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clemon79

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #240 on: December 02, 2016, 10:56:47 AM »
Missing a wheel means what's endless is my puzzlement.

Not that I'm one to defend Endless, well, evar, but wasn't that the one that came with the Deck Of Fortune (the deck of cards with the wedges)? Honestly if you're gonna do WoF as a card game that's a pretty genius way to do it.
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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #241 on: December 02, 2016, 12:21:08 PM »
Missing a wheel means what's endless is my puzzlement.

Not that I'm one to defend Endless, well, evar, but wasn't that the one that came with the Deck Of Fortune (the deck of cards with the wedges)? Honestly if you're gonna do WoF as a card game that's a pretty genius way to do it.
You are correct on all counts. It even has the special spaces for each round so you there's some ability to customize.
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« Reply #242 on: December 02, 2016, 02:13:59 PM »
I found on another website a users image of the new WOF fourth edition wheel layout:

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/15181175_10211080784756263_213030533767027504_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=bbb6e8893e89ceef1bdd354240ad9960&oe=58C4CA17

You'll notice the top value is $3,500 (not $5,000). 

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #243 on: December 02, 2016, 03:42:03 PM »
I found on another website a users image of the new WOF fourth edition wheel layout:

Normally, I'm all for complete accuracy in home game editions, but man does that emphasize how little variety there is on the current wheel when it isn't covered with special spaces.

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« Reply #244 on: December 05, 2016, 08:03:25 AM »
Yeah, strip off the doodads, and almost the whole dang wheel falls within a $200 range for the entire show.
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« Reply #245 on: December 05, 2016, 04:33:28 PM »
Man that's a lot of $500-700 spaces...
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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #246 on: December 06, 2016, 10:01:24 PM »
They could have at least used the Round 3 wheel where the yellow $600 is still $900.

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #247 on: December 29, 2016, 09:46:34 PM »
Here's a review on a new "virtual game show" game if you got some VR glasses for Christmas:

http://uploadvr.com/colab-review/

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« Reply #248 on: January 02, 2017, 08:03:00 AM »
For anyone who's interested, my local CVS had giant playing cards amongst their Christmas "gift items" - the brand is "Yorkshire" and they're 8.5 x 11.  Decent quality, and they're 7.99, but you can usually get percent-off coupons for CVS to reduce that price.

https://goo.gl/photos/dmsiTakK7NJ6ohXH6

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« Reply #249 on: January 02, 2017, 11:23:11 PM »
Did they happen to have decks in both red and blue?
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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #250 on: January 03, 2017, 07:53:31 AM »
I'll be honest, I didn't look (shame on me!).  I picked up a red deck.  I'll try to drop by today and see if they have blue as well. :-)

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #251 on: January 06, 2017, 07:07:44 PM »
There were seven decks remaining at my local CVS.  They were all sealed, but they all showed a red back in the lower corner of the packaging.

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #252 on: February 19, 2017, 03:08:06 PM »
I was shopping in Walmart Friday evening, when I found they now have the Sixth edition of EG's "Familly Feud," game.

The contents have been re-done.  It now contains ONE folding board divided into different sections for the main game play, the "Fast Money," round, and a section for scoring purposes.  Below are two links--the first is the USA version's game box; the second shows the board from the Australian version (from Imagination), to give you an idea as to how the board is designed.  EG's board has different background graphics, and is smaller in size, since the box itself is smaller than Imagination's.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/media.zulily.com/images/cache/product/452x1000//215602/zu36726827_main_tm1485207074.jpg

https://www.gamesmen.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/f/a/family_feud_board_game_australian_edition_1_.jpg

EG's version retains the booklet of survey questions and answers, and instead of having a "Strike Indicator," and "X" cards, you just mark an "X" on the board when necessary.

A new addition to the game are two "Face Off," button cards, which let you sort of re-create the fun of trying to hit the buzzer during the Face Off, like on the show.

The game play is now identical to that of Imagination's version, as well as the Disney and Platinum versions from Cardinal Industries, except that when playing "Fast Money," a player is told to "Try Again," if repeating the opposing player's answer (In the other versions, you're told to "try again," if you give an answer that didn't make the survey.)

I have a couple of  "pet-peeves."  First EG's new version, and the others mentioned, all refer the main game rounds as "Face Off," rounds, which I've always known to be just the portion where determining the family/team/player gets control of the question.  The second is still calling the end game "Fast Money," since the games don't use any money (real or play money), and don't even refer any money at all in the rules anymore.  Oh, well--not so much disappointing as those who still refer to TPIR's "Showcase" as "Showcase Showdown."

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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #253 on: February 19, 2017, 03:55:14 PM »
Found this in Target the other night - apparently a reissue of a Pressman game from the 1970s. Has the look of a Lingo ancestor.

http://www.target.com/p/pressman-decipher-board-game/-/A-50658170
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Re: Game Show Home Games/Video Games Thread
« Reply #254 on: February 19, 2017, 04:08:03 PM »
Found this in Target the other night - apparently a reissue of a Pressman game from the 1970s. Has the look of a Lingo ancestor.

http://www.target.com/p/pressman-decipher-board-game/-/A-50658170
It has very little to do with Jotto--the tiles in the secret word are pulled out, the rest are squidged together. You glean information by asking "what's the tenth letter in your grid?" and if the coder says something after "J" you know that some letters in the word are A through J.

It's a spiffy game in its own right, but it's "Noooooooo Lingo!"

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