[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Aug 17 2005, 04:48 PM\'][quote name=\'wvoutlaw2002\' date=\'Aug 15 2005, 11:55 PM\']Does anybody know what the official record is for the amount of money won in one game of the Whew! main game (charging & blocking)? I could swear that I remember one particular running of the Gauntlet the contestant had about 80 seconds (the max. for the celebrity version would have been $2,250 ($50 for each of the $50 spots of the first five levels plus $500 on level 6, which equals $750, then multiply that by 3), which would have translated to an 82 second Gauntlet run.[/quote]
Were the celebrity rules any different regarding money won? To get $2250, you'd have to collect $750 in a round that you ended up losing (with the rules I'm familiar with). The only way to do that would be to be the Blocker, to have the Charger hit all six of your blocks (all on the right side of the board), and *still* win the round. Unless the bloopers are "Two plus two is
FLOOR", that ain't happening.
On the other hand, most of the money available is on that top row. If a player swept the $40s and the $500 on a Charge, got the Charger with a $500 block but still lost that round, and swept $40s and $500 again, that's $1900. Not terribly unreasonable.
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Oops, my bad. I just realized that the maximum that you could win as a blocker is $750, but it was possible to win more than that as a charger. I do know that on the celeb version (not at first, but later on) that if you won the first two rounds, you got to play the third round solo "against the house" for possibly more money (and more time in the Gauntlet...I assume that if you lose the third round in that case, you wouldn't win any extra money or more Gauntlet time). But I think I remember there was at least one Gauntlet run on the celeb version that was 80 seconds or longer. However, I haven't seen the show on TV since summer 1980, so my memory may be faulty (hell, I was 7 at the time <g>).
