The First Game Show: Decisions!
Alright, so here is your opportunity to participate in your favourite television game shows, and all without leaving the comfort of your home. Though which game show will we be playing? The decision is yours. I have many to choose from and will be doing the set and choosing, but which do you choose. The rules will be explained properly once one has been chosen. I will give you a day or maybe two before the poll is closed.
The games:
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
A group of contestants play a preliminary round called “Fastest Finger First”. All are given a question by the host and four answers which must be placed within a particular order. The contestant who not only answers correctly but in the fastest time, goes on to play the main game.
Once a contestant enters the main game, they are asked increasingly difficult general knowledge questions by the host. Each features four possible answers, in which the contestant must give the correct answer. Doing so wins them a certain amount of money, with tackling much tougher questions increasing their prize fund. During their game, the player has a set of lifelines that they may use only once to help them with a question.
Summary
50/50: Two answers removed.
Ask the audience: Goes to a poll on the thread and there will be a time limit.
Phone a friend: Calling upon one of the users in the game to tell you what they think the answer is.
While the first few questions are generally easy, subsequent ones after them will get gradually harder. If a contestant feels unsure about an answer and does not wish to play on, they can walk away with the money they have won.
There will be between one to three main games for the show on the thread.
Pointless
The object of the game is for contestants to provide answers that are not only correct but also as obscure as possible, with each game consisting of teams of two contestants. So there will be 8 people playing in teams of two, so four teams.
Those who are not playing on the show will be in a group PM with me. I will be asking them the questions first, which will mean that they will be deciding how many points are given out per answer.
These questions are then given to the contestants to individually give an answer. If the answer is correct, the team scores one point for each participant that gave it in the group PM; if no one in the PM gave that answer, the team scores zero points for providing a “pointless” answer. If the answer is incorrect, the team scores the maximum of 100 points. After a question is done, the highest-scoring team is eliminated.
The show starts with two elimination rounds, in which teams must achieve as low a score as possible. In the third round, the two surviving teams compete against each other (“the head-to-head”) to find the lowest-scoring answer in a series of questions. The winning team moves on to the final round.
The team that reaches the final round is awarded a trophy to keep. They must then supply three responses to a question with many correct answers (e.g., name films directed by a specified director or name a song by a specified singer). If any of the answers is pointless, they win the jackpot as it stands for that game; otherwise, the money rolls over to the next show.
Catchphrase
The first round, the contestants are all given catchphrases to answer. The first to buzz in with the correct answer gets the point. At the end of the round, the one with the fewest correct answers is eliminated.
The second round, the contestants play for money when buzzing in to answer the catchphrases. The one with the most money moves on to the final rough and the Catchphrase Pyramid.
Will allow as many as want to participate.
Mastermind
For the first round, each contestant, in turn, is given a set length of time, about one hour in this thread game, to answer questions on a specialised subject which they have chosen. The contestant scores one point for each correct answer and may pass as often as desired. If time runs out while a question is being read, the questioner will finish it and give the contestant a few seconds to answer.
During the second round, each contestant, in turn, answers a series of general knowledge questions. The rules from the first round apply, except that the time limit is extended (to an hour and a half in the thread game).
The winner is the contestant with the highest score after two rounds. Ties are broken in favour of the contestant with the fewest total passes.
Tipping Point
The machine consists of two shelves filled with flat circular counters; the upper shelf slowly extends and retracts, whilst the lower one is stationary. The rear face of the machine is divided into four “drop zones,” each of which contains a pegboard. Contestants answer questions to win counters, then choose a drop zone. The goal is to have the counters land flat on the upper shelf so that its retraction will cause them to push other counters over its front edge, leading them to push still others off the lower shelf and into a collection trough referred to as the “win zone.” Contestants win £50 for each counter that drops into the win zone during their turn.
The machine
Round one: The four contestants are each given three counters at the start of this round. A series of toss-up questions are asked, and the first contestant to buzz-in may answer. A correct response allows the contestant to either play one of their own counters or force an opponent to play one instead, based on their judgement of how likely the machine is to pay out on that turn. Once a contestant runs out of counters, they may not answer any more questions. A contestant who buzzes-in with an incorrect answer loses one counter, which is placed into a penalty pot.
Round two: Each contestant answers 30 seconds (or real-life half hour) of rapid-fire general knowledge questions and receives a counter for each correct answer, then uses these counters in an attempt to win more money.
Round three: The two remaining contestants are asked six questions alternately, three to each contestant. After hearing a question, the contestant in control may either answer or pass to the opponent. One counter is awarded for each correct answer.
Final round: One contestant left, who is trying to get a bonus counter out of the machine.
At the end of each round, the lowest-scoring contestant is eliminated from the game and forfeits all their money. In the event of a tie for low score, or if all contestants are tied, a sudden-death toss-up is used to break the tie. A correct buzz-in answer allows the contestant to advance, while a miss eliminates them.
House of Games
Four contestants play against each other in really random rounds. Five rounds are played each show, with the final round always being the same; “Answer Smash”. In most games, a point is awarded for a correct answer, but in “Answer Smash”, points are also deducted for incorrect answers.
At the end of each day/show, the scores are announced and the winner.
I will each do just one day/show OR if there are 16 users wanting to play, then I will do the full week/5 shows. (wink)
Blankety Blank
Four contestants and six panellists .
Two contestants compete. The object of the game is to match the answers of as many of the six panellists as possible on fill-in-the-blank statements.
The main game is played in two rounds. The contestant is given a choice of two statements labelled either “A” or “B”. The host then reads the statement. The six panellists will write their answers in a form or in a PM to me first. After they finish, the contestant is asked for their answer. The contestant earns one point for each panellist who wrote down the same answer (or reasonably similar as determined by me) up to a maximum of six points for matching everyone. The goal is to have each contestant have matched answers with the six panellists over the two rounds. Whoever does, or gets closest, goes to the final.
Which shall be the game of tournament two?
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Pointless
- Catchphrase
- Mastermind
- Tipping Point
- House of Games
- Blankety Blank
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