Stupid game show answers best of the worst

However, Tom gave Alex Trebek the worst response imaginable—"the age of consent. Hide your kids from this guy, because his mind is clearly not in the right place. Sure, he probably just provided the first "age of" legal answer he could think of, but his neighbors are surely still checking to see if he's on a sex offender list. The game show Catch 21 is only on Game Show Network, so it's not the most popular The premise of the show is simple: answer trivia questions correctly, and you get to flip a playing card.

You can either keep it and add it to the card given to you at the start of the round or give it to one of your two opponents. Your goal is to get the best blackjack hand, or to make sure your opponents get a worse hand than yours. Everyone knows that to win blackjack, you need to hit or get near 21, and Kimberly was fully aware of that.

However, when she answered a question and revealed a 5, she decided that instead of adding it to her 10 and making her hand a 15—which would be worse than the player on her left's hand of 16—she would just give that player to her left the 5. In turn, Kimberly gave him a hand of 21 and won him the game. Math is hard, but it isn't that hard. This one is less of a fail on behalf of the contestants, and more of a fail on the Wheel of Fortune game designers A seemingly innocent "same letter" puzzle, the contestants were clearly meant to eventually guess "pens, pencils and paper.

Ken Jennings will forever go down in Jeopardy! He was essentially an expert at the game, but even he had his share of fails—most memorably, the time when he was asked for a term that can mean both a tool and an immoral pleasure seeker, and came up with the response of "What is a hoe?

Here is another example of a time a game show design crew failed in a manner that will never be forgotten or likely forgiven by the show's producers. The answers are sometimes obvious and the AI isn't always a challenge, but the replayability of the game allows it to be a fun party option if looking to immerse into a fictional game show universe.

Family Feud is a longtime staple of American television, despite its never-ending list of host changes over the years. There have also been many versions of the show in video game form. The Playstation 2 version sticks to the classic gameplay of the show with 1, survey questions, with each family needing to guess the top survey answers.

There is also a Fast Money round for the winning family. This version of the game is panned by critics as having incredibly dumb AI and slow-moving gameplay.

Survey says, not worth it. The Buzz! There are a plethora of games in the series that have done better over the years than most licensed games of actual game shows. Quiz TV is the best of the bunch. It was the franchise's leap from wired to wireless buzzer peripherals, as well as its first step to online multiplayer. The game show is filled with quiz questions that can be tailored to the experience and knowledge of other players.

Not many trivia games can be so welcoming to all kinds of players. Deal Or No Deal is a fun game show, but it just doesn't translate well as a game since its purely luck-based. Case-in-point, the Nintendo DS version of the game has the worst Metacritic score of any game show game.

The concept of Deal Or No Deal is simple: try to find the case with the biggest price amount while weighing offers from "the dealer. None of that has any basis in logical probability. Also, congratulations, you annoying me about this has inspired an entire post for tomorrow, I want to hear what other people think about this. You must be logged in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Prev Article Next Article. Must have been the drugs. About The Author Paul More from this Author I think I'm a part of the first generation of journalists to skip print media entirely, and I've learned a lot these last few years at Forbes.

But even so, there have been some occasions over the years where we couldn't help but wonder if the contestant had been lobotomised while sitting in the green room. Here are some hilarious quiz show moments that even Joey Essex would be ashamed of:. GWR FM. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features?