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Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: Chelsea Thrasher on August 09, 2024, 09:39:39 AM ---Each player that makes it to the seven wins a small cash payout. Maybe $100, maybe $500. Instead of "eliminate your opponent's number" you basically crib something akin to a multiplayer version of the Trivia Race from Trivia Trap. First to five or seven or whatever times well in run-throughs wins five grand that's theirs to keep (bumping up from the $2500 from the old series for inflation) and goes to the Wonderwall, played almost verbatim.
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I do like the idea of the cutthroat battle, but it's "blink and you miss it" so I would keep it, but I would change two things:
1. Everyone is defending an answer, but we get rid of them being number specific. Every game begets a different theming, so each cutthroat round everyone gets one of the seven colors of the rainbow, or the name of a country, or a Best Actress winner, etc.
2. You get a point for defending your answer, you steal a point from a player who owns the correct answer you give, and you lose a point for a wrong answer. Play til the klaxon sounds.
--- Quote ---At the bottom of the hour, the top seven go back to the pool, and we do it again. If the same player makes it to the Wonderwall both games, they get an extra $5,000 bonus on top of the previous $5K x2 for the clean sweep, regardless of what happens at the Wonderwall either time.
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I don't think you have to incentivize winning both games with an extra cash prize, since the bonus round is the incentive and has such a high payout for even an average effort. Assuming we're keeping everything the same, only going halfway up the stack is still worth $50,000.
carlisle96:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on August 08, 2024, 11:44:07 PM ---
--- Quote from: Winkfan on August 07, 2024, 09:01:27 PM ---Three little words: The Big Showdown
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Seconded. I also nominate:
The Moneymaze
To Say The Least
Rhyme and Reason
Trebek Double Dare
Catch Phrase
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To Say the Least wasn't bad, but there wasn't much viewer participation. unless you leave the room and come back just at the right moment to solve the puzzle
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: SamJ93 on August 09, 2024, 01:03:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: Neumms on August 09, 2024, 12:48:07 PM ---Money Maze (which should come back in prime time)
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You know what? I had never thought about it before, but in the wake of The Wall, The Quiz With Balls and their ilk, I could see this working. The only problem is that we'd now be treated to a 5-minute video blurb about how badly the couple needs the money and a 30-second "suspenseful" pause before revealing the value of every prize column.
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Actually, the game closest in comparison would be Raid the Cage, even down to how to show is staged with trivia in the crow's nest and action on the floor. I'd actually be interested to see that team take on the Moneymaze- jsut copy themselves and call it "Raid the Maze".
JasonA1:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on August 09, 2024, 11:06:51 AM ---I thought Jeopardy '78 and Sale of the Late 1980s were fine with their growing jackpots irrespective of a win or loss but Sale was absolutely rendered inert with so many smaller steps.
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For clarification, Jeopardy! '78 worked more like Mark described - a first-time champ played Super Jeopardy! for $5,000 on their first trip, then $7,500 for their second regardless of the first one's result, $10,000 for their third, and so on, going up in $2,500 increments.
-Jason
TLEberle:
Correct, i was saying its fine, and also "irrespective of a win or a loss."
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