Comments on: Great Game Show Gag

By: Charlie MacFaddon

Charlie MacFaddon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:56:02 +0000

Haha! But this is so fake - it’s been around for ages on the web…

It’s not a live show….

Bless

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:57:49 +0000

Whoever made this is retarded.

Countdown is nothing like that. At all. For a start the woman there doesn’t do it anymore.

Second, the letters are not chosen at random. A contestant chooses a combination of consonants and vowels. They’re cards taken from those two stacks.

Third, you’re trying to make one word, the longest one you can.

Finally, you’re all fucking retarded you fucking americans.

By: Krodar

Krodar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:00:55 +0000

There is only one round where there is pre-generated letters, given the rest of the photo; these letters would have been chosen by the contestants. Also give that its recorded, there is no way Ofcom would have allowed this to stand. Nice try, but only an American would fall for this obvious fake.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:01:20 +0000

Best answer is Awoken :p
and it’s not chosen randomly by a computer but by a contestant.
basically they choose either a vowel or a consonant and then she will pick one from the top of the pile (which is assumably shuffled to be random)
This means that the contestant has seen the word forming and has probably tried to finish it off, they got extremely lucky lol

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:13:24 +0000

I’m from Britain and I’ve seen the show, there are a few mistakes bothering me:

1, There’s no computer, the letters are taken from the boxes marked “vowel” and “consonant” by the woman next to the board as they are requested by the player whose turn it is to pick, it is random, but not automatic.

2, They don’t make as many words as possible, just aim to make a longer word than the other player, announcing the longest word they found after the 30 seconds.

3, The show isn’t live, so even if this shot is genuine, it would be from a blooper reel broadcast later, not in prime-time (and actually the show airs at 3.30pm, so isn’t technically prime-time anyway)

By: Dave England

Dave England — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:57:37 +0000

No. Just, no.

What computer? Have you ever watched countdown?

And seriously guys:

I’VE SEEN LIKE LOADS OF PIXELS IN MY TIME THAT’S FAKE I CAN TELL BUY THE PHOTOSHOPS

By: Englishman

Englishman — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:58:16 +0000

There is no computer involved, the cards are shuffled and contestants choose whether they want a letter from the consonant or vowel pile.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:59:11 +0000

This is rubbish, yet not untrue, this did happen but the commbination is NOT chosen by a computer, Carol Vorderman, the woman pictrued, picks the letters from the piles seen below the word.

By: cus

cus — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:43:33 +0000

no way did that happen

By: Paulius

Paulius — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:41:35 +0000

Nope.

Firstly a ‘computer’ doesn’t pick letters at random, the contestants choose whether they want a consonant or vowel and Carol Vorderman (the lady in the above pic) takes a letter from the top of the appropriate pile.

Secondly, Countdown isn’t broadcast live and ‘wankmeoff’ would never make it to air.

The only time anything like this has remotely happened on Countdown was when the last four letters spelled out ‘arse’.

I hate to say it, but while the pic is funny, it’s been photoshopped and the description is wrong.