How the Game Shows bracket works
Rank game shows without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Jeopardy! or Wheel of Fortune? The Price Is Right or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 16 shows in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 16 shows in the field. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish.
All 16 entrants
All 16 entrants are listed below, including Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Jeopardy!
1964-present
Wheel of Fortune
1975-present
The Price Is Right
1956-present
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
1998-present
Deal or No Deal
2005-present
Family Feud
1976-present
The Weakest Link
2000-present
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
2007-present
Press Your Luck
1983-present
Let's Make a Deal
1963-present
The Chase
2009-present
The Floor
2024-present
Password
1961-present
The Wall
2016-present
Cash Cab
2005-present
Match Game
1962-present
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 16 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 2 completed Game Shows brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
The Weakest Link
5W - 1L · won 1 bracket
83%
win rate
- 2
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
4W - 1L · won 1 bracket
80%
win rate
- 3
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
5W - 2L
71%
win rate
- 4
The Price Is Right
4W - 2L
67%
win rate
- 5
Jeopardy!
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 6
Family Feud
3W - 2L
60%
win rate
- 7
Press Your Luck
2W - 2L
50%
win rate
- 8
Wheel of Fortune
1W - 2L
33%
win rate
- 9
Deal or No Deal
1W - 2L
33%
win rate
- 10
The Chase
1W - 2L
33%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- 2The default run puts all 16 shows in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 8 slots — a quicker run over a random 8 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Game Shows bracket FAQ
How many shows are in the Game Shows bracket?
The pool holds 16 shows. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16 slots.
Which shows are included?
Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Deal or No Deal, Family Feud, The Weakest Link, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Press Your Luck, Let's Make a Deal, The Chase and The Floor, plus 4 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank game shows take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other show grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two shows that never met. If you would rather place the shows into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 16 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these shows?
Every completed bracket feeds the Game Shows community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 16 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own game shows bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own shows, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 16 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.