[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Jul 1 2003, 06:28 PM\'] They could just make inside clues illegal, worthy of a cuckoo.
The bigger point is, they'd be far better off figuring out some way to ditch celebrities if they can't attract entertaining, well-known ones. [/quote]
To your first point: How could a judge be sure a clue was illegally \"inside\"?
To your second, no. They gain nothing by ditching celebrities in favor of an all-civilian format. The 1970s Pyramid had \"stars\", but the better Pyramid in terms of game play was in the 80s, when being a star was less inportant to Bob Stewart than whether you could play his little game well.
What the current Pyramid did in the first season was find itself, both in how they were going to judge and what sort of celebrities they were going to be able to get. I think what you'll see next season are a lot more returning \"good players\", regardless of how far up they go on the celeb-o-meter.