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JasonA1:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on September 24, 2025, 06:35:41 PM ---A rules Bible would be meant to cover what do you do in edge cases like revealing the wrong monitor, or stunt equipment falls apart. Since most game show contestants are agreeable and desire piles of loot, you don’t really need to devote a ton of time to “whoever was last in control shall choose the next category except in case of sudden intestinal mutiny or violent death in which case the standby paramedic shall choose.”
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I don't know what you mean by this, and I'd be curious if you could rephrase -- because it sounds like the first observation contradicts the second.
I'm struggling to find my copy, but one of the first bible oddities that jumps to mind is from Celebrity Name Game: if one team managed to play a perfect round 1 and 2, and racked up the $3,000 before Craig's clue-giving round, the goal would simply increase. I'm 90% certain it was to $4,000 instead of 3, but alas, my copy is on some backup media that's not at arm's reach.
-Jason
BrandonFG:
--- Quote from: JasonA1 on September 25, 2025, 04:18:18 PM ---I'm struggling to find my copy, but one of the first bible oddities that jumps to mind is from Celebrity Name Game: if one team managed to play a perfect round 1 and 2, and racked up the $3,000 before Craig's clue-giving round, the goal would simply increase. I'm 90% certain it was to $4,000 instead of 3, but alas, my copy is on some backup media that's not at arm's reach.
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Damn…talk about penalizing good gameplay. I realize straddling hasn’t been much of a thing outside of a few modern shows, but I think I could come up with a few different ways they could’ve killed time and not move the goalposts for a team that did what’s asked of them.
TLEberle:
At the same time you also don’t want to have a dead segment and a team that reached $3,000 is likely to run away with things and the final score line is $4,200-0. On top of that, a $20,000 win wipes out the main game winnings anyway.
mmb5:
--- Quote from: JasonA1 on September 25, 2025, 04:18:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: TLEberle on September 24, 2025, 06:35:41 PM ---A rules Bible would be meant to cover what do you do in edge cases like revealing the wrong monitor, or stunt equipment falls apart. Since most game show contestants are agreeable and desire piles of loot, you don’t really need to devote a ton of time to “whoever was last in control shall choose the next category except in case of sudden intestinal mutiny or violent death in which case the standby paramedic shall choose.”
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I don't know what you mean by this, and I'd be curious if you could rephrase -- because it sounds like the first observation contradicts the second.
I'm struggling to find my copy, but one of the first bible oddities that jumps to mind is from Celebrity Name Game: if one team managed to play a perfect round 1 and 2, and racked up the $3,000 before Craig's clue-giving round, the goal would simply increase. I'm 90% certain it was to $4,000 instead of 3, but alas, my copy is on some backup media that's not at arm's reach.
-Jason
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Semi-related question - how much was Craig guided with coming up with clues vs. coming up with his own?
JasonA1:
At least by the time I was doing it, he was essentially reading a mini Fame Game (emphasis on mini) off his monitor. My memory tells me he was ad-libbing around that, but namely for color, and less for fact(s).
-Jason
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