Description: An in-depth look at classic and current game shows.
Continuing their summer of “Everything Old is New Again”, ABC rolled out a new version of Card Sharks, the Goodson-Todman show that ran from 1976-1981, with a popular revival from 1986-1989. (We are all in agreement that the 2001 version was a collective hallucination, right?) While the show is slightly uneven , it captures enough to the charm of the original show to still be a good watch.
One of the major changes that they’ve made to the format is to the front game. Instead of playing a best-of-three game of Acey Deucy, where the contestants must successfully call Higher or Lower on a row of 5 cards, it’s now a single round with a row of 10 cards. I’ve previously discussed strategies about how to approach the Money Cards , but I think now’s a good time to take a closer look at the front game and see if we can figure out some strategies.
Before getting started, I had to make two assumptions about the front game in order to massively simplify things: