Has Family Feud ever gone back and given someone an answer they got right?

Submitted ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I’ve been watching a lot of it recently. It bugs me when someone gets the spirit of the answer right, but they don’t get the point. For example, there was a question asking what scents might remind someone of their partner. The contestant answered “wood”. Now anyone who knows scents and fragrance knows that sandalwood is a very popular scent. That’s obviously what he meant by that, but he doesn’t get the point. Later, someone does get the answer of cologne/body spray.

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BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t think I would have ever jumped from ‘wood’ to ‘cologne’. Yes scents like cedar and sandalwood exist, but they don’t smell like wood, imo. The smell walking through the lumber section in a hardware store, or cutting/splitting wood, or being in a woodworkers shop is quite different from the smell of sandlewood.

That said, there have been other instances where I thought the contestants have been screwed by the specificity of an answer, whether they were too vague or too specific.

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- MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Just a heads up, your link includes your profile. Delete everything after “?” to remove it sourcing your page.
  
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  - BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Appreciate the heads up
    
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aSaabD00d@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Having seen hundreds of episodes, only thing I’ve noticed is they’ll stop and figure it out on the spot. I haven’t noticed any time where they came back a few turns later and add points but that doesn’t mean they haven’t. I see them do that on other game shows on GSN.

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gastroglizzy@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s not about the “spirit” of the question because there is no right/wrong answer. You’re meant to guess what 100 other people gave as their answer.

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- MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m saying there’s room for leniency, and I feel like they should err on the side of “yeah, I get what they mean”.
  
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  - paraplu@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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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  - bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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  - FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
    
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  - blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Where did you get the idea that Family Feud rules have any leniency to allow giving out points for creative or unusual answers?
    
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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In my limited exposure you the show, they actually seemed quite lenient.

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spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ehhh, that’s a stretch. Wood is its own thing that has its own scent. I don’t think they should be turning wood into some kind of liquid product that may or may not smell like wood.

Kind of like if they asked about a food kids like to eat and someone said vanilla. I wouldn’t expect a kid to drink vanilla extract or scrape up a vanilla bean to eat straight, and I definitely wouldn’t give them “ice cream” if that was on the board.

Also, pretty sure these game shows have judges working behind the scenes. Other commenters blaming Steve Harvey don’t seen to realize he’s just a messenger/presenter

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- LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  wouldn’t expect a kid to drink vanilla extract
  
  You should expect an adult might. Specifically an alcoholic.
  
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  - spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You know, it may have helped if I wrote the part in my head that the theoretical question was “what are foods kids eat?”
    
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crandall@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It’s not “is your answer correct?”, it’s “did anyone in the survey say that?”

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- MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not saying that, either. Besides, no body has helped me with my actual question. Lol I was asking for examples, if any exist, of points being given in retrospect. Not that I kind the discussion. I’m just saying no one has helped with my actual question.
  
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  - crandall@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I see, I see. TBH I think wood > cologne is a bit too far of a leap, but I think they are slightly lenient with something more like perfume > cologne. I’ve never seen them go back and change points. But I haven’t watched that much of it to know for certain.
    
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wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If you’re a Christian, Steve Harvey will probably give you the point. If not, you’re screwed. That guy has some weird feelings about people who don’t share his faith.

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HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Depends on Steve Harvey’s mood.

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