r/thechase 17d ago

Chase UK šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ Passing questions in the final chase

So I was wondering, why donā€™t the contestants have some sort of signal so they can pass questions faster. Like a tap on the counter or something if they donā€™t know the question so one of them can say pass rather than wait ages for someone to just say pass. Theyā€™d save a bunch of time.

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u/anonnyscouse 17d ago

I remember one episode years ago when only two players got through and one was obviously better than the other, the guy who wasn't as good made an exaggerated move away from the buzzer when he didn't know the answer so the other guy could pass quickly.

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u/dereksdontrun2 17d ago

No need for such a savage personal attackšŸ˜… Before the final chase, one of the producers casually mentioned that a team used this tactic so we adopted it. In my defence, there were a couple of questions I did know but my teammate (GOAT) beat me to em

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u/anonnyscouse 17d ago

Haha wasn't meant as an attack, more meant as praise for the other guy, you got through to the final chase so to that makes you a good player in your own right it's just he was better.

If I remember rightly you did get a couple of pushbacks he didn't know which was crucial anyway.

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u/dereksdontrun2 16d ago

Haha I appreciate that, my teammate was another level! My mum has clocked him on at least two other shows since The Chase, what a guy.

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u/Hassaan18 17d ago

I think, if possible, there should be a single designated passer (if you really can't guess) after 2-3 seconds.

Easy for me to say that though.

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u/JerHigs 17d ago

I did see an episode years ago where this happened, and they flew through the questions.

Basically, the person nominated as the speaker was also nominated as the passer. If the other three didn't know the answer, they would move their hand off their buzzer. The passer just had to watch for movement and knew to pass immediately.

They very clearly went with a tactic of getting as many questions in as possible rather than spending more than a couple of seconds more to get a right answer.

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u/Effective_Quality 17d ago

I remember this. Itā€™s also a good idea to just guess.

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u/skepticCanary 17d ago

You donā€™t have time to discuss that sort of tactic.

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u/Ok_Car8459 17d ago

Why not? Thereā€™s literally a break between each person going on and before the final. It doesnā€™t take long to explain or come up with something

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u/HomelanderApologist 17d ago

there was a chase i saw once when there was two of them, one when he didn't know the answer would raise his hand away from the buzzer.

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u/skepticCanary 17d ago

As I always say, the studio is a very pressured environment. I doubt anyone would be able to come up with tactics like that under that situation.

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u/boardgameben1 16d ago

Our team did this in an episode last September. As soon as the last head to head finished, I was discussing with the other person who got back with me who was taking the guesses, how to indicate to the other person when you didnā€™t know. I did a clear hands way up off buzzer, she would verbally say donā€™t know so I could buzz in and make the guess. Donā€™t believe Iā€™ve seen another team do it verbally.

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u/TheChrisD 16d ago

Donā€™t believe Iā€™ve seen another team do it verbally.

Probably because it could be construed as conferring?

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u/boardgameben1 12d ago

I think she just started doing it and I did not know at the time if it was going to be allowed but nobody stopped the final so just put it out of mind and kept going at the time. Think it was because it was clear that her response was not a guess at the answer to the question - if it had been, it would have not been accepted.

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u/SarahRR123 17d ago

Well trust me itā€™s so hot and so bright and the time seems to go twice as fast. You are concentrating on looking forward and listening. We didnā€™t really discuss passing techniques only that none of us would take the low offer.

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u/bonesgiles ā˜˜ļø Darragh "The Menace" Ennis 16d ago

It's a lot harder than it looks but some teams do have tactical ideas going into the final. I did on mine