[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'206383\' date=\'Jan 15 2009, 10:15 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'206304\' date=\'Jan 15 2009, 10:02 AM\']only, say, half a dozen prize packages, as long as S&P knew about it, would it matter that the audience is being led to believe that there was something different in every box?[/quote]Were we ever told that there were however many different prize packages?
I don't know how spacious the backstage area was for Treasure Hunt, but I don't know how they'd fit fourteen different prizes there, knowing that at most two of them might get pulled out for display. It would make sense to say that a couple of boxes would have the luxury car, a handful would have a spiffy trip, and the rest of the "good ones" would have the roomful of furniture, rather than charting out each different prize package.
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I never went to a taping of Treasure Hunt, but is it possible that when they showed the contestant the "possible prizes she could win," those were taped in advance? I know at the '78 version of High Rollers, which I did see in person, all the prizes were recorded in advance. The actual game play and the "big numbers" round were done live to tape.
IIRC, I heard Geoff say in a phone interview that that 70s TH had a "different skit for each box." Don't know about the 80s version. He said he had to memorize all the skits, since they couldn't use cue cards because that would tip off the contestant.