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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by SuperMatch93 on March 24, 2024, 03:11:52 PM »
A while back, I posted in a Discord server a dream I had regarding a new format for Concentration, and this seems like the appropriate place to share it:

-Two games of Concentration are played with two different players each game.
-The winner of each game returns for a playoff round called the "Three-bus." A rebus is revealed piece by piece (randomly, not in order) and the first player to buzz in with the correct answer wins a point. A wrong answer reveals the whole puzzle to your opponent, CC sudden death-style. Three points and you win the day.

My dream didn't contain a bonus round, but one I've thought of in the past is basically Quintuple Play. You get 30 seconds to solve five fully revealed rebuses. $250 for each one, $10,000 if you get all five.

Was the above a dream or a nightmare? You decide!
Threebus is a great name!

I think we're dealing with a similar issue with timing for this version. Assuming we're trying to fit this into 22 minutes, you're adding a whole new element- a playoff- into a show that often called time halfway into the second puzzle. Maybe if you reduce the size of the rebus again (20 spaces?) maybe we can fit all of that in.

Do you think that it would be too short a format for an hour? Most newer network shows are that length anyway.
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by TLEberle on March 24, 2024, 02:52:58 PM »
One thing I miss from the original is the Forfeit cards.
 
Granted, the show would throw in cheap gag gifts on the board to use in the forfeits, but occasionally you had situations where a player had to part with a decent prize to fulfill the forfeit.

Using forfeits in modern day games, when all prizes are decent would throw in another layer of strategy for players.
What strategy? Don't match an exposed forfeit?
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by Jeremy Nelson on March 24, 2024, 02:16:14 PM »
A while back, I posted in a Discord server a dream I had regarding a new format for Concentration, and this seems like the appropriate place to share it:

-Two games of Concentration are played with two different players each game.
-The winner of each game returns for a playoff round called the "Three-bus." A rebus is revealed piece by piece (randomly, not in order) and the first player to buzz in with the correct answer wins a point. A wrong answer reveals the whole puzzle to your opponent, CC sudden death-style. Three points and you win the day.

My dream didn't contain a bonus round, but one I've thought of in the past is basically Quintuple Play. You get 30 seconds to solve five fully revealed rebuses. $250 for each one, $10,000 if you get all five.

Was the above a dream or a nightmare? You decide!
Threebus is a great name!

I think we're dealing with a similar issue with timing for this version. Assuming we're trying to fit this into 22 minutes, you're adding a whole new element- a playoff- into a show that often called time halfway into the second puzzle. Maybe if you reduce the size of the rebus again (20 spaces?) maybe we can fit all of that in.
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by Clay Zambo on March 24, 2024, 01:11:04 PM »
The biggest obstacle for a show like Concentration nowadays is that short of TPIR and LMAD, game shows hardly give small-scale prizes away anymore. The prizes that do exist are either cars or trips. When Classic Concentration was on, you still had manufacturers willing to offer up merchandise either for free or at a significant discount in return for getting their wares featured on the show. Without that as a way to barter for prizes, productions would have to pay out-of-pocket for any prizes they have on the board, and nobody wants to do that anymore.

But why does it have to be prizes? Concentration works perfectly well with amounts of cash or playing cards. *We* know it as “the game of puzzles and prizes,” but a new generation wouldn’t.
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by TimK2003 on March 24, 2024, 11:10:27 AM »
One thing I miss from the original is the Forfeit cards.
 
Granted, the show would throw in cheap gag gifts on the board to use in the forfeits, but occasionally you had situations where a player had to part with a decent prize to fulfill the forfeit.

Using forfeits in modern day games, when all prizes are decent would throw in another layer of strategy for players.
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The Big Board / Re: People: Mike Richards speaks about J! experience, firing
« Last post by jjman920 on March 24, 2024, 12:08:33 AM »
In the end, what should have happened in the first place became the reality. Ken is host

I'm not following why so many people think this should have happened.  Should not the job of hosting TV's biggest quiz show have gone to someone with some actual broadcasting and game show hosting experience (Much as I think Mark L. Walberg should have gotten a crack at it, Tom Bergeron was the best suggestion I heard; and I think he ought not to have publicly turned down the suggestion that he'd be a good contender)?
Because Ken is a familiar face, which I'm sure they weighted heavily. I think, arguably, Ken is the most famous Jeopardy contestant of all-time in the show's 50 year history. It was clear from the moment they hired Ken to read an entire category of clues on air that he was the show's choice to step in for Alex at a moment's notice and, as revealed last year, he was planned to take over for Alex *before* Alex's death.

Ken wasn't as polished as a Walberg or Bergeron, but in terms of someone being familiar to audience and a comforting presence to the contestants onstage, it's Ken. That's been the biggest advantage for him when compared to the other guest hosts and Mayim. He really offers up a genuine connection to the contestants because he knows more than anyone what they're going through, and you can see it as he talks to them.
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by TLEberle on March 23, 2024, 09:50:55 PM »
I think in a world of clip art where every image can be stored and keyed into a server and you can grab-drag-drop that creating puzzles would not be a problem. (If you need the word "again" you grab an egg and a hen.) I think Quintuple Play could be interesting as a way to build time for a matching game--the puzzle solving never felt particularly dramatic when against the clock.

The one issue you might have is going to five rebuses (rebi?) before declaring a winner, which is a lot of content without a palate cleanswer in the form of a bonus round.
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by SuperMatch93 on March 23, 2024, 09:40:14 PM »
A while back, I posted in a Discord server a dream I had regarding a new format for Concentration, and this seems like the appropriate place to share it:

-Two games of Concentration are played with two different players each game.
-The winner of each game returns for a playoff round called the "Three-bus." A rebus is revealed piece by piece (randomly, not in order) and the first player to buzz in with the correct answer wins a point. A wrong answer reveals the whole puzzle to your opponent, CC sudden death-style. Three points and you win the day.

My dream didn't contain a bonus round, but one I've thought of in the past is basically Quintuple Play. You get 30 seconds to solve five fully revealed rebuses. $250 for each one, $10,000 if you get all five.

Was the above a dream or a nightmare? You decide!
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The Big Board / Re: Proposed format for Concentration
« Last post by PYLdude on March 23, 2024, 07:27:36 PM »
I thought the 70s version got it as close to “right” as you could get.

You play two games, two bonus rounds, and if you’ve got enough time for a third game, have fun with it.

As far as the bonus round, as I said before, the car match and Double Play both work; at that point it’d just be a matter of what you’d consider to be more of the crux of the game, the rebuses or the memorization of patterns. (IIRC my solution was to have Double Play but give the champion ten seconds for each rebus as opposed to ten total seconds for both.)
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The Big Board / Re: Hosts in the intro?
« Last post by whewfan on March 23, 2024, 06:00:50 PM »
I recall at some point when Bill Cullen was a fill in host after Garry's retirement, the panel was introduced first, then Bill. I guess they thought it was awkward that Bill was already there, seated, and couldn't really make an entrance in the same way he did when he was a panelist. I think the producers just made this change for the second run because Garry Moore isn't Bud Collyer. Bud played it straight, and Garry liked doing bits at the start, so it's just a way for Garry to make the show his own.
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