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Has anyone calculated the ratio of simple questions that anyone can answer on a game show vs. the more difficult ones? Obviously there is a formula to keep peo
by gist 6y ago
Has anyone calculated the ratio of simple questions that anyone can answer on a game show vs. the more difficult ones? Obviously there is a formula to keep people engaged by having low hanging fruit that everyone knows 'that's easy'. This would be an interesting topic for a paper or article.
- croissants 6y agoThere are some game shows where (IMO) every question is hard, like Only Connect [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Connect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Connect
- myrandomcomment 6y agoOnly Connect is hard. There and such random things that you have to put together from the normal educated things like a list of monarchs to crazy random things that are complete pop culture or it's a list of colors in the rainbow in binary. If you live in the UK watch it. If you do not you can generally find torrents of it (hint to BBC, if you sold TV licenses for streaming outside of the UK you would make more then you do in the UK).
- croissants 6y agoNot sure how available it is to other countries, but there's a YouTube user "wheelsongenius" who has uploaded a ton of episodes, including the new season.
- myrandomcomment 6y agoThanks for the YouTube information! Everyone here should watch. It is the type of show that in general this crowd will enjoy. The host, Victoria Mitchell is wonderfully funny and quirky charming and also a poker player you may have seen. Her husband is the comedian David Mitchell.