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[clemon79]

Daily rant: "Things in a cave" should be sufficient to get credit for "Things On A Cave Wall". Why? Because when you give clues like "Prehistoric drawings" and the contestant says "Things in a cave", no amount of cluegiving is going to get across that she's essentially right, just not anally specific enough to satisfy the idiot writers.

(For that matter, "overslept" is insufficient to get credit for "oversleep"? C'mon. That's just loads of stupid.)

As long as they keep this crap up, they will never attain the success or quality of the Clark show.

Osmond apologists may direct their rebuttals to dev/null.

(Trace Atkins is a DAMN GOOD player, by the way. I'd like to see him take on Coolio.)

[GameShowFan]

Put your anger where it belongs: "Things On A Cave Wall" should never have been booked as a WC category. That's a worse problem that the judging by committee they've had in the past.

Credit should have been given for the past tense of "oversleep."

[clemon79]

GameShowFan, on Sep 22 2003, 07:03 PM, said:

Put your anger where it belongs: "Things On A Cave Wall" should never have been booked as a WC category.

That's my point. Please reread my post, specifically where I subtitled my message "the writing SUCKS", and mentioned "the idiot writers".

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Credit should have been given for the past tense of "oversleep."

Yes.

[Kevin Prather]

the whole "Things on a cave wall" thing is enough to piss of the freakin' Good Humor Man. I remember one poorly-written category from Clark Pyramid, and for that atter, that category was shortly after thrown out, so the player automatically got credit for it.

Seriously, whoever is in charge of the new Pyramid is disgracing the game.

Here's sort of a silly question: If, say, Nickelodeon got the rights to do their own $100,000 Pyramid, and it was more like the Clark Pyramid, barring the difference in host and child contestants, would you watch it?

[rugrats1]

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If, say, Nickelodeon got the rights to do their own $100,000 Pyramid, and it was more like the Clark Pyramid, barring the difference in host and child contestants, would you watch it?

Provided that the celebs don't get slimed at a random moment, like "Figure It Out", Nick's "What's My Line?" knockoff, or that they don't offer pieces of a cancelled Nick show's set as prizes (also like "Figure").

[starcade]

Disagree with that one fully.  You can have a fire in a cave but not have it on a cave wall.

Now, unless this were a $100K tournament, I do agree that that's a bit stiff of a category for the WC.

[Jay Temple]

I agree with the judges in not accepting "things in a cave" for "things on a cave wall."  I won't go so far as to say that they should have saved it for a tournament, but they should at least have put it at the $500 level.  (However, there have been similar situations where I thought they were being too strict.)

Regarding "oversleep/overslept":  There was some other word in the same show where they accepted the past tense.  (I don't remember what it was, but I'll use "smoke" as an example.)  If they had made the following argument, I would have respected it as simply a different standard of judging than what we're used to:  The word "smoked" contains the entire word "smoke," but the word "overslept" does not contain the entire word "oversleep."