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| - The Card Sharks are a fictional group from the Wild Cards series of books.
- Card Sharks is a television gameshow from the 1980s. Michael was told G.O.B. won a Camaro on Card Sharks, but it was actually paid for by the Bluth Company. Michael then went out and purchased a Corvette. ("Queen for a Day")
- The show originally aired on NBC from April 24, 1978 to October 23, 1981 & was presented by Jim Perry. A revival of the show aired on CBS from January 6, 1986 to March 31, 1989 with Bob Eubanks presenting. A syndicated version of the show aired from 1986 to 1987 with Bill Rafferty hosting and a third version of the show aired in syndication from September 17, 2001 to January 11, 2002 with Pat Bullard hosting.
- Card Sharks is the game show where two contestants played high-low with the cards in order to win lots of money.
- Popular Game Show from the 1970s and 1980s (just don't talk about the latest version), Card Sharks, yet another game from the minds of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, was played with two contestants and two decks of cards. Alternating each round, one player answers a survey question asked of 100 people (think Family Feud) by guessing how many people actually gave a particular answer. The other contestant guesses whether the actual number is higher or lower than the first contestant's response. Whoever is right gets first crack at their deck of cards.
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| - The Card Sharks are a fictional group from the Wild Cards series of books.
- Card Sharks is a television gameshow from the 1980s. Michael was told G.O.B. won a Camaro on Card Sharks, but it was actually paid for by the Bluth Company. Michael then went out and purchased a Corvette. ("Queen for a Day")
- Popular Game Show from the 1970s and 1980s (just don't talk about the latest version), Card Sharks, yet another game from the minds of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, was played with two contestants and two decks of cards. Alternating each round, one player answers a survey question asked of 100 people (think Family Feud) by guessing how many people actually gave a particular answer. The other contestant guesses whether the actual number is higher or lower than the first contestant's response. Whoever is right gets first crack at their deck of cards. When controlling his cards, the player must successfully predict whether the next card is higher or lower (aces are high). Whoever gets four cards called correctly first wins the round: the first player to win two rounds wins the game. If the prediction is wrong (or it's the same card value), all progress is lost and the opponent has a chance to play his deck. Players can also freeze their predicting, keeping their progress and preventing their opponents from playing themselves. One last option is to change their starting card to something better, but only if the player hasn't called higher or lower yet and only if he was right on the survey question. If neither player has won after three questions, the fourth question, called Sudden Death, changes the rules: Whoever wins the question can choose who plays, for whoever fails on predicting automatically loses, and freezing is disallowed. The Money Cards Bonus Round takes the same premise as the card portion of the main game, but adds an element of gambling. Starting with $200, the player must wager a portion of his money as he predicts higher or lower. This keeps going until either the final bet, the Big Bet, is played (the player must wager at least half of his total), or the contestant loses all of his money. At this point, the cycle returns to the beginning. Beginning in September 1986, the winning contestant had an opportunity to win a car after playing the Money Cards. For winning the match, a contestant had a joker which he could place among seven cards, one being the winner. Three additional Jokers were hidden in the deck, meaning a contestant can have up to four chances to win the car. Late in the run, it was changed to a 10-person survey, and the contestant had to guess the exact number to win the car. Being off by one gave the contestant a $500 bonus. The first version ran from 1978-81 on NBC, followed by a CBS revival from 1986-89 (with a syndicated nighttime version running for a year from 1986-87). There was also a 2001 revival which lasted only 13 weeks — and given the rule changes, it's easy to see why. Brits got several years' worth of a Trans Atlantic Equivalent titled Play Your Cards Right, which had Bruce Forsyth at the helm. Among other changes, this edition saw couples playing against each other.
- The show originally aired on NBC from April 24, 1978 to October 23, 1981 & was presented by Jim Perry. A revival of the show aired on CBS from January 6, 1986 to March 31, 1989 with Bob Eubanks presenting. A syndicated version of the show aired from 1986 to 1987 with Bill Rafferty hosting and a third version of the show aired in syndication from September 17, 2001 to January 11, 2002 with Pat Bullard hosting.
- Card Sharks is the game show where two contestants played high-low with the cards in order to win lots of money.
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