Maybe reframing it would help: the game is to guess the most likely word from those polled, not the most likely concept.
You’re describing a different game, which might be better suited for playing at home, and probably makes for worse TV.
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MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 3 weeks agoI’m saying there’s room for leniency, and I feel like they should err on the side of “yeah, I get what they mean”.
paraplu@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But what kind of wood? Generic shop class sawdust? Pine (yellow? White?), Cedar. Juniper.
sandalwood is very specific, and of course “yeah that’s what they meant”…. Because of course they meant the right answer. If the right answer bad been cedar, I bet they would have meant that instead.
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I guess I didn’t think about that. If you hard with being lenient, then everybody has to get that same treatment.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Where did you get the idea that Family Feud rules have any leniency to allow giving out points for creative or unusual answers?
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I’m saying they should. Also, the leniency I’m talking about is in the interpretation of the answers.
blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a poll. If enough people respond with an unorthodox answer, it will be on the board. Awarding points outside of the poll goes entirely against the game.
bhamlin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s just it, it isn’t that at all. The points for and even existence of answers is dependent on what people polled before answered. So unless they’re making up the polling results, there isn’t really leeway here.
If the question was “what is 2 + 2?” and literally no people polled responded with “4” then that wouldn’t be an response that would get anyone points.