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Post by vahan on Jan 27, 2020 23:14:02 GMT -5
We just saw Reggie blaze through the Winner's Circle in Game 1 of the second episode with 40 seconds on the clock. So the back-to-back win is coming really soon. It probably isn't the one they'll be skipping.
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Post by aaaa on Jan 28, 2020 3:14:45 GMT -5
The home contest in May 1988 appears to have run for two weeks, as the first two puzzles Scarecrow and Dorothy lead to Wizard of Oz as the common theme. The June 1988 partial episodes with Eric Ogren show announce a home contest winner, and show Hail to the Chief as a puzzle and the common theme was said to be Ronald Reagan. There was an edit in the 1pm airing on MOnday in the end credits where they would have showed the rules to the home contest, and references to the address to send in postcards was not shown and probably will not be shown.
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 28, 2020 9:47:28 GMT -5
Week of 5/16/88 should be next contest. They never did one again after this one.
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Post by vahan on Jan 28, 2020 13:30:02 GMT -5
Alex just announced the winners this week will be announced on the week of May 23, though of course, one episode is skipped. So I take it the winners of the week of May 16 were announced on the week of June 06.
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Post by vahan on Jan 29, 2020 13:26:11 GMT -5
Well, this is not a good sign. We just saw Rita win a Daihatsu Charade in Game 1. You know what that means, right? That's right, the episode with the Back-to-Back wins IS the one they will be skipping.
Oh well. puttputtking deserves an immense thank you for preserving a piece of Classic Concentration history.
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Post by aaaa on Jan 29, 2020 16:23:32 GMT -5
May 12, 1988 is now known to be the airdate for the episode linked to above that Buzzr is skipping
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 31, 2020 9:23:12 GMT -5
Can't recall ever seeing this move before... using a green take to take the other player's red take?? Weird, probably a one-time thing. Alex put both of them out of play, but the red take should have been still been usable I would think.
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Post by johnnyo on Jan 31, 2020 9:33:56 GMT -5
Can't recall ever seeing this move before... using a green take to take the other player's red take?? Weird, probably a one-time thing. Alex put both of them out of play, but the red take should have been still been usable I would think. Before CC showed up on BUZZR, I saw this on happen on YT (likely this actual episode), and posted a similar question on March 9, 2018; Mar 9, 2018 10:55:19 GMT -5 johnnyo said: Here is a Classic Concentration "Take" question. Watching a rerun on YT, a contestant won the Green Take while his opponent already had the Red Take. Alex offered the contestant the chance to take a prize, or take the Red Take. The contestant chose to take the Red Take with the Green Take. Strangely, Alex put both takes away, rather then letting the contestant keep the Red Take for later use. This seems odd. I would have expected the contestant to still keep whatever they took. For example, if they had taken a prize, they would have kept it, so I expected they would have still held the Red Take, and it could have been used later, if the contestant made a match again. What gives?
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Post by vahan on Jan 31, 2020 13:59:41 GMT -5
That's a lot of home rebus contest disclaimers kept on the second episode.
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Post by johnnyo on Feb 2, 2020 23:27:29 GMT -5
johnnyo I know you're into statistics. Here's the total number of times Game 2 was interrupted and not interrupted with the original format. I didn't include the Kids' Week, because it was new players in each game, and I'm not sure about the skipped show #0178. Interrupted: 127 Not interrupted: 77 N/A: 5 Not sure: 1 Looking at my notes, I also have 127 interrupted, including both skipped episodes 148 & 178. I have 78 not interrupted, so we must have a discrepancy somewhere.
For the record, out the 10 games for Kids Week, I have 7 not interrupted, and 3 interrupted. Every game that week was timed; the interrupted games were both games of the first episode, and the last game of the fifth episode.
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Post by vahan on Feb 3, 2020 11:05:23 GMT -5
They never outright said in #0179 if the previous one was interrupted or not, due to the bizarre opening with one of the contestants pretending to be a game show host and Alex pretending to be a contestant.
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Post by badasp on Feb 4, 2020 13:44:38 GMT -5
Okay, there's this book back in 1991 with many puzzles from the show (I still have my copy which I got from twenty-nine years ago.) I believe the first round's puzzle from episode 259 should be the third puzzle overall from that book that I've seen on a BUZZR-aired episode so far, correct?
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Post by vahan on Feb 5, 2020 13:18:04 GMT -5
The Susan Vs. Michael episode is coming soon. It's the one before the one Buzzr is skipping.
Interestingly, there's two copies. Jessy Leppert's and puttputtking's. The latter's in better quality, but incomplete at the beginning.
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Post by vahan on Feb 5, 2020 14:13:54 GMT -5
Just noticed that the NBC re-edit replaces the shot of Alex announcing they'll be revealing the home winner on Day 2 with a generic shot of the audience.
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Post by vahan on Feb 6, 2020 13:13:09 GMT -5
Copied and pasted from my episode guide:
The following information is guesswork right now: It was likely that Susan won a car in Game 1's Winner's Circle after four attempts, and Richard and a single new player started off Game 2 due to Susan retiring; on the next show, Alex says Pattie had won a game and her amount going into her second was $1,395. Richard earned a strike in both games, and is out.
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