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Jul 15, 2022 · Of course, game shows have made some painful, tone-deaf and embarrassing missteps over the years. The instance of an old comedy acquaintance winning a treadmill on The Price is Right comes to mind. (Cool prize, but the comedian lost both her legs in an accident in 2004.) Game shows can be corny, off-putting, abrasive or, most egregiously, boring.
- Rebecca Leib
- Card Sharks (1978–1981, 1986–1989, 2001, 2019–2021) One of the more convoluted game show setups—though no less delightful for it—Card Sharks sees contestants trying to guess answers to questions like "How many of the 100 married women we surveyed lived with their spouse before they tied the knot?"
- Cash Cab (2005–2020) What if Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? took place, but in a taxi? That's basically the premise of Cash Cab, which sees New Yorkers attempt to answer trivia questions for dough while host Ben Bailey drives them up or downtown.
- The Chase (2013–2015, 2021–current) Despite what the title might seem to indicate, there's no physical exertion required on The Chase—but mental exertion is another story.
- Classic Concentration (1987–1991) This was one of two game shows hosted by Alex Trebek. To win this game, which was an update of the 1958–73 version called Concentration, contestants had to match cards on a screen that would subsequently reveal a picture puzzle (a.k.a.
Mar 31, 2024 · 12. Match Game. Hosts: Gene Rayburn, Ross Shafer, Michael Burger, Alec Baldwin. One of the first game shows that truly thrived on the bawdy nature of double entendres, Match Game delivered easy-to ...
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- Jeopardy! Mike Richards, Alex Trebek, Johnny Gilbert. 724 votes. is a staple in the world of television game shows, with its competitive trivia format and distinctive answer-question gameplay.
- Family Feud. Al Roker, Richard Dawson, Louie Anderson. 737 votes. Family Feud brilliantly showcases the dynamics of families working together to out-guess their opponents in this lively and often humorous battle of wits.
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (US) Regis Philbin, Meredith Vieira, Terry Crews. 543 votes. redefined the game show landscape when it premiered, offering contestants a shot at an incredible sum of money and infusing each question with unparalleled drama.
- Wheel of Fortune. Pat Sajak, Vanna White, Charlie O'Donnell. 571 votes. Wheel of Fortune combines the thrill of spinning a giant wheel with the challenge of solving word puzzles, creating a unique and engaging gameplay experience.
- Match Game
- Pyramid
- Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?
- Let's Make A Deal
- Deal Or No Deal
- Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?
- Wheel of Fortune
- The Price Is Right
- Jeopardy!
- Family Feud
Match Gamehas been around since the '60s and has had several different reboots and restarts, all of them focusing around the same central premise of contestants coming up with answers to fill-in-the-blank questions. The show currently airs on ABC and has been running since 2016, with Alec Baldwin residing as host. The innuendos and double-entendres...
Another game show that has been around for decades and has had several reboots is Pyramidand it doesn't get a much better ranking on our list. The show that now features a grand prize of $100,000 (up from the original $10,000) suffers the same fate as it's ABC "Sunday Fun and Games" counterpart in the fact that the premise of contestants giving clu...
The show that makes every adult on earth feel like an idiot because they don't know the random facts the American education system feeds to its youth — that's the summary of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?.To be fair, this show would be a lot more pleasant and enjoyable for audiences if it didn't seem as though they go out of their way to pick t...
Let's Make A Deal is one of the more fun, upbeat game shows — and that's saying something — as every single member of the audience is usually in some sort of costume and constantly jumping or screaming (or both). The show consists of host Wayne Brady trying to make deals with the contestants to win or lose prizes and often results in the players wi...
The second game show in a row about making deals gets a middle spot on our list for the simple fact that everything about this show is a gamble, not a game. While highly entertaining and heart-pounding, Deal or No Dealrevolves around the premise of a single contestant randomly choosing suitcases with X amount of money in them and hoping that the X ...
Everybody — that's the point. While Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? asks an easy question, the show is anything but easy. Audiences like to have fun when they're watching game shows, but they also like to be challenged and that's exactly what this show can offer them as it centers around the premise of asking a contestant a list of increasingly diff...
We're starting to get into the classic ones here as Wheel of Fortunehas been a staple in American society since the '70s and holds the record as the longest-running syndicated game show in the United States. The first show on here that's more of a game features three contestants spinning a wheel and then shouting out letters of the alphabet to fill...
You're lying through your teeth if you say you didn't fake being sick at least once when you were in school so that you could stay home and watch The Price is Right(or you were actually sick and still watched it anyway). Either way, the show is a phenomenon with audience members getting as much into it as the contestants. Seriously, the amount of e...
Remember in the intro to this article when we stated that game shows are so appealing because every average Joe feels as though they could step right into the contestant's shoes? Forget that theory for the next few sentences because Jeopardy! is anything but that, and yet still manages to take the number two spot on our list. The reason why that mi...
Game shows seem to do the best they can at finding the most insane and crazy contestants, but what about when they find entire families that are that crazy? Look no further than Family Feud, the game show that makes everybody feel better about how wacky their own families are. The show isn't particularly difficult, asking a series of questions that...
Jun 2, 2021 · Wednesday, June 2, 2021 For Immediate Release Shane Rhinewald, 585-410-6365, srhinewald@museumofplay.org Game shows have existed for nearly as long as broadcasting itself. In 1923, a daily newspaper, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, struck on the idea with a radio show, Brooklyn Eagle Quiz on Current Events. Since then, game shows have endured changes in the media landscape, scandals, Supreme Court ...
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Jun 19, 2020 · Wheel of Fortune US has had over 7000 episodes broadcast since it first aired in 1975, while the current host, Pat Sajak, is now the world's longest-running game show host. Across all continents ...
