During the mid seasons they added the double money on the wheel. After a few years they made it harder to get the double. It went from about a 50% chance to about a 20% chance. Also, in the later seasons they prolonged the games by having the person in the lead go first in the 2nd round. This made the game longer and thus there were less games, which means less money. Am I the only one that noticed these disgusting antics?
shareI haven't seen all the later episodes, so I'll take your word as true.
shareAm I the only one that noticed these disgusting antics?
So now each of the two contestants can only be on twice for two games instead of just one only having one chance and a winner keeps on going past two times if he or she can.It was syndicated daytime episodes. CBS canceled the show in 1979, and it continued in syndication (right when the title changes from Match Game 79 to simply Match Game). In this system, episodes were distributed to the various subscribing stations in one-week batches in a kind of "round robin", so the different weeks' episodes were shown in different week-order in different cities. (GSN apparently shows them in actual production order.) This meant that there could be no continuity from one week to the next, so they established a pattern of always playing exactly six games in five days. This is why they often resolved ties with "sudden death", to keep on schedule; and why if they occasionally finished the week's six games early, Gene would go out into the audience. The fixed two-game play was probably done so that it didn't matter whether you appeared early or late in the week for how much you could play. And letting the player who was ahead go first in round 2 insured that both players would get to play two questions, and help even-out the length in the process.
And there are fewer stars on the big wheel so even less of a chance for them to get a double.
I don't like it that they made these changes.
I'm guessing it's an experiment to draw in more viewers or else I'm watching repeats of the syndicated evening version where the game show title is not followed by the year anymore and they wanted it to be different than the daytime version.
Anyone know why the changes?
After a few years they made it harder to get the double. It went from about a 50% chance to about a 20% chance.
are you getting ready for the new match game with alec baldwin?
"Hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life!" - Cannonball Adderley
Good idea! ...now that Buzzr may have been taken from me. Will you be watching it? I read about the new one on here a couple of weeks ago, but didn't think I'd need it
I wonder how the new one will go. I like how in the old one they would ask some obviously dirty questions and you could tell the stars were thinking of dirty answers (such as when Richard Paul was on there), then would usually respond with clean ones. I wonder if it will be anything like that with the new show.
I also wonder how much ribbing/roasting there will be among the celebs and if it will get old fast, or be consistantly entertaining like it was with Brett and Charles in the old version.
Mag, Darling, you're being a bore.
i will be checking it out for sure!
"Hipness is not a state of mind, it's a fact of life!" - Cannonball Adderley