# The Game Show Family Feud \[Closed\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541 "2008-03-24T16:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/61 "2008-03-26T02:31:55Z")
1. Louie Anderson 2. Plinko 3. Rod Roddy 4. Potent Potables 5. Password 6. Wheel of Fortune? 7. Blind Date 8. Charo 9. Joan Rivers 10. Double Dare ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/62 "2008-03-27T01:27:00Z")
Well, I would have finished scoring tonight – but I was bsing with someone on IM, who asked what I was doing, and, when I said “scoring a message board game of Family Feud,” asked what message board – and he turned out to be a lapsed Doper. So I’ve been running searches for him. So it’s not my fault – it’s **audient** ’s fault. He’ll probably reup when the board goes free, so you can yell at him then. Since I’m dragging my heels, I’ll take the next four contestants (we’re at 46 by my count), if anyone wants to play. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/63 "2008-03-28T03:33:58Z")
Well??? ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/64 "2008-03-28T12:18:44Z")
Do you feel that? That’s my youth slipping away. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/65 "2008-03-28T13:02:17Z")
People, people, people. I had to watch the _Celebrity Apprentice_ finale last night. 😃 Scores tonight, promise. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/66 "2008-03-29T16:47:01Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I had to watch the _Celebrity Apprentice_ finale last night. 😃 Scores tonight, promise. [/QUOTE] Twickster, my image of you has been shattered! I can’t believe you watch the _Celebrity Apprentice_. I’m also disappointed that I finally found a Feud that I wasn’t too late for, and now, the scoring has been thwarted by _The Donald_. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/67 "2008-03-29T18:10:03Z")
Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/68 "2008-03-29T19:07:24Z")
Okay, I somehow totally fucked up the spreadsheet, have to start again from scratch. Some of us just aren’t cut out for the 21st century… ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/69 "2008-03-29T23:33:38Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Okay, I somehow totally fucked up the spreadsheet, have to start again from scratch. Some of us just aren’t cut out for the 21st century… [/QUOTE] Geez…you must be really old…like 35! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/70 "2008-03-30T02:59:02Z")
Wait, you can average 11 posts a day, every day, FOR THE LAST FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, and a spreadsheet confuses you? ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/71 "2008-03-30T14:51:54Z")
I get the feeling this spreadsheet isn’t as simple as it sounds. Maybe someone can offer him some help? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/72 "2008-03-30T15:07:18Z")
[QUOTE=TommyTutone] Wait, you can average 11 posts a day, every day, FOR THE LAST FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, and a spreadsheet confuses you? [/QUOTE] I’m under 10 posts a day – and carefully remain so. Something went screwy somewhere – the auto-scoring thing is showing different point allocations _for the same answer_, making me suspect I somehow got something into some of the boxes that the computer is seeing but I’m not, making the answers somehow different – and I don’t know which is the right set of numbers, and I don’t want to go through all the answers to all ten questions to see which numbers are in agreement and which aren’t. So I’m going to start over. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/73 "2008-03-30T22:56:37Z")
Hey **Twicks** - how’s it going? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/74 "2008-03-31T00:04:35Z")
I’m beginning to think that **twickster** simply doesn’t love us anymore. Either that, or she takes a great deal of pleasure in teasing us relentlessly. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/75 "2008-03-31T00:18:35Z")
Next time I think it’s a good idea to host a FF game – remind me that it involves scoring, also, 'kay? Sorry – was planning to (re)do this today – as they say, life is what happens when you had something else planned. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/76 "2008-03-31T00:55:58Z")
I didn’t want to say anything - but all the trouble you’re hving? I’m glad I did my last one manually, even tho it took almost two hours. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/77 "2008-03-31T23:57:31Z")
Okay – I took the counts, which seem plausible, and will calculate people’s scores by hand. If you want to figure out your own while I work on it, here are the point **values** : 1. John O’Hurley 6 2. Louie Anderson 26 3. Ray Combs 42 4. Richard Karn 14 5. Cliffhanger 12 6. Plinko 58 7. Showcase Showdown 12 8. Don Pardo 14 9. Johnny Gilbert 8 10. Johnny Olson 16 11. Johnny\* 8 12. Rod Roddy 40 13. Before and After 14 14. Potent Potables 42 15. Potpourri 20 16. Dancing with the Stars 8 17. Match game 10 18. Password 22 19. Pyramid 52 20. Dating Game 4 21. Family Feud 16 22. Match Game 12 23. Newlywed Game 4 24. Price is Right 30 25. To Tell the Truth 8 26. What’s My Line 4 27. Bachelor 8 28. Blind Date 14 29. Love Connection 46 30. Newlywed Game 6 31. Singled Out 8 32. Charles Nelson Reilly 6 33. Charlie Weaver 22 34. Charo 4 35. Gilbert Gottfried 4 36. Joan Rivers 10 37. Phyllis Diller 12 38. Roddy McDowall 4 39. Rose-Marie 8 40. Wally Cox 6 41. Bruce Vilanch 16 42. Caroline Rhea 4 43. Gilbert Gottfried 36 44. JM J Bullock 6 45. Joan Rivers 4 46. Martin Mull 4 47. Double Dare 54 48. Guts 6 49. Teen/Kid Jeopardy 4 50. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? 12 Note 1: Although we only had 46 people, I gave answers 2 points per person, because enough is enough. Note 2: For “TPIR” games, Mountain Climber went in with Cliff hanger, which is the correct title; Spin the Wheel got counted in with Showcase Showdown, even though they’re not really the same game, because I had a brain fart. All the other “threw 'em all into the same answer” groups are pretty straightforward. ---
**Author:** ![Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thorium_Indium_Potassium)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/78 "2008-04-01T00:14:35Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] 1. Before and After 14 2. Potent Potables 42 3. Potpourri 20 [/QUOTE] Hey now, where is my “Colors that end in urple?” I demand a recount! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/79 "2008-04-01T00:30:03Z")
That fell into the black hole of answers given by only one person. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thorium_Indium_Potassium)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541/80 "2008-04-01T02:37:48Z")
I should get extra points for being extra creative. Or at least for the most comical answer. Anyone can come up with Potent Potables, but “Colors that end in urple” takes some real (quick) thinking. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-game-show-family-feud-closed/442541.md?page=5)