[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Nov 26 2003, 03:02 PM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 26 2003, 11:41 AM\'][quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Nov 26 2003, 07:01 AM\'] You'd figure after all this time it would have gone up to $10 a point by now, what with inflation and all. Since the main prize is now $20,000 (four times what it once was, and twice what it was earlier in this version) it's surprising the "consolation" prize hasn't gone up as well. [/quote]
Oh good lord.[/quote]
Yes, we know how much you hate Mo' Money Syndrome, Chris, but this isn't that bad of a suggestion. I don't like Mo' Money Syndrome, either, but this does make a reasonable amount of sense. I mean, $5 a point has been the norm since the seventies. Raising it to $10 means a family still can't end up with more than $1,990, compared to $20,000 for getting just one more point; and since it's divided among 5 people, they can each get a whole $398. Especially when they aren't getting anything for winning the front game, this isn't unreasonable in the least. [/quote]
It also has the added advantage of making more intuitive sense to the home viewer (they just added a zero!), as well as being something that Karn wouldn't need a cue card to figure out. So, yeah, there's something to this one.