They are not consistent but I think they can forgive the minors stuff every while. One time someone said "not batman but" For Superman and the other person guess it right

Well that's not exactly following the rules now is it?

Or quite possibly they didn't catch it. The judges seem somewhat inconsistent about closeness of the answer too. One day they'll call an answer incorrect if the contestant answers plural rather than singular, the next an answer will be counted if it's one of the syllables of a longer word that is said.
I think it may have to do with whether they like the contestants.

I doubt they disqualified them or they would have to state what happenedthat was pretty egregious since they stopped the game before when another girl did it. She was on the floor crying.

I came just to post about this, i wonder if they still paid the winners or decided to disqualify them after they went off the air