We’ve got puddles of slime, celebrity panels, daily doubles, and the showcase showdown.
Survey saystheseare EW’s picks for the 25 greatest game shows.
One contestant guesses a number; the other guesses if it’s higher or lower.
Steve Harvey from ‘Family Feud’; Alex Trebek from ‘Jeopardy!’; Marc Summers from ‘Double Dare’.Credit: Adam Taylor/ABC; Carol Kaelson/Jeopardy! Productions Inc.; Everett Collection
ABC brought back this show from 20192021 with the amusingly smarmyJoel McHaleas host.
It’s an entertaining and potentially profitable way to pass the time in traffic.
However, if players give three wrong answers, they’re kicked to the curb.
Bob Eubanks on ‘Card Sharks’.Everett Collection
Still, we probably know some New Yorkers who’ve had worse cab rides.
The show ended in 2012, butDiscovery brought it backin 2017 with Bailey still behind the wheel.
In 2019, it moved from Discovery to Bravo before ending in 2020.
Ben Bailey on ‘Cash Cab’.Karolina Wojtasik/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
We promise it’s much easier to follow in practice.
A new edition of the series launched in 2021 and featuredJeopardyGOATsKen Jennings,James Holzhauer, and Brad Rutter.
Classic Concentration(19871991)
This was one of two game shows hosted byAlex Trebek.
Brooke Burns and Mark Labbett from ‘The Chase’.Game Show Network
What more could you have asked for in a game-show formula?
Double Dare(19861993, 2000, 20182019)
The messiest or should we say slimiest?
Ah, the good ol' days before shows likeWipeoutwere introduced!
Alex Trebek hosting ‘Classic Concentration’.Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
The family portraits in the set’s side panels at the beginning of each episode are priceless.
There’s really no way to prep for the show basically, just don’t be brainless.
Hollywood Squares(19661989, 19982004)
It’s human tic-tac-toe!
Jim Lange (center) on ‘The Dating Game’.Everett Collection
Answer: What isJeopardy?
It’s also spawned spinoffs likeCelebrity Jeopardy!, Jeopardy!
Masters,and theJeopardy!
Howie Mandel on ‘Deal or No Deal’.Trae Patton/NBC
Players, natch, were hoping to get more out of their deals.
No whammies!Just in case you have no idea what we’re talking about, we’ll explain.
remains the same: ‘‘I watchedThe Price Is Right,’’ of course!
Marc Summers (with microphone, on right) on ‘Double Dare’.Everett Collection
Clues would be words like “pyramids,” “sphinx,” and “Cairo.”
Each round had six categories that, when stacked up, created the famous pyramid.
(But this time onsomething longer than the short-lived Quibi.)
Steve Harvey on ‘Family Feud’.Adam Taylor/ABC
The 2020 reprise was hosted by formerSNLcast memberLeslie Jones.
What’s My Line?
A celebrity panel is presented with three contestants.
Chuck Barris on ‘The Gong Show’.Everett Collection
They must guess which two are impostors and which is the real person described by the host.
while the other two do all they can to deceive the panel.
Another classic of game shows' golden era, ABC revivedTo Tell the Truthin 2016 withBlack-ishstarAnthony Andersonhosting.
Tom Bergeron and Whoopi Goldberg on ‘Hollywood Squares’.Everett Collection
even we viewers at home feel nervously unsure.
The new daytime version was hosted byJimmy Kimmeland featured celebrities playing for charity.
Alex Trebek on ‘Jeopardy!'.Jeopardy! Productions Inc.
Monty Hall on ‘Let’s Make a Deal’.Everett Collection
Chuck Woolery on ‘Love Connection’.Everett Collection
Gene Rayburn on ‘Match Game’.Everett Collection
Dennis James on ‘Name That Tune’.Everett Collection
‘The Newlywed Game’.Everett Collection
Peter Tomarken on ‘Press Your Luck’.Everett Collection
Bob Barker on ‘The Price Is Right’.Cliff Lipson/CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
Dick Clark on ‘Pyramid’.Everett Collection
Chris Hardwick and Jenny McCarthy (holding Carmen Electra) on ‘Singled Out’.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Leslie Jones on ‘Supermarket Sweep’.Eric McCandless/ABC
‘What’s My Line?'.CBS via Getty Images
Garry Moore on ‘To Tell the Truth’.Everett Collection
Regis Philbin, host of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’.Everett Collection
Pat Sajak of ‘Wheel of Fortune’.Ricky Middlesworth/ABC via Getty Images
