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If Password returned,
clemon79:
[quote name=\'willmorris\' date=\'Jun 19 2003, 10:05 AM\'] Each team gets up to three guesses and for each missed guess except B's last
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Basic Law Of Game Show Design: If you need to use the word \"except\" when forming a rule, rethink the rule.
There are exceptions (\"Can't put a circle there, you have to earn that yourself\" comes to mind), but this isn't one of them.
[quote name=\'tom0930\' date=\'Jun 19 2003,11:16 AM\']The bonus round should be called \"The Big Money Lightning Round\"[/quote]
Only if your set design involves game elements sitting among huge hunks of cheese. Then this name fits in fine.
--- Quote --- and played like Alphabetics...
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Then why not call it \"Alphabetics?\"
(And yes, I thought referring to the endgame as \"Super Password\" when it was still Alphabetics was stupid, too.)
--- Quote ---the cue used on TPIR's Pushover would work under the lightning round (subtle intensity)
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There should be a law that every game show bonus round involving a clock use the 70's/80's Pyramid clock sound. There is no better, the ultimate has been uncovered, further experimentation is unnecessary.
Clay Zambo:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 19 2003, 02:35 PM\'] There should be a law that every game show bonus round involving a clock use the 70's/80's Pyramid clock sound. There is no better, the ultimate has been uncovered, further experimentation is unnecessary. [/quote]
Wouldn't it get a little dull, though? There might be no better FX, but I'm perfectly willing to hear lesser sounds now and again in the interest of variety. (And to keep freelance sound designers at work!)
That clock is a damn fine sound, I'll grant you...
clemon79:
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' date=\'Jun 19 2003, 07:55 PM\'] Wouldn't it get a little dull, though? There might be no better FX, but I'm perfectly willing to hear lesser sounds now and again in the interest of variety. (And to keep freelance sound designers at work!)
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You're right, of course. But you see my point...why steal something else, why not try to be original? If you're GONNA steal, the perfect thing to steal is out there and acknowledged, don't bother stealing something lesser. But I agree originality can be a good thing...I paraphrase from I think it's Keith Olbermann who writes in his and Dan Patrick's excellent book The Big Show: \"Don't try to sound like Bob Costas, because you deny yourself the opportunity to sound like somebody else...or maybe somebody better.\"
Dan Sadro:
Okay, there are a few issues at hand.
First is \"puzzles or not\". I don't think that you can bring the original Password back while Pyramid is on the air without it seeming like a knockoff. Remember, Pyramid was an 'improvement' on the old Password format and logically came after it. Since Pyramid isn't doing excremently good in ratings, why would you bring back an older, slower version of the show?
So, assuming puzzles, you have to come up with a format which is both simple and allows for a non-straddling format. A game like Password is not as compelling as WWTBAM or Survivor, and likely wouldn't hold similar amounts of interest overnight. And the problem with best two-out-of-three matches is that there's the odd chance the game would end early, and you've got four minutes to fill.
So, if I really had to revive this show (and keep in mind that I probably wouldn't want to revive it at this time anyway), I'd probably have three games, each worth a certain amount of money but each round being equal (say, $500) and then an Alphabetics-type round for ten times whatever is won. Even if the game is decided after two puzzles, there's a reason to play a third game -- the winner wants an extra $500 and a chance to turn it into $5000, and the loser still wants to pocket $500.
--- Quote ---Basic Law Of Game Show Design: If you need to use the word \"except\" when forming a rule, rethink the rule.
There are exceptions[...]
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Does that mean that you need to rethink the Basic Law of GS Design?
TonicBH:
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with Password+/SP's format. Except I'd do it like this: Best of 3, winner recieves $500, Alphabetics played for $10,000 and increases $5,000 'til won. I was thinking maybe let the Ca$hword be a random thing, and maybe start that at the SP amount: $1,000 and increase $500 (or something) 'til won.
Maybe mix in both P+'s and SP's set. If they wanna reuse a theme, use either one. If they wanna make a new theme, make it sound SOMETHING close to the original theme! (or something)
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