r/thechase

The question was something like "What country...makes pottery....called Agano-ware?"

The answer was "Japan". Should have been obvious

But Brad pronounced it _Agg-no-wear_.

Totally different from the actual pronunciation _a-ga-no-wa-re_.

I'd be pretty mad if I was on that team.

Whilst Monday's episode was satisfying w/three of them beating the Final Chase for £9k, it could have been £99k had the fourth player, who'd done great in her Cash Builder, not flunked the question "In the 1500s, what was the largest mammal in Europe? Aurochs, Woolly Mammoth, or Sabre-Toothed Cat."

When the question was read I'd thought it might be tricky if they were counting eg brown bears and you had to guesstimate which one's larger; instead you had one animal folks may not know of (the aurochs was the wild ancestor of domestic cattle, went extinct c. 1600s) and two that folks definitely know about and which are synonymous w/"Ice Age animals, which are now extinct."

So naturally the contestant picked... C. Sabre-Toothed Cat.

Going to take a while to get over that one. 😅

Just watching The Chase and the team got the answer Carlos Alcaraz correct as a pushback. A contestant knew the answer, told the nominated spokesperson the answer, and she then really struggled to pronounce it.

My question is, even though the contest clearly said it correctly, if the nominated ‘answer giver’ had pronounced it Alcarat or Alvarez or something, could Bradley still give it?? Or would it go down as being a wrong answer….

TIA!!

ITV count on most people going middle of the road but:

Statistically, your team is probably not going to win anyway. So a stronger player may as well take a chance and go high. Instead of say a potential 25k jackpot (6,250 each), they could be playing for a potential 60k jackpot (15k each). That's a big difference.

People also have a right to take a low or minus offer. Most team members say "don't take the minus, it's an insult." But say there's 30k already built up: -2k instead of 2k isn't a huge deal. That's a better chance at 7k each instead of 8k. Not a huge difference.

A minus offer isn't really taking money off the team - they haven't won a penny yet. Sometimes swallowing your pride and taking a minute is genuinely the better option.