[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Apr 18 2004, 01:54 AM\'][quote name=\'Adam Nedeff\' date=\'Apr 16 2004, 08:06 PM\']They just introduced a woman to begin the next match, and Peter brings her on and says "When you left us you had $1,400 so we're going to give you $200 for a total of $1,600 and if you win this match you'll win $25,000."
Huh?
What were they doing for the final episode/week/month/whatever that would lead Peter to say that? Obviously she was on a previous show but Peter made no effort to explain what he meant, so it seems like the home audience should have been familiar with this.[/quote]
Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm sure you all will...)
Whenever a Marshall daytime Squares contestant was brought back because the producers felt he or she had been disadvantaged, the contestant was awarded an extra $200 in cash.
In Adam's example, the $200 was added to the returnee's score, so that she would have a multiple of $400 on her scoreboard. (If they had left her at $1400, and she won the first game, Peter would have had to explain why she had $1600 on her scoreboard (which usually indicated that a player had won their fourth match,) but hadn't unseated the current champ as yet.)
Conversely, if the returnee had won a multiple of $400 in score cash (or none at all,) Peter would explain to the returnee that he or she was being awarded the extra $200, although it wouldn't show on the scoreboard, so that everybody knew that the returnee still needed to win $400 more to oust the champ.
Esoteric Eric; ...or is this just another case of my Compulsive Bluffing disorder?[/quote]
That would be correct--and that's why you had the "WON ONE GAME" lights on the contestants' desks. They weren't originally on the desks and were added to obviously make instances like this less confusing for the viewers.
