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GRECO! / Re: GRECO!6 Week 20 5/13 to 5/17
« Last post by Wayoshi on May 17, 2024, 12:13:53 PM »
This ended up being a weird week where there were virtually no diagonal GRECOs because somehow Stack & Seat skipped, but scores were still pretty good because just about everything else showed, except Money. Also another 1.80 super spot added quite a few points to the proceedings. FJB edged me out but a lot of good scores here.

I am torn on whether to start the playoffs on Memorial Day or the week after that. I am leaning towards week after at this point.

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13: Do the Math
12: Balance Game, Double Prices, Money Game
11: 1 Right Price, Double Cross, Pick-a-Number, Plinko, Take Two
10: 10 Chances, 5 Price Tags, Any Number, Hi Lo, Hot Seat, Stack the Deck
9: Dice Game, Lucky $even, To The Penny
7: Line em Up
6: Pick-a-Pair, Side By Side, Squeeze Play, Vend-O-Price
5: 3 Strikes, Bargain Game, Gridlock!, Pocket ¢hange, Shell Game, Spelling Bee, Switch?
4: Card Game, Flip Flop, It's in the Bag, One Wrøng Price, Push Over
3: Bonkers, Bullseye, Clock Game, Cover Up, Freeze Frame, Most Expen$ive, Pass the Buck, Pathfinder, Punch a Bunch, That's Too Much!
2: Check Game, Coming or Going, Secret "X"
1: 1/2 Off, 2 for the Price of 1, Bonus Game, Cliff Hangers, Eazy az 1 2 3, Gas Money, Let 'em Roll, More or Less, Now....or Then, Range Game, Rat Race, Swap Meet
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This episode also features Bullseye's original $5-$10 target range as well. Also, based on Bob's explanation, it appears that the Hidden Bullseye rule has changed from the closest marker to the target to any marker on the target at this point.

Also, for the first two small prizes described in Give or Keep, you can hear a variant from the rarely used "Robert" cue.
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Here's the eligible players who've submitted so far, in bold:

The eligible participants in these playoffs (though anyone is welcome to play along):

Kev347
dprice
Wayoshi

OneBidTris
thatvhstapeguy
22FJB

JarodJGames
gamesurf
Hag
Pikachu732001
thepriceis_J
tpir04
Nate Powalie
Flerbert419
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Out In Left Field / Re: 2024 Obituaries Thread
« Last post by mellongraig on May 16, 2024, 10:26:45 PM »
Darren Dutchyshen, longtime TSN personality and SportsCentre host, age 57 of prostate cancer.

https://www.tsn.ca/long-time-tsn-broadcaster-darren-dutchyshen-passes-away-at-57-1.2121798
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Out In Left Field / Re: 2024 NHL Playoffs
« Last post by mellongraig on May 16, 2024, 10:00:03 PM »
What a comeback by the Rangers - down 3-1 in the 2nd period and scored four answered goals including an empty netter in the 3rd period to put it away. Even Jordin Martinook's miraculous save in the second period to keep the Rangers from scoring a goal couldn't save the Hurricanes season.

It's looking very likely now that the Oilers-Canucks series which is going at least six games will have a primetime broadcast on ABC Saturday night at 8pm ET for Game 6.

Update: The game will be on ESPN at 8pm ET due to ABC scheduling Game 6 of the Thunder-Mavericks NBA series that they weren't initially supposed to air.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: Pricing Game One-Offs
« Last post by SeaBreeze341 on May 16, 2024, 09:48:57 PM »
I wouldn't be a fan of that.  It would be interesting, but one of the things I disliked back when was a point where a contestant wasn't close enough to a winning range, but following their next draw, they were over the range
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Out In Left Field / Re: 2024 NHL Playoffs
« Last post by PatrickRox80 on May 16, 2024, 09:45:57 PM »
And they did, the Rangers are in the ECF. They'll await the winner of the Bruins/Panthers series.
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(Very) slowly logging and digitizing episodes plus trying to put together as many of the episodes GSN actually aired back in the day as possible.  This copy originally aired in WinTV, but I've pulled the video out of the squeezeback so it remains full for the duration of the show.

Lineup is Bullseye, Dice Game, Race Game, Card Game, Give or Keep, and Poker Game
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The TALK Is Right / Re: Pricing Game One-Offs
« Last post by tpirfan28 on May 16, 2024, 09:31:03 PM »
On that note, Card Game for a trip.

Card Game works soooo much better with four digit prices. Something is lost when each card draw feels like pouring a thimble in a well.
Reverting the game all the way back to its original rules and play it this way would be a very interesting trial.
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The TALK Is Right / Re: Pricing Game One-Offs
« Last post by Nick on May 16, 2024, 08:58:55 PM »
I had that exact same idea for Make Your Move! I even joked that they could make the change permanent and Make Your Move could be the quickest SP/Car game in the dhow's lineup! The producers would love it!

Makes you wonder why they haven't yet tried it.

Money Game for a boat.

Has already been done.

Card Game works soooo much better with four digit prices. Something is lost when each card draw feels like pouring a thimble in a well.

Agreed, but instead of downgrading the game (for I would think downgrading any car game to something less than a car just makes the show look cheap), maybe it's time to reconsider how the standard deck is used.

Forget the opening bid and make the standard deck the number on the card in thousands of dollars.  As every car is over $20k now, you'd have to make a few draws to start; and this makes things really no different than when the opening bid was zero or $2,000 and you'd be topping out around $6-$8k.  Plus, you restore the long lost risk where one more draw may put you over, a feat difficult to achieve under the current format in this day and age.

Now, admittedly, having twenty-four $10k cards between the tens and face cards is not going to work very well, as you run a high risk of a single draw putting the contestant very obviously over when still needing to draw to get close enough to the ARP.  The fix, as I see it, would simply be to play with less than a standard deck.  Perhaps you could use a deck of thirty-nine distributed as follows:

Four of the aces (still holdable and wild for any amount), duces, threes and fours;
Three of the fives, sixes and sevens;
Two of the eights, nines and tens.

Under this arrangement, the odds of drawing an ace are notably increased (up to 10.3% from 7.7%) but so are the odds of an extra draw putting you over as you exhaust the lower-value cards.  The ace (if you are so fortunate as to draw one) can then be used for its intended purpose of targeting close to a bid without drawing further and not as a card made an exaggerated value for the purposes of wrapping up the game quickly since all non-ace draws add such a miniscule amount.

A change to the special deck would be necessary as getting within $1,000 would be pretty nigh difficult when your smallest non-wildcard is $2,000.  How about three each of $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 and $6,000?

My math may be missing some pitfalls, so perhaps there's a better distribution to use; but I think it's a start in fixing Card Game.
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