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Million Dollar Word Game?

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Fedya:
What's wrong with unscrambling 12-letter words?  Don't you remember Winning Streak?  :-)

joe_capitano:
A couple more observations. This was a pay-to-play game. You had to call one of those 1-900 numbers just to enter the pool. Having only seen the show when A1TV was webcast freely I didn't get to see the game as much. I didn't have "unlimited internet" back then.

After the show went off, if I remember correctly, the people responsible for MDWG came up with an internet version which had a grand prize of $10 million - awarded in some Caribbean locale - and you had to travel there to collect the loot.

The scheme never flew. They needed a sizeable minimum number of suck- ... er, players to cough up the $100 buy-in. - . At last count (and this was two or three years ago) they hadn't even cracked 8,000. Evidently the website has vaporized.

The website in question had several similar games, all with huge prizes, and few takers.

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