Author Topic: The Joker's Wild 1990 question.. (Read 6825 times)

DJDustman · « **on:** September 16, 2003, 05:12:36 PM »

Has anyone ever hit three joker's in the bonus round?
Second Question...What is the Highest it's ever gone..?

jrjgames · « **Reply #1 on:** September 16, 2003, 06:42:56 PM »

I have a $16,000 win on tape

bandit_bobby · « **Reply #2 on:** September 16, 2003, 06:53:05 PM »

$36,000. I don't remember seeing more than two JJ wins throughout the entire run.

TonicBH · « **Reply #3 on:** September 16, 2003, 07:58:06 PM »

I have a $10,500 win on tape.

It's winnable, it just didn't happen often. Keep in mind there were a whole bunch of cash and prizes in the bonus. if they wanted the Joker Jackpot to be won more often, they would've had fewer prizes, or added more Jokers.

zachhoran · « **Reply #4 on:** September 16, 2003, 08:00:32 PM »

[quote name=\'bandit_bobby\' date=\'Sep 16 2003, 05:53 PM\'] $36,000. I don't remember seeing more than two JJ wins throughout the entire run. [/quote]
Keep in mind that a $36K Joker Jackpot would have gone more than 12 weeks without a win(starts at $5K, adds $500 a day until won)

ChuckNet · « **Reply #5 on:** September 16, 2003, 09:17:24 PM »

There were, I believe, 3 wins during the course of the run:

- $10.5K, won by Donna ? on the 3rd week
- $17.5K, won several weeks later by all-time top winner Thomas Van Dyke on his next-to-last appearance
- $36K, won after the switch to the category format, by Mary ?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")

J.R. · « **Reply #6 on:** September 16, 2003, 11:40:25 PM »

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Sep 16 2003, 08:17 PM\'] There were, I believe, 3 wins during the course of the run:

- $10.5K, won by Donna ? on the 3rd week
- $17.5K, won several weeks later by all-time top winner Thomas Van Dyke on his next-to-last appearance
- $36K, won after the switch to the category format, by Mary ?

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
Indeed it was Mary.

I may be lynched for this. But I sorta liked TJW 90. The game may of moved a tad bit slower than the classic version, but it still held the basic tenent of the game and the bonus round was tad more reasonable. The cattegory format was better though.

Don't worry. I still believe Pat Finn was a terrible and emotionless cyborg of a host on the show.

DJDustman · « **Reply #7 on:** September 17, 2003, 04:49:38 PM »

I thought this version was better than the classic for some reason...Pat Finn is an awesome host!!

clemon79 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 17, 2003, 08:57:54 PM »

You are both entitled to your opinion.

And I am entitled to say that as a result of this opinion I think you are both seriously demented in the head.

PeterMarshallFan · « **Reply #9 on:** September 17, 2003, 08:58:35 PM »

The set was nice and the bonus round was better than Face the Devil, at least.

clemon79 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 17, 2003, 09:08:51 PM »

[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Sep 17 2003, 05:58 PM\'] The set was nice and the bonus round was better than Face the Devil, at least. [/quote]
I don't agree. I like Face The Devil just fine. Is it all luck? Sure it is. Lady Luck is Queen, is she not?

J.R. · « **Reply #11 on:** September 18, 2003, 12:31:00 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 17 2003, 07:57 PM\'] You are both entitled to your opinion.

And I am entitled to say that as a result of this opinion I think you are both seriously demented in the head.

[/quote]
I like the new \"Kinder Gentler\" Chris Lemon ; )

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #12 on:** September 18, 2003, 12:57:33 AM »

I liked TJW90 all right: unless you have simply awful writers, games of trivia lists and quasi-etymology are fine by me. Furthermore, I think Pat Finn did a fair job as host. Having said all that, the game had nothing to do with The Joker's Wild.

Side comment: for all the wincing over the TJW90 bonus round intro of \"As you know, The Joker's Wild is a game of definitions\", what really bothered me was that the main game they were playing not five minutes earlier falsified that statement. TJW90 was a game of slot machines (in appearance if not always in function) and Pat Finn reading off lists.

clemon79 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 18, 2003, 01:35:39 AM »

[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Sep 17 2003, 09:57 PM\'] Side comment: for all the wincing over the TJW90 bonus round intro of "As you know, The Joker's Wild is a game of definitions", [/quote]
Wasn't the bonus round intro, tho. That's what he said at the _top of the show_. And the question, I don't think, was with the \"definition\" part, but with the \"As you know,\" portion. He used that line on the PREMIER EPISODE. As a viewer of Jack, Jim, and Bill for however many years, I most certainly DID NOT KNOW that.

Neumms · « **Reply #14 on:** September 18, 2003, 02:10:26 AM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 17 2003, 08:08 PM\'][quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Sep 17 2003, 05:58 PM\'] The set was nice and the bonus round was better than Face the Devil, at least. [/quote]
I don't agree. I like Face The Devil just fine. Is it all luck? Sure it is. Lady Luck is Queen, is she not?[/quote]
Of course, Lady Luck is queen. But to make it interesting requires some element of risk or strategy. Lady Luck was queen of \"Press Your Luck,\" too, but there was always the decision to press or pass. \"Face the Devil\" allowed one to quit with a couple of hundred bucks, but it was never a tense or interesting decision, unless one needed, say, $375 for a long-sought lawn mower or something.

Pat's version did have slightly more decision making, at least as far as freezing the wheels. It unfortuately had Pat, as well as the lame main game, but I'd say the bonus round--at least the spinning part--wasn't so bad.