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Questions about 21
clemon79:
[quote name=\'whampyl03\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 03:29 PM\'] I personally think it should have been $2500 per point lead over opponent, with an extra $2500 added for every tie game...
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We went over the whole \"per-point\" thing on ATGS when these first aired. I said then, and I stand by it, that today's generation would be way WAY confused by the \"per point\" system, because kids these days simply don't play card games like gin and cribbage and such where they would be introduced to the \"per-point\" concept.
I am also firmly of the opinion that 21 didn't work because , while it might have been enthralling in the 1950s, forty and change years later it really is a fairly mediocre game, and NBC tried to make it interesting by throwing money at it. Hell, 21 is the damn POSTER-BOY for Mo' Money Syndrome. :)
GS Warehouse:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 07:07 PM\'] I am also firmly of the opinion that 21 didn't work because , while it might have been enthralling in the 1950s, forty and change years later it really is a fairly mediocre game, and NBC tried to make it interesting by throwing money at it. Hell, 21 is the damn POSTER-BOY for Mo' Money Syndrome. :) [/quote]
In honor of the marathon, I watched a tape of Quiz Show last night, and it said people watch for the money. As we have seen the last four years, that is not always the case. While Survivor, Fear Factor, and Big Brother perservere, countless others (especially lately) have come and gone.
clemon79:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 07:33 PM\'] In honor of the marathon, I watched a tape of Quiz Show last night, and it said people watch for the money. [/quote]
As you know, Quiz Show says a lot of things. Some of them are even accurate. ;)
tomobrien:
[quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 04:35 PM\']In fact, if you were watching the reruns on GSN today, you probably caught the episode in which a player struck out and Maury made that fact known to his opponent before he selected his question value for his turn of play. [/quote]
And the game with Chris Franciosa in the booth, where Chris had 8 and his opponent had 19 points. Chris chooses 10, which means he can't even tie her. Instead of stopping the game and awarding it to the opponent, Maury reads the question.
It is rather like seeing Sonny Fox stumble through The $64,000 Challenge...
J.R.:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Sep 21 2003, 07:07 PM\'] Hell, 21 is the damn POSTER-BOY for Mo' Money Syndrome. :) [/quote]
When I'm asked what I think about \"Twenty One\" this is my answer:
Maury: \"For 6 points: What is 4 + 3 ?\"
Contestant: \"7\"
Maury: \"YOU WON $300,000 !!!!\"
'nuff said.
-Joe R.
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