That's the great thing about watching at home. You feel smart if you know any of the answers, without the pressure of competition or having to keep up with scores.
Makes sense to me. You train your reflexes to respond instantly while steering a bike, because if you had to take the time to think about it, you'd crash. Retraining a different method is a great experiment, as long as someone else is doing it.
The closest real-life analogy I can think of in my own experience is roller skating. I was pretty good at it when I was young. Then I didn't skate for twenty years, just walked. When I took it up again to skate with my kids, it took a good twenty minutes to realign my reflexes (which was quite comical), then suddenly I was as good as I ever was.
My advice: look, but don't touch, as soon as you get into the room. More than once, I've seen the fridge missing a couple of items when I arrived, and then got charged for them. Once, I was charged within an hour of arrival! Now I always report a less-than-fully stocked mini-bar immediately, even though I don't use anything from it.
The closest real-life analogy I can think of in my own experience is roller skating. I was pretty good at it when I was young. Then I didn't skate for twenty years, just walked. When I took it up again to skate with my kids, it took a good twenty minutes to realign my reflexes (which was quite comical), then suddenly I was as good as I ever was.
I am a behaviorist, and I think I just did.