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I laughed when the Tool expert didn't recognize the nails.  

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The Reddit link I shared above is interesting. A contestant from episode 6 chimed in and someone asked about specialty categories. Here is the response:  "We did interviews and they got a feel fo

Lantern7
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What are the ratings for this show? I wouldn't mind a second season. It's probably for the best if I don't appear on it, though. The anticipation of getting called up would probably destroy me. P

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iMonrey

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Baby Products: I knew most of these, and I've never had a baby. Fairly easy category. Haunted Locations: I knew some of these, like the Hotel del Coronado (have been there!), but some of them were tough. I knew most of the Punctuations/Symbols as well. Another easy one. Song of the Year? I knew about three of them. I have not kept up with contemporary/pop music since the 1990s. (I'm old.) 

Anatomy was tougher than I thought it would be, and we all kept wondering why nobody was choosing it. Now I know. Water Brands? I recognized the Perrier bottle and that's it. I would have had to pass on every other one. 

Construction was fairly easy, and I knew all but one of the Murder Mysteries. "Fill in the blank" duels give you a fair shot at guessing.

1 hour ago, docmatt said:

How many female contestants have hot pink outfits with Cruella hair? I counted at least three.

I know right? I was thinking Lily Munster hair, but either way. Is that style a new trend?

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mlp

mlp

11 hours ago, HerkyJerky said:

The women doing the water brands were INCREDIBLE!

I had no idea that many water brands even existed.  The only one I knew was Saratoga Springs because they show it on TC a lot.  I knew all the punctuation, anatomy and murder mysteries and most of the baby products and construction items but only one song of the year and just a couple haunted locations.  There must have been an eighth category but I can't remember what it was.

I like Alex, Brian and the chef so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.

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gonzosgirrl

gonzosgirrl

17 hours ago, mlp said:

I had no idea that many water brands even existed. 

Same. I recognized a couple after the fact, but only because I'd seen them in airport stores, lol.

I have to eat my words a little about anatomy. I didn't anticipate them using illustrations (and I'm not sure why). I got about 80%. Sometimes it's really just the luck of the draw to get a stumper, or worse, several in a row. It must feel so defeating.

I'm really hoping for Brian to win it all at this point. He's defended his inherited categories well.

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gonzosgirrl

gonzosgirrl

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5 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Hmm. The title of the next episode suggests a takedown. Might not be him though.

I don't anticipate him winning, based solely on my experience with game/talent shows. My favs never win.😭

4 hours ago, GameJayAnalysis said:
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"Bringing Down a Titan"

 

Kind of crappy of them to foreshadow like that if it is indeed Brian.

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ljenkins782

ljenkins782

On 4/10/2025 at 10:52 AM, iMonrey said:

Construction was fairly easy, and I knew all but one of the Murder Mysteries. "Fill in the blank" duels give you a fair shot at guessing.

They do, and yet I feel like half the people don’t even try. Like, just toss out some rapid fire words at random and you might stumble on the answer, it’s not like you get penalized for wrong answers. I was shocked at how little effort some of them put into guessing. 
 

The water brands would have taken me out, I had no idea there were that many. Did surprisingly well at haunted locations but mostly just guesses. 

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gonzosgirrl

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Boo.

I'm biased but it seemed to me that Zaph got lucky with the gimmies in Fairytales and Languages (which was a bitch of a category). Meh. Marvel served the Karma.

I started to wonder if they named the episode as they did because two titans were going down. But David kicked ass. Sorry, but the peanut gallery just came off as jealous to me. I'm glad he won his duels.

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GameJayAnalysis

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1 hour ago, gonzosgirrl said:

Boo.

I'm biased but it seemed to me that Zaph got lucky with the gimmies in Fairytales and Languages (which was a bitch of a category). Meh. Marvel served the Karma.

I started to wonder if they named the episode as they did because two titans were going down. But David kicked ass. Sorry, but the peanut gallery just came off as jealous to me. I'm glad he won his duels.

Lisa made a sacrifice. She knew she would lose. She was an emotional wreck. There was no way that David wasn't going to win. I don't care. She opened the game up for everyone. She didn't give them the win. She gave them a chance at hope(I.E winning).
You should be respecting her since the peanut gallery will actually bother to challenge him in weddings. If Lisa doesn't do that the finale is for sure a snoozefest

Eras was complete nonsense. There wasn't any specificity in the duel about what the heck the category was referring to.

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gonzosgirrl

gonzosgirrl

9 hours ago, GameJayAnalysis said:

Lisa made a sacrifice. She knew she would lose. She was an emotional wreck. There was no way that David wasn't going to win. I don't care. She opened the game up for everyone. She didn't give them the win. She gave them a chance at hope(I.E winning).
You should be respecting her since the peanut gallery will actually bother to challenge him in weddings. If Lisa doesn't do that the finale is for sure a snoozefest

First, I don't believe it was a sacrifice - she wanted to be the one to take him down. And if it was, then why would I respect that? Throwing herself on the sword makes no sense in a game like this, and it is a game - play to win.

 

GameJayAnalysis

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1 hour ago, gonzosgirrl said:

First, I don't believe it was a sacrifice - she wanted to be the one to take him down. And if it was, then why would I respect that? Throwing herself on the sword makes no sense in a game like this, and it is a game - play to win.

 

I get why some people might see the sacrifice as a bad move. She risked everything and lost — and it’s easy to call it pathetic.

But it wasn’t selfish. It wasn’t a mutiny. It definitely wasn’t jealousy.

It was selflessness.

Most players would never have done what she did. Remember Physics lady? Periodic Table? No one wanted to challenge those. She had a real (even if small) shot at $20k and $250k, and she gave up her chance because she knew someone had to challenge David’s domination or the finale would be a total shutout. She knew nobody had a chance. Whoever bit the European Geography bullet was going to be the "sacrifice". Now the floor will actually challenge David.

It was about doing something for the game, for everyone else, even though it probably doomed her own chances. That’s rare.

By the way, she was equally screwed in The Crown and Bodies of Water as those still had their expert people defending them. A rare sight this late in the game.

You don’t have to agree with it. But that kind of selflessness in a game where everyone is supposed to be “me first” is pretty damn admirable. 

David can still win. But before the sacrifice, he was steamrolling without pressure. Now he’s vulnerable.

She didn’t guarantee his loss — she's going to make him earn it instead of handing it to him.

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iMonrey

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Ding Dong, Brian's Gone. And taken out on possibly the easiest category I can think of! I knew every single one of the fairy tales/fables except the very last one. And as he was exiting stage left, Brian's parting words? "One of you, go get it!" Um, yeah? I'm pretty sure one of them will, so . . . 

Wow, Languages was a hard category. I don't know if it would have been any easier as a visual than an audio. I recognized Russian and that was about it.

Marvel confused me. Could you say either the character's civilian name (Tony Stark, Peter Parker, etc.) or their superhero name (Iron Man, Spiderman, etc.)? Because they kept going back and forth on that.

I would have sucked at Classic Cars but so did they. Clearly an assigned category.

Eras was tough too. And i think "eras" itself is too vague to define. I think I guessed just one of these.

Authors was another one I only knew a few of. Geography and Bodies of Water should have been pretty easy though. 

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9 minutes ago, gonzosgirrl said:

I get what you're saying @GameJayAnalysis but I just can't agree. There is no reason for 'selflessness' in this game. She had other choices and indeed, should have made one of them.

I guess we'll see if Lisa's selflessness leads to anything of note next week. At the end of the day she didn't have to listen to the peanut gallery. But for doing so, she gained something much more valuable. Favor. Oh well.

Her "other choices" were going to beat her anyway. At least she was gutsy. Let's be real the floor would've turned into "avoid Periodic Table" again if she hadn't. 

Agree to disagree.

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borealis

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1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

Wow, Languages was a hard category. I don't know if it would have been any easier as a visual than an audio. I recognized Russian and that was about it.

 

I was actually stunned that she didn't recognize Russian. Then I wondered, is that a cold war kid thing?? She's 31, IIRC. Maybe it's more recognizable to someone who grew up during the cold war? Even that seems weird (since we're all supposedly more connected now) but I was so surprised, I was trying to make sense of it.

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MrAtoz

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2 hours ago, GameJayAnalysis said:

she gave up her chance because she knew someone had to challenge David’s domination or the finale would be a total shutout.

This is what I don't get. Nobody could have beaten David? Nobody but him had the slightest knowledge of European geography? Obviously Lisa didn't, since she whiffed France right out of the gate. But they were all acting like European geography is some incredibly obscure and esoteric branch of learning that only a Ph.D. level expert could possibly have a chance in. Occasionally contestants talk about "studying." That category has been there the whole time, and the countries of Europe are one of the easier things you might study up on. There's only so many of them.

What does it mean to "challenge David's domination"? At that point, he had only won a single duel. We'd seen a lot more dominant players by that time, and seen them get beaten. I get that they're all intimidated because Dave Madden is a 19-day Jeopardy! champion. But this is a very different game than Jeopardy!, and favors a different skill set.

On another topic, I thought that "Eras" was pretty straightforward. I think Rob's explanation confused things by including "name the decade," when only one of the correct answers (The Roaring Twenties) actually was a decade. But it seemed clear to me that they were after specific "named" historical periods.

I was very angry on behalf of that guy who was counted wrong for saying "Model T" instead of "Ford Model T." That's cheap, considering that they accepted "Banner" for a picture of the Hulk.

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24 minutes ago, MrAtoz said:

But this is a very different game than Jeopardy!, and favors a different skill set

It didn't seem like it.

They are scared of David, yes European geography but he probably knew every single one at light speed. It's speed, it wasn't about studying. David was always going to be faster than them at that. When the category is finite it's speed.

As for eras  -

Clint: 1930's.
* buzz * [GREAT DEPRESSION]

Why should they bother giving 1930's as a clue in the thing(they did)? weird duel just because "era" wasn't clearly defined. But I digress.

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gonzosgirrl

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16 minutes ago, MrAtoz said:

I was very angry on behalf of that guy who was counted wrong for saying "Model T" instead of "Ford Model T." That's cheap, considering that they accepted "Banner" for a picture of the Hulk.

There is so much of this. I would like to know what their parameters are. Is there a list of acceptable responses for each clue? Would they have taken Captain America for Steve Rogers?

I'm still goggling a little over Languages. It was already difficult being audio clues, but then to have the phrase be 'Happy Birthday'? It would have been challenging enough with "Hello" or "Thank You". Happy Birthday was just mean.

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GameJayAnalysis

1 minute ago, gonzosgirrl said:

There is so much of this. I would like to know what their parameters are. Is there a list of acceptable responses for each clue? Would they have taken Captain America for Steve Rogers?

I'm still goggling a little over Languages. It was already difficult being audio clues, but then to have the phrase be 'Happy Birthday'? It would have been challenging enough with "Hello" or "Thank You". Happy Birthday was just mean.

Yeah, the classic cars was judged pretty badly.

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Lovecat

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For Classic Cars, Rob specifically said they needed to name the make and model, hence "Model T" was incorrect but "Ford Model T" was correct.  I'm not sure Byron heard or retained that instruction, though, because he seemed frustrated on his first 3 cars until he caught on.  The DeLorean broke my brain, though, because it was just...DeLorean.

For Marvel they did seem to be accepting EITHER the superhero or their alter ego (not that I knew very many of these); I don't recall hearing that in the instructions, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't edited or given as an off-camera instruction.

Eras was whackadoodle, but once I caught on, I got most of them.

ETA:  OMGosh, I forgot the one thing I wanted to add.  David's sweaty upper lip gives me the ick.  Someone blot that guy, stat!

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mlp

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6 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

But they were all acting like European geography is some incredibly obscure and esoteric branch of learning that only a Ph.D. level expert could possibly have a chance in.

The way everyone was shying away from it, I expected obscure rivers or names of individual alps.  Ironically for Lisa, it turned out to be one of the easiest categories.  I can't decide if David is really smug and arrogant or if he's putting on an act to intimidate the others.  He seems to be amusing himself.

I thought fairy tales, authors and eras were easy but would have bombed on Marvel, classic cars and languages.  I might have recognized more of the languages if they'd been written but just hearing them is a whole different game.

 

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12 minutes ago, mlp said:

The way everyone was shying away from it, I expected obscure rivers or names of individual alps.  Ironically for Lisa, it turned out to be one of the easiest categories.  I can't decide if David is really smug and arrogant or if he's putting on an act to intimidate the others.  He seems to be amusing himself.

Maybe it's both lol.

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ljenkins782

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On 4/17/2025 at 9:40 PM, mlp said:

The way everyone was shying away from it, I expected obscure rivers or names of individual alps.  Ironically for Lisa, it turned out to be one of the easiest categories.  I can't decide if David is really smug and arrogant or if he's putting on an act to intimidate the others.  He seems to be amusing himself.

Right?? I understand David being a Jeopardy champ and all, but it's European geography, that's a relatively small continent. So if it was just going to be "name that country," then there was a big opportunity to memorize that.

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I guess we'll see if Lisa's selflessness leads to anything of note next week. At the end of the day she didn't have to listen to the peanut gallery. But for doing so, she gained something much more valuable. Favor. Oh well.

Her "other choices" were going to beat her anyway. At least she was gutsy. Let's be real the floor would've turned into "avoid Periodic Table" again if she hadn't. 

Favor is more valuable than $250k? Definitely agree to disagree on that, especially since these are complete strangers who spent a little time together on a game show and will forget each other once it's over. 

I honestly think Lisa got too far up her own ass with the selflessness bit and how she was taking a bullet for the whole group because she didn't even attempt to guess in that duel. Again, it's a fairly small continent with a finite number of countries, a person who was trying to win would have just guessed rapid fire using the names of European countries. It almost looked like she wanted to make it as bad a loss as possible so her "sacrifice" would be more obvious.

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ETA:  OMGosh, I forgot the one thing I wanted to add.  David's sweaty upper lip gives me the ick.  Someone blot that guy, stat!

 

Yes, that was really hard to look at. And it came on so suddenly, either there was a big chunk edited out or he gets nervous in a very visible way.

I'm actually a little surprised that he has game show experience the way he was shouting his answers a la Rachel Greene in the Friends episode with the quiz game. To be fair, I do the same but I'm not on TV and haven't been on a game show for 19 days in the past.

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mlp

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14 minutes ago, Madding crowd said:

I never understand the contestants saying it’s much more risky going for someone who has a lot of territory. They are each one category whether they have one piece or ten.

I don't really get that either.  Someone could have half the floor after winning just one match.  I'd be a lot more concerned about going up against the person who had defeated multiple opponents regardless of squares won.

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iMonrey

iMonrey

17 hours ago, ljenkins782 said:

I honestly think Lisa got too far up her own ass with the selflessness bit and how she was taking a bullet for the whole group because she didn't even attempt to guess in that duel. Again, it's a fairly small continent with a finite number of countries, a person who was trying to win would have just guessed rapid fire using the names of European countries.

Didn't she only have two choices? Do you remember what her other choice was? I think she knew she was screwed in either category and that "I took a bullet" crap was just an attempt to save face, rather than admit she didn't know jack about Europe. 

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Taeolas

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As for Marvel (and Superheroes in general) as long as they say "Identify the character" then either name is appropriate. If they said "Identify the proper name" or a character or something more specific then they would likely need to be pickier. 

 

Also some characters have had multiple hero names through the years which can make things trickier too. Captain Marvel/Photon/Binary for example. 

 

Of course, the last one was Miles, so it's hard to say if they'd also accept Spiderman for him or not.  Kamela/Ms Marvel could have been tricky too in some ways. But overall, most characters are known well by either name, so I'm fine with them taking either one. 

illdoc

illdoc

2 hours ago, Taeolas said:

But overall, most characters are known well by either name, so I'm fine with them taking either one.

I wish they had put both as "correct" i.e. The picture was of the Hulk, contestant said Bruce Banner, put Bruce Banner/Hulk under the photo as the answer, so those of us who don't know both names can see if we were right. For example, the Jeremy Renner character is Hawkeye (I think). Wouldn't have a guess on real name (which is what the contestant said), but with real name/superhero name under the picture, I would know if I was right on Hawkeye.

Diana Berry

Diana Berry

On 4/17/2025 at 1:58 PM, MrAtoz said:

This is what I don't get. Nobody could have beaten David? Nobody but him had the slightest knowledge of European geography? Obviously Lisa didn't, since she whiffed France right out of the gate. But they were all acting like European geography is some incredibly obscure and esoteric branch of learning that only a Ph.D. level expert could possibly have a chance in. Occasionally contestants talk about "studying." That category has been there the whole time, and the countries of Europe are one of the easier things you might study up on. There's only so many of them.

What does it mean to "challenge David's domination"? At that point, he had only won a single duel. We'd seen a lot more dominant players by that time, and seen them get beaten. I get that they're all intimidated because Dave Madden is a 19-day Jeopardy! champion. But this is a very different game than Jeopardy!, and favors a different skill set.

On another topic, I thought that "Eras" was pretty straightforward. I think Rob's explanation confused things by including "name the decade," when only one of the correct answers (The Roaring Twenties) actually was a decade. But it seemed clear to me that they were after specific "named" historical periods.

I was very angry on behalf of that guy who was counted wrong for saying "Model T" instead of "Ford Model T." That's cheap, considering that they accepted "Banner" for a picture of the Hulk.

I’m still trying to figure out how a 19 day Jeopardy champion only won 80k? 

GameJayAnalysis

GameJayAnalysis

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On 4/19/2025 at 6:41 PM, Madding crowd said:

I never understand the contestants saying it’s much more risky going for someone who has a lot of territory. They are each one category whether they have one piece or ten.

The more single squares you are touching, the more likely the randomizer is to come for you. Brian just got super lucky because he had a lot less single squares touching him.

On 4/19/2025 at 6:58 PM, mlp said:

I don't really get that either.  Someone could have half the floor after winning just one match.  I'd be a lot more concerned about going up against the person who had defeated multiple opponents regardless of squares won.

If you remember episode 9 with Eric, he got called up tons of times. If you have a lot of territory you can not avoid the randomizer. The randomizer is your biggest threat, and now contestants can likely face you in an inherited category. It forces the person with the most territory to stay up(and risk elimination every time) or keep inheriting categories, and most people want to do neither.

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mlp

mlp

I was happy with the way it turned out although I did wish there was some kind of prize for the runner up.  It has to be hard to go all that way and go home with nothing in the end and he seemed like a nice young man.  Alex, Brian and Steven were my favorites all along so I was happy that Alex got as far as he did and even happier that Steven won.

I thought The Crown and Poetry were easy but I'd never heard of most of the Cosplay characters.  I got NSYNC in Boy Bands but only because I recognized Joey Fatone.  I would have missed all the rest of them.  This show consistently has something for everyone.  Can't wait for the next season.

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, mlp said:

I was happy with the way it turned out although I did wish there was some kind of prize for the runner up.  It has to be hard to go all that way and go home with nothing in the end and he seemed like a nice young man.  Alex, Brian and Steven were my favorites all along so I was happy that Alex got as far as he did and even happier that Steven won.

I thought The Crown and Poetry were easy but I'd never heard of most of the Cosplay characters.  I got NSYNC in Boy Bands but only because I recognized Joey Fatone.  I would have missed all the rest of them.  This show consistently has something for everyone.  Can't wait for the next season.

 

 

 

Yes, a prize for the runner-up, considering you can now lose a duel and not go home. Maybe if someone wins 2-1 the runner up gets something?
 

While I do want more reason to duel(not incentive), I can't deny the strategy evolves each season. It's a great show.

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Lantern7

Lantern7

Anyone else laugh at “Zelda”? That’s the joke . . . Zelda is always in the title, but Link does all the work.

I think there’s room for tweaking, but I had fun watching. I had a blast with punctuation marks . . . though I never knew the symbol marking paragraphs had a name. Marvel was also a good category for me. I would’ve gotten Grandmaster and Collector mixed up, though. I don’t know how to feel about that one guy insisting on going with proper names for the characters. Not like Rob would’ve given points for style.

On 4/20/2025 at 4:00 PM, Diana Berry said:

I’m still trying to figure out how a 19 day Jeopardy champion only won 80k?

On 4/20/2025 at 4:31 PM, gonzosgirrl said:

He won over $400K

In my head: “Man, there must have been a lot of episodes where he won with $1.”

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