[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'177657\' date=\'Feb 12 2008, 11:49 AM\']
Of course, aside from the potential Showcase win of $1 million, this still leaves the possibility that the Showcase, which is supposed to be the climax of the show, could end up paling in comparison to someone's earlier $1 million win in a pricing game. The big winner of the night might not even end up in the Showcase. If it were up to me, I'd use the Showcase-bid-within-$1,000 as the only way someone could win the million. [/quote]
An extraordinarily good point. Though it could be said that there are lots of other ways for the showcase to pale in comparison to earlier play. I win the Caddy on Golden Road, you take Plinko for a bundle, but neither of us spins luckily and the two schmos who beat us play to a double overbid...that's pretty anticlimactic.
By the way, the press release said it would be a classic pricing game, which seems to me to leave out "Let 'Em Roll" and "Pathfinder." But play Any Number and win the car without putting any digits in the piggy bank...can't get much more a classic game than that, or a much tougher twist.
Edited: Having just seen the "Insider" clips--and, yeah, why the hell redo the set again, particularly to something so similar to the daytime version?--I gotta think Clock Game is a strong candidate for the Big Honkin' Bonus Prize of Potential Anti-Climacticism. Win both prizes with, say, 10 seconds left on the clock, and win the mil?