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Lingo payoff suggestion
Casey:
Forgive me if we've talked about this before. The bonus round reward for Lingo seems unfair for those who do well in the bonus round. It bothers me that a team can struggle, get 2 words in 2 minutes, and win $5000, while another team gets 10 words in 2 minutes, and wins $5000.
If it were up to me, the bonus for getting Lingo would be $1000 for each word solved correctly, while still leaving the consolation money as $100 for each word. This way, a good team can win around $10,000, while a struggling team still can get $2,000 or $3,000. I can't imagine this would be a budget busting change. :)
What do you all think?
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'isucgv\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 09:42 PM\'] Forgive me if we've talked about this before. The bonus round reward for Lingo seems unfair for those who do well in the bonus round. It bothers me that a team can struggle, get 2 words in 2 minutes, and win $5000, while another team gets 10 words in 2 minutes, and wins $5000.
If it were up to me, the bonus for getting Lingo would be $1000 for each word solved correctly, while still leaving the consolation money as $100 for each word. This way, a good team can win around $10,000, while a struggling team still can get $2,000 or $3,000. I can't imagine this would be a budget busting change. :)
What do you all think? [/quote]
UNder your system, Any team getting eight or more words is guaranteed to win a jackpot of at $8K or more, as a team will get a Lingo by the eighth ball(12 balls given free, and eight more spaces filled in with the balls, assuming at least one space on either of the long diagonals is filled in at the outset).
JayC:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 09:48 PM\'] [quote name=\'isucgv\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 09:42 PM\'] Forgive me if we've talked about this before. The bonus round reward for Lingo seems unfair for those who do well in the bonus round. It bothers me that a team can struggle, get 2 words in 2 minutes, and win $5000, while another team gets 10 words in 2 minutes, and wins $5000.
If it were up to me, the bonus for getting Lingo would be $1000 for each word solved correctly, while still leaving the consolation money as $100 for each word. This way, a good team can win around $10,000, while a struggling team still can get $2,000 or $3,000. I can't imagine this would be a budget busting change. :)
What do you all think? [/quote]
UNder your system, Any team getting eight or more words is guaranteed to win a jackpot of at $8K or more, as a team will get a Lingo by the eighth ball(12 balls given free, and eight more spaces filled in with the balls, assuming at least one space on either of the long diagonals is filled in at the outset). [/quote]
What's wrong with that? I don't really understand what your trying to say.
I like his idea.
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'JayC\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 10:16 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 09:48 PM\'] [quote name=\'isucgv\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 09:42 PM\'] Forgive me if we've talked about this before. The bonus round reward for Lingo seems unfair for those who do well in the bonus round. It bothers me that a team can struggle, get 2 words in 2 minutes, and win $5000, while another team gets 10 words in 2 minutes, and wins $5000.
If it were up to me, the bonus for getting Lingo would be $1000 for each word solved correctly, while still leaving the consolation money as $100 for each word. This way, a good team can win around $10,000, while a struggling team still can get $2,000 or $3,000. I can't imagine this would be a budget busting change. :)
What do you all think? [/quote]
UNder your system, Any team getting eight or more words is guaranteed to win a jackpot of at $8K or more, as a team will get a Lingo by the eighth ball(12 balls given free, and eight more spaces filled in with the balls, assuming at least one space on either of the long diagonals is filled in at the outset). [/quote]
What's wrong with that? I don't really understand what your trying to say.
I like his idea. [/quote]
So do I, and maybe as an incentive, any team that draws Lingo on the first pull wins double their jackpot.
GameShowFan:
This is a nice idea on paper, but isn't in reality. Zach very correctly points out that at 8 balls, the probablity of making Lingo is very close to 1. Thus, you are virtually guaranteed to give out large jackpots, and probably won't give out many small jackpots. Good for the good players, probably good for the budgetm but bad television.
Any other suggestion (such as jackpot multipliers for hitting Lingo in 3 balls or less) gets too complicated for an end game -- you start to get a Wolpert-like "We'll explain it as we go along" effect.
'Brian
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