Worldwide leader

ESPN usually covers other sorts of games, involving large muscular sweaty people. But in honor of Watson's romp-and-stomp debut, the Worldwide Leader is running a game show popularity poll on its website. ESPN asks sports aficionados to rank their favorites among fourteen current game shows. The results so far:

1 Jeopardy
2 The Price is Right
3 Wheel of Fortune
4 Family Feud
5 Wipeout
6 Cash Cab
7 Minute To Win It
8 Millionaire
9 Let's Make a Deal
10 5th Grader
11 Money Drop
12 Lyrics
13 Singing Bee
14 Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

What, no Baggage? GSN gets no respect! Voters had only cast 467 ballots when I showed up, which indicates ESPN viewers aren't big game show freaks. But I was happy to see Cash Cab rank fairly high, and my non-NPR-listener self had little clue on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. Watson would have known everything about the show, of course.

My own ballot: Wheel, Jeopardy, Cash Cab, Millionaire, Feud, Minute, 5th Grader, Money Drop, Wipeout, Deal, Price, Wait, Lyrics, Bee. After the top half of the ballot I got a little random. Remember, these are only my personal preferences. The order would be different if I was ranking the shows in their importance in the genre. The Price is Right, for instance, would obviously rank far higher in importance.