List of Super Trio series games
The following is a list of games taken from the Super Trio series.
Games[]
Name of game | Objectives/format | Season |
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Wasabi eating games | The game is formatted like a drinking game. If a contestant loses, he or she will have to eat some sushi filled with wasabi or other spicy condiments. In an older version of the game, contestants would simply eat a piece from a plate of sushi then answer questions afterwards to earn points. Several pieces contained large amounts of wasabi; if a piece was eaten, their question would be worth extra points. In season 9, liquid wasabi is used. | - |
Licking contest | - | - |
Mini question & answer game shows | Before season 8, two players form a team (three-four teams total), sit in a seat, and have to answer ridiculous trivia questions. If the contestants get it wrong, the seat starts to move back. Umbrellas shoot out and the players try to catch them before they are sent back and get wet. Often, however, the umbrellas may have holes or lack a covering.
As of season 8, the wrong answer will result in a machine hitting the contestants in the face with a cream pie. Additional pies may be thrown by the hosts (or sometimes other players) to anyone for any reason, such as getting it right, or giving a bad explanation as to why the answer was chosen. The game ends with an IQ question, for which players choose the answerer. If the player chosen gives a wrong answer, they are hit with a pie; if they answer correctly, everyone else will be hit. In season 9, all contestants have a giant balloon in front of them; if they answer a question incorrectly, the balloon will pop. |
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Bad singing recognition contests | People who don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin sing well-known Cantonese or Mandarin songs, and contestants have to run to a microphone and yell out the song's title. | - |
Burping contest | - | - |
Piggy back riding | - | - |
Bread/seaweed kissing contest | In Bread, A slice of bread will be launched from a toaster and two people must work together to catch the piece of bread with their lips. A similar game is seen in season 8: one of member of the pair bounces a ball into the air, and both players, after each spinning once, have to catch it with their bodies. In Seaweed, a team lines up, and has to work together to get as many seaweed sheets as possible from one side to the other using only their lips. | - |
Ping Pong Ball | The host, Eric Tseng, drops a ping pong ball over an air-blasting machine. The players face each other and, using only their lips, have to try to suck the ping pong ball towards their end before the other player does. | - |
Log rolling contest | A pair lies on a mat while hugging together and has to roll to the end of the mat. Sometimes, this game involves an even larger group of 4-6 people, or balloons on the mat that have to be popped while rolling. | |
Brain Wall | Based on the popular Japanese game show concept of the same name, a Styrofoam wall consisting of cut-out human shapes moves rapidly towards the player, who has to fit through this opening, or else be pushed into a pool of water. A second round is often played with teams of 2-3 players. | - |
Human hula-hoops | One contestant must spin another contestant- who is holding on to them in a piggyback-style grip- around him or herself as many times as possible under a time limit without either contestant falling. Introduced in season 8. | 8- |
Rhyming game | In this game which appeared frequently in earlier seasons, the host gives a starting short phrase to a beat, and the contestants have to add a line beginning with the same or similar character as the previous phrase. Contestants are taken out of the game if they forget a previous line, make a mistake while reciting, or cannot create the next phrase in time. The winner is the last person standing.
For season 8, each contestant must watch, perform, and build upon a dance routine perfectly, or else get eliminated. |
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Description/Charade games | Contestants are divided into teams of 3 or 4; a contestant must stand in a small room with a descending door (similar to that of a garage), and have to describe words that appear on a screen located behind their partners, who are standing/sitting a short distance away. The door slowly descends over a period of time; this usually leads to the describers resorting to crouching or lying down on the floor in order to extend the game. Games of charades have also been played in this format. In season 8, the person describing the words can only speak English. The screen they look at tells them which English words they cannot use. The other teammates must give the answer in Cantonese. In some cases, contestants who are less fluent in Cantonese than English are made to speak Cantonese instead, with the other players guessing the phrase in English. Instead of a descending door, this game is sometimes seen with sliding doors.
In season 9, two people go up, and one of them has to run on a treadmill, which increases its speed as the game goes on. If they slip and fall, their turn is over, even if time has not run out. |
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Audience Hide and Seek | Contestants would quickly disguise themselves using what was available to them (wigs, jackets, hats, etc.) and hide themselves amongst the audience. When all were hidden, another contestant standing at the stage in a box with a head space cut out would try to find them. | - |
Food catapult | A catapult set on the floor containing food (for example, cake, seaweed, buns) is launched by the contestant using their foot and pressing down quickly at the other end. The flying food must be caught in their mouth. Sometimes, one person pushes the catapult, and the teammates try to catch the food. | - |
Table tennis | The host gives a question, and contestants must give an answer each time they hit the ball. An example of this was when the question given was "It's late at night and you really need to go to the toilet, but someone else is in there. What do you do?" Answers given included "go to another toilet", "call for help", and "just go on the floor". | - |
Dancing competition | Contestants are paired together, and must replicate a short dance routine shown to them by a pair of professional dancers.
In Season 9, two or three of the hosts (instead of professional dancers) would perform a dance, and the contestants would have to copy it. |
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Pocky game | Two players face each other with a glass divider; a Pocky stick is sticking out in front of them from the divider and they race to see who can finish it the fastest without using their hands. | - |
Guess the number | The players wait in a line. Each player on their turn goes up and holds a square-shaped table with a balloon. They have to guess a number between 1-100 while avoiding a trigger number; the range narrows down with each guess. If the contestant guesses the trigger number, the balloon pops and they lose. The player has a chance to redeem themselves by playing a mini game such as rolling a huge dice and guessing the number that comes up when it lands. If they lose this game too, other players and hosts will spray the player with water guns or hit them with cream pies. | - |
Balloon | A deflated balloon attached to a pump is inserted between the contestant's shirt and a jersey shirt that they are given. They are then given a topic. The balloon starts to inflate and the contestant has to list ten things related to the topic before it pops. | - |
Milk game | One player has to guess which of the other five contestants does not have milk in his/her mouth. The other players line up and can pretend to have milk in their mouth even if they don't. If the player that is guessing is wrong, and the other player does have milk, then that player can spit/spray it in the guesser's face. | - |
Mimic sound | One player is given a sound that they have to mimic to the other players (for example: a frying egg; a hairdryer blowing; or the sound of a typewriter). | - |
Chinese Whispers | The host tells a story/scenario to one player without stopping or slowing down, and that player has to write it down as quickly as possible (the story is usually ridiculously long with a lot of details). Then the player has to recite it to the next player and that player recites it to the next, and so on. When it reaches the last player, he/she recites what they know (usually leaving out the main point and saying only one fact that wasn't in the original story). | - |
Balloon Popping 1 | Based on an idea originally devised from looners, or people that are sexually inclined towards latex balloons, who mainly use this toy to enhance their orgasm during masturbation (otherwise known as a balloon fetishist), one person holds their partner's legs while the partner uses their arms and hands to move through an obstacle course and pop balloons using their chest in the shortest time possible. | 9. |
Balloon Popping 2 | Split into teams of at least three, two of the contestants sit in chairs a distance apart, with balloons clamped between their thighs, a third member of the team runs between the two seated contestants and attempts to pop the balloons by straddling the sitting contestants, often with a flying jump; this is accompanied by innuendoes from the hosts. | |
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Slipper penalty shootout | The contestant wears a slipper on one foot, a fibreboard wall with, holes cut into, it is placed at a paced out distance, and the competitor attempts to score points by kicking and allowing the slipper to fly off into one of the holes. | - |
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