[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 21 2006, 08:06 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Feb 21 2006, 02:03 AM\'][quote name=\'bulldog_06\' date=\'Feb 21 2006, 01:05 AM\']Could anyone tell me either the rules or find me a webpage that has the rules of the former TNN game show,
10 Seconds? You know the game that replaced one of my favorite card game shows,
Top Card.
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It's been about 12 years since I've seen the show, but from what I can remember...
There was a game board with nine categories. Contestant picked category, and host Dan Miller read a clue about a particular song. In Bid-A-Note fashion, the two contestants would go back and forth, to see who could name the song with less seconds. In other words, contestant A would say they could name the song by hearing just :05, contestant B would say :04 seconds, and back and forth until someone decided to make the other name the song.
If they were successful, I THINK they got 10 points for every second. If wrong, I'm guessing the points went to the opponent.
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As I recall, only one bid was done for each category, and the other player had to decide whether to name the tune or force their opponent to name it. Each category had a point value behind it. If the contestant who was forced to name the tune guessed it right, they got the points, if not, the opponent did IIRC.
Round two had larger point values behind the categories. At the end of round two, there was a catchup round where each player had to name three songs from snippets. Naming one was worth 100 points, two worth 200 points, and all three worth 400 points. This round was only played if there was less than 400 points between the two players at the end of round two.
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That's it. And once a time length was used by that contestant in the round, they could not use it again--in other words, once a one-second challenge was made by a player, they could not use that length of time to challenge them in a subsequent song in the round.
Actually, I liked the show, even if it did owe a debt to Bid-a-Note. It was a way of doing a musical identification game with the original recordings instead of a live band and wasn't a trivia quiz. It could easily be done without a country music emphasis and whoever owns the rights to it now (I'm assuming Viacom) might want to try the format out in a foreign market and see if it could fly.
