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Improving the Winner's Big Money Game
chrisholland03:
As a point of reference, there was that bizarre week during the syndicated run where 3 contestants took the first level prize and left - it was a really nice motorcycle. Contestants buying a prize ahead of the car, cash jackpot, or lot was fairly rare. Which was probably one of several components in the Winners' Board appearing.
I honestly don't have heartache with a losing contestant being able to cash out for a prize, but think that buying a prize was a key component to the show.
TLEberle:
--- Quote from: whewfan on August 15, 2019, 09:15:27 AM ---Perhaps what they could've done was have a "LOSE" square or something like that.
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It's a Winners Board (or Bored), not Win Nothing Board.
If I'm a contestant on the show I would want to be on during the Money Game period. Chance at big bucks in the end game, middling bucks during the main game and nothing is ever at risk. The only downside is that the producers can tweak the end game to reduce wins in ways they cannot during shopping or prize matching.
It stands to reason that if people are stopping to win the suitcase of currency that they are not winning other prizes and cash costs what it does, while I presume that many of the Board prizes can be bought for the prize of mentioning it on the air, then that might be why shopping was comparatively short lived.
Neumms:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on August 15, 2019, 11:17:55 AM ---If I'm a contestant on the show I would want to be on during the Money Game period.
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Sure, but who cares about them.
Lots of game shows, maybe most, can adjust the difficulty to suit the prize budget, but the WBMG, at least to me, felt very obvious about it. One clue word would be the clear tipping point between impossible and probable, so elapsed time depended far more on where the writers stuck that word than on the player's skill.
I recently watched Jim Perry's Canadian show Headline Hunters. The front game of that would make a more legit and interesting WBMG, shopping aside. One whole clue popped up at a time, each less obscure than the last, comparable to Trebek Double Dare or for that matter, the Fame Game.
Clay Zambo:
Both Winner's Board and WBMG feel, to me, awkwardly tacked onto SALE; "Let's go shopping" is how the game should end.
But if you want an endgame, and you need to use some elements of the NBC show, why not base it on the Fame Game. Let's put five clue cards behind the numbers, three money cards (say, $500, 1000, and 2500--tying into the main game version), and one Stop sign. (Hey, the spaces were already octagonal, why not use it?)
Pick a number. Find a clue card, Jim reads the clue, you try to solve. Don't know the answer, try again. Pick a money card, that's what you win. Pick a stop sign, game over. Solve the puzzle, win today's prize, whatever that is.
All that said, I think TEMPTATION (the Aussie version) did the endgame as well as it could be done, and still feel like part of SALE: a series of questions that add to the champion's prize fund.
Of course, to make either of these ideas work for the NBC run we'd need some pretty sophisticated time-travel equipment.
splinkynip:
--- Quote from: chrisholland03 on August 15, 2019, 11:11:37 AM ---As a point of reference, there was that bizarre week during the syndicated run where 3 contestants took the first level prize and left - it was a really nice motorcycle. Contestants buying a prize ahead of the car, cash jackpot, or lot was fairly rare. Which was probably one of several components in the Winners' Board appearing.
I honestly don't have heartache with a losing contestant being able to cash out for a prize, but think that buying a prize was a key component to the show.
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On the syndicated version, About a dozen contestants bought something and left the show rather than continuing. The three motorcycles mentioned above and maybe another person left with a first level prize, 1 or 2 left with the second level prize, same for third level prize, and 2 or 3 left with the car.
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