Popular quiz game shows

This is another show created by Merv Griffin. It consists in general knowledge clues in the form of answers, which contestants need to answer in the form of questions. The game was honored with the Peabody Award. The game consists in guessing merchandise prices. It has been adapted to other formats around the world.

This is an American and also British game show, originally aired by Fox. In this game, the contestant should complete song lyrics in order to increase the prize value. After answering correctly, the contestant can either continue with the game, risking the amount already earned, or either quit playing and go home with all the money earned.

These questions are previously surveyed by a group of British people. Connect with us. Choose A Format. Personality quiz. Series of questions that intends to reveal something about the personality.

Trivia quiz. Series of questions with right and wrong answers that intends to check knowledge. While highly entertaining and heart-pounding, Deal or No Deal revolves around the premise of a single contestant randomly choosing suitcases with X amount of money in them and hoping that the X is a low amount. The suspense might be enough to keep any audience member enthralled, but the fact that this show is literally just a guessing game is what keeps it out of the top five on our list.

Everybody — that's the point. While Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Audiences like to have fun when they're watching game shows, but they also like to be challenged and that's exactly what this show can offer them as it centers around the premise of asking a contestant a list of increasingly difficult questions to win a million dollars.

However, the difference between this show and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? We're starting to get into the classic ones here as Wheel of Fortune has been a staple in American society since the '70s and holds the record as the longest-running syndicated game show in the United States. The first show on here that's more of a game features three contestants spinning a wheel and then shouting out letters of the alphabet to fill in blanks on the board that eventually spell out different phrases or words.

The combination of the spinning wheel, the uncertainty of what might appear on the board, and the fact that seemingly any person could step into the contestant's spot is just part of what has made this game show so popular for so long. You're lying through your teeth if you say you didn't fake being sick at least once when you were in school so that you could stay home and watch The Price is Right or you were actually sick and still watched it anyway.

You don't need to be Ken Jennings to know that one. Family Feud Survey says: It's a classic, no matter who's chatting up the warring clans. Match Game Whenever Gene Rayburn and his patented extralong, superslim microphone engaged in shamelessly hilarious double entendres about Dumb Dora or Donald with smart-ass panelists like Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly, we laughed our blanks off.

The Price Is Right Come on down! Play Plinko, spin the wheel and go to the Showcase Showdown. And don't forget to spay and neuter your pets! The primetime sensation based on a U.