I appreciate you listening to this so we don’t have to, as I like hearing
the highlights without plowing through it.

Would they let us know if they were on round 2 or more of a tie breaker, or
would they set up each tie breaker as if it were the first one?

On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 at 10:55 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:

> This week’s episode featured a long interview with Johnny Gilbert. I
> wasn’t engrossed by it but he did talk a lot about the game show business
> before he started Jeopardy and there are people here who could be into that
> deep a dive.
>
> In the Q&A part, one person asked if Daily Double clues are specially
> written or if they are regular clues. They are specially written to get a
> contestant to think a little more deeply rather than a regular clue which
> encourages a quick response.
>
> Another question was about tiebreakers. The way they work is if the first
> response is incorrect the second contestant can ring in. If they don’t or
> they also get it wrong then there will be a second tiebreaker and they can
> keep going until someone rings in with a correct response. It’s in the rule
> book that the producers can edit out of the broadcast any rounds that don’t
> produce a winner. So if a tiebreaker were to go several rounds the
> producers wouldn’t have to find a way to compress the show elsewhere, they
> can just show the deciding round.
>
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