Well, and the Price is Right also had the 'skill' of Plinko. Even the clock game had a strong element of price knowledge in it, though.. centainly makes for an advantage to know how much a 300-pill bottle of Centrum costs at MSRP.
Hmmm. I don't recall ever seeing the Scrabble game show. I can picture it with chuck wollery, a light-up game screen, electronic 'tiles'- but I could picture that perfectly without ever having seen it. "Chuck Woolery, Scrabble Game Show, 1984" and the mental image is set.
On that note, the Beat The Geeks final round almost always progressed to 2-point, 2-point, 3-point question for the contestant (and 3, 3, 3 for the geek). And we all well know Wheel of Fortune and the NSTRL-E strategy, which became so entrenched that they now give those letters automatically, plus three consonants and a vowel. (CDM-A and CDW-A, though, seem to account for 80% of selections nowadays..)
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Hmmm. I don't recall ever seeing the Scrabble game show. I can picture it with chuck wollery, a light-up game screen, electronic 'tiles'- but I could picture that perfectly without ever having seen it. "Chuck Woolery, Scrabble Game Show, 1984" and the mental image is set.
On that note, the Beat The Geeks final round almost always progressed to 2-point, 2-point, 3-point question for the contestant (and 3, 3, 3 for the geek). And we all well know Wheel of Fortune and the NSTRL-E strategy, which became so entrenched that they now give those letters automatically, plus three consonants and a vowel. (CDM-A and CDW-A, though, seem to account for 80% of selections nowadays..)
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