[quote name=\'Mario500\' date=\'Nov 10 2003, 03:17 PM\'] Call in constestants are asked 5 multiple choice questions to win up 5 lucky numbers on a scale of 1-15 for the big spin of the "Lucky Wheel". If the ball lands on any one of the lucky numbers the contestant picked, he/she wins a prize.
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This is radio. Nobody gives a rip about a wheel spinning.
[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Nov 10 2003, 03:35 PM\']Hmmm...charades?
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Now that's funny.
Seriously? Keep it simple. You're not gonna wanna have more than one contestant at a shot on the air anyhow, your listeners will not be able to keep track.
The local morning show in Seattle plays a couple of games: "Dead Or Alive", where you have to guess whether people are, yes, dead, or, alternately, alive, and "Yea or Nay", where contestants are to discern the true statements from the false ones. Both have the same scoring system: $10 for a right answer, you can stop anytime and take what you've won, or risk it all on the next question.
I'm not suggesting you have that kind of budget (although virtually everyone who plays continues until they flame out, so more often than not it costs them nothing), but maybe you can steal the scoring system: ask trivia questions, and the person who nails the most in a row wins the prize. Anyone who nails 7 or 10 straight is an automatic winner. Anyone can call in to play.
That's just with 30 seconds of thought, I'm sure you can refine it into a program somehow. Just don't try to be too complicated, it's college radio, nobody is listening anyhow.