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Mike Tennant:
According to Mr. Ottinger, the original home version of High Rollers had the strangest set of questions ever composed for a game show adaptation (or, perhaps, for any trivia game), featuring such questions as "What is to gossip?" (Answer: Reach) and "What is that woman?" (Her).
These days, of course, the answer to the latter question would be Monica Lewinsky.
Matt Ottinger:
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Nov 4 2003, 11:26 AM\'] According to Mr. Ottinger, the original home version of High Rollers had the strangest set of questions ever composed for a game show adaptation (or, perhaps, for any trivia game), featuring such questions as "What is to gossip?" (Answer: Reach) and "What is that woman?" (Her). [/quote]
It's truly a surreal quiz book. More examples are here:
http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/inside/rollers/index.html
TonicBH:
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Nov 4 2003, 07:48 AM\'] The only one I can think of:
The $25,000 Pyramid box game (Cardinal, 1986) - with the poorly-blackened out:
"RULES FOR THE $25,000 and $1,000,000 PYRAMID"
heading the top of the rulesheet. [/quote]
my version has it corrected ("RULES FOR THE $25,000 AND $100,000 PYRAMID"). It must've been in original prints.
Jay Temple:
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Nov 4 2003, 06:48 AM\'] The only one I can think of:
The $25,000 Pyramid box game (Cardinal, 1986) - with the poorly-blackened out:
"RULES FOR THE $25,000 and $1,000,000 PYRAMID"
heading the top of the rulesheet. [/quote]
Maybe they were prescient enough to know that a $1,000,000 Pyramid would be attempted but not prescient enough to know that it wouldn't make it to the air.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Nov 5 2003, 12:13 PM\']
Maybe they were prescient enough to know that a $1,000,000 Pyramid would be attempted but not prescient enough to know that it wouldn't make it to the air. [/quote]
Or maybe the folks at Cardinal confused it with the Million Dollar Chance of a Lifetime home game they produced around the same time. That game paled in comparison to the Pyramid home game(the Cardinal Pyramid bonus round was the actual WC round from the show, unlike the eight MB games of the 70s)
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