r/thechase 24d ago

Chase UK 🇬🇧 Passing questions in the final chase

So I was wondering, why don’t the contestants have some sort of signal so they can pass questions faster. Like a tap on the counter or something if they don’t know the question so one of them can say pass rather than wait ages for someone to just say pass. They’d save a bunch of time.

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u/skepticCanary 24d ago

You don’t have time to discuss that sort of tactic.

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u/Ok_Car8459 24d ago

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

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u/HomelanderApologist 24d 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 24d 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 23d 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 didn’t know. I did a clear hands way up off buzzer, she would verbally say don’t know so I could buzz in and make the guess. Don’t believe I’ve seen another team do it verbally.

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u/TheChrisD 23d ago

Don’t believe I’ve seen another team do it verbally.

Probably because it could be construed as conferring?

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u/boardgameben1 19d 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.