Match Game Question

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jan 23 2004, 03:09 PM\'] They could also be sure to stick the guests who aren't funny in the non-corner squares. (Although contestants these days pick those far more often than on the original.) [/quote]
 Based on the "strategic" advice given from the coordinators that we've heard about from some past contestants here, that shouldn't surprise you.

[chris319]

I'm in no position to second-guess the producers, though. So I won't.

They've both left the business, so second guess away.

[inturnaround]

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 24 2004, 07:15 AM\']

I'm in no position to second-guess the producers, though. So I won't.

They've both left the business, so second guess away. [/quote]

Yeah, what would this board be if we couldn't second guess people? I shudder to think of such a boring discussion!

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'Jan 24 2004, 08:14 AM\'] [quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jan 24 2004, 07:15 AM\']

I'm in no position to second-guess the producers, though. So I won't.

They've both left the business, so second guess away. [/quote]

Yeah, what would this board be if we couldn't second guess people? I shudder to think of such a boring discussion! [/quote]
Threads couldn't get pretty boring if all we could give were hard facts, like "Alex Trebek hosts Jeopardy!", or "Millionaire now gives out annuities to $500K and $1M winners".  If someone says "Patrick Wayne sucked on TTD90", that's a matter of opinion.  Of course, free speech can sometimes go too far (TWbaF--enough said).

[adamjk]

One of favorite Match Game switches came in 1976, when Charles, and I think Scoey switched seats, and played as each other. That was some funny stuff!

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 23 2004, 06:06 PM\'] [quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jan 23 2004, 03:09 PM\'] They could also be sure to stick the guests who aren't funny in the non-corner squares. (Although contestants these days pick those far more often than on the original.) [/quote]
Based on the "strategic" advice given from the coordinators that we've heard about from some past contestants here, that shouldn't surprise you. [/quote]
 I hadn't heard that. What's the strategy? And how could they go, what, 25 years before stumbling into it? (And they say watching tic-tac-toe isn't interesting.)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jan 24 2004, 02:17 PM\'] I hadn't heard that. What's the strategy? And how could they go, what, 25 years before stumbling into it? (And they say watching tic-tac-toe isn't interesting.) [/quote]
 Honestly, I don't remember the details. Brandon Brooks might be able to refresh us. I just remember thinking that it was advice the contestant coordinators was giving in the interest of a wider variety of squares getting picked, because it didn't agree AT ALL with basic Tic Tac Toe strategy.

[uncamark]

The funny thing is that back in the early Marshall days, very often the woman in one of the center side boxes (center, right, to be more exact) would be the second pick in a game, since most people started with either Wally in the upper left or Big Chuck in the lower left (or Lonesome George later).  Karen Valentine was often in the center right and became the beneficiary of this method of box selection.  Back then, even with Paul Lynde in the center, contestants wouldn't go there unless they needed to.  If he'd only renegotiated his contract to be made the star of the show, like a certain dreadlocked woman in 1998...