[Game shows whose end games required 10 correct answers in 60 seconds]
Debt, The Last Word, Now You See It, Trivia Unwrapped(when the wheel doesn't stop on Who Wants Seconds? or the "8 in 60" square), WIntution, Whew!(if no extra time was won in the maingame, this was theoretically possible, but never occured IIRC), History IQ(IQ timeline round required the players to match 10 events to the years or decades they occurred in ), Password Plus/Super Password, Russian ROulette(season two), Win Ben Stein's Money(if Ben got nine of ten correct, and there was one episode, the pants pulldown bit IIRC where the contestant got all ten and Ben got nine), Hit Man(if the three columns used had a total of ten spaces to be filled with money men, a win could be done in as few as 4 or as many as 12), Quicksilver(some early episodes allowed the player 60 seconds to get ten correct answers instead of 45 as was the case for most of the run), Cross-Wits.
I'll add one more --
Stumpers, Allen Ludden's short-lived derivitive of
Password, that aired on NBC in 1976.
One other show, the original version of
Chain Reaction that aired on NBC in 1980, would have also qualified for this list except that contestants got 90 seconds in the end game to get the 10 answers for its $10,000 top prize. Actually, it started out requiring 8 answers in 60 seconds for the $10,000: The contestant would start with $1 and would get a zero added to that score for every
two correct answers given in the end game (as with
The Price is Right's "Grand Game"). However, after one contestant won only $10 in the end game with that scoring system, the game was changed to make for bigger prizes.
Under the new system, the time for the game was extended to 90 seconds and the contestant received $1 for his/her first correct answer in the end game, and then had a zero added to that score for each of the next three correct answers ($1, $10, $100, $1,000). The next four correct answers would add $1,000 for each one ($2,000, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000), and the ninth correct answer in 90 seconds added $5,000 more for a total of $10,000. But the show ended up going over budget with that prize structure, so the game was changed again to require 10 correct answers in 90 seconds for the $10,000, and contestants who failed in so doing received a $100 consolation prize for each correct answer, as was the case on
Stumpers, Whew!, and some of the other shows mentioned above.
Then, toward the end of the show's run, they went back to requiring only 9 correct answers in the end game for the $10,000, and the first $100 was awarded to the contestant automatically -- presumably for winning the show's main game after it changed its scoring from money to points.
Michael Brandenburg
("You've won $10 on
Chain Reaction -- would you like to try to win $10 more on
The Price is Right?")
