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bandit_bobby:
I would add a bonus where a team that got a word on the first guess a $500 bonus.

TLEberle:
First:
The reason Lingo comes off as 'sterile' is probably because anything like flashing lights or jarring sounds is that it would get in the way.  Jeopardy is equal in this way.  There may not be huge production values, but the play-along aspect is enormous.  And if you play the game properly, it is more than a "modestly" intellectual game, it's very intellectual.  I'd rather have seen Lingo paired with Jeopardy than Wheel.

Second:
(give $500 to a team for a correct first-guess)
So, you're going to give a token sum to a player who gets a lucky guess?  Whatever.

Travis

Matt Ottinger:
Travis is right, the huge positive Lingo has is the play-along value.  Even if you've never seen the show before, you watch for a minute and you're already yelling answers at the set.

Still (and yes, I know the horse I've been beating has been dead for some time), the current version sucks any additional fun for the viewer by arbitrarily playing to a time's-up signal and (so I've been told) having many stoppages during play that ruins whatever rhythm you ought to be establishing.

--- Quote ---I would add a bonus where a team that got a word on the first guess a $500 bonus.
--- End quote ---
Yeah.  That'll solve everything.

melman1:
That is another thing I meant to mention - the element of time is clearly involved in the game (there's a time limit for each guess, and a time limit for each round), but you never see the clock.

Also, the "team play" element seems pointless.  The teammates are (apparently) supposed to alternate guesses, but invariably one whispers guesses to the other who then says them out loud.  What's that all about?  It would be much better as a one-on-one game.  With the host's podium between the players.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'SplitSecond\' date=\'Oct 16 2003, 02:47 PM\']
--- Quote ---Note also that the score display during bonus Lingo has vanished from the podium as well.
--- End quote ---

Well, more to the point, notice that the contestants are playing Bonus Lingo from their respective podiums instead of a separate bonus podium (hence the different camera angles and the placement of the board on the left-hand side of the screen).[/quote]
And of course, the old end game podium was just Chuck's podium with the laptop or monitor taken off, the hopper uncovered and the balls thrown in.  Same in both Burbank and Hilversum, but I don't recall a laptop or monitor on the Holland podium (but there were that tacky tote board, which was better-looking in the States podium).

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