The Fabulous, 60-Minute Three on a Match Game '04

[PeterMarshallFan]

Let's not forget National Lampoon's Funny Money Maze. ;-)

[The Ol' Guy]

Funny you should work the idea of re-using a game board - a strange mix of High Rollers and Tic Tac Dough came to mind - use the Wink-era board to start with High Rollers - each screen with a number, clear a column and win a prize (or go back to the old days - a prize behind each number). First players A and B play High Rollers. 2 out of 3 match. Say B wins. Two new players, C & D, play another game of High Rollers. C wins. B and C win the right to face off in Tic Tac Dough.
The big problem here is that if you have 12 tie games of TTD, you'll go days without playing Rollers. Horrible idea, but I was trying to figure out how to utilize the same props like HS/MG Hour. It's no worse than another idea: crossing elements of LINGO with PYRAMID or PASSWORD PLUS. Six Pyramid-type subjects in the traditional setting. Players try to guess what subject is in each box by playing a round of LINGO. Each 5-letter LINGO word would be a clue to the subject. Say we start with the subject in the lower left $50 box. Then imagine playing LINGO and getting each of these words: CROSS BEADS SAINT WAFER POPES. If any time a word is guessed someone guesses the subject - "Things in the Catholic Church", they win the box, the money, and play goes on to the next box. When all six boxes are guessed, the team with the most cash wins the game. The obvious problem is - how on earth would you have enough clues that are only five letters long?

Is there codeine in this cough syrup...??

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Justin30519\' date=\'Jan 14 2004, 05:37 PM\'] I expect to see this as a GSN original some time in 2004!
 [/quote]
 Um, yeah, you just keep on waiting, there.....

[trainman]

[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Jan 14 2004, 10:38 AM\'] Wheel first with 3 new contestants, then Jeopardy! with the champion of the previous day vs. the top two winners of Wheel. [/quote]
 "...as always, they'll face our 'Jeopardy!' champion, a former lawyer, whose (yawn) 164-day cash winnings total $4,132,750..."

[ChuckNet]

The only hybrid that for me would be feasible from a theme and ownership standpoint would be "Gambit" and "High Rollers"

And Las Vegas Gambit kinda brought elements of HR to the former when they switched to the latter's Big Numbers round for the bonus.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[alfonzos]

Catch Phrase and Concentration. Steve Ryan are you lurking?

[Jay Temple]

I don't pretend that this would be a hit, but I always wanted to combine my two favorites, Pyramid and J!.  Four players, no celebs, play two games of Pyramid, with each winning team splitting the winnings for that game.  The player who loses both games is out.  The other three play Jeopardy!, and they're spotted the amount they won in the Winners' Circle.  The player who won both games gets to choose first.  (No returning champions, in current Sony fashion.)

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 11:19 PM\'] I don't pretend that this would be a hit, but I always wanted to combine my two favorites, Pyramid and J!.  Four players, no celebs, play two games of Pyramid, with each winning team splitting the winnings for that game.  The player who loses both games is out.  The other three play Jeopardy!, and they're spotted the amount they won in the Winners' Circle.  The player who won both games gets to choose first.  (No returning champions, in current Sony fashion.) [/quote]
 I'm not thrilled with combining those two particular shows, but I give a tip of the cap to you for the simple and clear way you go from a two-teams-of-two game to a three individuals game.  You've got a seed of an idea there that you might want to let grow into something.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 08:33 PM\'] I'm not thrilled with combining those two particular shows, but I give a tip of the cap to you for the simple and clear way you go from a two-teams-of-two game to a three individuals game.  You've got a seed of an idea there that you might want to let grow into something. [/quote]
 I have to admit, that _is_ really damn clever.

[dzinkin]

What two game shows would make a good hybrid?

Zooventure and Everything Goes.

How would you combine them?
What would you do for a bonus round?

I suspect that answering these questions would violate Eligibility Requirement #5. ;-)

Who would you get to host each segment?

Anyone but J.D. Roth.

 - David

[Esoteric Eric]

I'll try to make this fast, but y'all gotta figure someone who calls himself the GameTweaker (Pat. Pending, or maybe Pat Sajak) would have something to add to this thread...

In brief:

1) Three or four contestants play a Fastest Finger question (heck, "Millionaire" ain't using it)

2) Winner of the Fastest Finger plays a hybrid of Art James' "Blank Check" and Indian Poker with the hundredths-of-seconds digit of all the contestants' times (with variations from two digits to three / four, low-to-high, high-to-low, contestants only seeing own digit, or seeing all digits EXCEPT their own... and I said this was gonna be brief?!?!?)

3) Bonus round is a spinoff of... well, "Spin-Off," with all ten digits (0 - 9) in each column instead of six, object to get a zero in each column (if four columns, "0-0-0-0" = $10,000, if five*, "0-0-0-0-0" = $100,000) in sixty seconds (Hmmmm... "Zero to Sixty"?  "Zero Minute"?)

Esoteric Eric, the GameTweaker (Pat. Pending... Patti Deutsch?); I'd have a tournament format rather than defending champs (winners go to a Friday Final for a spot in a future T of C and *a shot at $100,000 in the bonus.)  I dunno who'd host it; maybe Donny Osmond?

Edited only for a couple of typing errors...

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jan 16 2004, 01:36 AM\'] 1) Three or four contestants play a Fastest Finger question (heck, "Millionaire" ain't using it) [/quote]
 How about this: a series of Fastest Finger questions; the winner plays the Wonderwall.  Maybe I should pitch this to Celador.

[gameshowguy2000]

That would be nice, Jason!

Then again, that idea is better than mine!

[Jay Temple]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 10:17 PM\'] [quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jan 15 2004, 08:33 PM\'] I'm not thrilled with combining those two particular shows, but I give a tip of the cap to you for the simple and clear way you go from a two-teams-of-two game to a three individuals game.  You've got a seed of an idea there that you might want to let grow into something. [/quote]
I have to admit, that _is_ really damn clever. [/quote]
 Thank you.  That would mean a lot coming from either one of you.

[Clay Zambo]

How 'bout Password+Pyramid?  

It could probably even be done in half an hour:
2 celebs and 2 civilians play Password Puzzles; best of three wins.  (For time purposes, at least puzzle #3 would need shortening--maybe just 3 clue words.)  Losing civilian is dismissed; winning civilian challenges the returning champion in a standard game of Pyramid.  Bonus game is--what else?--the Winner's Circle.

Alternately, have 4 civilians play Password; winning team is then split apart.  Each player becomes the partner of a celeb for the Pyramid half.  Pro: no returning champs; con: no celeb interest in the first half.