25 Game Show Facts That Prove TV Competition Gets Weird

21Candy show

Candy show

There is a Japanese game show where something in a room is made out of candy and the contestants have to guess which item is candy.


22Game of Death

Game of Death

There was a fake French reality show named Game of Death in the style of the Milgram experiment, which made real and unwitting contestants shock someone on TV. 80% of them kept shocking the person (who was just an actor), even after he cried out for them to stop. 60% shocked him until he appeared to die.


23Pointless

Pointless

There is BBC game show called Pointless which is similar to Family Feud, but with a twist: contestants have to guess the least common answers to often obscure questions, in surveys of 100 people. Points are awarded according to survey numbers, and contestants with the lowest number of points win.


24Melanie Williams

Melanie Williams

“Moment of Truth” was a show that required contestants to truthfully answer personal questions with a polygraph attached. A contestant named Melanie Williams won the $500,000 grand prize with the final question asking if she felt her polygamist father had sexual relations as an adult with a minor. She believed he had. The episode never aired.


25Arthur Chu

Arthur Chu

Arthur Chu, a Jeopardy! contestant won 11 games by picking a new category after every correct answer to throw off his opponents.

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