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Jack521:

--- Quote from: Joe Mello on September 24, 2025, 04:53:53 PM ---So a legal play would be to spin X00, call consonant at X00 each, buy vowels, then call another consonant at X00?

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Correct. It’s not in the rules, and they paused to think, but confirmed yes.

Regarding the Round 3 rule in CNG - I don’t understand how they would explain that on air. “You got the $3,000, so now we’re raising the bar.” I’d rather see what they did on Karn/O’Hurley Feud when a team reached 300 after question 3 - just break up Fast Money into two segments. (Nowadays, they switch out the question for one to ensure this won’t happen).

BrandonFG:

--- Quote from: Jack521 on September 26, 2025, 12:10:26 AM ---Regarding the Round 3 rule in CNG - I don’t understand how they would explain that on air. “You got the $3,000, so now we’re raising the bar.” I’d rather see what they did on Karn/O’Hurley Feud when a team reached 300 after question 3 - just break up Fast Money into two segments. (Nowadays, they switch out the question for one to ensure this won’t happen).

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The first idea I had was to take the Go route and play the CNG end game twice, but for $10K each. But then I wonder does Jim Bob Cletus get confused at this new rule change and switch to Judge Judy?

MSTieScott:

--- 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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I don't have a copy of that set of rules, but from notes I made at the time, if one team reached $3,000 by the end of round two, then round three wouldn't be played. (I remember seeing some show-logo-backed cards lying around the office with words/phrases printed on them -- I assume the producers would have thrown together some sort of audience game to fill the time. Of course, seeing as no team ever went ten for ten in a single round over the course of three seasons, it was a safe bet they wouldn't need the backup game.) It was only in the extremely unlikely event of a $3,000–$3,000 tie at the end of round two that the goal for round three would be increased to $4,000.


--- Quote from: JasonA1 on September 25, 2025, 10:36:06 PM ---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).

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I wasn't around for season one, but I think during that first season, Craig was left on his own to completely ad-lib the round three clues. By the time season two started, he was given clues to read to help keep him from giving an inaccurate description that a contestant could claim led them away from the correct answer. But yeah, if he wanted to go "off script," he was free to do so.

JasonA1:

--- Quote from: MSTieScott on September 26, 2025, 12:41:50 AM ---It was only in the extremely unlikely event of a $3,000–$3,000 tie at the end of round two that the goal for round three would be increased to $4,000.

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Thank goodness you're here, for multiple reasons. Yes, this is correct, and needs to be amplified over my bad recollection.

-Jason

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