The Best TV Game Shows, Ranked
Rank TV game shows head-to-head, Jeopardy! vs Wheel of Fortune and The Price Is Right vs Family Feud, then compare with the community ranking. Early results (n = 9): too few finished brackets to call a leader yet. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Wheel of Fortune1975-present
Password1961-present
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 16 start.
Game Shows: an early tier list
Early results (n = 9) Too few finished brackets to call yet; the tiers settle as more people play. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Nobody yet
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Family Feud
- Jeopardy!
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- The Weakest Link
- The Price Is Right
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
- Wheel of Fortune
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Cash Cab
- Deal or No Deal
- Let's Make a Deal
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Press Your Luck
- The Floor
- The Wall
- The Chase
- Match Game
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Nobody yet
1 more entrant needs 10 matchups before it is placed.
How the Game Shows bracket works
This game show ranking is played, not dragged 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, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), with every one of the 16 shows in the field. Everyone gets the same draw on a given day, so you can compare runs with friends; New draw gives you 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
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
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. Updated
- Jeopardy!1964-present
- Wheel of Fortune1975-present
- The Price Is Right1956-present
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire1998-present
- Deal or No Deal2005-present
- Family Feud1976-present
- The Weakest Link2000-present
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?2007-present
- Press Your Luck1983-present
- Let's Make a Deal1963-present
- The Chase2009-present
- The Floor2024-present
- Password1961-present
- The Wall2016-present
- Cash Cab2005-present
- Match Game1962-present
Tier list instead?
Load all 16 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
Open the tier list makerMissing something?
Build your own game show bracket with exactly the entrants you want, then share the link.
Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Judge the whole run, not just the best season, or every prestige show wins by default.
- The 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.
- If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Questions people ask
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, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. 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 Game Shows bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
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.