Pyramid Question

[gsgalaxy82]

Me and a friend have been debating something about Pyramid. On the $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid, if a player won the first Winner's Circle (for $10,000), and then the second (for $25,000), would they win $25,000 total, or would they win $35,000. I had always heard they won just $25,000, forfeiting the first win just about. Thanks in advance.

David

[whammy5000]

If they win the second winner's circle, regardless of how the first one went, it's $25,000 total.  That's on the $25K & $100K Pyramids.  On Osmond's version, you'd have to win both winner's circles to get the full $25,000.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'whammy5000\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 04:08 PM\']If they win the second winner's circle, regardless of how the first one went, it's $25,000 total.  That's on the $25K & $100K Pyramids.  On Osmond's version, you'd have to win both winner's circles to get the full $25,000.

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I challenge that, based on things I've heard in other places. Plus, in the second season of Osmond's Pyramid, the second Winner's Circle was for $25,000 more on top of the $10K first win. I'm also fairly sure on The $25K Pyramid that one was worth $10 and the other $25 (ten and twenty-five thousand, that is...imagine this: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's the Twenty-Five Dollar Pyramid?")

Confirmation, please?

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 04:50 PM\'][quote name=\'whammy5000\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 04:08 PM\']If they win the second winner's circle, regardless of how the first one went, it's $25,000 total.  That's on the $25K & $100K Pyramids.  On Osmond's version, you'd have to win both winner's circles to get the full $25,000.

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I challenge that, based on things I've heard in other places. Plus, in the second season of Osmond's Pyramid, the second Winner's Circle was for $25,000 more on top of the $10K first win. I'm also fairly sure on The $25K Pyramid that one was worth $10 and the other $25 (ten and twenty-five thousand, that is...imagine this: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's the Twenty-Five Dollar Pyramid?")

Confirmation, please?

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Regarding the Osmond Pyramid, here's confirmation that you're wrong. $25 for 2 wins. Period.

[clemon79]

I want to say that for a period of time on the Clark $25K Pyramid, you could win $35K by running both WC's, but that fairly quickly they changed it so that the second win on the same day was for $25K, and the $10K from a previous win "went away".

[mystery7]

I always remembered it as $10,000 for the first win and $15,000 for the second win for a total of $25,000. "$25,000" just had a better ring to it.

[TV Favorites]

On the Osmond version, it definately was a total of $25,000 for getting up the Pyramid on both Winner's Circle rounds.  On the second win, $15,000 would flash a couple of times before $25,000 would flash on screen.

[That Don Guy]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 05:23 PM\']I want to say that for a period of time on the Clark $25K Pyramid, you could win $35K by running both WC's, but that fairly quickly they changed it so that the second win on the same day was for $25K, and the $10K from a previous win "went away".

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Maybe when they brought it back and started calling it The New $25,000 Pyramid, but I definitely remember seeing the first Clark $25,000 winner, and Dick said that the player had won $25,000 (so whatever money was won in the first WC was lost).

This is also how the Cullen version worked; he mentioned it a few times to make it clear that the total would be $25,000 (in fact, when someone won $10,000 in the first WC and made it back the second time, Bill said that they were playing for another $15,000).

-- Don

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 10:24 PM\']This is also how the Cullen version worked; he mentioned it a few times to make it clear that the total would be $25,000 (in fact, when someone won $10,000 in the first WC and made it back the second time, Bill said that they were playing for another $15,000).[/quote]
I know I've said this before, but it's just so wonderfully Stewart that I have to say it again.  I have records from the first season of Cullen's version, and one player not only won $25,000 but also a car in the main game.  The value of the car was subtracted from his $25,000 cash winnings.

[Jimmy Owen]

CBS limits at the time had something to do with it as well.  Cullen Pyramid was a CBS O&O show for all but the last year.  WCBS was supposed to have aired "The $128,000 Question" until somebody remembered the limit.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 05:18 PM\'][quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 04:50 PM\'][quote name=\'whammy5000\' date=\'Mar 10 2005, 04:08 PM\']If they win the second winner's circle, regardless of how the first one went, it's $25,000 total.  That's on the $25K & $100K Pyramids.  On Osmond's version, you'd have to win both winner's circles to get the full $25,000.

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I challenge that, based on things I've heard in other places. Plus, in the second season of Osmond's Pyramid, the second Winner's Circle was for $25,000 more on top of the $10K first win. I'm also fairly sure on The $25K Pyramid that one was worth $10 and the other $25 (ten and twenty-five thousand, that is...imagine this: "From Television City in Hollywood, it's the Twenty-Five Dollar Pyramid?")

Confirmation, please?

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Regarding the Osmond Pyramid, here's confirmation that you're wrong. $25 for 2 wins. Period.

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My mistake. Carry on.

[dmota104]

I know some (if not most or even all) of us would rather forget the John Davidson days of The $100,000 Pyramid.  But I vaguely recall one civilian contestant won the first WC round -- and then the same show's second WC round.  John classified that as a $35,000 total payoff.

Whether this was attributed to Bob Stewart opening up the bank account or another John faux pas, I'll never know.  I was either living in a market that didn't have the Davidson version -- or the market had a station that aired the show at one lousy time slot.  The handful of Davidson shows I've seen were during vacations.

[starcade]

They made it much clearer later on in the Osmond Pyramid.  When a contestant won a second WC, the original amount shown would be the $15K they won for the second win -- then the $25K would be shown shortly thereafter.

[ChuckNet]

I vaguely recall one civilian contestant won the first WC round -- and then the same show's second WC round. John classified that as a $35,000 total payoff.

Although you can't exactly trust whatever John Davidson says. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[ITSBRY]

[quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'Mar 11 2005, 06:30 PM\']I know some (if not most or even all) of us would rather forget the John Davidson days of The $100,000 Pyramid.  But I vaguely recall one civilian contestant won the first WC round -- and then the same show's second WC round.  John classified that as a $35,000 total payoff.

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If that happened it was either:

A- A Davidson screw up
B- Something that happened early in the run that was later changed to the 'classic' rules.

I have several episodes from Davidson Pyramid on tape and in just about every one, he specifically mentions right after his intro that you can win a TOTAL of $25,000 in the winner's circle.

I tend to believe the former is the more likely of the two choices and that they made him explain it so often because of that or perhaps he did it voluntarily to remind himself! The guy wasn't horrible at hosting Pyramid, but he did 'forget' things or make small flubs like that quite often.

ITSBRY
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