ADHD indeed.
A quick rule rundown for those not in Ohio:
5 teams of 3 play in each of 2 first round games. Everyone sees two game boards with 20 amounts of money on each: a "safe" board that contains less money, but almost always SOME money, and a "risk" board that has bigger amounts, but several zeros. Each team (the order in each round being chosen at random) is given 3 seconds for each person to hit a button to make their own choice as to which board to play. Majority rules. They then hit a button that "spins" the board and picks an amount from each board, the team getting the amount from the board they chose, and both amounts removed from play. After each round, the boards are replenished; after three rounds, the team with the highest score advances to the "semis".
In the semis, each of the six advancing players play as individuals. Each chooses one of six "cards": four of them hide nothing, one of them hides $5000, and one hides $10K and the right to challenge the returning champion. First time down the line, everyone picks a card (or "steals" one of their opponents' cards forcing that player to repick). The $5000 is revealed, then another pass is made in which a player can keep their card, or have the computer swap it for a randomly chosen opponents' card. At the end of the second pass, the person with the $5K can take it and leave, or swap one final time with a card of their choice giving that person $2500 (and some Extended Play mumbo jumbo jackpot thingy claims the other half) and pushing them out of the game. They then reveal who has the $10K.
The "final"? Take turns picking colored ping-pong balls out of this drum until one of you finds a white or green ball (green ball winning the Extended Play mumbo jumbo jackpot thingy), earning $50K and the right to come back next week to pick colored ping-pong balls.
Wow.
I think (for a lottery show anyway) that the front game is mildly interesting, except you can't read the values on the game board (unless you have like a 60 inch TV). Humorously, one team risked every time and got zeros every time, including one round where they managed to yank a zero off the safe board too. Beyond things like that, you don't really know the difference between the safe board and the risk board. (Minimum win of $3K per team; yes it would be much more fun if a team could go away with zero.)
The rest of the show, the parts that are supposed to be really exciting, are awful. There are nitpicks all over the place (who decided to give the audience cards saying SAFE and RISK to wave in the air?), but the last two rounds are just plain lame. Plus it's obvious that they're giving away less money than Cash Explosion.
Did I mention the host is Yet Another Young Smarmy Kid Who's Had His Teeth Whitened?
