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Multiple ways for the champ to lose?
tyshaun1:
Press Your Luck/Second Chance: Get 4 whammies/devils or not earn enough money during the game.
TLEberle:
That just means you didn’t win. That’s just like Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune or Card Sharks.
That Don Guy:
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--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on August 01, 2020, 04:54:41 PM ---Didn't you retire from the daytime Name That Tune if you lost the Golden Medley?
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According to Wiki, yes; it was when the Medley was five tunes to win.
Would have liked to find a better source but the only other one I went to was Curt Alliaume’s now-archived site and it wasn’t a lot of help (although I don’t blame Curt for that, because it barely qualified as a 1975 game show as it joined Winning Streak and Jeopardy on the cancel boat and if I’m not mistaken, much of it doesn’t exist anyway).
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The Dennis James version of NTT originally required six tunes to win the Golden Medley, but the contestant came back the next day, win or lose (and five wins meant the contestant won a car and retired); near the end of the run, it was five tunes, and four days to win the car, but as noted, if the contestant didn't win the Golden Medley at any point, they did not return the next day. One thing I remember about the next-to-last episode was, the winning contestant was told that if she won the Golden Medley, she would return against a challenger, but if she didn't, two celebrities would play instead.
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