Extraneous rules...

[SamJ93]

Something I pondered as I watched FF today...why do they bother to keep the play/pass option in?  It only takes up more time.  (Not that they really rush things all that much, but it's still a few valuable seconds they could have back.)  I have only ever seen one family actually pass control on the Dawson version, and have never seen anyone do it on the current version.

Any other shows that had/have options or rules that nobody bothers with?  In addition to Feud, I guess there's also...

-"On Account" in the shopping days of Wheel
-the challenge option in early episodes of Bumper Stumpers

Others?

--Sam

[Don Howard]

Giving the player the option of taking $50 an answer in the 7-11 category during the first year of The New $25,000 Pyramid or gambling on getting all seven answers for $1100 or nothing.

[aaron sica]

This could fall under the same category, perhaps....

I can't say I've ever seen it happen, but on the playing of "Temptation" on the Price is Right. Have there been any that flat out took all the prizes and didn't try for the car? Can't say I ever saw it happen...

[Robert Hutchinson]

Questions are, at least from my viewing experience, passed much more often on the current version on Feud than they were on Dawson's version. If I had the misfortune to be on the show today, I wouldn't hesitate to pass one of those impossible "name a star that is famous" questions, just to name one situation.

I agree that On Account was used very very rarely, but I thought it provided an interesting twist. Does anyone who watched Wheel in the '70s (I was busy not existing) know if On Account was used more often then? They didn't have a bonus round in which to win the car.

Debt's "I am--you are" format was extremely dumb. Do I recall correctly that there was no penalty for messing it up, but that Wink would remind a player over and over and over and . . .?

[pyrfan]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'138792\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 06:58 PM\']
Giving the player the option of taking $50 an answer in the 7-11 category during the first year of The New $25,000 Pyramid or gambling on getting all seven answers for $1100 or nothing.
[/quote]
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I have most of the episodes from 1984 on tape, and a contestant took the $50 route exactly once that whole year.


Brendan

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'138793\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 03:01 PM\']
I can't say I've ever seen it happen, but on the playing of "Temptation" on the Price is Right. Have there been any that flat out took all the prizes and didn't try for the car? Can't say I ever saw it happen...
[/quote]
Absolutely there has.

[WhammyPower]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'138797\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 05:48 PM\'] [quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'138793\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 03:01 PM\']
I can't say I've ever seen it happen, but on the playing of "Temptation" on the Price is Right. Have there been any that flat out took all the prizes and didn't try for the car? Can't say I ever saw it happen...
[/quote]
Absolutely there has. [/quote]
And we know there has been at least one bailout on "Spelling Bee."

[beatlefreak84]

One I thought of:  I can't ever remember seeing someone take the $1,000 instead of going for the $10,000 on "Grand Game."  From the recent shows I've seen, it doesn't even look like the contestants consider the option (as Bob is explaining, they're already pointing to the three remaining products for audience reaction!).

Maybe I don't watch enough TPIR, but is this option ever taken nowadays?

Anthony

[Hastin]

[quote name=\'SamJ93\' post=\'138791\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 01:46 PM\']
I have only ever seen one family actually pass control on the Dawson version, and have never seen anyone do it on the current version.[/quote]

I hate to say it, but after seeing my Sister and family win to Fast Money (and take the 20k) after Passing on the final round question, I think it should be kept in there. There are families that use the strategy, even if there are only a few.

[Jimmy Owen]

Did anyone ever take the car on "Greed"?

Then there was "Truth or Consequences."  The question was superfluous.  No one ever escaped without paying the consequences, even if they told the truth.

[jmangin]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'138793\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 06:01 PM\']
I can't say I've ever seen it happen, but on the playing of "Temptation" on the Price is Right. Have there been any that flat out took all the prizes and didn't try for the car? Can't say I ever saw it happen...
[/quote]

If they didn't offer you the chance to quit with the prizes, why call it Temptation?  They might as well just play Line 'em Up since it's practically the same game.

[Scott]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'138806\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 10:21 PM\']
Did anyone ever take the car on "Greed"?[/quote]

First night of Super Greed month, the third team in that episode took the car + $75K.

[PYLdude]

I gotta ask this:

In all the playings of Time is Money on TPIR before they took away the $500 bailout option, how many people actually traded the $500 in for the 15 extra seconds?

[Joe Mello]

This is a little off the board, but Whammy season 1 had an interesting system of criteria for determining who spun first in round 3

1) Money
2) Spins
3) Buzz-in answers
4) Player to the left.

Criterion(?) #3 got cut from season 2 probably because it was rarely going to be useful if ever.

[tvrandywest]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'138806\' date=\'Nov 25 2006, 08:21 PM\']
Then there was "Truth or Consequences."  The question was superfluous.  No one ever escaped without paying the consequences, even if they told the truth.
[/quote]
Killing time one day at TPiR I actually talked about that with Barker. He said that if a contestant ever answered the question, he was prepared to say it was a 2-part question and immediately ask another.   ;-)

Randy
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