"Card Sharks" rules question

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I have a question with regard to the rules of “Card Sharks,” especially in the NBC and CBS versions:

According to the rules of the game, you have to win on the survey question to be able to change a base card (frozen ones too), and if you don’t win, you can’t change. My question about that is: if you got the free chance (which meant no changing, of course), would it have been rude to the host (Perry or Eubanks) to have a call ready upon the reveal of your base card and make that call just as it’s turned over, especially if it’s a middle card, thereby interrupting the spiel about not being able to change the card? I don’t think it would, because, if you know you can’t change it (i.e. you read that part of the rules upside-down and backwards and committed it to memory), why listen to them say you can’t change it?

By that, I mean, say your opponent just lost and went back to his/her base card, and then yours was revealed to be a 7. Upon that reveal, I’d go ahead and say “Higher” just as it was turned over, because why waste time on having to hear the spiel on not being able to change when you can go ahead and play? I personally also think that this knowledge of the rules and awareness of the situation would impress the host; don’t know how, but I think it would.

2

WAG, they’d do some sort of edit and make you redo your choice after the spiel. They aren’t repeating the rules ad nauseum for the players, they’re doing it for first time viewers.

3

What would probably have happened is, if the host heard the second player, he would say something like, “You must play off the 7 - did you say '‘higher’?”, probably so they could get a camera shot of the player saying “higher” (so there would be no question as to what happened).

4

Cue the discussion on how Card Sharks reneged on it’s own rules later in the run, getting rid of the push in favor of the “Must be higher than” clause in 3 2 1.