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Offline Superballer

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records on game shows
« on: February 10, 2017, 11:30:48 AM »
To the best of anyone's knowledge, what would be: 

-the fastest time to solve both Scrabble Sprint round puzzles in the allotted 10 seconds?
-fastest time to complete the Blockbusters Gold Run (either version)?
-fastest time to correctly guess all 7 Name That Tune Golden Medley songs (both Kennedy and Lange versions)? 
-fastest time (regardless of how much was on the clock to begin) to make all the car matches in Classic Concentration? 
-least number of rolls to clear all the High Rollers Big Numbers (both versions)? 

Offline SamJ93

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Re: records on game shows
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 01:33:24 PM »
No idea if anyone ever actually did it, but you can clear the Big Numbers in 4 rolls of you throw three 12's in a row followed by a 9 or a 12 followed by 3 11's. (The odds of doing either of these are infinitesimal, though.)

Offline blozier2006

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Re: records on game shows
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2017, 02:36:49 PM »
For High Rollers, with regards to circulating episodes, the fewest rolls needed for a Big Numbers win (in the 1978-1980 Trebek run) was the May 19, 1978 show ("Crazy" Gene Snook)...

Rolls a 5, takes the 5
Rolls a 9, takes the 9
Rolls a 6, takes the 6
Rolls a 5, takes the 1 and the 4
Rolls a 10 (doubles!), takes the 3 and the 7
Rolls an 8, takes the 8 (only possible move on that roll)
Rolls a 2, takes the 2 and wins the game
Seven rolls in total

Arguably the best episode of those circulating.

Offline jwatson2973

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Re: records on game shows
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2017, 04:15:20 PM »
If you included The Price is Right, I watched videos of one contestant winning all five prizes in Switcheroo on the first try & another contestant winning Bonkers on the first try on the same episode during Bob Barker's tenure.

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Re: records on game shows
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2017, 01:20:52 PM »
Fastest car win in Classic Concentration was a contestant named Stan in October or November of 1990...He had the minimum amount of time (35 seconds) and made the last match with 8 or 9 seconds left on the clock....