[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jun 8 2004, 11:07 AM\'][quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Jun 8 2004, 05:43 AM\'] It was better than Buddy Hackett's. The payout for the Secret Word was $500 ($250 per contestant) & the best possible sum was $16,000. [/quote]
More money always makes a game show great.
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As an experiment, on one episode of Mindreaders, Celebrity Turnabout was played for $250,000. Damn if that episode didn't get a 70 share.
Now some may ask, "Chris, how did they arrive at the $250,000 figure?" Well, that was the lowest amount we could play for and make it sound impressive. Johnny Olson saying "a quarter-MILLION dollars" is much more impressive than him saying "a TENTH of a million dollars" which would have been the case if we had played for only $100,000.