[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Nov 19 2004, 09:49 AM\']I think on most of the syndicated episodes, the announcer would say "in addition to cash awards, most of our contestants will receive...." The odd thing is that in the last few seasons, we never knew what the cash awards were. By the time Larry Blyden took over, the cards no longer read 5, 10 ,15, etc., but 10, 9, 8, down to 0. If it hit 0, the panel lost.[/quote]
"In addition to the cash awards..." was a phrase from the 70s TTTT fee plugs. The syndicated version of WML? was NEVER played for cash (which is, as I keep saying, as it should be). They originally used the 5 to 50 flip cards just because that was what so many people remembered, but they were no longer playing for dollars, just points. Eventually, as others have mentioned, Larry Blyden had his sliding-bar 10 to 0 countdown.