[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 12:53 PM\'][quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:28 AM\']Believe it or not, I've been toying with just such an idea for a couple of years. I question whether it would require isolation booths, and it would probably function a bit differently scoring wise. I envisioned a strike system instead of lifelines.
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Well, I've been toying with just such an idea for about five minutes.
You prolly wouldn't need the booths, I just think they would look cool, and it would allow players to invoke a PAF without the other players seeing what's happening. (You could prolly accomplish the same thing with flats between the players, like on Greed.)
You gotta have at least the base three Lifelines, because those are the trademark of Millionaire.
As soon as I sent the message, I started thinking about it, and I think a strike system would help to draw the tournament out over several days. Make it real simple: three wrong answers, and yer done. Wanna make it more interesting psychologically? Announce to the other players whenever someone has two strikes, but don't tell them who.
I dunno. This is all quick and dirty thinking, and I'm sure it could and should be refined if the Millionaire people decided they wanted to try it. But it's for sure an interesting notion.
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Using a standard stack of 15, put 10 people in the Ring Of Fire. Put a time limit on the questions (say 30 sec for first 5, 60 secs for second 5, 2 minutes for 11-14, and if you get to 15, say three minutes or walk.) I had originally thought the strike system would go all the way through, but then said nah! Make it 14, and put the 15th out by itself. Standard Millionaire rules otherwise apply (players could vote to walk, and if everyone else voted to walk or struck out, the walk players split the money.) Question 15, if 2 or more players were left, the million would go to the correct "fastest finger".
You're correct in your belief that, in this version, more money would be given away. That's the downside to it. But it would allow players to compete on "Millionaire" directly instead of the "Hot Seat" format. And if someone wanted to put it in PT, you could run 2 full games consistently per hour.