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** Starting in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning the match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the contestant had to guess the exact number to win the car. Being off by one gave the contestant to Hawaii (or for the '87 Christmas week a prize package including a trip to Hawaii), and players were given two Jokers; when it switched to the 10-person poll, being one away from the number selected also won.
* BonusSpace:
** Prize cards on the Rafferty version; .
** Beginning in the later days of the NBC run, a $500 bonus was added for an exact guess on any question or running the board.
** The CBS version kept the $500 bonus for an exact guess on a normal or educated guess question, though eliminated the bonus for running the board. An exact guess on an audience poll group question was worth $100 to the player and the group of 10 earned $10 each.
* ConsolationPrize
* GameShowWinningsCap:
** The NBC version had a limit of seven matches with no cap on winnings, for a theoretical maximum of $203,000.
** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in the fall of 1986.
** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during the 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9,500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
* GoldenSnitch: The 2001 revival used a single row of cards for both players; as such, it was possible to dump victory into the lap of an opponent who had been sitting on his hands all game, all off ''one'' bad card call.
* HomeGame:
** Softie and [=GameTek=] produced ''Card Sharks'' computer games in the late 1980s. The MS-DOS version used the same contestant sprites as ''Classic {{Series/Concentration}}''.
*** Not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game in which one could play poker, hearts, or blackjack against UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, or UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
** Endless Games produced a board game in 2002 which, despite using the logo of the 2001 revival, had the CBS-era rules.
** Kevin [=DeVizia=] wrote and distributed a shareware ''Card Sharks'' game for [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac OS 8 and 9]], with general knowledge questions similar to Eubanks' Educated Guess questions.
* LosingHorns: The same mock fanfare ''Price'' used, truncated in the 1970s, but played in full in the 1980s.
* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions (and also filled in near the end of the Perry version), and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
** GameShowHost: Jim Perry hosted the original NBC version, followed by Bob Eubanks on CBS and Bill Rafferty on a concurrent syndicated run. Tom Green (no, not the comedian) hosted a very failed 1996 pilot, and Pat Bullard hosted the 2001 version.
** LovelyAssistant: The card models.
** StudioAudience: A group of ten people, all with something in common, were involved in certain questions during the Eubanks/Rafferty runs.
* PromotionalConsideration
* SuddenDeath:
** If neither contestant finished their row of cards before the last question, whoever got that last question right could either choose to play (and can change his/her card) or pass (the opponent must play and can't change cards); whoever plays must complete their row and one mis-guess means the opponent automatically wins.
** The later part of the Eubanks era had it if both contestants won one game each, the "tiebreaker round" went from three questions to just one Sudden Death one; both contestants then got to see their base card, but only the one who won the question got to determine who would play. The same above rules applied.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOrNothing: The money round allows players to invoke this trope at any time to double their winnings or go broke. Very high or low cards will usually have this trope in play.
* {{Cap}}: Subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
* CardGames: It's basically Acey-Deucey; each player has his or her own deck to use. Except in the 2001 revival.
* CatchPhrase: From the British version, with the standard Creator/BruceForsyth call and response:
** "It's nice to see you, to see you... ''nice''!"
** "What do points make?" ''Prizes!''
*** "What do pounds make?" ''Rich people!''
** "You don't get anything for a pair - ''not in this game!''"
** "It's not too late, it could still be a big night if you Play Your Cards Right."
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The champion played the red cards while his/her challenger played the blue cards.
* CompanionCube: The sliding holder that held the question cards on the Perry version was often called "[=G2-T2=]", as a double ShoutOut to '''G'''oodson-'''T'''odman and [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]. It was actually ''called'' R2-D2 in the first few episodes before Perry decided to change its name.
* {{Crossover}}: Ray Combs appeared on a 1988 Eubanks episode to promote his then-upcoming revival of ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Terry, a male contestant on Eubanks' version, fell into this watching the hostesses deal the cards just before a tiebreaker.
-->'''Eubanks:''' What you saw was three cards and four legs.
* DownerEnding: Any time a contestant goes all-in on [[NonstandardGameOver the second row]] or the Big Bet, and loses. Even worse during the "doubles lose" era.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening). In the Money Cards bonus round, during the first season, the contestant could only change the very first card on the first $200 line, and whatever card was at the end of the first $200 line (provided the contestant didn't bust before reaching the end) and moved up to the start of the second $200 line couldn't be changed, nor could they change their Big Bet card. If the following card was identical to the previous one (e.g., a contestant had an ace and wagered that the next card was lower, but it turned out to be another ace), a "push" situation was counted as a loss. This changed with the October 20, 1980 episode where a "push" situation in the Money Cards resulted in the contestant not losing their wager.
** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
* EpicFail:
** One poor contestant in the Perry era uncovered all four Jacks in the Money Cards, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it... for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
** From the British "Play Your Cards Right", just rotten luck all around for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEIxOSfBAw this couple.]]
* FanRemake:
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on [=SonicWhammy=]'s toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
* GrandFinale: The last Rafferty episode gave the final champion all four Jokers at the start of the Money Cards. After he placed the cards, Bill stated that he would reveal them right-to-left, noting he had never done this before and if production didn't like that, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness "It's the last show; fire me."]] [[note]](Throughout the episode, they had almost constantly called it the last of the ''season''. Although Rafferty slipped up near the start of the Money Cards, he evidently decided to go, "Ah, screw it.")[[/note]] [[spoiler:The car was won, hence why Bill went right to left.]]
* LuckBasedMission: The whole game, although counting cards is allowed (and encouraged).
** Getting the same card value on predicting means a loss. In the Money Cards, this was particularly painful when you got two deuces or two Aces in a row. One contestant during the NBC run got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmQC-l8O0I all four treys in succession.]] This eventually led to a "push" rule where getting the same card twice in a row in Money Cards resulted in no loss or gain.
* MythologyGag: The audience would usually yell "higher" and "freeze" during game play. The audiences on the Bill Cullen edition of ''The Price is Right'' (a Goodson-Todman show) did this as well. The ding used during survey answers and card reveals on the NBC show was the same low "E" used on Cullen's ''Price.''
* ObviousRulePatch: The "push" rule in Money Cards, as noted above.
* OpeningNarration: Quoted at the top of this page. Shortly into the NBC run, this was changed to random two-line poems submitted by viewers.
* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAiHamteXE NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
* RecycledSoundtrack:
** The NBC version took its theme from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
** For the 80s versions, the theme from ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' was recycled as a car cue, much like on ''The Price is Right'' during the era.
* ShoutOut: The prop that housed the question cards in the Perry run was nicknamed [[Franchise/StarWars G2-T2]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: The short-lived games ''Series/PlayThePercentages'' (1980) and ''Power of 10'' (2007/08) were basically this minus the cards.
* StockFootage: The opening titles for the NBC run, showing a different tiebreaker board and Money Cards logo, was lifted directly from the two March 17, 1978 pilots.
* TakeThat:
** On one episode, Bob Eubanks asked a contestant how many Catholics have gained sainthood and added, "Everyone should know this." The contestant said "Everyone but me", and Bob added "...and everyone at Goodson-Todman."
** On another episode, he said that ''The Diamond Head Game'' was the "biggest piece of [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud boop-boop]]" he'd ever done.
* TitleDrop: "Let's meet today's card sharks!"'
** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car!
* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia (though outside of the name, it was mainly a clone of the Perry version). Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Educated Guess questions in the Eubanks/Rafferty era.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought she was male.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The 2001 revival had two players calling one row of seven cards. One player could sweep the first six and get an incorrect call on the last card, giving their opponent the win.
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* BonusSpace:
** Prize cards on the Rafferty version; .
** Beginning in the later days of the NBC run, a $500 bonus was added for an exact guess on any question or running the board.
** The CBS version kept the $500 bonus for an exact guess on a normal or educated guess question, though eliminated the bonus for running the board. An exact guess on an audience poll group question was worth $100 to the player and the group of 10 earned $10 each.
* ConsolationPrize
* GameShowWinningsCap:
** The NBC version had a limit of seven matches with no cap on winnings, for a theoretical maximum of $203,000.
** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in the fall of 1986.
** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during the 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9,500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
* GoldenSnitch: The 2001 revival used a single row of cards for both players; as such, it was possible to dump victory into the lap of an opponent who had been sitting on his hands all game, all off ''one'' bad card call.
* HomeGame:
** Softie and [=GameTek=] produced ''Card Sharks'' computer games in the late 1980s. The MS-DOS version used the same contestant sprites as ''Classic {{Series/Concentration}}''.
*** Not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game in which one could play poker, hearts, or blackjack against UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, or UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
** Endless Games produced a board game in 2002 which, despite using the logo of the 2001 revival, had the CBS-era rules.
** Kevin [=DeVizia=] wrote and distributed a shareware ''Card Sharks'' game for [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac OS 8 and 9]], with general knowledge questions similar to Eubanks' Educated Guess questions.
* LosingHorns: The same mock fanfare ''Price'' used, truncated in the 1970s, but played in full in the 1980s.
* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions (and also filled in near the end of the Perry version), and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
** GameShowHost: Jim Perry hosted the original NBC version, followed by Bob Eubanks on CBS and Bill Rafferty on a concurrent syndicated run. Tom Green (no, not the comedian) hosted a very failed 1996 pilot, and Pat Bullard hosted the 2001 version.
** LovelyAssistant: The card models.
** StudioAudience: A group of ten people, all with something in common, were involved in certain questions during the Eubanks/Rafferty runs.
* PromotionalConsideration
* SuddenDeath:
** If neither contestant finished their row of cards before the last question, whoever got that last question right could either choose to play (and can change his/her card) or pass (the opponent must play and can't change cards); whoever plays must complete their row and one mis-guess means the opponent automatically wins.
** The later part of the Eubanks era had it if both contestants won one game each, the "tiebreaker round" went from three questions to just one Sudden Death one; both contestants then got to see their base card, but only the one who won the question got to determine who would play. The same above rules applied.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOrNothing: The money round allows players to invoke this trope at any time to double their winnings or go broke. Very high or low cards will usually have this trope in play.
* {{Cap}}: Subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
* CardGames: It's basically Acey-Deucey; each player has his or her own deck to use. Except in the 2001 revival.
* CatchPhrase: From the British version, with the standard Creator/BruceForsyth call and response:
** "It's nice to see you, to see you... ''nice''!"
** "What do points make?" ''Prizes!''
*** "What do pounds make?" ''Rich people!''
** "You don't get anything for a pair - ''not in this game!''"
** "It's not too late, it could still be a big night if you Play Your Cards Right."
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The champion played the red cards while his/her challenger played the blue cards.
* CompanionCube: The sliding holder that held the question cards on the Perry version was often called "[=G2-T2=]", as a double ShoutOut to '''G'''oodson-'''T'''odman and [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]. It was actually ''called'' R2-D2 in the first few episodes before Perry decided to change its name.
* {{Crossover}}: Ray Combs appeared on a 1988 Eubanks episode to promote his then-upcoming revival of ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Terry, a male contestant on Eubanks' version, fell into this watching the hostesses deal the cards just before a tiebreaker.
-->'''Eubanks:''' What you saw was three cards and four legs.
* DownerEnding: Any time a contestant goes all-in on [[NonstandardGameOver the second row]] or the Big Bet, and loses. Even worse during the "doubles lose" era.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening). In the Money Cards bonus round, during the first season, the contestant could only change the very first card on the first $200 line, and whatever card was at the end of the first $200 line (provided the contestant didn't bust before reaching the end) and moved up to the start of the second $200 line couldn't be changed, nor could they change their Big Bet card. If the following card was identical to the previous one (e.g., a contestant had an ace and wagered that the next card was lower, but it turned out to be another ace), a "push" situation was counted as a loss. This changed with the October 20, 1980 episode where a "push" situation in the Money Cards resulted in the contestant not losing their wager.
** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
* EpicFail:
** One poor contestant in the Perry era uncovered all four Jacks in the Money Cards, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it... for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
** From the British "Play Your Cards Right", just rotten luck all around for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEIxOSfBAw this couple.]]
* FanRemake:
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on [=SonicWhammy=]'s toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
* GrandFinale: The last Rafferty episode gave the final champion all four Jokers at the start of the Money Cards. After he placed the cards, Bill stated that he would reveal them right-to-left, noting he had never done this before and if production didn't like that, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness "It's the last show; fire me."]] [[note]](Throughout the episode, they had almost constantly called it the last of the ''season''. Although Rafferty slipped up near the start of the Money Cards, he evidently decided to go, "Ah, screw it.")[[/note]] [[spoiler:The car was won, hence why Bill went right to left.]]
* LuckBasedMission: The whole game, although counting cards is allowed (and encouraged).
** Getting the same card value on predicting means a loss. In the Money Cards, this was particularly painful when you got two deuces or two Aces in a row. One contestant during the NBC run got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmQC-l8O0I all four treys in succession.]] This eventually led to a "push" rule where getting the same card twice in a row in Money Cards resulted in no loss or gain.
* MythologyGag: The audience would usually yell "higher" and "freeze" during game play. The audiences on the Bill Cullen edition of ''The Price is Right'' (a Goodson-Todman show) did this as well. The ding used during survey answers and card reveals on the NBC show was the same low "E" used on Cullen's ''Price.''
* ObviousRulePatch: The "push" rule in Money Cards, as noted above.
* OpeningNarration: Quoted at the top of this page. Shortly into the NBC run, this was changed to random two-line poems submitted by viewers.
* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAiHamteXE NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
* RecycledSoundtrack:
** The NBC version took its theme from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
** For the 80s versions, the theme from ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' was recycled as a car cue, much like on ''The Price is Right'' during the era.
* ShoutOut: The prop that housed the question cards in the Perry run was nicknamed [[Franchise/StarWars G2-T2]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: The short-lived games ''Series/PlayThePercentages'' (1980) and ''Power of 10'' (2007/08) were basically this minus the cards.
* StockFootage: The opening titles for the NBC run, showing a different tiebreaker board and Money Cards logo, was lifted directly from the two March 17, 1978 pilots.
* TakeThat:
** On one episode, Bob Eubanks asked a contestant how many Catholics have gained sainthood and added, "Everyone should know this." The contestant said "Everyone but me", and Bob added "...and everyone at Goodson-Todman."
** On another episode, he said that ''The Diamond Head Game'' was the "biggest piece of [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud boop-boop]]" he'd ever done.
* TitleDrop: "Let's meet today's card sharks!"'
** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car!
* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia (though outside of the name, it was mainly a clone of the Perry version). Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Educated Guess questions in the Eubanks/Rafferty era.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought she was male.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The 2001 revival had two players calling one row of seven cards. One player could sweep the first six and get an incorrect call on the last card, giving their opponent the win.
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to:
** Starting in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning the match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the contestant had to guess the exact number to win the car. Being off by one gave the contestant $500.
*** For Young Peoples' Weeks, the car game instead offered a trip to Hawaii (or for the '87 Christmas week a prize package including a trip to Hawaii), and players were given two Jokers; when it switched to the 10-person poll, beingone away from the number selected also won.
* BonusSpace:
** Prize cards on the Rafferty version; .
** Beginning in the later days of the NBC run, a $500 bonus was added for an exact guess on any question or running the board.
** The CBS version kept the $500 bonus for an exact guess on a normal or educated guess question, though eliminated the bonus for running the board. An exact guess on an audience poll group question was worth $100 to the player and the group of 10 earned $10 each.
* ConsolationPrize
* GameShowWinningsCap:
** The NBC version had a limit of seven matches with no cap on winnings, for a theoretical maximum of $203,000.
** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in the fall of 1986.
** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during the 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9,500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
* GoldenSnitch: The 2001 revival used a single row of cards for both players; as such, it was possible to dump victory into the lap of an opponent who had been sitting on his hands all game, all off ''one'' bad card call.
* HomeGame:
** Softie and [=GameTek=] produced ''Card Sharks'' computer games in the late 1980s. The MS-DOS version used the same contestant sprites as ''Classic {{Series/Concentration}}''.
*** Not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game in which one could play poker, hearts, or blackjack against UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, or UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
** Endless Games produced a board game in 2002 which, despite using the logo of the 2001 revival, had the CBS-era rules.
** Kevin [=DeVizia=] wrote and distributed a shareware ''Card Sharks'' game for [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac OS 8 and 9]], with general knowledge questions similar to Eubanks' Educated Guess questions.
* LosingHorns: The same mock fanfare ''Price'' used, truncated in the 1970s, but played in full in the 1980s.
* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions (and also filled in near the end of the Perry version), and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
** GameShowHost: Jim Perry hosted the original NBC version, followed by Bob Eubanks on CBS and Bill Rafferty on a concurrent syndicated run. Tom Green (no, not the comedian) hosted a very failed 1996 pilot, and Pat Bullard hosted the 2001 version.
** LovelyAssistant: The card models.
** StudioAudience: A group of ten people, all with something in common, were involved in certain questions during the Eubanks/Rafferty runs.
* PromotionalConsideration
* SuddenDeath:
** If neither contestant finished their row of cards before the last question, whoever got that last question right could either choose to play (and can change his/her card) or pass (the opponent must play and can't change cards); whoever plays must complete their row and one mis-guess means the opponent automatically wins.
** The later part of the Eubanks era had it if both contestants won one game each, the "tiebreaker round" went from three questions to just one Sudden Death one; both contestants then got to see their base card, but only the one who won the question got to determine who would play. The same above rules applied.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOrNothing: The money round allows players to invoke this trope at any time to double their winnings or go broke. Very high or low cards will usually have this trope in play.
* {{Cap}}: Subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
* CardGames: It's basically Acey-Deucey; each player has his or her own deck to use. Except in the 2001 revival.
* CatchPhrase: From the British version, with the standard Creator/BruceForsyth call and response:
** "It's nice to see you, to see you... ''nice''!"
** "What do points make?" ''Prizes!''
*** "What do pounds make?" ''Rich people!''
** "You don't get anything for a pair - ''not in this game!''"
** "It's not too late, it could still be a big night if you Play Your Cards Right."
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The champion played the red cards while his/her challenger played the blue cards.
* CompanionCube: The sliding holder that held the question cards on the Perry version was often called "[=G2-T2=]", as a double ShoutOut to '''G'''oodson-'''T'''odman and [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]. It was actually ''called'' R2-D2 in the first few episodes before Perry decided to change its name.
* {{Crossover}}: Ray Combs appeared on a 1988 Eubanks episode to promote his then-upcoming revival of ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Terry, a male contestant on Eubanks' version, fell into this watching the hostesses deal the cards just before a tiebreaker.
-->'''Eubanks:''' What you saw was three cards and four legs.
* DownerEnding: Any time a contestant goes all-in on [[NonstandardGameOver the second row]] or the Big Bet, and loses. Even worse during the "doubles lose" era.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening). In the Money Cards bonus round, during the first season, the contestant could only change the very first card on the first $200 line, and whatever card was at the end of the first $200 line (provided the contestant didn't bust before reaching the end) and moved up to the start of the second $200 line couldn't be changed, nor could they change their Big Bet card. If the following card was identical to the previous one (e.g., a contestant had an ace and wagered that the next card was lower, but it turned out to be another ace), a "push" situation was counted as a loss. This changed with the October 20, 1980 episode where a "push" situation in the Money Cards resulted in the contestant not losing their wager.
** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
* EpicFail:
** One poor contestant in the Perry era uncovered all four Jacks in the Money Cards, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it... for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
** From the British "Play Your Cards Right", just rotten luck all around for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEIxOSfBAw this couple.]]
* FanRemake:
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on [=SonicWhammy=]'s toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
* GrandFinale: The last Rafferty episode gave the final champion all four Jokers at the start of the Money Cards. After he placed the cards, Bill stated that he would reveal them right-to-left, noting he had never done this before and if production didn't like that, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness "It's the last show; fire me."]] [[note]](Throughout the episode, they had almost constantly called it the last of the ''season''. Although Rafferty slipped up near the start of the Money Cards, he evidently decided to go, "Ah, screw it.")[[/note]] [[spoiler:The car was won, hence why Bill went right to left.]]
* LuckBasedMission: The whole game, although counting cards is allowed (and encouraged).
** Getting the same card value on predicting means a loss. In the Money Cards, this was particularly painful when you got two deuces or two Aces in a row. One contestant during the NBC run got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmQC-l8O0I all four treys in succession.]] This eventually led to a "push" rule where getting the same card twice in a row in Money Cards resulted in no loss or gain.
* MythologyGag: The audience would usually yell "higher" and "freeze" during game play. The audiences on the Bill Cullen edition of ''The Price is Right'' (a Goodson-Todman show) did this as well. The ding used during survey answers and card reveals on the NBC show was the same low "E" used on Cullen's ''Price.''
* ObviousRulePatch: The "push" rule in Money Cards, as noted above.
* OpeningNarration: Quoted at the top of this page. Shortly into the NBC run, this was changed to random two-line poems submitted by viewers.
* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAiHamteXE NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
* RecycledSoundtrack:
** The NBC version took its theme from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
** For the 80s versions, the theme from ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' was recycled as a car cue, much like on ''The Price is Right'' during the era.
* ShoutOut: The prop that housed the question cards in the Perry run was nicknamed [[Franchise/StarWars G2-T2]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: The short-lived games ''Series/PlayThePercentages'' (1980) and ''Power of 10'' (2007/08) were basically this minus the cards.
* StockFootage: The opening titles for the NBC run, showing a different tiebreaker board and Money Cards logo, was lifted directly from the two March 17, 1978 pilots.
* TakeThat:
** On one episode, Bob Eubanks asked a contestant how many Catholics have gained sainthood and added, "Everyone should know this." The contestant said "Everyone but me", and Bob added "...and everyone at Goodson-Todman."
** On another episode, he said that ''The Diamond Head Game'' was the "biggest piece of [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud boop-boop]]" he'd ever done.
* TitleDrop: "Let's meet today's card sharks!"'
** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car!
* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia (though outside of the name, it was mainly a clone of the Perry version). Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Educated Guess questions in the Eubanks/Rafferty era.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought she was male.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The 2001 revival had two players calling one row of seven cards. One player could sweep the first six and get an incorrect call on the last card, giving their opponent the win.
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*** For Young Peoples' Weeks, the car game instead offered a trip to Hawaii (or for the '87 Christmas week a prize package including a trip to Hawaii), and players were given two Jokers; when it switched to the 10-person poll, being
* BonusSpace:
** Prize cards on the Rafferty version; .
** Beginning in the later days of the NBC run, a $500 bonus was added for an exact guess on any question or running the board.
** The CBS version kept the $500 bonus for an exact guess on a normal or educated guess question, though eliminated the bonus for running the board. An exact guess on an audience poll group question was worth $100 to the player and the group of 10 earned $10 each.
* ConsolationPrize
* GameShowWinningsCap:
** The NBC version had a limit of seven matches with no cap on winnings, for a theoretical maximum of $203,000.
** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in the fall of 1986.
** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during the 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9,500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
* GoldenSnitch: The 2001 revival used a single row of cards for both players; as such, it was possible to dump victory into the lap of an opponent who had been sitting on his hands all game, all off ''one'' bad card call.
* HomeGame:
** Softie and [=GameTek=] produced ''Card Sharks'' computer games in the late 1980s. The MS-DOS version used the same contestant sprites as ''Classic {{Series/Concentration}}''.
*** Not to be confused with the UsefulNotes/{{Commodore 64}} game in which one could play poker, hearts, or blackjack against UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan, UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev, or UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.
** Endless Games produced a board game in 2002 which, despite using the logo of the 2001 revival, had the CBS-era rules.
** Kevin [=DeVizia=] wrote and distributed a shareware ''Card Sharks'' game for [[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac OS 8 and 9]], with general knowledge questions similar to Eubanks' Educated Guess questions.
* LosingHorns: The same mock fanfare ''Price'' used, truncated in the 1970s, but played in full in the 1980s.
* Personnel:
** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions (and also filled in near the end of the Perry version), and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
** GameShowHost: Jim Perry hosted the original NBC version, followed by Bob Eubanks on CBS and Bill Rafferty on a concurrent syndicated run. Tom Green (no, not the comedian) hosted a very failed 1996 pilot, and Pat Bullard hosted the 2001 version.
** LovelyAssistant: The card models.
** StudioAudience: A group of ten people, all with something in common, were involved in certain questions during the Eubanks/Rafferty runs.
* PromotionalConsideration
* SuddenDeath:
** If neither contestant finished their row of cards before the last question, whoever got that last question right could either choose to play (and can change his/her card) or pass (the opponent must play and can't change cards); whoever plays must complete their row and one mis-guess means the opponent automatically wins.
** The later part of the Eubanks era had it if both contestants won one game each, the "tiebreaker round" went from three questions to just one Sudden Death one; both contestants then got to see their base card, but only the one who won the question got to determine who would play. The same above rules applied.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOrNothing: The money round allows players to invoke this trope at any time to double their winnings or go broke. Very high or low cards will usually have this trope in play.
* {{Cap}}: Subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
* CardGames: It's basically Acey-Deucey; each player has his or her own deck to use. Except in the 2001 revival.
* CatchPhrase: From the British version, with the standard Creator/BruceForsyth call and response:
** "It's nice to see you, to see you... ''nice''!"
** "What do points make?" ''Prizes!''
*** "What do pounds make?" ''Rich people!''
** "You don't get anything for a pair - ''not in this game!''"
** "It's not too late, it could still be a big night if you Play Your Cards Right."
* ColorCodedMultiplayer: The champion played the red cards while his/her challenger played the blue cards.
* CompanionCube: The sliding holder that held the question cards on the Perry version was often called "[=G2-T2=]", as a double ShoutOut to '''G'''oodson-'''T'''odman and [[Franchise/StarWars R2-D2]]. It was actually ''called'' R2-D2 in the first few episodes before Perry decided to change its name.
* {{Crossover}}: Ray Combs appeared on a 1988 Eubanks episode to promote his then-upcoming revival of ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Terry, a male contestant on Eubanks' version, fell into this watching the hostesses deal the cards just before a tiebreaker.
-->'''Eubanks:''' What you saw was three cards and four legs.
* DownerEnding: Any time a contestant goes all-in on [[NonstandardGameOver the second row]] or the Big Bet, and loses. Even worse during the "doubles lose" era.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening). In the Money Cards bonus round, during the first season, the contestant could only change the very first card on the first $200 line, and whatever card was at the end of the first $200 line (provided the contestant didn't bust before reaching the end) and moved up to the start of the second $200 line couldn't be changed, nor could they change their Big Bet card. If the following card was identical to the previous one (e.g., a contestant had an ace and wagered that the next card was lower, but it turned out to be another ace), a "push" situation was counted as a loss. This changed with the October 20, 1980 episode where a "push" situation in the Money Cards resulted in the contestant not losing their wager.
** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
* EpicFail:
** One poor contestant in the Perry era uncovered all four Jacks in the Money Cards, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it... for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
** From the British "Play Your Cards Right", just rotten luck all around for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEIxOSfBAw this couple.]]
* FanRemake:
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on [=SonicWhammy=]'s toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
* GrandFinale: The last Rafferty episode gave the final champion all four Jokers at the start of the Money Cards. After he placed the cards, Bill stated that he would reveal them right-to-left, noting he had never done this before and if production didn't like that, [[EndOfSeriesAwareness "It's the last show; fire me."]] [[note]](Throughout the episode, they had almost constantly called it the last of the ''season''. Although Rafferty slipped up near the start of the Money Cards, he evidently decided to go, "Ah, screw it.")[[/note]] [[spoiler:The car was won, hence why Bill went right to left.]]
* LuckBasedMission: The whole game, although counting cards is allowed (and encouraged).
** Getting the same card value on predicting means a loss. In the Money Cards, this was particularly painful when you got two deuces or two Aces in a row. One contestant during the NBC run got [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmQC-l8O0I all four treys in succession.]] This eventually led to a "push" rule where getting the same card twice in a row in Money Cards resulted in no loss or gain.
* MythologyGag: The audience would usually yell "higher" and "freeze" during game play. The audiences on the Bill Cullen edition of ''The Price is Right'' (a Goodson-Todman show) did this as well. The ding used during survey answers and card reveals on the NBC show was the same low "E" used on Cullen's ''Price.''
* ObviousRulePatch: The "push" rule in Money Cards, as noted above.
* OpeningNarration: Quoted at the top of this page. Shortly into the NBC run, this was changed to random two-line poems submitted by viewers.
* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yAiHamteXE NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
* RecycledSoundtrack:
** The NBC version took its theme from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
** For the 80s versions, the theme from ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' was recycled as a car cue, much like on ''The Price is Right'' during the era.
* ShoutOut: The prop that housed the question cards in the Perry run was nicknamed [[Franchise/StarWars G2-T2]].
* SpiritualSuccessor: The short-lived games ''Series/PlayThePercentages'' (1980) and ''Power of 10'' (2007/08) were basically this minus the cards.
* StockFootage: The opening titles for the NBC run, showing a different tiebreaker board and Money Cards logo, was lifted directly from the two March 17, 1978 pilots.
* TakeThat:
** On one episode, Bob Eubanks asked a contestant how many Catholics have gained sainthood and added, "Everyone should know this." The contestant said "Everyone but me", and Bob added "...and everyone at Goodson-Todman."
** On another episode, he said that ''The Diamond Head Game'' was the "biggest piece of [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud boop-boop]]" he'd ever done.
* TitleDrop: "Let's meet today's card sharks!"'
** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car!
* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia (though outside of the name, it was mainly a clone of the Perry version). Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Educated Guess questions in the Eubanks/Rafferty era.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought she was male.
* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: The 2001 revival had two players calling one row of seven cards. One player could sweep the first six and get an incorrect call on the last card, giving their opponent the win.
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* BonusRound: The Money Cards takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of their money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of their total), or the contestant loses all of their money. The Perry run had $200 on each row for a maximum of $28,800, and the play could only change the first card in each row. The Eubanks/Rafferty run doubled the middle row for a maximum of $32,000. Originally, the player could change any card they wanted, later changed to once per row; in either case, three spare cards were provided.
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* BonusRound: The Money Cards takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player faces two rows of cards, three on the botton and middle, one on the top. They must wager a portion of their money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going at least $50 per card until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of their total), or the contestant loses all of their money. The Perry run had $200 on each row for a maximum of $28,800, and the play player could only change the first card in each row. The Eubanks/Rafferty run doubled the middle row for a maximum of $32,000. Originally, the player could change any card they wanted, later changed to once per row; in either case, three spare cards were provided.
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The Money Cards BonusRound takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of their money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of their total), or the contestant loses all of their money. At this point, the cycle returns to the beginning.
Beginning in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning the match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the contestant had to guess the exact number to win the car. Being off by one gave the contestant a $500 bonus.
Beginning in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning the match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the contestant had to guess the exact number to win the car. Being off by one gave the contestant a $500 bonus.
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* BonusRound: The Money Cards in takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of their money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of their total), or the contestant loses all versions, plus of their money. The Perry run had $200 on each row for a maximum of $28,800, and the car game in play could only change the first card in each row. The Eubanks/Rafferty versions (a trip to Hawaii during Kids' Week episodes), with run doubled the middle row for a maximum of $32,000. Originally, the player receiving a Joker could change any card for they wanted, later changed to once per row; in either case, three spare cards were provided.
** Starting in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning thegame (kids received 2 jokers) starting match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in 1986, the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the 10-panel survey question where contestant had to guess the player moved exact number to win the diamond car. Being off by one gave the contestant to Hawaii (or for the '87 Christmas week a prize package including a trip to Hawaii), and players were given two Jokers; when it switched to the number, winning a car if they guessed 10-person poll, being one away from the correct number of panelists, or $500 bonus money if their answer was 1 more or less than the actual number.selected also won.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought he was male.
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** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening).
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** '''NBC version''': Jim Perry explaining that the champion played "the top cards, the red cards," and the challenger played "the lower cards, the blue cards." It wasn't until almost the end of 1978 that this was dropped, and Perry would only use it again when two new players (following the retirement of an undefeated champion) played or it was a celebrity or Teen Week (when new players played each game). Additionally, the opening spiel was standard ("Ace is high/deuce is low/play them right/and win the dough"), but before long viewers were invited to send in their own poems (for which Perry would acknowledge in the opening). In the Money Cards bonus round, during the first season, the contestant could only change the very first card on the first $200 line, and whatever card was at the end of the first $200 line (provided the contestant didn't bust before reaching the end) and moved up to the start of the second $200 line couldn't be changed, nor could they change their Big Bet card. If the following card was identical to the previous one (e.g., a contestant had an ace and wagered that the next card was lower, but it turned out to be another ace), a "push" situation was counted as a loss. This changed with the October 20, 1980 episode where a "push" situation in the Money Cards resulted in the contestant not losing their wager.
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* BonusRound: The Money Cards in all versions, plus the car game in the Eubanks/Rafferty versions.
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* BonusRound: The Money Cards in all versions, plus the car game in the Eubanks/Rafferty versions.versions (a trip to Hawaii during Kids' Week episodes), with a player receiving a Joker card for winning the game (kids received 2 jokers) starting in 1986, and the 10-panel survey question where the player moved the diamond to the number, winning a car if they guessed the correct number of panelists, or $500 bonus money if their answer was 1 more or less than the actual number.
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** "[[ImSorryIHaventAClue What do points make?]] ''[[ImSorryIHaventAClue Prizes!]]''
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** "[[ImSorryIHaventAClue What "What do points make?]] ''[[ImSorryIHaventAClue Prizes!]]''make?" ''Prizes!''
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** The NBC version took its thene from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
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** The NBC version took its thene theme from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
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** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during its' 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9, 500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
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** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during its' the 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9, 500), £9,500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
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* FanRemake: A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on Sonic Whammy's toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on Sonic Whammy's toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
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* FanRemake: FanRemake:
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step onSonic Whammy's [=SonicWhammy=]'s toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
** A [=YouTube=] user by the name of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]][[Series/PressYourLuck Whammy]] does one that he takes to various anime conventions. And he has three decks of custom physical cards for the game itself (no, sadly, you can't buy your own.)
** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on
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Brits got several years' worth of a TransatlanticEquivalent titled ''Play Your Cards Right'', which had Creator/BruceForsyth at the helm. Among other changes, this edition saw couples playing against each other.
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Brits got several years' worth of a TransatlanticEquivalent titled ''Play Your Cards Right'', Right'' on Creator/{{ITV}}, which had Creator/BruceForsyth at the helm. Among other changes, this edition saw couples playing against each other.
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** The British ''Play Your Cards Right'', meanwhile, varied over the years- during its' 1980s run, it was hamstrung (as many other game shows were) by the £6,000 winnings cap imposed by the IBA (ITV's regulatory body at the time); this was why they used points in the endgame as opposed to money (with a conversion system to allow couples to play for a car). When the show came back in the mid-90s, the IBA and their cap had been eliminated, so they were able to offer cash; the mid-90s run had a theoretical max of £17,600, which was never won (the closest was £9, 500), and the 2002-03 version had a max amount of £136,000.
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When controlling his cards, the player must successfully predict whether the next card is higher or lower (aces are high). Whoever gets four cards called correctly first wins the round: the first player to win two rounds wins the game. If the prediction is wrong ([[LuckBasedMission or it's the same card value]]), all progress is lost and the opponent has a chance to play his deck. Players can also freeze their predicting, keeping their progress and preventing their opponents from playing themselves. One last option is to change their starting card to something better, but only if the player hasn't called higher or lower yet and only if he was right on the survey question.
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When controlling his their cards, the player must successfully predict whether the next card is higher or lower (aces are high). Whoever gets four cards called correctly first wins the round: the first player to win two rounds wins the game. If the prediction is wrong ([[LuckBasedMission or it's the same card value]]), all progress is lost and the opponent has a chance to play his their deck. Players can also freeze their predicting, keeping their progress and preventing their opponents from playing themselves. One last option is to change their starting card to something better, but only if the player hasn't called higher or lower yet and only if he was they were right on the survey question.
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The Money Cards BonusRound takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of his money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of his total), or the contestant loses all of his money. At this point, the cycle returns to the beginning.
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The Money Cards BonusRound takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of his their money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of his their total), or the contestant loses all of his their money. At this point, the cycle returns to the beginning.
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia. Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
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* TransatlanticEquivalent: ''Play Your Cards Right'', which itself had a ForeignRemake in Australia.Australia (though outside of the name, it was mainly a clone of the Perry version). Versions have also been made in Germany, Belgium, and Brazil, among other countries.
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** More recently, Creator/{{Greggo}} has begun his own remake of ''Play Your Cards Right'' (as to not step on Sonic Whammy's toes), beginning at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRre8iuc88 Zenkaikon 2017]].
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The first version ran from 1978 to 1981 on Creator/{{NBC}} hosted by [[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Jim Perry]], followed by a Creator/{{CBS}} revival from 1986 to 1989 hosted by [[Series/TheNewlywedGame Bob Eubanks]] (with a syndicated nighttime version running concurrently in the 1986-87 season, hosted by [[Series/{{Blockbusters}} Bill Rafferty]]). [[Series/LoveConnection Pat Bullard]] helmed a 2001 revival which lasted only 13 weeks — and given the rule changes, it's easy to see why.
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The first version ran from 1978 to 1981 on Creator/{{NBC}} hosted by [[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Jim Perry]], Perry]] and directed by Creator/PaulAlter, followed by a Creator/{{CBS}} revival from 1986 to 1989 hosted by [[Series/TheNewlywedGame Bob Eubanks]] (with a syndicated nighttime version running concurrently in the 1986-87 season, hosted by [[Series/{{Blockbusters}} Bill Rafferty]]). [[Series/LoveConnection Pat Bullard]] helmed a 2001 revival which lasted only 13 weeks — and given the rule changes, it's easy to see why.
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* ShoutOut: The prop that housed the question cards in the Perry run was nicknamed [[Franchise/StarWars G2-T2]].
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: Invoked on one episode of the Rafferty run. When asked how many men said Madonna was sexy, one contestant thought he was male.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted.Subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were superimposed over the displays.
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* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGTa0rRuNqQ NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
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* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGTa0rRuNqQ com/watch?v=3yAiHamteXE NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
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** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car.!
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** Also, during the Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car.! car!
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** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in Fall 1986.
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** The CBS version originally had a limit of five matches and $50,000, but the latter increased to $75,000 in Fall the fall of 1986.
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** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions, and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
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** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Johnny Olson (who announced the pilots) filled in at times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions, versions (and also filled in near the end of the Perry version), and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were super-imposed over the displays.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on the 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that, such as the average annual salary of a specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were super-imposed superimposed over the displays.
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** Also, on the CBS show when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car."
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** Also, on during the CBS show Eubanks/Rafferty versions when Gene Wood says "If you [[TransatlanticEquivalent play your cards right]], you could win a new car." !
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The first version ran from 1978 to 1981 on Creator/{{NBC}} hosted by [[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Jim Perry]], followed by a Creator/{{CBS}} revival from 1986 to 1989 hosted by [[Series/TheNewlywedGame Bob Eubanks]] (with a syndicated nighttime version running in 1986/87 hosted by [[Series/{{Blockbusters}} Bill Rafferty]]). [[Series/LoveConnection Pat Bullard]] helmed a 2001 revival which lasted only 13 weeks — and given the rule changes, it's easy to see why.
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The first version ran from 1978 to 1981 on Creator/{{NBC}} hosted by [[Series/SaleOfTheCentury Jim Perry]], followed by a Creator/{{CBS}} revival from 1986 to 1989 hosted by [[Series/TheNewlywedGame Bob Eubanks]] (with a syndicated nighttime version running concurrently in 1986/87 the 1986-87 season, hosted by [[Series/{{Blockbusters}} Bill Rafferty]]). [[Series/LoveConnection Pat Bullard]] helmed a 2001 revival which lasted only 13 weeks — and given the rule changes, it's easy to see why.
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* {{Crossover}}: Ray Combs appeared on a 1988 Eubanks episode to promote his then-upcoming revival of ''Series/FamilyFeud''.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine on guessing the number of people out of 100, but the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that such as the average yearly salary of a certain profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived]]. For these, the answers were super-imposed over the displays.
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* {{Cap}}: Somewhat subverted. The two-digit number displays worked fine for guesses on guessing the number of people out of 100, but 100-person surveys. However, the Educated Guess questions had answers that could go far beyond that that, such as the average yearly annual salary of a certain specific profession or the [[UpToEleven total number of people that have ever lived]].lived in the Earth's history]]. For these, the answers were super-imposed over the displays.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: From the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
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** The NBC version took its thene from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
** The NBC version took its thene from the 1976 quiz show ''[[Series/DoubleDare1976 Double Dare]]'' (no relation to [[Series/DoubleDare1986 the kids' game show]]).
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKc6IzLZCFQ This poor contestant]] uncovered four Jacks, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKc6IzLZCFQ This One poor contestant]] contestant in the Perry era uncovered all four Jacks, Jacks in the Money Cards, all of which went against the odds: The first was followed by a King, the second by an Ace, and the third by the fourth. She took the fourth Jack to the Big Bet and, now considering the Jacks bad luck, swapped it it... for a 9. It was followed by ''another'' King, so she still would've lost money on it even if she hadn't swapped it out.
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* ObviousRulePatch: The Money Cards in the 1980s, as noted above.
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* ObviousRulePatch: The "push" rule in Money Cards in the 1980s, Cards, as noted above.
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** For the 80s versions, the theme from ''Series/TheMatchGameHollywoodSquaresHour'' was recycled as a car cue, much like on ''The Price is Right'' during the era.
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*** "What do pounds make?" ''Rich people!''
** "It's not too late, it could still be a big night if you Play Your Cards Right."
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** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From CBS Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.
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** '''CBS version''': For the earliest weeks in 1986, Gene Wood's introduction was very simple: "From CBS Television City in Hollywood, it's CAAARRRDDD SHARKS!!!" right before introducing the host. Also, the absence of the car game and the "10 studio audience members"/educated guess questions. Indeed, during the very earliest weeks, questions were very much along the same lines of the NBC version.version.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
** '''Play Your Cards Right''': In the first series, Bruce carried a microphone and individual people played instead of couples.
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** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Bob Hilton and Johnny Olson (who announced the NBC pilots) filled in at times, and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
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** TheAnnouncer: Gene Wood, mostly. Bob Hilton and Johnny Olson (who announced the NBC pilots) filled in at times, times on the Perry version, as did Jay Stewart (which was his only work for Goodson-Todman); Bob Hilton was the main sub on the Eubanks and Rafferty versions, and Gary Kroeger handled announcing duties on the 2001 version. The ''Game$how Marathon'' edition was voiced by Rich Fields.
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* {{Pilot}}: Three were taped in 1978, with a few differences from the series (different contestant podium, Johnny Olson announcing, etc.); the third was allegedly shot as a normal episode. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGTa0rRuNqQ NBC actually used a shot from the second pilot as the show's tel-op slide]] (which would show up during technical issues). The Bullard version also had one, which still had the Chip Clips, but had two different rounds prior to the third round, which was the NBC/CBS main game.
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