It's been that way for a while. It's the main reason I dislike the game. Contestants just keep falling for the same trap time and time again, and there's no reason to think that Richards will stop...

Douglas has got the stuff.

ABC Finals didn't really pop the way I thought it would. Everything else is in more or less the same place as usual.

Hey Kid, Yahoo mentioned the Ferrari and linked to your blog. How's it holdin' up?

OK. It's been three weeks now, and after 14 tries (True Romance finals didn't have one) we still haven't seen a person win the Winners' Big Money Game. Some have come very close, but Summer's not...

It looks much the same as usual. Lots of Harvey Feud. ABC near the top. Chain Reaction overachieving. Family Trade isn't long for this world. I can't wait until M2WI and Chase come online, especially...

What makes it boring for me isn't necessarily the losses. It's the predictability of them. In 6 of the 14 playings this year (all losses, natch), the least expensive price was right. 5 other times,...

Is it just me, or did contestant Jeff on the 4/11 episode pull a mini-Larson? He seemed to recognize the infamous pattern that ends 2-12-1-9-4, because he hit the big money four times in the second...

That just says everything about this portion of the run of the show. I will say this though, they did give much more away towards the end with the guaranteed prizes for champions and Instant Cash....

I'm pretty sure they were being silly. Michael did the same thing with Anne Bloom her first week.

I don't remember the Winners' Big Money Game playing this hard. Does anyone else?

He also mentioned that its lead-in Harvey Feud got 747,000 viewers, while the lead-out Family Trade got...347,000.

...but of course he blew the SPs, because no one thinks a grill set is $144, nor a fondue pot $180. That's why they keep using them.

Here's how jaded I've become. My first thought after watching was "Great! All these charities are going to get a lot of money!" My second: "Boy, it's gonna suck to be a contestant for the next...

That's not even the first time that's happened on Ten Chances, either. It's no accident that there's usually a 5 as a choice, as well as the 0.

Why does there have to be a groan-inducingly hard game every year? Stack the Deck was a challenging game when it first started out, but between the tough car prices and the tricky grocery pairs, it's...

I don't understand why Pathfinder has randomly been anointed the super hard game of the season. 1-10 on the year. It's the same thing with Stack the Deck. You take an already hard premise of getting...

Watched the Super Bowl show. Despite being a rare 5-out-of-6 effort, it wasn't much to speak of. No special games. No special prizes. What's the point of having a Chevrolet day (Sonic, Cruze,...

To who? If the production staff had a problem with it, he wouldn't have been allowed to wear it.

I can't believe that they didn't make the car the lowest-priced prize of the round. It seemed to me...

I'm quite impressed with Baggage's numbers for last week. Minute to Win it, too. It's amazing how far 5th Grader has fallen, though.

Hunh. I said the show focused on s-o-b stories, and got bleeped.