I don't mind having only random-chance games on LMAD, I think it DOES distinguish them from what Drew & Co. are doing. They've only begun to tap into game-playing possibilities that are totally based on luck. An hour of "The box or the curtain?" gets old.
It would be nice if the random-chance things posed more interesting risks to the contestant. I saw something like
How Much Is Enough? but it wasn't even as suspenseful as that--two traders were at a button and pushed the button to take the cash instead of the curtain. They went up from $500 to $1000, one hit the button, then the other got the curtain.
I would think they could replace pricing games with something that has a whiff of skill, even if it's Spot-the-Transvestite from Billy Bush's version. Even counting gumballs in a machine would have more play-along value than the Barry-Enright bonus-round kinds of things they do.
Recently, they did a bit with the contestant under a beauty-parlour hair dryer. It was your basic cash-or-curtain deal. The only reason the set-up existed was for Wayne to slay us with an effeminate-hairdresser character. Big fun, that.
