Thursday, November 13, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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John Boy wrote:Respectfully disagree about the writers. When three contestants clear the boards, it is a well played game, or possibly it is a really easy board. If the contestants leave lots of unanswered clues that I also miss, that's what I call difficult boards.
In the first round of tournaments, they always allow the contestants to clear the boards to keep all of the matches fair, so that's not a proper indicator of how tough the boards were.
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alietr wrote:In the first round of tournaments, they always allow the contestants to clear the boards to keep all of the matches fair, so that's not a proper indicator of how tough the boards were.
If true, mind blown. Is that an official rule you heard about somewhere? Wouldn't it indicate that their regular matches are inherently unfair? (8 clues, still shaking my head...)
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alietr wrote:
John Boy wrote:Respectfully disagree about the writers. When three contestants clear the boards, it is a well played game, or possibly it is a really easy board. If the contestants leave lots of unanswered clues that I also miss, that's what I call difficult boards.
In the first round of tournaments, they always allow the contestants to clear the boards to keep all of the matches fair, so that's not a proper indicator of how tough the boards were.
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alietr wrote:
John Boy wrote:Respectfully disagree about the writers. When three contestants clear the boards, it is a well played game, or possibly it is a really easy board. If the contestants leave lots of unanswered clues that I also miss, that's what I call difficult boards.
In the first round of tournaments, they always allow the contestants to clear the boards to keep all of the matches fair, so that's not a proper indicator of how tough the boards were.
Could they do this because of the wildcards? Is it so that when you compare a week's worth of games to get the 4 top non-winners they want to even the playing field?
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BobF wrote:Could they do this because of the wildcards? Is it so that when you compare a week's worth of games to get the 4 top non-winners they want to even the playing field?
Yes, that's exactly why they do it.
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Robert K S wrote:
alietr wrote:In the first round of tournaments, they always allow the contestants to clear the boards to keep all of the matches fair, so that's not a proper indicator of how tough the boards were.
If true, mind blown. Is that an official rule you heard about somewhere? Wouldn't it indicate that their regular matches are inherently unfair? (8 clues, still shaking my head...)
I believe the fairness being referred to is in regards to the wild cards all having the opportunity at the same number (and $ value) of clues.
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In theory they should play the same boards too, or at the very least play the same FJ, but this is also a TV show.
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If true, mind blown. Is that an official rule you heard about somewhere? Wouldn't it indicate that their regular matches are inherently unfair? (8 clues, still shaking my head...)
People here watch every single episode of Jeopardy for decades and haven't realized that QF boards are always completed? And then don't know why?

If true, mind blown. :shock: :D


If the show wasn't televised, the five QF games probably would use the exact same boards as discussed. Bill Murray would probably be sitting front row.
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Terry was really good, but there were a lot of triple stumpers. I got 26 clues correct including stole, accordion, flute, piano, Suwannee (DD), Doris Duke (DD -- I mean as a Daily Double), and FJ.
dhkendall wrote: [...] they should show all 61 clues every time if they managed to get through that many Stand-and-Stares.
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StevenH wrote:PTB: since I know that I will never be picked to be a contestant, I will quit my job and drop out of grad school to move to LA and become a writer for the show. I even have work samples that I could give you, and I'll work for just a "living wage for Los Angeles". Make my dream come true!
Come on, Steven. You know they don't pay writers such a ridiculously high salary.
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opusthepenguin wrote:
StevenH wrote:PTB: since I know that I will never be picked to be a contestant, I will quit my job and drop out of grad school to move to LA and become a writer for the show. I even have work samples that I could give you, and I'll work for just a "living wage for Los Angeles". Make my dream come true!
Come on, Steven. You know they don't pay writers such a ridiculously high salary.
Well that was easily the worst board for me since I've been watching regularly for a year or so. I don't think even the BotD boards were this bad for me.

I could have counted my correct answers with my fingers ....... with one hand ...... even if I was suffering from tridactyly. :lol:

And I instaguessed Madagascar and Mauritius for some reason. 0/4. Almost halfway there.
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lieph82 wrote:In theory they should play the same boards too, or at the very least play the same FJ, but this is also a TV show.
I think they should also run the games in thousands of parallel universes and aggregate the data and give top prize to the true winner.
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Golf wrote:If the show wasn't televised, the five QF games probably would use the exact same boards as discussed. Bill Murray would probably be sitting front row.
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If they played the same boards for the entire quarterfinals, TPH would still be clamming FJ on Friday.
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Golf wrote:
Bill Murray would probably be sitting front row.
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Bamaman wrote:If they played the same boards for the entire quarterfinals, TPH would still be clamming FJ on Friday.
I have dual monitors at work and almost had to clean pretzel spray off both of them! :lol:
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Bamaman wrote:If they played the same boards for the entire quarterfinals, TPH would still be clamming FJ on Friday.
Plus claiming several NHOIs. :lol:
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Poor TPH, I kinda want to give him a hug right now
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Golf wrote:
If true, mind blown. Is that an official rule you heard about somewhere? Wouldn't it indicate that their regular matches are inherently unfair? (8 clues, still shaking my head...)
People here watch every single episode of Jeopardy for decades and haven't realized that QF boards are always completed? And then don't know why?
It makes sense, I'd just never given it any thought.
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Bamaman wrote:If they played the same boards for the entire quarterfinals, TPH would still be clamming FJ on Friday.
We need to do the video equivalent of photoshopping to put him into Groundhog Day in the Bill Murray role.
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