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If anyone who remembers the PBS series, Square One TV...they had a pseudo game show called "Triple Play". If anyone who remembers that game, can someone tell me about its concept? Are their any pictures out there of this game in action?
-Dan
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Two players compete trying to make numbers frokm 7 to 72, spinning two wheels with addition or multiplication making equaliteral triangles. On the left wheel are numbers 1 to 6. The right wheel has numbers 7 to 12 with a Square One TV logo that is wild.
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That was one of the better games they had.
Piece of the Pie was just a Feud ripoff, and But Who's Counting/Multiplying would have been more fun had they used actual contestants instead of the normal cast in character form.
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I think But Who's Multiplying? was a real game, in the same vein as But Who's Adding?, wasn't it? But Who's Counting? is the only one I remember as being staged.
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Your guess is as good as mine. The last time I remember watching SquareOneTV was about 15 years ago unfortunately.
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If anyone who remembers the PBS series, Square One TV...they had a pseudo game show called "Triple Play". If anyone who remembers that game, can someone tell me about its concept? Are their any pictures out there of this game in action?
Triple Play was, If I remember correctly, a show with two contestants that captures spaces and tried to get three in a row. (example: The contestant captured a 5, 3, 8. The contestant calls out Triple Play, and says that 5+3+8, and wins the match. They were NEVER that easy)
The set was half blockbusters, half battlestars....Blues, Greens, and Purples.
Two players compete trying to make numbers frokm 7 to 72, spinning two wheels with addition or multiplication making equaliteral triangles. On the left wheel are numbers 1 to 6. The right wheel has numbers 7 to 12 with a Square One TV logo that is wild.
Uh. no...
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[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'May 2 2005, 01:02 PM\']
If anyone who remembers the PBS series, Square One TV...they had a pseudo game show called "Triple Play". If anyone who remembers that game, can someone tell me about its concept? Are their any pictures out there of this game in action?
Triple Play was, If I remember correctly, a show with two contestants that captures spaces and tried to get three in a row. (example: The contestant captured a 5, 3, 8. The contestant calls out Triple Play, and says that 5+3+8, and wins the match. They were NEVER that easy) [/quote]
There was a 3-in-a-row game, but it wasn't triple play (I think it was But Who's Counting?)
Two players compete trying to make numbers frokm 7 to 72, spinning two wheels with addition or multiplication making equaliteral triangles. On the left wheel are numbers 1 to 6. The right wheel has numbers 7 to 12 with a Square One TV logo that is wild.
Uh. no...
Uh... yes. Triple Play's object was to create an equilateral triangle of any size or orientation on the board.
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I think the three-in-a-row game was Square One Squares. But Who's Counting? had various formats involving place values, addition problems, and fractions, but it never involved tic-tac-toe.
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Square one tv website - with "But who's counting" (http://\"http://home.comcast.net/~nspil/sq1.htm\")
Enjoy :)
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'May 2 2005, 01:34 PM\']I think the three-in-a-row game was Square One Squares. But Who's Counting? had various formats involving place values, addition problems, and fractions, but it never involved tic-tac-toe.
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The titles make this a bit confusing. "But Who's Counting" was exactly as you describe, but they also had two segments, "But Who's Adding?" and "But Who's Multiplying?" both hosted by cast member Larry Cedar. Two contestants faced a 4x4 grid of numbers appearing in no particular order. One player was blue, one was red, and they each had a designated ring around one digit, 0-9, on a board in front of them. For each turn, a player would move their ring to a different number and perform the appropriate mathematical operation for the two numbers with rings around them at that moment. Doing so turned the number your color. Three in a row wins a calculator.
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Triple Play/Piece of the Pie pic (http://\"http://www.squareonetv.org/print/sqtvgameads.gif\")
Mods, can you merge these together?
Ryan :)
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Square One Squares:
Two kids played--one was blue, one was red. The board looked like this:
S Q U
A R E
1 T V
The R was wild and shaded both blue & red. Three in a row wins. If time ran out, the player who captured more squares (not including the wild square) won.
I can't remember if went something like this or not:
The host read a statement, and two of the show's regulars responded. The kid had to decide if neither, one or both regulars were telling the truth. For some reason I think that may have been a different game on SQ1TV, but I'm not sure.
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'May 2 2005, 02:02 PM\']Uh. no...
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Careful with that attitude, Mathman. One wrong move and Mr. Glitch will get ya!
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[quote name=\'jmangin\' date=\'May 2 2005, 04:41 PM\']I can't remember if went something like this or not:
The host read a statement, and two of the show's regulars responded. The kid had to decide if neither, one or both regulars were telling the truth. For some reason I think that may have been a different game on SQ1TV, but I'm not sure.
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You're right, it is a different game you're thinking of - those are the rules to "Square One Challenge." The best part about that particular game was the music they played under the explanations after the questions. And while "Piece of the Pie" was clearly a Feud rip-off, it was sanctioned - Mark Goodson Productions was credited for creative consulting!
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[quote name=\'jmangin\' date=\'May 2 2005, 01:41 PM\']Square One Squares:
Two kids played--one was blue, one was red. The board looked like this:
S Q U
A R E
1 T V
The R was wild and shaded both blue & red. Three in a row wins. If time ran out, the player who captured more squares (not including the wild square) won.
I can't remember if went something like this or not:
The host read a statement, and two of the show's regulars responded. The kid had to decide if neither, one or both regulars were telling the truth. For some reason I think that may have been a different game on SQ1TV, but I'm not sure.
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' date=\'May 2 2005, 02:02 PM\']Uh. no...
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Careful with that attitude, Mathman. One wrong move and Mr. Glitch will get ya!
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[quote name=\'DYosua\' date=\'May 2 2005, 02:47 PM\']You're right, it is a different game you're thinking of - those are the rules to "Square One Challenge." The best part about that particular game was the music they played under the explanations after the questions. And while "Piece of the Pie" was clearly a Feud rip-off, it was sanctioned - Mark Goodson Productions was credited for creative consulting!
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Actually, to some extent, it's the rules to BOTH games. The Squares game is as jmangin says. Square One Challenge was similar to S1S except that points were awarded for correct decisions, and a final wager question for both players decided the game.
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I wouldn't mind touching upon some of these games, later down the road. :)
Triple Play is one that I'm kind of looking at to do...
-Dan
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Triple Play not only was my favorite segment(outside of its serial Mathnet), it was the coolest looking with the set. I think it was neat seeing those circles around the numbers light up to the corresponding players.
Speaking of Mathnan, ny favoritte was when The Glitch was "playing" the game subbing for Mathman because he was "sick". When The Glitch lost, there was Mathnan "playing" as The Glitch. Not only that, he was like supersized! LOL!!! Man, that was something.
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I liked those But Who's Counting sketches! True, they should've had children play instead of the cast.
The hostess who spun the wheel is Amber Janette, the host; Monte Carlo & the show was a Mike-Merv Production.
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Have to admit, "But Who's Counting?" is a rather simple, yet excellent idea. I've never seen them do "Triple Play", though. Then again, this is coming from someone who's never seen "Angle Dance". My personal fave was "Close Call", and Sq1 Challenge wasn't too bad.
ObRealGameshows: Ex-"Pyramid" director Mike Gargiulo directed some portions of "Square One" [I would probably assume that included the GS sketches].
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All of the *real* game show segments of "Square One" (as in actual contestants playing for actual modest prizes) had MGP helping in the development. The gag segments, obviously, weren't.
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[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'May 3 2005, 07:17 AM\']I liked those But Who's Counting sketches! True, they should've had children play instead of the cast.
The hostess who spun the wheel is Amber Janette, the host; Monte Carlo & the show was a Mike-Merv Production.
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(Monte Carlo voice) "May the math...be with you." (/Monte Carlo)
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I seem to remember that But Who's Counting did start out as a straight game with kids playing. Only after one or two appearances did the pre-scripted hijinx ensue. I'll see if I can't find some confirmation on it.
Okay, I found it. Counting started and ended as a parody, but it did have kid contestants once, on episode 134. I think Adding and Multiplying may have done this, too. Thanks to the existence of TVtome.com. :)
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[quote name=\'dazztardly\' date=\'May 2 2005, 10:58 PM\']I wouldn't mind touching upon some of these games, later down the road. :)
Triple Play is one that I'm kind of looking at to do...
-Dan
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OK, Dan, I'm gonna e-mail this info to you, but I'll post it here, too.
Here's the rules of Triple Play in full:
Two players compete. The object of the game is cover 3 numbers on the triangular webbed game board such that the connection of the 3 forms an equilateral triangle. The triangle can be of any size, so long as it's equilateral.
Each turn, the two players (represented by green and purple) spun a pair of wheels. Each wheel had numbers on them. The wheel on the left had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in that order, the 2nd one had 7, 8, 9, 10, Square One TV logo, 12 in that order.
After the wheels were spun, the contestant had to make either an addition or a multiplication equation with the numbers that came up. If the equation could be made and the answer was right, that number was covered on the board.
There were several ways a player could mess up, though...
> If the player gave the wrong answer to the equation
> If the equation resulted in a number that was already covered on the board
> If the player spun a pair of numbers where BOTH right answers were covered on the board
If any of those things happened, the player's turn was wasted.
The moment a player had the equilateral triangle made on their turn and recognized it, they shouted "Triple Play!" and was instructed to call out the numbers that made the triangle. Doing so successfully won the game. A mistake continued the game as normal.
That's about everything in a nutshell. I can set up the grid for you if you want. I remember how it went.
Let me know. I loved this game, I'd love to play it.
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I would very much like to see the grid, actually. All I recall is that 7-8-9 was the innermost triangle, and it went out to 72 or something on the end. And the game board wasn't a true hexagon, neither.
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I LOVED Mathman.......... gotta love Mathdog, too.
on the Late Afternoon with David Numberman they played Wastepaper Basketball...... I remember Dave lost 600-11 (and he had 600, since you had to make a palindrome).
There was another small show in there where there was a grid 1-100, you chose a corner, and had to find what the secret number was, I think. I don't remember exactly.
The Square One Challenge was always fun to watch. Piece of the Pie was REALLY boring.
I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.
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[quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'May 4 2005, 02:06 PM\']I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see it offered on the new Comcast/PBS/HIT/Sesame Workshop joint venture PBS Sprout!. I hasn't yet launched as a linear channel, but it looks like it'll be 24/7 kids programming like Noggin. Unlike Noggin, it will have some commercials.
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[quote name=\'inturnaround\' date=\'May 4 2005, 05:06 PM\'][quote name=\'wschmrdr\' date=\'May 4 2005, 02:06 PM\']I know for a little while they reran most of the series (except season 2 and some of 5) on Noggin.
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I wouldn't be surprised to see it offered on the new Comcast/PBS/HIT/Sesame Workshop joint venture PBS Sprout!. I hasn't yet launched as a linear channel, but it looks like it'll be 24/7 kids programming like Noggin. Unlike Noggin, it will have some commercials.
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Not going to happen. Sprout in its on-air component is all pre-school programming (and something tells me that they aren't going to do "classics" in late-night when the little buzzards should be in bed).
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Noggin aired commercials with Square One TV.
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I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?
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[quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 5 2005, 10:28 PM\']I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?
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It was........What he probably means is promos for other shows and for the channel..That's what I remember about it...
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'May 5 2005, 09:43 PM\'][quote name=\'rugrats1\' date=\'May 5 2005, 10:28 PM\']I thought Noggin was commercial free when CTW co-owned the channel with Viacom?
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It was........What he probably means is promos for other shows and for the channel..That's what I remember about it...
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And to some people, that means advertising even if it isn't technically advertising. An off topic example of that from about.com's radio guy Corey Deitz, regarding XM's commercial-free music channels:
http://radio.about.com/od/xmsatelliteradio/a/aa042405a.htm (http://\"http://radio.about.com/od/xmsatelliteradio/a/aa042405a.htm\")
And public broadcasting gets the same argument all the time about underwriting announcements, especially that "enhanced underwriting" that walks, talks and sounds like a duck but isn't (as a WTTW Chicago pledge drive host agreed with me this past weekend).
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I specifically remember there were breaks in the show. Don't remember if they were stations promos or commercials.
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I would very much like to see the grid, actually. All I recall is that 7-8-9 was the innermost triangle, and it went out to 72 or something on the end. And the game board wasn't a true hexagon, neither.
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There's a clip of this game on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QlNz5byaag (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QlNz5byaag\")
Triple Play was my favorite Square One game too.
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Most if not all of these games can be found on YouTube. Just saying.
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That's true today, but most of these posts are from 2005. YT wasn't as prominent back then.
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That's true today, but most of these posts are from 2005. YT wasn't as prominent back then.
My guess is that our new member discovered the very old thread doing a Google search, and didn't realize that it was out of date. Happens more than you might think.
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Triple Play would make a great mobile game.