[quote name=\'DjohnsonCB\' date=\'Jul 1 2004, 09:58 AM\']The end game involved a spinning wheel, but I recall nothing more about this one.[/quote]
All of the contestants' names who played during the show (which let on that they were picked directly from the audience, but I suspect were auditioned and interviewed, since the audience was small and surrounded by reflective Mylar panels to make it look bigger, while Mother MacKenzie made it sound bigger) were placed on the wheel--whoever the wheel landed on played the end game, which involved (IIRC) picking a group of facts with numerical answers from a list so that the total stayed below a target number without going over (hmm, what show would that be like?). The show's premise, as stated by Trebek, was that it all dealt with "ooods and averages."
As time went on, that end game became the main part of the show, with three contestants picked in most rounds to answer a "Who Am I?" riddle like "SOTC"'s Fame Game, with the winner going on to play the target number game. There were other games in the mix, and earlier on Trebek did a lot of pointing to people in the audience and asking them questions for small prizes. (He continued to do that during the credits, although we never heard him, similar to Jack Clark playing Acey-Deucey with audience members during the "Dealer's Choice" credits).
I vaguely remember Wizard's Keno, which involved a selection of a random letter by the show's rear projection screen, but a game that popped up frequently that I do remember was one where there were five prizes, each one behind a clear door. Four of the doors opened, one was locked. Pick the unlocked doors, you won all of the prizes. Pick the locked door, you lost them all. Of course, you had the option to quit with what you had after every choice.
