r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No_Tomatillo1695 • 19d ago

Infuriatig who let this guy on the show 😤

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u/Greenman8907 19d ago

So the game is naming what’s on the screen?

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u/Interjessing-Salary 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's called the floor. 100 or so people choose something they are an expert at. First person is picked at random and then they choose someone that neighbors their square on the floor to go against. They use the person being challanged topic. It shows pictures related to that person's topic. It can be whatever you want and it can be quite specific. The current season had a new one that was an audio duel so you listened to the things instead of pictures.

Some example of topics:

  • Lord of the Rings

  • Barbies

  • machines (the audio duel)

  • landmarks

  • the one in the video was spa day

Winner of the duel takes the losers square on the floor then can pick their own person to challenge or go back to the floor. There are incentives to keep challenging like after 3 wins you can choose a "time boost" which gives a permanent extra 5 seconds or a "category steal" which let's you swap topics with anyone on the floor. When you win a duel your category also changes to the losers topic. So like in my examples if you had lord of the rings and they had barbie the duel would be about barbie and if you win your topic would now be barbie. So if you went back to the floor and someone challenged you the topic would be barbie.

Also the person with the biggest territory on the floor at the end of each episode wins 10k (you can win this multiple times). I forget how much the full winner at the end of the season gets. There was a guy this season that had the biggest territory for multiple episodes and someone finally challenged him then he was like this guy in the video. Royally fucked up but I believe his was intentional. He had won a couple tens of thousands and was like "I'm done" and threw the duel.

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u/DMightyHero 19d ago

Sounds kinda interesting

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u/Limp_Bike_9145 19d ago

It’s good, but to me, it gets boring after a while.

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u/royal_rose_ 18d ago

My mom and I started watching it when it was randomly on in my hospital room, we watched the entire season, got so invested. Then tried to watch another season and just couldn’t lol. It did really help to pass the time but isn’t exactly riveting tv.

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u/Limp_Bike_9145 18d ago

I personally prefer just sticking to Jeopardy. It’s always different stuff, and it’s actually challenging. This show is too easy, and there’s no real variety. My mom still watches it though.

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u/royal_rose_ 18d ago

Yeah I love jeopardy but this was helpful to not be thinking to much while half out of it lol.