Ok. Surely if these questions are free to guess for, you would eliminate the True/False aspect, yeah?
I think the early ones could be T/F, then multiple guess and then short answer. I envision the last question being similar to the Big Fat Bonus Question on
Paranoia.
The problem I'm seeking to solve is that the Perfect 21 game gave away big piles of money in a very uninteresting way. Most everyone won $60,000 because that's the last place where a sight unseen gamble makes sense. Some chickened out with $30k and a few pushed it to $100k, but those who won money typically won $60,000. The repetition of it makes it all the more uninteresting.
Looking at statistics on the primetime version of Millionaire (because after all that's why the topic began), out of nearly 900 contestants about a quarter won $1,000; another quarter won $32,000 and about another quarter won $64k or $125k combined. (I don't know if Jeff's statistics include the Super Millionaire winners.) Basically, even though it felt like there was a period where everyone and his dog was winning $125,000 it wasn't the case. While there's only eleven outcomes (and really, you don't go on a show with the name Millionaire to win $2,000 or $4,000) any one of them could happen every time. On Twenty-one you knew that the winner was taking home at least $25,000 and then having a chance to win lots more money. The four times I can remember non-game show fans talking about primetime game shows it was about: Millionaire, Greed, The Chamber and Money Drop: each cases where it felt like anything could happen. Twenty-one and Winning Lines may have been fun or interesting games, but you were seeing another verse of the same ol' song.
