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If Sale of the Century were returning...
urbanpreppie05:
Here's how I'd do it:
Round 1: Questions worth $50 each
Instant Bargain
Round 2: Question worths $50 each
Instant Bargain
Fame Game-played same as before, except it's back to faces. if the show were on a network, it would use the faces of stars from that network. If it were syndicated, it could be any stars.
Round 3: Questions worth $100 each
Instant Bargain
Fame Game
Speed Round: Questions worth $100 each.
All contestants recive their scores in cash and the prizes they won on stage.
The end Game: The $ale of the Century
Contestantswin it all if they reach a score of $7,500. This makes it so that better players can win in shorter amounts of time. Here's the prize chart. As before, they \"buy\" these prizes at greatly reduced prices.
Day #1- A trip, valued at 7-9K
Day #2- 3 rooms of furniture, valued at 15K
Day #3- A $20,000 shopping Spree at the Mall of America
Day #4- A Trip Around the World, valued at 30K or so
Day #5- A Boat, valued at 40 K
Day #6- A luxury Car, valued at at least 50K
At this part of the game, they MUST buy the prize-but can walk at anytime. (If I'm rusty with the rules, forgive me. I remember the last 2 endgames more.)
Day #7- The contestant has the option of walking away with all the loot (at least 100K) or playing an additional puzzle (like in the last few years) for a cash jackpot starting at 100K and increasing 10K each day it is not won. Sounds easy right? (at least the puzzles were then) Wrong. These are going to be a little harder, making for a big risk. If the contestant loses, they lose all prizes, except any instant bargain/fame game wins and the $7,500 won.
Set: A cross between the latter-day aussie years, with some american flair. The contestant podiums would have glass block behind it, staying blue-tinted during the question round, green during the IB/FG parts, and Red during the Speed Round. Geographically, everything would be set up exactly as it was before in the 80s, but the center \"pit\" would have the logo on it-it would also have a rising podium to display prizes, opening very similar to the James Bond movies (twisting open). The doors would also be used for some prizes, but wouldn't open fully until the end of the game (when they split apart). In the $ale round, the only prize on screen would be-the car, and a gratuitous 100,000+ sign. The rest of the prizes would be on flat screen TV's and slide out on stage (like Name that Video) and would be purplely-blue when not won, and would turn red with a red \"SOLD\" sign on it.
Theme: I like the Aussie themes better-they're slightly faster than ours.
Host: This, I never figured out. Any suggestions?
Jimmy Owen:
One of the things that was unique about $ale was that you could buy things at incredibly low prices. If each question is valued at $50 or $100 bucks, where is the temptation about buying say, a home gym for $7? It was very exciting, in fact, the high point of the show, to see someone hit the Fame Game board for $25. I have an idea for a non-straddling $ale. I'll post it if there is any interest.
Clay Zambo:
Sure, J, post away. But haven't all versions of Sale been non-straddling? And frankly, I don't know of anything worth \"fixing\" in Sale, beyond the endgame.
You're right about the $50 and $100 questions, though; $5 questions are all that the game needs. Maybe $10s for a final round, but I doubt that. Heck, $1 questions are plenty if the IBs and Instant Cash keep the game tight.
urbanpreppie05:
Well...I probably should've mentioned that all of the IB prizes would be between 1500-4000, meaning the IB values would be higher too. All i did, essentially was add a \"0\" to the old values. In fact, I remembered my original notes on \"my revival\" and I'll edit my previous post.
Jimmy Owen:
Perhaps I should have called it the \"non-returning champ\" format. At the end of the show, the winner would go shopping with the cash won in the main game without knowing the sale prices. The winner would then have to create a \"Shopping List\" choosing five prizes they want while keeping within their budget. If they keep within budget, they win every prize on stage. If not, they get the five prizes they picked as consolation. A low main game money score most likely would send a player over budget pretty quickly, but at least they would get some nice prizes. anyway.
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