On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 16:21, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the > kind of thing you would at home after playing any game like this - sit > around a bit and talk about why it was so hard, or what else you could have > done.
You've captured the genius of Pyramid in a nutshell--everybody can play along, and everyone has an idea on what would be best. The postmortems never struck me as condescending, more about keeping the game going (I can remember times when he'd rush out and urge the receiver not to look at the category they missed because he wanted to try out the clues he'd thought of) and trying to improve everyone's play. I'm also sure that, by the mid-80s, he'd always have a good clue because he'd more than likely seen the category before. OTOH, anyone who thought Dick Clark was living up to his name in those postmortems should be required to watch Allen Ludden brusquely toss out a couple of suggestions as he moved on to whatever came next. Password was a close cousin to Pyramid, but it never worked as well there precisely because of the host. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
