Friend or Foe?

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FRIEND OR FOE?
The "Friend or Foe?" title screen.
Airdates:	GSN June 2002 - June 2004
Host:	Lisa Kennedy Montgomery ("Kennedy")
Producers:	Paul Buccieri, Tim Puntillo, Jenny Daly

Contents 1 Gameplay 1.1 Question Rounds 1.2 The Trust Box 2 Notes

Gameplay

Question Rounds

Three teams of two unacquainted players each compete. During the show's first season, each player introduced themselves, having a moment of impropriety told about them as well. Three of the players would then vote on who they would like as their partner, with the partners selecting who to team up with if more than one player selected him. This process was phased out in the second season, and teams were introduced already having been paired up.

Each team is taken to their own isolation booths, and are given a "trust fund" of $200 to start. The host then reads a series of questions to all three players, each question with four possible choices. Teams have 15 seconds to lock in their answer choice, but to do so both players have to lock in the same answer, often requiring one teammate to convince the other which answer is right. Each correct answer adds $500 to the team's trust fund. After four questions, the team with the least amount of money is eliminated from the game and is taken to the "Trust Box" to divide up their winnings. In the event of a tie, the team that answered their questions in the fastest cumulative time advanced. A second round was then played with the two remaining teams, with each question now being worth $1000 for the team's trust fund. The team with the highest score at the end of this round won the game and advanced to the bonus round, while the other team went to the trust box to determine the fate of their winnings.

The bonus round, called "Right or Wrong", was a 60-second speed round with a total of 10 questions, each with two possible answers and worth $500 for each right answer. If a team answered three questions incorrectly during the round, the round ended automatically; if a team could answer all 10 questions right before time expired, however, their trust fund was doubled. (This made the maximum amount for the trust fund $22,400 for getting every question right.) That team then went to the trust box to split their winnings.

The Trust Box

At the end of each round, one team was taken to the Trust Box to determine how much of the team's trust fund each teammate would get. Each player was given the opportunity to persuade their partner to trust him and vote as a "friend". Players then placed a hand in a secret compartment of the trust box to vote as a "friend" or a "foe". After both players voted, the results were revealed to their partners.

If both players voted "friend", the money in the trust fund was equally split between the two players. If one player voted "friend" but the other voted "foe", the "foe" took all the money in the trust fund and the "friend" received nothing. If both players voted "foe", neither player received any money.

Notes

During an 2003 April Fools' episode, Mark L. Walberg, who at the time was hosting the GSN show Russian Roulette, hosted the show as part of a one-day host swap between all of the network's original shows. Kennedy was the host of WinTuition on that day.