[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 09:02 AM\'][quote name=\'golden-road\' date=\'Sep 29 2004, 08:32 AM\'] How was it different than the Daytime version? How was the bonus played? Did anybody win the $25,000? [/quote]
Art wore a tux, and there were some lights added to the set to make the set more 70s and nighttime-centric. Other than that, the bonus round was the big difference. Originally, winning contestants picked a square on the J! board and won whatever prize was behind it. As per a post on ATGS, they later awarded the champion a prize based on how much money they won in the maingame, the more money won, the bigger the prize, ranging from a low-end mid-70s econobox to $25K in cash.[/quote]
In the "pick a number" end game (called the "Jeopardy! Jackpot Board"), they didn't use the actual game board, but a smaller one with 30 slips of paper; the top prize was $25,000, but you had to find two slips, one with the top half of "$25,000" on it and the other with the bottom half.
The later end game (the "Championship Stakes board") originally had:
$5 to $995 - Chevrolet Vega
$1000 to $1495 - Chevrolet Caprice
$1500 to $1995 - $10,000 cash
$2000 and up - $25,000 cash
Later, the top two amounts needed were raised to $2000 and $2500. (Originally, the contestants were daytime winners; I think they stopped this when they raised the amounts, but I'm not entirely certain.)
There was one other thing they didn't use on the daytime version: the first contestant to run a category won a bonus - in the Jeopardy! Jackpot Board days, it was a Vega (and at least one person won two, one for the sweep and one in the end game), and when they switched end games, it was a London holiday package (British Airways coach round trip, plus six nights' hotel and two tickets to two London shows, assuming it's the same as the one I went on in 1987).
-- Don
