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If Password returned,
Brandon Brooks:
[quote name=\'DrJWJustice\' date=\'Jun 21 2003, 05:55 PM\'] Michael Brandenberg's idea isn't bad at all. Slight changes like that do improve the game without adding so much that they take away from the essense of the game play. I'm not too keen on the $10,000 non-progressive pot. I'd probably kick it off at $25,000 minimum and increase it every time it's not won. I'd also rather see shows straddle, kind of like those damned soap operas -- wanna know how it turns out? Tune in tomorrow. As for the jump-in idea, the jury's out on that one as far as I'm concerned. [/quote]
That's \"mo' money\" syndrome. $10,000 isn't a bad haul for a win at a bonus game, and if there is returning champions, all the better.
Straddling's fine, but this game can well possibly be contained in a half hour.
Brandon Brooks
Clay Zambo:
Re: Michael's suggestion for the last puzzle: Save \"All-Stars\" and the \"Password\" that followed it, buzz-ins haven't been a big part of \"Password\"--I'd kinda like to keep 'em out of this. How 'bout revealing puzzle-clues one at a time, giving the team in the lead a chance to answer after the first clue, then alternating 'til the puzzle's solved?
Variations/Adjustments: Let the team in the lead have the option to play first or second.
If there's a tie, the team who solved more Puzzles (or won more Passwords?) throughout the show plays first (or has the option).
Esoteric Eric:
[quote name=\'DrJWJustice\' date=\'Jun 21 2003, 01:21 PM\']
What's wrong with calling the bonus round \"Alphabetics\"?[/quote]
The last time we discussed updating Password on ezBoard, I chimed in with my GameTweak (Patent Pending). I won't go into all the specifics, since it was looked upon as too complicated (and it was), but one of my ideas for the bonus was to not give the players the initial of each password, nor sort them alphabetically; calling it Alphabetics then wouldn't make sense, so I reverted to calling it the Lightning Round. (Hey, it's the most recognizable name for a bonus in GS history; lots of GS spoofs and even the occasional real GS use the term as if it were generic.)
Alphabetics (especially during the SP era) seemed a little too easy, so I proposed what amounts to finishing two classic LRs in the space of one.
(Bet Peter Lawford could have done it! 8=D )
Esoteric Eric, and may I just chime in here and point out that this is in fact my very first post to Invision? (Wait a minute... didn't I use that on Usenet? Oh, well...)
DrJWJustice:
[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Jun 21 2003, 06:08 PM\']
That's "mo' money" syndrome. $10,000 isn't a bad haul for a win at a bonus game, and if there is returning champions, all the better.
[/quote]
Two letters: B.S.
That's not \"'mo' money syndrome.\" That's inflation. Take a look at H2, especially the day when Peter Marshall hosted. Sheesh!
tommycharles:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 18 2003, 10:47 AM\'] And you've made the same design error that many people before you have as well: you are penalizing a team for solving a puzzle early. [/quote]
Couldn't that just be called strategy? Either solve it as soon as you know it, or wait for more money with the risk that the other team might get it before you - seems o.k. to me.
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