[quote name=\'saussage\' date=\'Apr 18 2005, 10:07 PM\']I guess people could get creative to raise the money pot. Have the highest bowler go to a "bonus round" and bowl strike to determine the multiplier. Up to 10 strikes limit, anything but a strike and the multiplier stops and gets calculated in the total. A game total of $1500 with a multiplier of 5 (5 strikes) would make a grand total of $7500. Not bad for a night of bowling
... oh yeah, and give the pin pal a year's supply of rice-a-roni.
Actually, splitting the dough with a pin pal would suck nowadays because it's like splitting pennies. Matching the $ amounts between pin pal and bowler might work better during regular play. For my bonus round idea, it would only apply to the bowler, not the pin pal.
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Either that, or...have two bowlers compete in a "main game" played like 10-frame bowling, but only one ball per frame and 3 in the 10th, with only strikes counting. Most strikes wins and plays for the jackpot, which can be won with three strikes in a row [a "turkey" in bowling terms]. Ties would be broken either by "extra frames" or, alternatively, by pin count.
The "pin pal" element could come during a designated frame, in which a strike means a nice prize for a lucky home viewer.
If this show were aired in syndication [as opposed to franchised, like the original
BFD], the winner of the main game would get $1000 and play for a jackpot of $10,000; if the winner rolled 11 strikes, he'd win $2000, making the jackpot worth $20,000; a 12-strike perfect game would mean a $5000 win, and a $50,000 jackpot opportunity.
[Losers would receive $50 a strike, or a consolation prize if no strikes]