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A '''dead''' tossup is one that is answered by neither team. Thus, the tossup was probably too hard, and at least one presumably worthy [[bonus]] is not read to anybody. For those reasons, multiple dead tossups per game is considered a sign of overly difficult questions.
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Within a game, a '''dead''' tossup is a tossup that is not answered correctly by either team. A question set is probably overly [[difficulty|difficult]] if it regularly features multiple dead tossups per game when played by its target audience.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:11, 13 July 2013

Within a game, a dead tossup is a tossup that is not answered correctly by either team. A question set is probably overly difficult if it regularly features multiple dead tossups per game when played by its target audience.