So it seems that—though I’ve never seen it myself—the ‘70s “High Rollers” home game is notorious for having one of, if not the worst question book among GS games…anyone else know of others that were just as bad, or even worse?
On the flipside, which quiz-based home game would you say has the best-written question material? By which I mean most of it is well-written, factually correct, and easy to adapt to situations other than the specific home game in question (playing other game shows, trivia night, etc.)
I’ve found most of them have their good and bad points:
-“The Joker’s Wild” question books are pretty good, or at least were…organized by category and enough for around 30-40 games, IINM. On the downside, with only three questions per category it’s easy to run out of material…and I said “were” because many of the questions are about now-dated and obscure 70’s pop culture.
-The 80’s “Sale” question booklet had a lot of material—around 20-25 questions per game, about 50 games in all—but the only really good part of them was the Fame Game questions, IMHO. They were well-written and very similar to the ones used on the show itself. The other straight-ahead questions were full of typos, often ridiculously easy (sample question: “In what Olympic sport do you ‘put the shot?’”) and again, dated.