
“I watched this woman win 200 grand and she’s like, ‘I can buy a house.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, let’s move away together!’”Ĭard Sharks airs Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. “My heart is a tiny little burnt peach pit and I watch these people win money and I’m like, ‘This is the greatest moment of my life!’” he said. PicClick Insights - Press Photo Jim Perry as host of new game show Card Sharks - nop61237 PicClick Exclusive Popularity - 0 watching, 30 days on eBay. McHale also told Good Morning America earlier this week that he gets surprisingly invested in the outcome of the game. We’re trying to give it to them actively. So if you lose 200 grand, you didn’t have it anyway. He adds of the contestants, “Sometimes they lose a bunch of money but they come…in even. “And also I’m not a jerk about it, like, ‘No, you’re wrong, go home!’ I don’t do, you know, that.” Contestants compete to complete a block of five playing cards by trying to predict whether the next card will be higher or lower.

“I want to help them get the money,” McHale tells ABC Radio of his hosting style. Sit back, relax and enjoy the official free. In fact, the name Card Sharks is a pun on the term Card Sharp, which means that a person is very skilled at card games. Originally, Card Sharks was based on the traditional card game, Acey Deucey.

If they guess correctly, they could win hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes. The Card Sharks game show debuted in 1978 and was recently revived in 2019. Joel McHale hosts the new revival of Card Sharks on ABC, a game show where contestants face a row of playing cards and have to guess if the next card is higher or lower than the previous one. ABC/Eric McCandless(NEW YORK) - The premise may be simple, but the prizes are extraordinary.
