Match Game Questions

[jmangin]

Does anyone know where to find sample questions from Match Game questions online?

I'm looking for main game, audience matches & super match questions.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[MSTieScott]

Ooh, a chance to piggyback my own MG questions question (same reason):

On the question cards, how did they indicate the blank? Was it a blank line or the word "BLANK" in some kind of parentheses or brackets? I know it's in Maxene Fabe's book, but I don't have a copy of that.

Thanks!

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Scott Robinson

[JasonA1]

It was a blank line. I can send you a scan via some private milieu if you wish.

-Jason

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 03:25 PM\']It was a blank line. I can send you a scan via some private milieu if you wish.

-Jason

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Same way as the Super-Match art cards.

[GS Warehouse]

Let me add a burning question to that burning question: were those question cards typewritten or handwritten?

[FOXSportsFan]

From the occasional glances they'd show of the cards, I'd say handwritten...didn't stop me from typing them up when I hosted Match Game at the college a year or so ago.

[chris319]

They were hand lettered by Sherry Hilber who had a specially-constructed lettering guide so that the letters would be a consistent height and the rows straight and level. She also had a custom-blended color of Liquid Paper which matched the color of the question cards, for correcting the occasional lettering boo-boo.

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 06:17 PM\']They were hand lettered by Sherry Hilber . . .[/quote]

Wolf! Wolf!

[JasonA1]

I'm curious...how long did it take for Sherry (or in today's case, whoever does signs on TPiR) to letter the cards?

Maybe she did both, but Chris was discussing the question cards, i.e. what Gene holds and reads the question(s) from.

-Jason

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 09:45 PM\']

I'm curious...how long did it take for Sherry (or in today's case, whoever does signs on TPiR) to letter the cards?

Maybe she did both, but Chris was discussing the question cards, i.e. what Gene holds and reads the question(s) from.

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And that's exactly why I shouldn't post after I just wake up. :-P

Still kinda curious about how long it took for the SuperMatch and P+ signs tho. :-)

[chris319]

I'm curious...how long did it take for Sherry (or in today's case, whoever does signs on TPiR) to letter the cards?

We're talking about Gene Rayburn's question cards, right? Hell, I don't know, five or ten minutes each?

[Kevin Prather]

Ten minutes seems preposterously long to write one question. I'd say a minute per card maybe.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 11:02 PM\']Ten minutes seems preposterously long to write one question. I'd say a minute per card maybe.

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Well, Chris C. mentioned the letters being a consistent height and all...I can remember from doing architecture in high school, how we were supposed to label our designs in a similar manner. It was a pain in the rear end, and it could honestly take a good minute just to write "BEDROOM" or "KITCHEN". :-)

So, I could see a riddle like on MG taking about five or so.

ObGameShow: Uhhh, I designed my Dream House in 12th grade. :-P

[Kevin Prather]

He was talking about the question cards? Oh, wow.

Why the heck would they put so much effort into something that'd never be seen on camera? It doesn't need to be THAT neat for Gene to read it, does it?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Mar 16 2006, 08:37 PM\']It doesn't need to be THAT neat for Gene to read it, does it?

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When you are worrying about all of the other issues involved in the process of hosting a game show, knowing you will never have to squint to make out if that's an "F" or a "P" makes you that much more comfortable in doing the rest of it.