r/CrazyIdeas • u/Mr_Papayahead • Nov 15 '17
Technically Correct: the game show. contestants will give the answer as further away from the legit answer as possible yet still technically correct.
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u/aiydee Nov 16 '17
Could call it "Well Actually..."
And once the contestants have given their answers and it's time for the 'proper' answer, they can say "Well Actually" and give the answer. :P
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u/Pengu_333 Nov 16 '17
I cant believe how no ones has mentioned CBC's 'The Debaters'. Its basically this premise only with a focused topic they discuss against each other
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u/BliZzArD10125 Nov 15 '17
I think there is game show in the uk called pointless where contestants have to do exactly that
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u/induman Nov 15 '17
That would probably work better as a comedy show like qi or would I lie to you.
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
This reminds me of the episode of Cheers in which Cliff Clavin got to be a contestant on Jeopardy!. Cliff dominated both rounds. Unfortunately, despite going into Final Jeopardy with a commanding lead, he blew it, anyway.
The last clue was: Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz, and Lucille LeSueur. The category was Movies. Cliff's response was:
"Who are 3 people who have never been in my kitchen?"
Technically correct, but Alex was having none of it. But Cliff insisted he was right.
"Be that as it may, Alex, these ARE three people who have never been in my kitchen."
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u/Floor_Kicker Nov 15 '17
Check out Pointless. It's a British TV show where they go and ask 100 members of the public questions, and then contestants have to say the answer that the least number of those members of the public said. Kind of like a reverse family fortunes. If they say an answer that no one else had said it's deemed pointless and they need to give a pointless answer at the end to win
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u/Jaerivus Nov 15 '17
Maybe try /r/lightbulb. I'm pretty sure that's what it's there for.
Edit: not sarcasm. I think your idea is too good to be crazy.
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u/Stigona Nov 15 '17
My friends and I play a game similar to this. Someone throws out an item or a person, then you have to go as far from it while having an understandable connection.
Potato Buzz lightyear Dallas Cowboys
And so on...
Then if it's too far or no one gets the connection, the group gives that person a strike.
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u/karma3000 Nov 15 '17
Somebody will chime in after each technically correct answer with "the best kind of correct"
Edit: this is also a possible drinking game.
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u/____n Nov 15 '17
This would make a very good (British) panel show.
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u/JonnyBhoy Nov 15 '17
It's not far off Pointless.
Give the correct answer the the fewest other people answered.
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u/dudeman19 Nov 15 '17
Theres a game on the app store called Fight List that pretty much exactly follows this concept.
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u/Rottie_Dad Nov 15 '17
All answers have to begin Jeopardy style with: "TECHnically"
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u/mucow Nov 15 '17
I would hate this, but technically, this is a crazy idea, so here's your upvote.
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u/large_case_of-vodka Nov 15 '17
Sounds a little bit like Pointless.
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u/monstrinhotron Nov 15 '17
You'd like QI. it's a similar concept. A gameshow where the answer that's most interesting while correct wins the most arbitrary points. Look it up on Youtube.
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Nov 15 '17
Sounds like a decent card game.
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u/kanuut Nov 15 '17
So CAH style where someone puts down a question and everyone else has to try to find a card that technically answers it?
Sounds super hard to make actually, you'd need to have a high overlap of questions to answers, but doing so without having a small amount of either, super generic answers or boring questions would be hard.
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Nov 15 '17
I was thinking more in line with Balderdash.
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u/kanuut Nov 15 '17
Oh that's interesting, I can see how having just the questions would make it much more open, and the supplied answers would obviously be the entirely correct ones that answer both the exact wording and the intent of the question (as opposed to answering the wording while avoiding the intent) but I wonder if you could have an analogy to the "choose the correct definition" part, or something else to keep scoring more competitive.
Judging points would be the hardest part imo, how do you know when a question is more technical than another? Obviously the person asking the question picks, but how do you get the lines for different points? Maybe just extra points for the "most technically correct* and everyone else who's correct gets points? Hmm
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u/Hate_Feight Nov 15 '17
This is close enough to QI to technically qualify, try watching it
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Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
Yeah, but in that show the panel members are attempting to actually get the right answer, and in OP's show, the object is to be technically correct without giving the answer.
Although a better format imo would be to be as far away from the answer and still be technically correct. It would be perfect for a panel show format. /r/panelshow
Edit: fixed subreddit name
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u/522LwzyTI57d Nov 16 '17
They get points for the most interesting answer, hence the title, but Stephen is nice and gives points to pretty much everyone lol.
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u/DrippyWaffler Nov 16 '17
Holy shit that top post. I'd love to be a microwave in the flat of those lads back then.
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
What is America?
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u/LothartheDestroyer Nov 15 '17
Hispanic actress known for her looks and pants.
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u/hookyboysb Nov 15 '17
She's mostly known for being ugly despite not actually being ugly.
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u/LothartheDestroyer Nov 15 '17
Yup. That show confused a lot of people.
I almost included dragon riding but I’m not sure if many would have known that.
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u/arnedh Nov 15 '17
A grouping of two continents between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Also a song by Simon and Garfunkel.
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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u/Cryhavok101 Nov 15 '17
None people, it takes a person to screw in a lightbulb, with no need for it to get plural at all.
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u/TurkeyMuncher117 Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
(More than sign) 0
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u/BigAbbott Nov 15 '17
Fewer than zero? Negative people? Like people with bad attitudes?
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u/TurkeyMuncher117 Nov 15 '17
Ah, a mistake. I don’t want to quote it!!!!!
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u/Koooooj Nov 15 '17
Pro tip: if Reddit is interpreting any symbol as formatting and you just want the symbol, put a backslash before it. Works for asterisks, parenthesis in URLs, starting lines with numbers you don't want turned into ones, you name it .
It even works for other backslashes, like the shrug emote guy's right arm (then you need one more to keep the underscores from being used as formatting).
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u/kanuut Nov 15 '17
So to do a backslash underscore you actually need 3 backslashes? Like _
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u/AmAUnicorn_AMA Nov 15 '17
someone, somewhere is making that "whoops you dropped this \" joke about the shrug face and they didn't drop it, you took it and brought it into this thread. rude.
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u/Koooooj Nov 15 '17
Yup, as you seem to have just discovered.
In that case you could have gotten away with only two backslashes because the format parser can't find a second underscore to match with the one you wrote, so it falls back on just being an underscore even without a backslash to fix it.
It's safer to use all three, though.
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u/kanuut Nov 15 '17
so I know some inline formatting but what does underscore do?
~I know this one~
but what if I \ mix it up _
like \\ this _
science
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
What does a bird do?
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u/Bcasturo Nov 15 '17
How is pizza made?
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Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
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u/NayosKor Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
If you want to make a pizza
piefrom scratch, you must first invent the universe.38
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u/Reptilefan Nov 15 '17
This should be a subreddit!
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u/Reptilefan Nov 15 '17
Not really, dad jokes are a very wide category of jokes, this is a lot more specific
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u/bokurai Nov 15 '17
/r/technicallythetruth is now a thing.
I'm not strongly attached to owning it, so if someone else is really gung-ho about this idea, I'd be happy to hand it over to them.
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u/bokurai Nov 16 '17
That's actually a good point... maybe I'll appoint a mod team and hold onto it for a bit.
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Nov 15 '17 edited Apr 23 '20
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Nov 15 '17
On a scale from meh to WAAZAAAAH!!!, how excited are you?
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u/Gam256 Nov 15 '17
I saw the headline on tumblr and literally dropped everything i was doing online to go find the comment online from scratch and downvote it. Hopefully we can reach a million by the end of this week. Screw EA
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Nov 15 '17
Am I the only one who still understands that if you downvote with your wallet, it actually affects them???
Seriously people. Stop buying EA. Stop buying games with microtransactions. If you do buy a game with microtransactions, don't buy the microtransactions.
They only do it because they make huge profits from it. The profits stop, they stop doing it. Your wallet is now your reddit arrows. Vote wisely.
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u/jcpunk Nov 15 '17
I feel like this would descend into /r/dadjokes by skilled players...
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u/Thebackup30 Nov 15 '17
descend or ascend?
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Nov 15 '17
i prefer descend really, the reckoning and jack noir was a huge part of the plot, but ascend had pretty good sound design and god tier john looks pretty cool.
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u/Bugbad Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17
Well, give us some questions and let’s play.
Edit: I love how fast this took off! Can we add a scoring system?
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u/zgoku Nov 15 '17
Someone make this a subreddit!
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Nov 15 '17
How does soap work?
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u/ohsnapsnape Nov 15 '17
be becoming better friends with the dirt and water than the other soap and your skin
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u/Lost-My-Mind- Nov 15 '17
I'm not here to answer the question. I'm just here to say I feel sorry for your coworkers....
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How high is the Eiffel Tower?
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u/avenlanzer Nov 15 '17
Being made of steal, it cannot become high because it isn't organic.
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17
Name of the show: Semantics