[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jan 14 2005, 10:29 AM\']So I toss it up to the board, what other game shows of past or present could have made use of a double jackpot rule? Besides "Go."
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Really, it would apply best to a show that would have had a segment cut noticably short (or eliminated altogether) by virtue of the game ending early, on a show that didn't straddle. (In Go's case, the first half of the Double Jackpot replaced Segment C, where the 1250-point round would normally be played.)
Unfortunately, the only example of such a show I can think of is Blackout, and even then it's a bad one because the show was designed with a two-puzzle sweep in mind, the tiebreak was a one-word quicky, IIRC.
It MIGHT have been useful on TJW'90 in the unlikely event that one player just ROCKETED to the $2000 plateau needed to win (or whatever the hell it was, put your hand down, HorZach), but those were pretty long odds, difficult to quantify, and it would just be easier to have Pat stretch a little.