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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: HairMetalLives on April 04, 2008, 01:13:34 AM
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Small Talk's Wikipedia entry (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Talk\") (which I know is not a reliable source on anything) states the following regarding tie breakers:
"Originally, the tiebreaker consisted of the two players predicting how one of the kids would respond to a numerical question, with one giving a number and the other deciding if it would be higher or lower than that; because this was a copy of the format from Card Sharks, a lawsuit was threatened, and the tiebreaker was changed."
Can any of the experts here varify or debunk this? I have 58 of the 65 episodes on tape (and am willing to admit that, although I know you're either laughing or questioning my intelligence) and that scenario above never took place.
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Between that and "you can't copyright the Pie Rule", I think "debunk" is a pretty safe bet.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183250\' date=\'Apr 3 2008, 10:17 PM\']Between that and "you can't copyright the Pie Rule", I think "debunk" is a pretty safe bet.[/quote]
I kind of thought that might be the case. Thanks.
EDIT: Fixed. The article needed to be re-written, anyway.
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I see one mistake yet: there are no quotes around "comedian."
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[quote name=\'wikipedia\']"Originally, the tiebreaker consisted of the two players predicting how one of the kids would respond to a numerical question, with one giving a number and the other deciding if it would be higher or lower than that; because this was a copy of the format from Card Sharks, a lawsuit was threatened, and the tiebreaker was changed."[/quote]The legitimate "pie rule" thing notwithstanding, Tic Tac Dough used this exact set-up for their Number Please box for the 1990 version.
I suspect the person who typed that paragraph and the contents of my parent's septic tank bear a remarkable resemblance to each other.