I've always loved game shows. My favorite show when I was little was You Don't Say, with Tom Kennedy. It was on NBC in the afternoons; Tom Kennedy was so personable and charming, and the game was interesting. I also loved Jeopardy (the real one, with Art Fleming - not the thing they have now), and Concentration, with Hugh Downs. I liked them all - Match Game, Eye Guess, Password, and the rest.

I've continued to enjoy well-done game shows - a Dick Clark show called The Challengers was pretty good in the early '90s, although it was really a re-hash of the old Who, What or Where Game. However, there haven't been very many good game shows in recent years. Everyone's aware of Millionaire, of course, which is the father of the current crop of prime-time game shows.
One of those is Deal or No Deal. I watched the first few episodes; the only interesting part of the game is the risk-management skill exhibited by the contestants, and that's only interesting when they play badly.

So, when NBC introduced another show by the same producer, 1 vs. 100, I wasn't very interested. In fact, I didn't watch it even once, as has been my habit with recent game shows. They have an online game, though, and playing that got me interested enough to watch some video clips from the show.

Guess what? It's pretty good, if the clips I've seen are any indication.
The game itself is pretty simple; one contestant tries to knock out 100 others by answering trivia questions, increasing in difficulty as the game goes on. If the contestant answers a question wrong, the remaining members of the 100 divide the money he's accumulated.
That part of the game is only somewhat interesting, but here's the good part, which I didn't realize until seeing the video clips: at several points during the game, the contestant can get help by asking members of the 100 what they answered, and why.
The members of the 100 can give any reason they like to explain why they chose their answers, and it may or may not be in their interest to be deceptive. If they want to fool the contestant, they may want to give unconvincing reasons as to why they chose their answers. If they want the game to continue, so that the kitty and their potential payoff can increase, they may want to help the contestant choose the right answer.

That makes the game pretty interesting, as far as I'm concerned. The show is on hiatus as I write this, but it will be returning, and I'll be giving it a try when it comes back.
There are no game shows on the air right now that I find interesting, and it would be nice to find one that I like. If only they could bring Tom Kennedy out of retirement...