Question About Million $ TPiR Specials

[itsme]

*SPOILERS I GUESS*

Has anyone won the $1,000,000 yet?  I actually haven't been able to watch the more recent ones.  I did see the rerun tonight where someone had the spinner sit right on the peg of the $1.00 space during his bonus spin, but did anyone actually win it?

[zachhoran]

No one won the Million Dollars on the primetime specials, two people came as close as you describe.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'itsme\' date=\'Jun 28 2003, 07:11 PM\'] *SPOILERS I GUESS*
 [/quote]
 Here's a hint: if you think what you're going to post needs spoiler space, you need to make sure it's more than one line, because one line does not do one single solitary whit of good. The idea is to force the reader to have to actively scroll down to read the message.

Of course, it would be BEST if you mentioned it in the subject line (ESPECIALLY outside of the Show Spoilers subgroup), so that people who didn't want the show ruined flat-out don't open the message to start with.

[Matt Ottinger]

On the other hand, I'm not sure we've ever had someone mark SPOILER for a legitimate question that wasn't itself a spoiler, but would theoretically lead to one.  My brain hurts just thinking about it.

[Fedya]

Our fearless leader and Master of the Quizbusters Matt Ottinger wrote:

On the other hand, I'm not sure we've ever had someone mark SPOILER for a legitimate question that wasn't itself a spoiler, but would theoretically lead to one. My brain hurts just thinking about it.

Also, how long ago did the last of the $1M specials originally air (for the first time)?  I don't know that we need the spoiler any more since they're airing repeats.

[TheInquisitiveOne]

To answer the last post, the latest three of the Million Dollar Spectaculars aired on May 10, 17, and 24.

The Inquisitive One

[cmjb13]

Phil Rossi told me they took out a $1M insurance policy in case somebody wins.

I guess they don't expect more than 1 person to win the million, especially in one show.

My guess is these specials will continue until somebody wins.

[zachhoran]

May 3rd, 10th, and 17th is when the last of the Million Dollar Spectaculars aired in first-run. May 24th-June 28th saw Saturday primetime special reruns.

[Matt Ottinger]

I guess they don't expect more than 1 person to win the million, especially in one show.

I'm sure the miniscule possibility of that is still figured into the insurance policy.  Insurers simply calculate the odds of an event happening and figure out how much to charge someone to cover the risk of that event happening.   The nice thing about the Big Wheel is that there are mathematical certainties involved, making the risks a lot more easy to calculate than getting into an auto accident or something.

[James Allen]

Phil Rossi told me they took out a $1M insurance policy in case somebody wins.

I guess they don't expect more than 1 person to win the million, especially in one show.

How many times has there been multiple $10K winners on the daytime show? (I remember seeing 2 winners at least once, but that was awhile ago.)

[zachhoran]

Not too often, it wasn't until about five years ago that two $10K winners occurred in the same SCSD. I think there have been four of five total occurrences of the latter.

[itsme]

To make a comment about the Spoiler thing, the first thing someone would notice in reading my first post is the spoiler warning -- I don't see how anyone could read, or be \"spoiled\" by my message with the spoiler warning as blatant as it is

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'itsme\' date=\'Jul 1 2003, 06:48 PM\'] To make a comment about the Spoiler thing, the first thing someone would notice in reading my first post is the spoiler warning -- I don't see how anyone could read, or be "spoiled" by my message with the spoiler warning as blatant as it is [/quote]
 Or so you think.

Many of us can glance just for a hair of a second at a paragraph and at least get an inkling of what the subject matter of the post is...and once that's happened, however small, it's spoiled. Someone who wants to avoid a spoiler does not want to see the LEAST LITTLE BIT of information that MIGHT give away the results of a show.

So you don't see how it can happen, and I'm telling you (and with a fair amount of experience with these things) that it can, and quite easily.

You don't have to take my advice to heart, but I'm trying to save you from the hell you WILL catch (from everyone, not just me) if you do that again and end up blowing something major.

[itsme]

I come from a message board where such a spoiler warning is always acceptable, but if you think a simple paragraph will catch peoples' attention moreso than a completely capatilized, between-asteriks statement, I'll be more careful.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'itsme\' date=\'Jul 2 2003, 07:36 AM\'] I come from a message board where such a spoiler warning is always acceptable, but if you think a simple paragraph will catch peoples' attention moreso than a completely capatilized, between-asteriks statement, I'll be more careful. [/quote]
 I don't \"think\". I _know_.

And like I said, it's even better to put the spoiler warning in the message topic so people don't even open the message to start with, which makes the whole thing moot.

(I don't mean to harp, but people are VERY sensitive about spoiler issues around here, so we're probably a little more anal about it than, say, the Buffy groups.