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The Big Board / Re: Celebrity listings for "Musical Chairs" and "You Don't Say!" ('75)
« Last post by calliaume on November 08, 2025, 07:32:11 PM »
Best guess: maybe YDS! was in contention to take the time slot that eventually went to The Neighbors. Which in retrospect would have been the better choice.

Now I really want to see Dusty Springfield as a celebrity guest —if only for a few minutes.
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by JasonA1 on November 08, 2025, 05:30:16 AM »
Quote from: Kevin Prather on November 08, 2025, 12:44:31 AM
Pretty sure the Banks version is already three questions per round, isn't it?

The standard is 3 questions in the first round and 4 in the second. Early in the first season, it was 4 and 4, and apparently in season 2, they had 3 and 3 for some episodes. (No idea if perhaps they were playing 4 in the second round, but edited one out.)

-Jason
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by Kevin Prather on November 08, 2025, 12:44:31 AM »
Quote from: The Ol' Guy on November 07, 2025, 11:34:09 PM
maybe just three questions per round, as the free spins on the board can make up for earning fewer spins to start.

Pretty sure the Banks version is already three questions per round, isn't it?
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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by The Ol' Guy on November 07, 2025, 11:34:09 PM »
My suggestion would be to play two shortened complete games. Three contestants play the first game. The high scoring player stays on stage while three new players play another full game - maybe just three questions per round, as the free spins on the board can make up for earning fewer spins to start. The challenge in the second game is to have one of the players top the winner of the first one. If no one in the second game earns more than the winner in the first game, the first round champ goes on to play a shorter but high stakes bonus - something that can be played out within, say, 10 minutes max. Obviously, if someone in game two beats the high total of the game one player, they go to the bonus. Good for extra tension as the first round champ sweats over every second game spin. 
Back to the orig topic, the front game of Let's Play Post Office beat the bonus quickies - they were like the Stewart "Riddlers" bonus lines.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by The Ol' Guy on November 07, 2025, 11:22:41 PM »
A vote for Stewart's Winning Streak. Lame front game, but the end game, with some similarities to Beat The Odds, was good. Blindly picking letters one at a time and being challenged to use every letter picked in a single word for double the money each time was quite the challenge.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 07, 2025, 06:33:17 PM »
Quote from: CeleTheRef on November 07, 2025, 05:55:34 PM
Guillotine bonus round
Damn European game shows are intense. :P
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by CeleTheRef on November 07, 2025, 05:55:34 PM »
Many examples in Italy, writers here seem to put a lot of effort into the bonus round.
 
L'Eredità (now in Season 24) became a staple only when the Guillotine bonus round was introduced.
Avanti un Altro!'s front game is pretty much a comedy show with some questions mixed in, but the bonus round has been imitated on YouTube (21 Questions Wrong).
And the most recent example is the "triple bonus round" (3 puzzles in 60 seconds) on Wheel of Fortune, which is often the most watched quarter hour in the country.
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The Big Board / CBS And Sony Settle Dispute Over WOF And Jeopardy
« Last post by DoItRockapella on November 07, 2025, 05:23:57 PM »
I'm never sure when to bump a months-old thread and when to create a new one, but anyway:

https://deadline.com/2025/11/jeopardy-wheel-of-fortune-war-cbs-sony-settle-dispute-1236611216/

So to clarify - the syndicated Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy are distributed by a part of Paramount (or Skydance or whatever they're called right now) and can be streamed on Peacock, Hulu, and Disney+. Primetime extensions of the two shows (most notably Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune and Celebrity Jeopardy) run on ABC and can be streamed on Hulu. Pop Culture Jeopardy season one was on Amazon Prime Video, and Pop Culture Jeopardy season two will be on Netflix.

Uh, OK.

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The Big Board / Re: Front game over the bonus round?
« Last post by MSTieScott on November 07, 2025, 05:00:03 PM »
Tell the contestants they don't have to deliver a monologue before every play/pass decision, tell Elizabeth to stop dragging down the proceedings to ask contestants how they're feeling, and don't try to make a meal out of every prize value reveal.

They could fit an unedited main game into a half hour if they wanted to.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Loogaroo on November 07, 2025, 03:41:27 PM »
Yeah, it would be nice if they had more valuable prizes in the boxes on offer to make it a little bit more strategic as to when to keep a prize and when to exchange it. But then again, the whole fun of the round was watching the husband run up and down the stairs for 90 seconds and marvel at the fact that nobody ever took a tumble carrying those boxes without holding a handrail.
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