[quote name=\'JayDLewis\' post=\'164695\' date=\'Sep 24 2007, 06:07 PM\']
I've always thought that if you get any of the H2H questions exactly right, you get an additional guess at the $10M question.
So, suppose the range is 17% to 27%. If you go for it and got 1 exactly right in the H2H you can cover 2 numbers.
It happens so infrequently that it would become a non-issue (both getting it exactly right and someone making it to the Big One). Plus, Drew can goad someone into going for the $1M by dangling that carrot (2 in 11, 3 in 11, 4 in 11 shot) for "an unprecedented" $10M)
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Now there's an idea. If you don't offer an additional cash incentive, how about, say, a second chance guess on your level, or something along those lines? Say, up to an additional five or ten percent buffer for an exact qualifier guess.
If you don't make it to the main game, then you get, I dunno, $100 for each exact guess. No more than $200 given out there, even though there's a chance you could win more than the actual contestant playing the main game.