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Post by S_SweepFan3 on Jan 20, 2018 23:01:31 GMT -5
I've never understood why some players change fives and jacks. Those are fairly good cards. Sixes and tens are iffy, but always change sevens, eights, and nines. I've always thought they changed them in order to try to improve their card. Sure a Jack isn't bad, but a King would always be better. Good point, but the odds of getting a better card from a five or a jack are worse than a bad or identical card. Two, three, four, queen, king, and ace compared to a six, seven, eight, nine, ten, another five, and another jack. You have slightly better odds of getting a card that's worse or the same. If you change a five and get a jack, that could backfire if the next card is a queen, king, or ace. Same goes for changing a jack and getting it replaced by a five. With that being said, I still don't agree with changing fives and jacks. You're better off playing those cards. I know you could do better, but I wouldn't take that risk. Always change sixes, tens, and everything in between. I must admit, I feel like a nerd talking strategy about a game show that's retired, lol. Still, I think this is a good discussion to be having if we get a Card Sharks revival. It could be something to keep in mind.
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Post by Chameleonwhammy on Jan 20, 2018 23:08:00 GMT -5
Thing is, there really is no safe card, no matter how you slice and dice it. It depends on what one is willing to do. I could see how one could play a Jack/Five, and how one could change it.
There was a lady who changed a four on tonight's broadcast of Card Sharks. That decision I questioned.
Then of course there's this classic moment with Bill Daily. Dumb decision for sure, but the outcome was hilarious.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Nov 6, 2019 9:16:53 GMT -5
It's been nearly two years since the last post in this discussion, so I thought I'd bring up a topic.
There was this girl named Ainslee who was from the final Young People's Week in November 1988, and she was the final young champion of the series, but she was invited back in 1989, despite that adults were normally playing, and had her chance to play the Money Cards and the final playing for the trip to Hawaii.
The audience polling group were ten (ordinary) men, and when adult play resumed, Suzanna (not to be confused with Suzanna Williams) was the contestant in the red position. Here is the 1989 episode in question:
Does anybody know the airdate of the episode, even if approximate?
I am tempted to think it was sometime in January 1989, but I would like to be sure.
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Post by splinkynip on Nov 6, 2019 10:44:34 GMT -5
Airdate March 17 1989
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Nov 6, 2019 17:02:31 GMT -5
^ Thanks. Information on that episode, and the episode just before it, has now been added to the Bob Eubanks' Card Sharks episode guide on Game Shows Wiki.
I am also thinking about adding an episode guide for the 2019 version as well. It's very surprising that this thread was not resurrected last summer upon the launch of the 2019 version last summer, and I must admit, it is definitely better than the disastrous 2001 version, the latter of which I do not miss to date and beyond.
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 2, 2020 16:53:04 GMT -5
On a recent trip to my old childhood home, I came up with a whole bunch of notes I used to take on various 80's game shows, including Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks, Bill Rafferty), $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid (Dick Clark), Classic Concentration, Hollywood Squares (John Davidson), and Wheel of Fortune (daytime Bob Goen, nighttime 1989-1991). If anyone is interested, I can share this information to complete online episode guides, etc.
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Post by johnnyo on Jan 3, 2020 10:28:35 GMT -5
On a recent trip to my old childhood home, I came up with a whole bunch of notes I used to take on various 80's game shows, including Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks, Bill Rafferty), $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid (Dick Clark), Classic Concentration, Hollywood Squares (John Davidson), and Wheel of Fortune (daytime Bob Goen, nighttime 1989-1991). If anyone is interested, I can share this information to complete online episode guides, etc. Some of your Classic Concentration Notes might be particularly valuable, depending if they contain any information about a few missing episodes that have been consistently skipped by BUZZR since they began airing reruns in fall of 2018. Out of the skipped episodes (13, 131, 148, & 178), a mostly complete version of #13 and a full version of 131 have been found on YouTube. If your notes have any of the following information, please share: Episode # 13, Air date = May 21, 1987; The opening Rebus is missing from the YT version of this episode, it would be great if you have this in your notes. Episode # 148, Air date = December 16, 1987; Episode # 178, Air date = January 28, 1988; Both of these episodes have been skipped by Buzzr, and there are no known copies on YouTube or elsewhere. While it has been possible to infer some general, high-level information about the contestants by watching episodes 147/149 & 177/179, there is much information that is missing. If you have any specific information about the game play on both episodes, and the contestant names from 178, please share! (Also, please reply/share in the Concentration thread. Thanks!)
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Post by pyramidfan on Jan 3, 2020 10:54:44 GMT -5
On a recent trip to my old childhood home, I came up with a whole bunch of notes I used to take on various 80's game shows, including Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks, Bill Rafferty), $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid (Dick Clark), Classic Concentration, Hollywood Squares (John Davidson), and Wheel of Fortune (daytime Bob Goen, nighttime 1989-1991). If anyone is interested, I can share this information to complete online episode guides, etc. How far back do your daytime "Pyramid" notes go?
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 3, 2020 12:00:22 GMT -5
Classic Concentration info I have is list of cars offered and won every week from December 29, 1987 to series end in August 1991. Also have info on format changes, theme weeks.
Looks like Pyramid is list of announcers and celebrities on daytime version as well as rule changes from about 1984 onward.
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Post by The Game Show Channel on Jan 9, 2020 19:46:20 GMT -5
On a recent trip to my old childhood home, I came up with a whole bunch of notes I used to take on various 80's game shows, including Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks, Bill Rafferty), $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid (Dick Clark), Classic Concentration, Hollywood Squares (John Davidson), and Wheel of Fortune (daytime Bob Goen, nighttime 1989-1991). If anyone is interested, I can share this information to complete online episode guides, etc. Can you send me the guides via a message?
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Jan 10, 2020 7:16:50 GMT -5
That would be pretty cool if the episode guides for the remaining 1988 and 1989 episodes of Eubanks' Card Sharks, and the few episodes that I never got a chance to fill my Card Sharks episode guide on Game Shows Wiki with due to my busy agenda and lack of video recordings, could finally be filled. Also, splinkynip, do you happen to have episode guides for the September 1986 episodes of Press Your Luck, if they aired in your region?
I would also be happy if the episode guides for the Rafferty version of Card Sharks would be completed too. Same for Classic Concentration and Goen's Wheel of Fortune.
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 10, 2020 10:45:36 GMT -5
Sorry, nothing on Press Your Luck
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Jan 10, 2020 12:16:27 GMT -5
Sorry, nothing on Press Your Luck Well, it is most likely that your CBS affiliate was one of the many across the nation that didn't air any of the September 1986 episodes. I can only hope that Buzzr will someday air them.
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 10, 2020 12:25:34 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure it did (WCBS), I just rarely watched the show back then.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Jan 10, 2020 12:33:54 GMT -5
I've never understood why some players change fives and jacks. Those are fairly good cards. Sixes and tens are iffy, but always change sevens, eights, and nines. There were also occasional freezings on fives and jacks, in the Perry run in particular, and a freezing on a Queen during the non game show celebrity tourney IIRC. Less freezing, even on sixes-tens, occurred in the Eubanks and Rafferty run than in the Perry run. A little less freezing happened in the last months of the Perry run when they added the $500 bonus for running the cards for the first two games of the match. Freezing during a three-card tiebreaker, probably wasn't the best strategy, but occasionally it happened(save for the last year of Eubanks when they made the tiebreaker a one-question sudden death round) I know it may sound crazy, but if I were on the show, and I was (more than) halfway to the end of my row of cards, I would freeze even if I had a great card (including an Ace or a two). The reason is because if I had an Ace or a two and the next card was the same, I am back to square one. The purpose of freezing is to protect a player's position. Many contestants didn't seem to realize this, and it's human nature to freeze when they have a bad card.
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