[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Mar 7 2006, 05:54 PM\']1. Did they try to create certain situations and avoid others concerning the total value of the answers in the survey? I'd be pissed if, during the $200 era, my team had a clean sweep of the first two questions, not adding to $200, and the other team swept the first double-value question to win the game with exactly $200.
2. Did they put together complete games, as with J!, or just randomly pull questions, making sure not to have two similar questions in one game? (
e.g., Don't follow "Name a famous Franklin" with "Name a famous Washington," and especially don't follow it with "Name a famous Benjamin.")
3. For celebrity events, did they deliberately choose questions with a large value for the #1 answer, as it appears to me?
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I believe it would be a reasonable assumption in the G/T Dawson-Combs era that they took all the "survey" results, looked at the number of answers where at least 2 people said the same answer, and put those particular surveys into 4 piles:
• Early Game Surveys (ones with the most different answers yielding the fewest points)
• Mid-Game Surveys (more points/fewer answers -- used for Double Point Rounds)
• Triple Point questions (3 or 4 answers with high points that should determine a winner)
• Fast Money Surveys (Simple Questions that get quick answers from Fast Money players).
Then I would assume that they would assemble the main-game surveys to make sure that a family cannot sweep and win the game too quickly, which would mean only having enough points to win after n-rounds.
And I concur with Chris L that probably in the special 'celebrity' games, they would just use mid-game questions and above not only to create faster games and more chit chat with the players, but to make them look more intelligent!
Did Feud, like Card Sharks, ever ask for specific demographics in their home-viewer participation surveys? ("If you have been married for less than a year, send us a post-card and mail it to Card Sharks, Newlyweds, 6430 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood CA, 90028" -- How exactly *did* Gene Wood set up those survey spiels)