"$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC

[Thunder]

It's Your Chance of a Lifetime!

[xavier45]

Give her the car anyway!

That'll be next on Match Game. Choose Rosie for the head-to-head and she'll guilt-give you whatever thing you were looking to win money to buy your own damn self.

I think she did that last week with the first contestant that lost. The lady wanted to go on the new kids on the block cruise, and Rosie said that she knows them and she'll get her on the cruise since they didn't match in the head to head.

[KWJCDon]

FYI. Running the $10,000 top prize (in 1973) through the CPI inflation calculator shows that is now worth about $54,000 in today's money. So in actuality, they are playing for less now than in '73.

[TLEberle]

Except that in actuality they aren't.

[Joe Mello]

OK, I must prevail upon the tribunal, because in the first winner's circle the cluegiver was buzzed for saying "memories" as conveying the answer "Things you Remember." Michael says that it was an inadvertent buzz so she picked up a further $4,000, but it seems like that was a perfectly legitimate buzz.

Assuming Da Rules are as we remember them from the 80's, I guess the question boils down to Do you accept nouns as synonyms for verbs? "Memorize" comes up as a synonym for "remember," so a case could be made that "memories" should be zapped as well. However, I'd also be okay with it being an acceptable clue and that a judge who was already extra-primed on the buzzer thanks to box 3 heard the wrong thing.

I'd also wager that this is a different discussion if she wasn't already buzzed once.

[clemon79]

I think she did that last week with the first contestant that lost. The lady wanted to go on the new kids on the block cruise, and Rosie said that she knows them and she'll get her on the cruise since they didn't match in the head to head.

[Kevin Prather]

Assuming Da Rules are as we remember them from the 80's, I guess the question boils down to Do you accept nouns as synonyms for verbs? "Memorize" comes up as a synonym for "remember," so a case could be made that "memories" should be zapped as well.

Seems to me that "memory" and "remember" are forms of the same word.

[TLEberle]

To Joe's point: are you saying that the rules change based upon the previous game state? Because that's news to me.

[KWJCDon]

Except that in actuality they aren't.

Explain.

[TLEberle]

OK.

The top prize is $25,000. $25,000 is more than $5,000.

Or if you meant for Pyramid: $50,000 is more than $10,000, and $100,000 is twice as much more than the $10,000.

[BrandonFG]

In all fairness, he said, when you adjust the $10K top prize for inflation, it comes to about $54K. So yes, when adjusted for inflation, the current 50K is slightly lower. Just a fun fact, no more, no less.

[TLEberle]

Quoted for repetition:

So in actuality, they are playing for less now than in '73.

And they're not. More money is more than less. In actuality.

[Casey]

Quoted for repetition:

So in actuality, they are playing for less now than in '73.

And they're not. More money is more than less. In actuality.

So in your world, the words "buying power" have no meaning?  Because most assuredly, $10,000 in 1973 buys you a bit more than $50,000 does in 2016.  Inflation is a real thing, even though it appears you just want to be pedantic. 

[Otm Shank]

But in 1973, the top prize was $5,000, not $10,000. The higher top prize did not come about until there was the Star Wheel. Once the other celebrities get fed up with Rosie O'Donnell answering all the head-to-head matches, then we should see that return.

Doot-doot-doot...doot..........dooooot. "For $50,000, you must match J.B. Smoove exactly...."

[BrandonFG]

But in 1973, the top prize was $5,000, not $10,000. The higher top prize did not come about until there was the Star Wheel. Once the other celebrities get fed up with Rosie O'Donnell answering all the head-to-head matches, then we should see that return.

Doot-doot-doot...doot..........dooooot. "For $50,000, you must match J.B. Smoove exactly...."

Pssst....this is the Pyramid top prize argument. Match Game's down the hall, past the water fountain.