Things You've Learned From Game Shows..

[alfonzos]

I learned what an awl is.

"Concentration" also taught me the meaning of "forfeit."

[ET206]

I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.

[Kevin Prather]

I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.

I guess I learned all the punctuation names they used. Apostrophe, hyphen, etc.

[MikeK]

I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.

Dunno where you learned it from.  I first learned about it on Play the Percentages.

[BrandonFG]

I learned that the symbol ( & ) is called an ampersand.

Dunno where you learned it from.  I first learned about it on Play the Percentages.

Wheel for me. But when I was younger I thought Pat was saying “and/or sign”.

[trainman]

Wheel for me. But when I was younger I thought Pat was saying “and/or sign”.

That's not too far off from where the word "ampersand" comes from (once upon a time, kids were taught to write the end of the alphabet as "WXYZ&" and recite it as "W, X, Y, Z, and, per se, and").

[BrandonFG]

A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.

Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.

The thread on game explanations slowly being phased out reminded me of another memory, also from HS.

I learned what diagonally meant bc of this show; during John's explanation they'd show the board and highlight three squares to show how to win. Playing tic-tac-toe with my cousins, I also thought I could write an X or O over their symbol because I'd seen so many contestants "steal" a square due to a wrong answer.