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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'CBSJokersWildFan\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 06:57 AM\'] On the Narz Concentration, did the players play two-out-of-three matches? [/quote]
Nope, Narz's format was two maingames with a Double Play bonus after each maingame. As reported earlier, If they had extra time, they played that "foreign money converted to US dollars" maingame until time ran out. Narz's version had no straddling like the original, and no returning champs like the original or the Trebek version had. Trebek's version had a two-out-of-three(non-straddled) format from Summer 1998-Summer 1990. If the match was tied 1-1, they played a jump-in rebus where the squares were revealed one at a time from 1-25 in order. The player who solved the rebus won the match and played the bonus game(only one bonus played per day in that format). I think some of the 60s tournaments of champions had a two-out-of-three or three-out-of-five format for the semi-finals or finals, at least one of the tourney shows on the trading circuit did(the championship-winning rebus was solved just as time ran out on the episode, so they didn't do the pomp and circumstance until the following episode)

HYHYBT:
Stupid point, I know, but wasn't it generally 200 California lottery tickets instead of 1000?

JasonA1:

--- Quote ---Stupid point, I know, but wasn't it generally 200 California lottery tickets instead of 1000?
--- End quote ---

Mr. Raygor mentioned this already, but I'll follow up by saying a lot of us are going from the more commonly traded 1000th eppy, in which that prize was offered.

-Jason

Steve McClellan:
[quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 10:05 PM\']Stupid point, I know, but wasn't it generally 200 California lottery tickets instead of 1000?[/quote]
That was mentioned earlier. In that case, a (presumably) $200 prize would be expected to win you $104, or about $22 after taxes. If you make over $30K a year, you might even be better off declining the prize.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'gameshowsteve\' date=\'Dec 7 2003, 01:25 AM\'] [quote name=\'HYHYBT\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 10:05 PM\']Stupid point, I know, but wasn't it generally 200 California lottery tickets instead of 1000?[/quote]
That was mentioned earlier. In that case, a (presumably) $200 prize would be expected to win you $104, or about $22 after taxes. If you make over $30K a year, you might even be better off declining the prize. [/quote]
 If the lottery tickets were the only thing you won, or your total winnings were less than $600, then you wouldn't be paying taxes. Only when a player wins $600 or more are their winnings taxed IIRC. Two notable exceptions are the trips to NYC to be on Millionaire that were won by the early contestants(about a year into the run, those prizes became taxable), and the Tax Free week of shows the ABC WWTBAM had, where H&R Block gave the players money to cover the taxes.

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