Tue
-- 12:20a  Bed

--   8:30a  Up

--   9:10a  Leaving to bike, then pickup breakfast @McD

-- 10:05a  Inside after biking 2+2 in strong wind;  Breakfast @home: hotcakes and sausage

-- 10:42a  Inside after biking 2 mi;  "The View"

-- 11:47a  Skim Ch2 news

-- 12:26p  "Inside Edition"

-- 12:35p  "Fargo" (12/26/23)

Episode includes Linda (Kari Matchett), Lynda (Queeny Kuffour), Lindo (Sorika Wolf),

Landa (Beverley Brooks), and Tonda (Janine Kirk).

--   2:25p  Nap

--   3:10p  Up;  Leaving to bike, then get dinner @Bibibop

--   4:20p  Inside after biking 2+2;  Dinner @home: Noodle cup with chicken

--   5:02p  Inside after biking 2 mi;  "Inside Edition"

--   5:40p  Skim Ch7 news

--   9:04p  "ET"

--   9:33p  ... "Children Ruin Everything"

-- 10:05p  Skim Ch5 news

-- 10:40p  "Kelly & Mark"

-- 11:30p  "The Floor"

It's a new game show that I don't plan to watch but I wanted to see what it's like.

It starts with 81 players on a 9 x 9 grid.  They each supposedly have expertise in a

particular trivia category.  When they are chosen, they must pick a neighbor to challenge.

They are chosen by "the randomizer".

The winner of the challenge takes control of the neighbor's "floor".  

The winner gets $250K at the end of the season.  7 will be eliminated tonight.

Hosted by Rob Lowe.  

~~  The first chosen is an expert on veggies.  There are only 4 neighbors.  In other words,

diagonals don't count.  Apparently, you want to pick someone who claims expertise 

but is NOT an expert.  Maybe that means the producers picked a category for them?

She challenges someone whose claimed expertise is tools.

~~  Note: The first 2 happen to be black women.

~~  Each has 45 seconds to identify a picture.  No penalty for getting it wrong.

You can say "pass" but you lose 3 seconds.  If you get it right, your clock stops

and the opponent's clock starts.  When your clock runs out, you are out.

So, it took 7 mins to get to the actual game.

~~  The back and forth makes it hard to follow, but all you have to do is wait 90 seconds

and you find out who won without having to pay attention to what they were doing.

~~  If you win, you then inherit the category of the other person, so you didn't claim

to be an expert in that.  You can choose to keep playing or go back to the floor.

I'm not sure how to determine what is the best thing to do.  Probably going back to

the floor is best.  It seems that the strategy would be to avoid playing and let 

everyone else lose.

~~  When you've gotten a 2nd square, diagonals still don't count bout you have

more neighbor.  Each night, whoever has the most territory gets $20K.  They didn't

mention ties.  

~~  It was a little easier to follow the 2nd time because the other person was male

so you could hear the voices change as they go back and forth.  Note: they were still both black.

~~  If someone is on the edge of the board, they don't have 4 choices.  It doesn't wrap around.

~~  After a few picture-based challenges, a category was songs, so they're shown the

title with a missing word.

~~  I don't know if there is a Jen, but Josh said his wife is Jen, and then he played against Jasper.

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