TPiR MDS: Million-Dollar Game

[Jeremy Nelson]

Hole in One: After you win the car, there's a putt line that's farther back than the other six.

Punchboard: Put a million dollar slip in one of the slots.

Any Number: Light up the numbers in the car without revealing any numbers in the small prize or piggy bank

Card Game: Get the price of the car within $100.

Pathfinder- Light up all the numbers in the price of the car without a mistake.

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'183965\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 10:30 AM\']Punchboard: Put a million dollar slip in one of the slots.[/quote]
I had the same idea, but the million dollar payoff would be only if it was hit with the first punch.  Otherwise, it would be $25K.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'183965\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:30 AM\']Card Game: Get the price of the car within $100.[/quote]While I like this idea in concept, I think it is too heavily dependent on skill...I'm not sure exactly how you would execute it.

[clemon79]

I've got more ideas:

• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.

[JasonA1]

[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'183967\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 10:38 AM\']
[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'183965\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:30 AM\']Card Game: Get the price of the car within $100.[/quote]While I like this idea in concept, I think it is too heavily dependent on skill.
[/quote]

There's a million on the line and we're complaining that it can be won based on skill!? One Away was entirely based on pricing acumen, as was Safe Crackers, Clock Game (arguably)...besides, contestants are doing just as well in daytime with the beefed-up ranges as they were before them, so I doubt this one would be paid out anyway. Unless you get one of the car-price-triflers from the internet ranks, and even then...

-Jason

[Dbacksfan12]

Ah shit.
I meant to type "luck" or say it is a skill-based game...but I went and screwed it up.
Dammit.

[urbanpreppie05]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183968\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 11:38 AM\']
I've got more ideas:

• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.

[/quote]
Tell us how you really feel, Mr. Lemon. :-)

I liked the Safe Crackers and One Away Games. A lot. Half Off and Clock Game I was slightly indifferent with. I HATED Plinko and Range's games. Personally, I would offer cash/prize bonuses instead, reserving the One Million dollar game for the showcases only.

[TheInquisitiveOne]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183968\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 10:38 AM\']
I've got more ideas:

• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.
• Don't give away a friggin' million dollars.

[/quote]

I take it that you're happy with a nighttime PIR without the need for a $1,000,000 attachment?

If so, count me as one of the interested.

The Inquisitive One

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'183974\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:01 AM\']
I take it that you're happy with a nighttime PIR without the need for a $1,000,000 attachment?[/quote]
Yep. Worked just fine in '86. I was marginally ok with it being given out for a DSW or a Showcase Showdown bonus spin (and even then: really, do they not have enough confidence in the show to let it stand on its own?), but this crap with pasting it onto the pricing games in an UTTERLY haphazard fashion just so the Bandit_Bobby's of the world can get a chubby while they bounce up and down in their little chairs is just idiotic.

[urbanpreppie05]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183977\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 12:57 PM\']
[quote name=\'TheInquisitiveOne\' post=\'183974\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 09:01 AM\']
I take it that you're happy with a nighttime PIR without the need for a $1,000,000 attachment?[/quote]
Yep. Worked just fine in '86. I was marginally ok with it being given out for a DSW or a Showcase Showdown bonus spin (and even then: really, do they not have enough confidence in the show to let it stand on its own?), but this crap with pasting it onto the pricing games in an UTTERLY haphazard fashion just so the Bandit_Bobby's of the world can get a chubby while they bounce up and down in their little chairs is just idiotic.
[/quote]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the 86' specials do miserably ratings wise?

I feel that maybe the network now has to feel that for a game show to succeed in Primetime it has to give out a Million Dollars because everyone else is too. Now of course I don't feel that's true, but an example of this is Singing Bee and Don't forget the Lyrics. IMHO, I think one of the major reasons why people didnt gravitate toward Bee is because the top prize was only $50,000. I say this only because I read that on a few other message boards. And with the current state of idiotic "style & cash over substance" in television today, should we really be surprised?

[J.R.]

[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'183980\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 12:36 PM\']Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the 86' specials do miserably ratings wise?[/quote]
It ran against Cosby, IIRC.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'183980\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 10:36 AM\']
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the 86' specials do miserably ratings wise?[/quote]
Perhaps. I don't know and don't really care, to be honest. Joe's right in that it was Thursdays at 8, up against the NBC juggernaut lineup, though.

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'183987\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 03:59 PM\'][quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'183980\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 10:36 AM\']Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt the 86' specials do miserably ratings wise?[/quote]Perhaps. I don't know and don't really care, to be honest.[/quote]
So...you don't care that your assertion of "it worked in 1986" was wrong?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' post=\'183997\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 05:08 PM\']
So...you don't care that your assertion of "it worked in 1986" was wrong?[/quote]
I don't think it was wrong. I thought it worked just fine. That they didn't beat the juggernaut that was NBC Thursday night (and make no mistake: NOBODY beat that juggernaut...putting the TPiR Special up again them was suicide before they ever went to air) is immaterial to me. I did not watch the show and say "ya know, this feels kinda cheap."

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'183973\' date=\'Apr 14 2008, 12:00 PM\']
Personally, I would offer cash/prize bonuses instead, reserving the One Million dollar game for the showcases only.
[/quote]

Exactly!  It's just like what I said before -- DSW only within $1,000 and DSW + $1M within $250.   But now that Fremantle has opened up the Pandora's Box full of the Mo' Money Syndrome, it's kind of hard to pull back on the way they give away the million now -- unless they keep it off of primetime for the rest of the season hoping Mr & Mrs. average viewer will forget how they have done it when the show returns to primetime next year.

That said, if Fremantle is still looking for $1M pricing games:

Pass The Buck: The contestant must have all 3 picks AND get the CAR space on the first pick.

For the million, they must play out the final 2 picks -- If the player hits LOSE EVERYTHING in either of the remaining 2 picks, game over!