between the two prizes, there is a monitor with a display that resembles writing on a chalkboard, just like the monitor in Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? A dollar figure is shown on the monitor, and an equals sign is shown between that dollar figure and the price of the second prize, which is not revealed until the end of the game. What the contestant has to do is decide if a plus sign or a minus sign goes between the price of the first prize (which also is not revealed until the end) and the dollar figure on the monitor. The price of the first prize and the dollar figure on the monitor must equal the price of the second prize, just like a math problem. If they're right, they win the two prizes. If they're wrong they win nothing.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 23, 2013 10:40:05 GMT -5
A new game show premiered yesterday on TBS. It's called Trust Me, I'm A Game Show Host. This show has two hosts, just like The Better Sex, Sex Wars, Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, and Shopper's Casino. The two hosts on Trust Me, I'm A Game Show Host are Michael Ian Black and Darryl Lynn Hughley.
The gameplay is simple. One contestant plays five rounds, and each round is worth $1,000 more than the last. In each round, a category is given, and each host reads a statement from that category. One of the hosts is telling the truth, while the other is lying, and what the contestant has to do is decide who is telling the truth. If they chose the host who is telling the truth, they win the money. A possible $15,000 can be won in the five rounds.
After five rounds, the contestant plays the bonus round, where they are shown five statements, with only one of them being the truth. The contestant must pick which statement is the truth. Before choosing, they have the option to have a lie removed, but it's going to cost them some of the money they won earlier. The first lie removed costs $1,000, the second lie removed costs $2,000, and the third lie removed costs $3,000. If the contestant picks the statement that is true, they win an additional $20,000.
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Post by WWI Flying Ace RaceFanX on Oct 23, 2013 19:21:02 GMT -5
Have you seen that new Comedy Central @midnight show yet Flo? Supposedly that's a new celebrity game show about current internet events.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 23, 2013 19:25:58 GMT -5
I haven't even known about that show until I read an article about it in the US Game Shows Wiki about an hour ago.
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Post by Flowgli on Nov 7, 2013 11:20:16 GMT -5
The season two premiere of The Chase aired two days ago. The game is the same as season one, except for two things, both of which are in the Final Chase. One was that two sets of questions were labeled by letter (A or B), and the remaining contestants get to choose which set of questions to work with, leaving the other set of questions to the Beast. The other was that when a contestant buzzes in, a voice calling out that contestant's name is no longer heard; instead, their name on the screen on the team podium simply lights up.
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Post by Flowgli on Nov 8, 2013 17:55:58 GMT -5
I have been seeing a commercial for a new show on GSN. It's called Mind Of A Man. From what I was able to find about the show, the game will be played by women, who, with help from a celebrity panel, must answer questions that have been answered by a group of 100 men. The questions on this show will be surveys, so the female contestants must figure out how men think in subjects such as marriage, dating, careers--things like that. The host will be DeRay Davis, and the show will premiere exactly two months from now.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 9, 2014 9:20:19 GMT -5
Okay, the game show called Mind Of A Man premiered last night, and four episodes were shown.
Like I said before, two female contestants try to figure out how a group of 100 men answered questions, and a panel of three people is there to help the contestants out.
The first round has three multiple-choice survey questions. After the three choices to a question were revealed, each panelist would reveal which answer they think is the top answer and why. The contestants will then lock in their answers, and the top answer will be revealed. Contestants who lock in with the correct answers score money. Each question in this round is worth $200.
Round two is played the same as round one, except that the questions were answered by a specific group of 100 men, the third question was asked by a guest star, and each question is worth $300.
Round three has each contestant picking a panelist, who will give their opinion on how the three answers to a question are put in order from most popular to least popular. The contestant in turn will then decide whether to agree with the chosen panelist or rearrange the answers. Getting all three answers in the right order scores the contestant $500, while getting only one answer in the right position only scores her $100.
There's another part to round three, and in that part of the round, a list of five answers to one more question was given. Each contestant must choose which answer she thinks is the most popular one. Whoever picks an answer that is more popular wins the game.
In the bonus round, the winner chose a panelist, and she and that panelist would take turns choosing from pairs of answers within 30 seconds. Each time the more popular answer in a pair is chosen, the contestant gets $300 added to her total winnings. If a total of seven correct answers were given before time is up, the contestant wins $10,000.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 27, 2014 23:54:47 GMT -5
Okay, I've just watched an episode of the new Disney Channel version of Win, Lose, Or Draw. No, I didn't watch it on TV; I found a full episode of it on the Internet. The show premiered on the 17th of this month, which was on a Friday, so I assumed that it's a weekly show that airs on Fridays, but I checked all the time slots on the Disney Channel for Friday this week, and this show wasn't to be found in any of them at all.
Anyway, the host is Justin Willman, who previously hosted Scrabble Showdown on the Hub. There are two contestants and a star on each team, and the game is played differently from its previous versions. Like I said before, motion-control technology is used instead of paper and markers. There are four screens on the game board; a row of three small screens are used for drawing, while a much larger screen above that row is used for viewing the drawings.
The three rounds in the main game are each played differently, but each team has a minute and a half to score points in each round.
In the first round, which is called "Get A Clue", one team member will be guessing the drawings, while their teammates use the left and right drawing screens to draw the pictures on. The team member at the left screen will draw first, and Justin will read a clue to the picture. After a few seconds, the drawing moves to the drawing screen on the right, and the team member at that position will draw some more on the picture, and another clue will be given. The picture will move back to the left drawing screen after some seconds, and one more clue will be given. After a correct answer is given, the team members will rotate for the next picture. Each correct answer in this round is worth 10 points.
In the second round, which is called "Draw-Obstacle Course", one team member will do the drawing, while their teammates do the guessing. Each drawing screen has a different obstacle. The left drawing screen has an obstacle called "Bug Eyes", where the person drawing must wear a special pair of glasses that makes it difficult for them to see what they're drawing. The center drawing screen has an obstacle called "Shake, Rattle, And Draw", where the person drawing must draw while standing on a shaking platform. The right drawing screen has an obstacle called "Spin Cycle", where the drawing will be spinning around. After a team member went through all three obstacles, the next team member will go through them. Each turn at drawing in this round must start at the "Bug Eyes" obstacle and end at the "Spin Cycle" obstacle. Again, each correct answer is worth 10 points.
In the third round, which is called "Fill In The Blank", one team member draws on the cender drawing screen, while their teammates do the guessing. Justin will read fill-in-the-blank statements, and the guessers must fill in the blanks by guessing the drawings. After a correct guess, the next team member will do the drawing. This time, each correct guess is worth 20 points.
The team with the most points at the end of round three wins the game. The game in the video I watched ended in a tie, so what happened there is that each team has a buzzer, and Justin draws one picture on the left drawing screen. Whoever buzzes in with the correct answer wins the game, but if the team that buzzed in is wrong, the other team automatically wins.
The final round of the game is called "The Wand", because all the drawing is done with a wand. The drawing screens are not used in this round, but the drawings still appear on the larger screen. While a person is drawing with the wand, they will be facing away from the screen that the drawing appears on. Both stars take part in this round. Each correct guess earns the two winning contestants a pair of prizes. After a correct guess or a pass, the contestants and stars rotate. If four correct answers are given before time runs out, the contestants win all the prizes.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jan 29, 2014 22:04:59 GMT -5
So they rebooted Win, Lose, or Draw with kids? Does it lose anything in translation without the late Burt Convy?
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 29, 2014 22:39:11 GMT -5
They sure have. This is not the first time Win, Lose, Or Draw had kids playing. Disney Channel had a kids version called Teen Win, Lose, Or Draw with Marc Price as host, and it lasted from 1989 to 1992. The NBC version of Win, Lose, Or Draw with Vicki Lawrence as host lasted two years, and the syndicated version with Bert Convy and Robb Weller lasted three years. The original Win, Lose, Or Draw had a set that was modeled after Burt Reynolds' living room, whereas Teen Win, Lose, Or Draw had a set that looked like the game was being played outside in front of an opened garage. Other than the fact that the current Win, Lose, Or Draw does not use markers and paper like all the previous versions did, this current version does not have the rounds where each team member draws an answer for their teammates to guess within one minute and writes down a word if their teammates guessed it if it's part of the answer, and it does not have a speed round, either. In fact, the only things I found that the current version and the original version both have other than the drawing and guessing the drawings are that the two teams are sitting on couches and drawings of celebrities playing the game are shown as the celebrities themselves are introduced.
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