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Starkman:
I still say 5000 per lingo, play out all the balls won, new lingo card after each lingo, (smaller) bonus prize for a lingo pulled on the 1st ball of a card.

GS Warehouse:
I made this proposal at ezBoard: $100 per word, win or lose; additional $5,000+$1,000 for each lingo in the front game; doubled if made on first pull.  Or if this is too complex, just make it a straight $10,000 for a one-draw lingo.

Casey:
[quote name=\'GameShowFan\' date=\'Dec 23 2003, 11:52 PM\'] 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 [/quote]
 I don't really see that.  Very rarely do teams get more than 6 words correct anyway.  I think I've only seen 8 or more happen 3 or 4 times in the time I've been watching Lingo, with the vast majority getting around 4 or 5 correct.

And $8,000 for a win still isn't a lot of money.  (Less than the value of the prize package + $5,000 anyway).

Speedy G:
One idea I saw a few months ago had *two* Bonus Lingo cards.  They first play for the $5000, and then if they win that, a second card is set up and they play for the trip with whatever draws are left.

The big plus I see in this is that it helps bring out the luck aspect in the bonus round for the people who do really well.  Certainly, it eliminates the "I got 10, and won less than the lucky morons who got 1?!" possibility.

On the other hand, I'm sure there would be a painfully obvious edit to set up for the second card...

Dbacksfan12:
[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]
 My initial thought; and as someone else has stated; how often do we see a team reach 8 words?

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