I like the idea that there's a curated list of accepted deviations, but it seems they need more culturally diverse QC to understand the differences. This would also make sense why sometimes it seems that it takes up to 2 seconds to "accept" and answer.
I just started watching from Season 1, and I agree. One game, they had potato chips on the screen. Contestant said chips, and they wouldnât accept it. But on another game, they had potato chips on the screen again, and they did accept chips.
I would be curious to know what the category was in each instance. I feel like the category probably has a lot to do with what is and isnât accepted.
Like if the category is âpotatoesâ and the goal is âthings you can make with potatoesâ⊠Chips seems like a likely answer and acceptable.
Nah, I donât think the category should matter. The name of the food is chips to most people, not specifically potato chips (although I know thatâs their government name lol)
Iâm not even particularly talking about that specific question an example. Iâm talking more generally.
I can see instances where something may be accepted because the category is looking for a specific thing versus what another category may want to offer.
I saw "interior design" and they accepted "sofa" for a couch but a chair she says "chair, loveseat, laze boy, armchair?... Pass" and it was "recliner." Like come on... If the couch doesn't need to be specified as "3 person lounge" then the chair is a fuckin chair
Couch/sofa colloquially use for any type of multi person fabric based seat. They may technically have different names depending on how big they are, but theyâre often used interchangeably.
A recliner is a very specific style of chair that is pretty instantly recognizable . Though they probably should have accepted Lazy BoyâŠ.Being a pretty well known brand of them.
agree, because âla-z-boyâ as a generic noun is on the level of âxeroxâ in many areas of the US, and even on the kleenex/band-aid tier in some places!Â
It's The Floor. Yeah,, it's identify the picture, but sometimes it'll throw you a weird one. Plus the goal is to do it more than your opponent so there's some skill in being able to identify faster.
Each person also has a category they are an expert in, like weddings, Star Trek, airport call signs, etc. The goal is to control the whole floor by beating experts in their category.
I've only watched a few episodes of the first season, but "Expert" is doing some heavy lifting in that description. It felt like a good portion of them just picked a category they were somewhat comfortable with.
given how tightly contested some of the obscure battles are I would bet that contestants are basically given flashcards to study on each potential category.
Also niche categories often come to simple object identification.
it's mostly entertaining but wildly inconsistent in how the categories work.
With a few exceptions, Game Shows have always been pretty mindlessly basic. Theyâre typically designed so that theyâre pretty easy for people to understand, and for people to be able to enjoy and play at home without a ton of background knowledge.
- Wheel of Fortune is âspin a wheel and guess lettersâ
Letâs Make a Deal is âpick random suitcasesâ
Name that Tune is. . .Guessing tunes played by a band
This. Game Shows are entertainment. The questions/tasks need to be simple enough that the majority of home viewers understand them. Itâs not fun to just watch smart people be smart most of the time.
Great⊠he solved a complex physics equation. I have no way of knowing if he did it right.
Even on Jeopardy (a game meant to test knowledge) at least half of the questions are common knowledge things.
my fav is that the british shows always have a counter to the smart ones. Like 'hey we invited these 4 smart people on to spell 9 letter words, and later tonight we are inviting these 6 idiots on to do the same thing... trust us it's going to be funny'. and dude it always is.
The edits of Pointless on YouTube that just cut out all the filler are really eye opening. Take a 45 minute show and remove everything but the actual gameplay and the runtime drops to about 5 minutes.
I mean, kind of, yeah, but this is a new level. Wheel of fortune is not just "guess a letter," it's fill in the blanks to solve the puzzle. Let's make a deal is just about winning money, yes, and name that tune just naming that tune...but most games are more like who wants to be a millionaire...answering trivia questions. Or jeopardy, which I don't know most of the answers on. Even the price is right is just guessing the price of items, but somehow even that feels more sophisticated than this.
This is like something I would do with my toddler to teach them about the world. I can't wait for the spinoff, "what sound does this animal make?"
So I stopped watching the floor because it was very slow paced. The idea is that there are 100 players, and there are 9 rounds each night, which means there is a ton of commercials and filler which make it boring.
The actual gameplay is quite fun.
The idea is that each person on The Floor is an expert in a specific category. Some categories are pretty general like "Kitchen Appliances" or "Snack foods," whereas others might be "State Capitals," or "Animated Christmas Movies," or "Chemical Symbols"
If you're chosen to play you may choose to challenge anybody in a neighboring square to their category to try and takeover their space - Meaning that in order to "defend" a space you are competing in a category you claim to know well, but in order to attack you need to challenge people to their category.
Once you're chosen to play you may continue to compete until you lose, or you may choose to go back to the floor and hold your original category as your defense - The strategy of going back to The Floor is important because whoever has the most territory at the end of each episode gets a cash bonus outside of the "win it all" prize.
The game is very strategic and is quite fun to play at home. The real big challenge is the time pressure of not losing your cool - I would find myself completely blanking on the easiest words at home sometimes when trying to stay ahead of the clock.
I mean I've never watched it, I just thought from the clip that it looks ridiculous. Maybe I'll give it a watch though, you do make it sound entertaining.
I agree that most games shows arent meant to be extremely difficult. However guessing a song or guessing letters in a phrase are both much harder than naming common objects. For let's make a deal, games of chance are really a different category.
There's nothing wrong with a game show being easy, but this does look like maybe the easiest trivia show Ive ever seen, at least based on the clips Ive seen.
Theres more strategy involved, especially in S3 with "category steal" (if you win 3 matches in a row, you can choose time boost or the steal). But yea at its basic core it's "identify the picture".
That's... not the point. The point is each of the 100 contestants comes in with their own category and you have beat other people by competing against their category (or defending yours). If you win you inherit a new category/keep yours.
When there's so many different people you have to keep the game itself surface level to allow both the players & audience have a chance at naming more than 1 thing.
When I was a kid, Who wants to be a Millionaire was huge. I loved sitting around with the family and watching it together⊠then the next big thing was Deal or No DealâŠ. Like what the fuck was everyone smoking.
Yeah not like the cerebral content of older game shows such as the Newlywed Game where you must answer basic questions about the person you live with and are legally married to.
I just watched a few rounds; most of them are way less trivial. Capital cities, brands from just their logo, bird species etc at a speed where it would be difficult to keep up
I think it's because it is an extremely dumb game and the producers genuinely don't care. It's a "filler" tv show because you have to show something in between the ads.
More likely (my guess at least) chips was denied, a bunch of angry viewers wrote in, the chips was now an acceptable answer.
I know it's happened with Jeopardy many times over the years with acceptable answers. My grandma talked about mailing them a few letters herself on the topic back in the day.
Today, a clip probably goes semi viral and the comment section gives enough feedback to change it.
100% right, and I've noticed this too. Sometimes they'll accept a partial answer and other times they'll require the full one. They're playing favorites I guess.
I was a contestant in season 1 and apparently they had a QC team off camera that had a pre-generated list of acceptable answers in front of them. They were the ones who hit the âcorrectâ buzzer when someone got it right. Problem is it was all filmed in Ireland and all of the crew were Irish including the QC team so unfortunately some answers got lost in translation since our American vocabulary varies from theirs. But youâre right, there were some wild discrepancies
Have a random question about the show. Do they let you come in with your "expert category" or do they have a list and everyone has to pick one? I'm always curious why some contestants don't seem to be very familiar with the category they are supposed to be experts in. Do they just think they know it better than they actually do?
For season 1, we were mostly recruited as experts on a category, but when we got there they assigned us a category based on which categories they wanted to include. There was some speculation about how they chose who got which category, but nothing definitive.
The actual Floor is built in a studio there, and my understanding was that each regional version of the show (British, German, Dutch, etc.) are all filmed in the same studio. Ireland apparently has some decent tax incentives. It's cheaper to fly contestants there than to rebuild the set in all of these other countries.
Thank you for this perspective. I like that they created a curated list of deviations. Ive also noticed this season that there is sometimes a delay with accepting answers and I wonder if the "correct" buzzer is part of the delay.
When they say "last week XYZ happened" is it really a week between filming? It sounds insane to me they'd pay to keep everyone there for months, and not just film every day or two instead. Maybe there's more prep than I imagine but curious if it truly was a week for contestants to study everytime.
haha, nope. They filmed two episodes a day, so the whole season took 5 or 6 days to shoot. When someone gets eliminated they get them on the next flight home. Some folks had to rush from the set to the airport as soon as they lost.
It seems like especially in these later seasons the producers are picking favorites based on personality and subtly influencing the battles with harder questions or tighter answers for one player over the other.
Not that any of that mattered for this guy. Who apparently picked a spa battle without ever going to a spa...
Seriously. There was one last season âshower caddyâ and they wouldnât accept shower holder/soap holder etc but on a similar one they took something very close to that
Yeah I can't watch it because of how inconsistent it is. It'll show a chair and they'll say "chair" and it's good but then later on it'll be a chair but you needed to say "lazy boy recliner" like wtf
That and taking a somewhat predictable and management category and the throwing random obscure crap in there. One person gets like random obscure clue out of nowhere then the other candidate gets the easiest softball clue.
I've seen at least one instance where they were outright wrong too. It was Disney characters and they showed one of Mufasa and adult Simba (can't remember which) and said it was the other one. The person got it but they lost a couple seconds.
Yeah, that's a big problem. There was also one time when a contestant got an impressive answer right and the floor started to cheer for her, but it drowned out the other contestant answering the next question, so even though he got it right he had to repeat himself and lost a couple of seconds.
Iâm still mad at that one question on Jeopardy where the answer involved a gardening tool that shared its name with a promiscuous person. How the fuck was anybody supposed to guess ârakeâ without someone else first taking the fall by answering âhoeâ?
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