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posted 17 years ago by robdmob
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Now I've got your attention...

Was the "mystery" game a completely different type of game or did it simply mean any of the other type (physical, mental or skill) chosen at the behest of Mr. O'Brian / Tudor-Pole ????

[–] retrogal83 17 years ago

Don't know about getting your attention, but I always always always fancied Richard O'Brien.

Now he IS a sexy man...! mmmm

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[–] jay-jay_3 17 years ago

I think it's amusing how somebody mistook your attention grabber for you post subject.

I think mystery could have been absolutely anything. Also, it could include any games that didn't really fit into any of the other three categories.

My whole life just flashed before my eyes. It was really boring

[–] morella_the_goblin_queen 17 years ago

Good subject line. I've seen greeting cards with that sort of thing...

When I first heard "mystery", I thought they meant an actually mystery game, as in solving a mystery. It didn't help my confusion when the first "mystery" catergory game was the one where there was a dead body and the woman had to find where the crystal was by reading the clues left on the desk.

I'm starting to think that a the mystery is kinda like a wild card--a random game, of any description.

About the games being chosen, how did the hosts know which door to choose? All the rooms look the same on the outside, how did they know what's on the inside? Most likely to do with the earpiece, I'd wager.

[–] Columbia75 17 years ago

Apparently, it was all very preplanned and walk through before they film anything.

The constant genuinly played the games but they offend got them do bits again so they could get better shots etc.

A single show which is only on TV for an hour including adverts, took a whole day to film.

[–] AirRaidPatrol 17 years ago

it looks to me like it was all done on a single camera as well, which would make the whole process take an awful long time to film

[–] g-bhxu 11 years ago

There was an article in TV Zone in the late 80's about how the show was recorded.

Yes, everything was all planned before filming.

All the game types had to be chosen so that they could be set up in the appropriate room. On a few episodes you can clearly tell that Richard is prompting the Captain to choose a particular game type.

An episode actually took 2 days to film.

Day 1 involved Richard/Ed as the contestants played the games.

Day 2 involved the contestants redoing bits to make it look better for TV

[–] AirRaidPatrol 17 years ago

it was basically a more adventurous name for a miscalanious (sp) game, anything that didn't fit into the other 3 catagories.

[–] puirt-a-beul 11 years ago

Was the "mystery" game a completely different type of game or did it simply mean any of the other type (physical, mental or skill) chosen at the behest of Mr. O'Brian / Tudor-Pole ????

I think the games were chosen by the producers, and the host was directed to whichever game was set uip next. I don't think much of it was actually random.

In fact, I've been watching a couple of series back-to-back on YouTube, and I reckon the game they ended up playing had nothing really to do with the category they asked for — I've seen the same game (such as the one with the rolling log in the Aztec zone) variously presented as a physical, mental and mystery game.

I know, the fun was in watching them succeed or fail, but it does puzzle me why they went through the motions of making it look like part of the game was the luck of which category you chose, when they got the same games anyway.

You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.