Top Five Game Shows of All Time
If you love game shows as much as I do, then check out what I classify as the top five game shows in television history.
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Russian Roulette
Four contestants compete against each other by answering trivia questions given to them by Mark L. Walberg, the host of the show. If a contestant gets a question wrong, he/she has the possibility of falling through a hole in the floor. The chance of falling increases with each question.
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Match Game
A game where contestants complete “fill in the blank” sentences and receive points for each one of the six panelists they match answers with. The one with the most points at the end of the two rounds plays the bonus round for additional cash. Gene Rayburn hosted this 1970’s classic.
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Card Sharks
Two players competed against in each other at completing a line of 5 playing cards (dealt from a regulation 52 card playing deck) by predicting whether each card was higher or lower than the one that preceded it. Before they could start calling higher or lower on the cards, they had to answer a high/low toss-up question. All of the questions were based on the polls of 100 people. One player guessed the number of people, the other guessed whether the answer was higher or lower (the guesses would rotate back and forth each question). A maximum of four questions were played, and the winner of each question played their cards. The winner had the choice to keep or change their “base” card. If the player made one mistake while calling, they lost all their cards back to their base card and their opponent got the chance to play their cards (the loser of the question could NOT change their card however). If a player came up with a card they didn’t like, they could “Freeze” their position, protect their cards, and the card that was “frozen on” would become their new base card. The first to complete their line of cards won the game and $100. If they made it to the fourth question, the game became “Sudden Death”. In “Sudden Death” one wrong call would lose the game. The winner of that question had the choice to either play or pass control to their opponents, hoping their opponent would make a mistake. The game was played in a two out of three match. The third game was a “tie-breaker” game, and was played with only three cards for each player and three questions, with the same rules applying. The winner of the match went to play the “Money Cards” bonus game for extra cash.
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Greed
A high-stakes quiz show where five contestants work both as a team and against each other to win a jackpot of up to $2 million by answering multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions. One wrong answer disqualifies the entire team from the grand prize and causes everyone to forfeit their winnings. Individual contestants can be eliminated through Terminator challenges, increasing the overall cash amount awarded to the remaining players…
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Press Your Luck
Press Your Luck was an American television daytime game show that ran on CBS from September 19, 1983 to September 26, 1986, where contestants collected “spins” by answering trivia questions, and then used the “spins” on an 18-space game-board full of cash and prizes. The person who amassed the most in cash and prizes at the end of the game won.
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Match game is my favorite!!