What I Noticed About The Tiebreaker Game on $25K Pyramid

[Mystic]

The judges have the seconds go down in milliseconds, so they have the precise number of seconds to round to.

In the regular round when time is an issue, Dick will usually tell the contestants to vie for a higher number of answers incase the judges do find in the favour of the opposing team.

[dare2be]

The judges have the seconds go down in milliseconds, so they have the precise number of seconds to round to.

Precisely what I was getting at. Other than not getting all 7 answers, there is no way for the tie-breaker to end in a tie. And it's fair.

[Lingofan97]

Precisely what I was getting at. Other than not getting all 7 answers, there is no way for the tie-breaker to end in a tie. And it's fair.

Right. The correct way to do it is taking away a second for the second contestants. If the first contestants in the tiebreaker got 7 out of 7 in 20 seconds, then for the second contestants (or group) they should get 19 seconds to get 7 out of 7

[Lingofan97]

An example of this just happened on the Henry Polic II week on The $100,000 Pyramid. The first contestants solved 7 out of 7 with 11 seconds left on the clock, and Dick Clark thought it was going to be 19 or 20 seconds left on the clock for the second contestants, when it was actually 18 seconds.

[pyramidpower15]

Other than not getting all 7 answers, there is no way for the tie-breaker to end in a tie.

Actually, there was at least one instance where a 7-7 tiebreaker ended in another tie, because it was too close to call; the clip of this incident can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZ09gujC5I

[CardSharks8689]

Actually, there was at least one instance where a 7-7 tiebreaker ended in another tie, because it was too close to call; the clip of this incident can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZ09gujC5I

No wonder the letter choices for the second tiebreaker were Q and Z. Dick Clark wanted to be Quick and Zip it along.

[Lingofan97]

At 1:28 in the video. The "Perry Mason" call was controversial. Though, he got it in a millisecond before the buzzer.

Glad to see they gave the second contestants 19 seconds instead of 20 for the tie.

At 2:54, they should have lost with "Promise". That was in AT the buzzer

[redsoxguy0627]

I might have been wrong the first time. I believe they if the first team gets 7 out of 7 in the tie-breaker, they judge how much time the first team took by exactly when the last answer was SAID, not how much time was left over afterwards. For instance, say if the partner on one team says the last answer with 10 seconds left, it takes the clock operator about 1 second to stop it after they hear it and react quickly enough, which would leave 9 seconds. That gives the other team 20 seconds instead of 21 because the team said the last answer at the :10 mark instead of the the :09 mark. They do not just subtract one second just to make it unfair for the first team and more fair for the second team to get all 7 in less time. I know this is how it worked. I believe they were very rare instances where the second team got the seventh and final answer at the buzzer, therefore taking exactly as much time as the first team, which caused another tie-breaker.

[Lingofan97]

I might have been wrong the first time. I believe they if the first team gets 7 out of 7 in the tie-breaker, they judge how much time the first team took by exactly when the last answer was SAID, not how much time was left over afterwards. For instance, say if the partner on one team says the last answer with 10 seconds left, it takes the clock operator about 1 second to stop it after they hear it and react quickly enough, which would leave 9 seconds. That gives the other team 20 seconds instead of 21 because the team said the last answer at the :10 mark instead of the the :09 mark. They do not just subtract one second just to make it unfair for the first team and more fair for the second team to get all 7 in less time. I know this is how it worked. I believe they were very rare instances where the second team got the seventh and final answer at the buzzer, therefore taking exactly as much time as the first team, which caused another tie-breaker.

They should count it as the second that the correct answer was said in the 7 out of 7 tiebreaker. The beginning of the word may have been said at "11", and then continued into the "10" second mark. So, the second couple should have 18 seconds to get 7 out of 7.

I hope GSN's tiebreaker has tenth of seconds, but then the regular rounds only have the second. So we can tell how many seconds EXACTLY the second couple needs to get 7 out of 7.

[CardSharks8689]

Mostly I've noticed the recycled use of categories from 25K to 100K, usually around a 2-year timeframe between re-use.

2-year gap, my foot. I noticed last night they recycled two categories during the current lease, if I am not mistaken. They recycled "Christmas Is Coming" (a category devoted to Thanksgiving) in January 1987, which aired last night. The same category was used on the 1,000th episode from August 1986, which aired on GSN the day before.

Plus, they recycled "things associated with peaches" on one of last night's episodes from December 1986 or January 1987. That same category was used in June or July 1986.

[Lingofan97]

2-year gap, my foot. I noticed last night they recycled two categories during the current lease, if I am not mistaken. They recycled "Christmas Is Coming" (a category devoted to Thanksgiving) in January 1987, which aired last night. The same category was used on the 1,000th episode from August 1986, which aired on GSN the day before.

Plus, they recycled "things associated with peaches" on one of last night's episodes from December 1986 or January 1987. That same category was used in June or July 1986.

I can't blame 25K and 100K Pyramid producers. It's not as easy of a show like Wheel of Fortune, or to a lesser extent Lingo. Categories are often recycles after hundreds of episodes, and so are clues.

[dare2be]

2-year gap, my foot. I noticed last night they recycled two categories during the current lease, if I am not mistaken. They recycled "Christmas Is Coming" (a category devoted to Thanksgiving) in January 1987, which aired last night. The same category was used on the 1,000th episode from August 1986, which aired on GSN the day before.

Plus, they recycled "things associated with peaches" on one of last night's episodes from December 1986 or January 1987. That same category was used in June or July 1986.

Well, I did say "usually"

[Lingofan97]

I need to find this out since this is the right thread. In whatever Pyramid...$10,000, $25,000, $100,000 etc. As long as it's Dick Clark's Pyramid, for the tiebreaker clues have there ever been any besides "Words that start with (this letter)"