Remember, they start each duel with 10 chips. At the end of the duel, any chip you have that was NOT used to answer a question incorrectly, you get to keep . So what your oponent does has nothing to do with it–except that you have to get right a question your oponent gets wrong in order to win the duel and keep the chips.
Chips played on wrong answers go to the bank.
Ah, okay. For some reason I thought they started with five. (I did mention the show is much more watchable if you’re doing something else at the same time, right? Well, that does mean that the occasional detail – like the rules – might get lost.)
I like the woman reasoning out that the #of santa’s reindeers + rudolph + days of Hanukah = 25.
“Well santa has 12 reindeer, plus Rudolph would be 13, and according to Adam Sandler’s song there are 12 days of Hanukah, so that makes 25.”
As a person who almost never devotes her whole attention to watching TV–and certainly wouldn’t devote her whole attention to any show so filled with “tension” and ads, I’ll admit to missing a few details–like the second half of the Duel Math question about reindeer. (Although, that was my TV’s fault, not mine. And I did figure it out eventually. But it made it hard to know what the correct answer should be).
Well, that screwed me up, too, because for some reason I was thinking there were 12 reindeer and I even know the line “8 tiny reindeer” and I know all the reindeer names. I think The 12 days of Christmas were interfering with my reindeer count. No idea about Hannukah, I thought it was 10.
Even though I couldn’t name all the reindeer I knew there were 8 from the Rudolph song “Well you know 1, 2, 3, and 4. 5, 6, 7, and 8. But do you recallllll?”
And the Adam Sandler movie is called “Eight Crazy Nights”.
I tend to avoid anything Adam Sandler related.
I do know the reindeer from the song, I listened to it all the time as a kid. We had the Gene Autry record. “You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen, but do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? …” Which is why I was annoyed with myself for not thinking it out. But then I wasn’t on the show so I wasn’t out anything.
The amazing thing is that the woman said she had a menorah at home, and still had no clue. Just count the candles, dummy. I can see someone not knowing *either *# reindeer or # nights…but neither? Giving Mensa a bad name.
Heh. Ya think maybe she was drummed out, and didn’t quit? 
Yeah, but the funny part was she said she specifically knew it was “12” because of Adam Sandler.
Was she thinking “12 Crazy Nights”?
I finally caught this online just now, I saw the first ep, and first round of the second.
Good idea, but it lacks… something. If we could do EKG / Heartbeats that would be cool. But I think “The Chair” and “The Chamber” kinda killed that Idea off, is the Poker Dome still on even?
Can we do this game with playing cards?
No seriosuly, bet on the next card from the deck to be from what suit.
–Give players 13 cards from the deck (shuffled of course) so that they can ‘count’ cards more or less.
Yes its half baked, perhaps quarter baked, but I think it would make for a good 4 player “new” card game.
The correct response to the vermicelli question last night was to put down a chip and hit the “pressure the other player” button. I couldn’t freaking believe neither of them knew that.
That (vermicelli) bugged me, but not as badly as the fact that neither of the contestants knew that Minnesota is the northernmost state in the Lower 48.
Of course, having lived there, knowing the motto to be “L’etoile du nord” might be a factor in why it seemed so obvious. (Though I was surprisingly old before I figured out where the “Boundary Waters” canoe area I’d heard about all my life got it’s name).
By the way, can anyone tell me what the correct answer to the question about who was not named Time’s Man of the Year? My two best guesses were the ones the contestants came up with, and thus wrong, but I missed what the right answer was.
Saddam Hussein, which is weird because I could have sworn he was the MotY once because I vaguely remember some hubbub about it.
I didn’t know the northernmost state question either but I thought I remember hearing that it was a state in the middle that began with M. So I would have hedged my bets with Michigan and Minnesota.
Thanks.
Actually, it would improve if I were getting a root canal at the same time. This has to be the dullest host and the dullest collection pf players ever assembled on the face of the Earth.
Here’s a Washington Post column about the show- they really should drop the picutre of columnist Tom Shales though- ugh. 
The online Duel is surprisingly fun… haven’t seen a repeat question yet. Also, if I were playing, I would intentionally stall and pretend to be confused, hoping to coax a wasted “pressure” out of the opponent. Then I would mercilessly slaughter them with my remaining “pressures” so I can keep as many chips as possible. It also helps to seem as daft and unaggressive as possible when trying to get chosen as a player. Instead of “Software Engineer”, instead claim you are “Unemployed”.
How would that be interesting at all? What’s next for game shows? “I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 10…”
You must not have seen Deal or No Deal. :eek:
I said nothing about making it a Game show. I said that it might could give birth to an interesting card game. For at home play.