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A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at card games (such as poker). "Sharp" and "shark" spellings have varied over time and by region. The label is not always intended as pejorative, and is sometimes used to refer to practitioners of card tricks for ...
Card Sharks is an American television game show. It was created by Chester Feldman [5] for Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Productions. Contestants attempt to predict the outcome of survey questions to gain control of a row of oversized playing cards, then determine whether the next card drawn is higher or lower. The title Card Sharks is a play on ...
This series helped Perry begin a long association with NBC, lasting more than a decade. Perry was twice considered as host for the daytime and the nighttime revival of Card Sharks in 1986, but due to his commitments with NBC and CTV, the daytime version aired on CBS and was given to Bob Eubanks, and the nighttime version was hosted by Bill ...
In the latest TV show ratings, the winter finale of ABC’s Card Sharks on this quiet Sunday night drew 3 million total viewers and a 0.5 demo rating, up sharply week-to-week to mark season highs.
Get the Message. He Said, She Said (Garagiola) It's News to Me (Daly) I've Got A Secret (Moore and Allen) Make the Connection (Rayburn) The Match Game (1962 pilot & 1964 "All-Star" episodes) Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour. Match Game (Baldwin) Million Dollar Password.
Hustling. Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing. It is most commonly associated with, and originated in pocket ...
The separate Card shark article, totally unsourced, is simply flat out incorrect that these two terms are different and have exclusive meanings. There certainly are two meanings, but both terms share them. "Card shark" is simply a colloquial, and non-notable variant of "card sharp" (though "shark" by itself predates such usage of "sharp").
Password Plus was a Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Production and Super Password was a Mark Goodson Production. Password Plus aired from January 8, 1979 to March 26, 1982, for 801 episodes. The program also won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show in 1982. [3] Super Password aired for 1,151 episodes from September 24, 1984 to March 24, 1989.