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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: BrentW on December 24, 2006, 03:35:43 AM
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Hello all:
It's been ages since I started a new topic myself; I tried to use the search function to see if this has already been asked, but error messages kept coming up.
I am trying to host a little Pyramid game here with my friends, and I am trying to find a website/log of all the Winner's Circle subjects that were used during the run of the show(s). Can anyone point me in the right direction? I was hoping someone might have logged them all by "approximate" value (read: "Perplexing Things" would be higher on the list than "Christmas Things") but I'd be happy at this point with anything. I would just watch the Pyramid itself on GSN, but some of the people who are going to be in this watch the Pyramid reruns too, so I don't want it to be anything recent. :-D
Any Pyramid info floating around on the Web that I can't find out there? :-)
BTW, nice to "see" you all again.
Thanks,
Brent Wolgamott
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141363\' date=\'Dec 24 2006, 12:35 AM\']
I am trying to host a little Pyramid game here with my friends, and I am trying to find a website/log of all the Winner's Circle subjects that were used during the run of the show(s). Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Doesn't exist, so far as I know. (If it does, I would love to know.) When I was compiling Pyramid material, I just Tivoed each day's show and transcribed it. So I'm sitting on about 80 Winner's Circles and nothing to do with them. (Todd, you reading? ;))
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There was a thread a while back that had Invisioners submitting potential tournament categories, if that's of any interest to you. Lemme see if I can find it...
ETA: Here you go! http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2251 (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=2251\")
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Wow, thank you for that. Some insanely difficult categories, but given that some of these people are game show addicts, they should have no problem with Things That Are Perceived. :-)
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141396\' date=\'Dec 24 2006, 02:37 PM\']
Things That Are Perceived. :-)
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Extra-sensory thoughts. Athankyew. :)
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'141436\' date=\'Dec 25 2006, 02:50 PM\']
[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141396\' date=\'Dec 24 2006, 02:37 PM\']
Things That Are Perceived. :-)
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Extra-sensory thoughts. Athankyew. :)
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Wow! That IS the *definitive* clue!
Do you happen to know the definitive clue for "Things That Are Scarce"? :-D
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141453\' date=\'Dec 25 2006, 11:25 PM\']
Do you happen to know the definitive clue for "Things That Are Scarce"? :-D
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Natural resources. Fossil fuels. Ethiopian food.
(Yeah, the last one is a little tasteless, but P.C. goes out the window when $25,000 is on the line.)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141455\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 03:26 AM\']
[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141453\' date=\'Dec 25 2006, 11:25 PM\']
Do you happen to know the definitive clue for "Things That Are Scarce"? :-D
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Natural resources. Fossil fuels. Ethiopian food.
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Desert water.
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Still not the "definitive" clue I was looking for, but all very good clues, and all would likely earn a correct response.
There's a phrase that hooks the word into it. Dick Clark used it one time as a "help after the WC" clue, and I actually know it, but I am from Kentucky, so..... :-)
I'll let Whoserman (or whoever) guess before revealing it.
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Wait, so that wasn't a request for information, that was supposed to be a "fun trivia question?"
Oh, boy.
Um, if it would "likely earn a correct response", then it's pretty damned definitive.
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141453\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 02:25 AM\']
Do you happen to know the definitive clue for "Things That Are Scarce"? :-D
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I'd go with "hen's teeth."
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"NBC hit shows."
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"Zach Horan's sexual partners."
/Too low?
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'141468\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 11:27 AM\']
"Zach Horan's sexual partners."
/Too low?
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Ouch.
/Gold star.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141462\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 05:32 AM\']
Wait, so that wasn't a request for information, that was supposed to be a "fun trivia question?"
Oh, boy.
Um, if it would "likely earn a correct response", then it's pretty damned definitive.
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Oh, gosh. I'm so sorry. That's not what I was asking. It was a request for info; but he impressed me with the clue for Things that Are Perceived that I asked another one. It was all in fun, man. That's all. I was being cool; I'm just a nice, friendly poster.
[quote name=\'Clay Zambo\' post=\'141466\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 09:29 AM\']
[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141453\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 02:25 AM\']
Do you happen to know the definitive clue for "Things That Are Scarce"? :-D
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I'd go with "hen's teeth."
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THAT was the response I was looking for. "As scarce as hen's teeth" -- I've heard it since I was in church at 6 years old. Old bitties would say it all the time.
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141480\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 12:19 PM\']
Oh, gosh. I'm so sorry. That's not what I was asking. It was a request for info; but he impressed me with the clue for Things that Are Perceived that I asked another one. It was all in fun, man. That's all. I was being cool; I'm just a nice, friendly poster.
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Fair enough. No worries, man. We've had more than a few people come through here that looked like they were asking for information when in fact they already knew the answer, and it almost always ends in tears. But you weren't going there, so don't worry about it. :)
THAT was the response I was looking for. "As scarce as hen's teeth" -- I've heard it since I was in church at 6 years old. Old bitties would say it all the time.
I have never heard that expression in my life. Maybe I'm an isolated pocket of society, and I'm sure it's a money clue if you've heard it, but I just don't think it's as common of an expression as you might think.
If you're giving to Betty White, sure. Any other time, there are better uses for those precious seconds.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141481\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 03:30 PM\']
I have never heard that expression in my life. Maybe I'm an isolated pocket of society, and I'm sure it's a money clue if you've heard it, but I just don't think it's as common of an expression as you might think.
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I've never heard the expression "As scarce as hen's teeth" either. Perhaps a regional thing..
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'141487\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 05:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141481\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 03:30 PM\']
I have never heard that expression in my life. Maybe I'm an isolated pocket of society, and I'm sure it's a money clue if you've heard it, but I just don't think it's as common of an expression as you might think.
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I've never heard the expression "As scarce as hen's teeth" either. Perhaps a regional thing..
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I've heard it, but not often recently. Usually I see it in older literature and in autobiographies, most often when an adult talks about his or her childhood.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141481\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 03:30 PM\']
Fair enough. No worries, man. We've had more than a few people come through here that looked like they were asking for information when in fact they already knew the answer, and it almost always ends in tears. But you weren't going there, so don't worry about it. :)
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Your first clue should have been Brent's use of punctuation. As in, he uses it. ;-)
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'141506\' date=\'Dec 26 2006, 05:15 PM\']
Your first clue should have been Brent's use of punctuation. As in, he uses it. ;-)
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Believe me, that means nothing. I could name names, but I'd get in trouble.
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'141363\' date=\'Dec 24 2006, 03:35 AM\']
Hello all:
It's been ages since I started a new topic myself; I tried to use the search function to see if this has already been asked, but error messages kept coming up.
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MY first clue was not his use of punctuation, but the fact that he made an EFFORT to try not to repeat a thread. If only more people would do that.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'141554\' date=\'Dec 27 2006, 09:51 AM\']
MY first clue was not his use of punctuation, but the fact that he made an EFFORT to try not to repeat a thread . If only more people would do that.
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Ooh, that's a really good point, too.
Okay, you've sold me. Brent is one of the Good Guys. :)
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Danke! :-) Seriously, even though my post count is above 150, I haven't been on the boards in over a year. I got a little depressed when the Millionaire people didn't call me after I received the 'YOU'RE IN' postcard. Plus, life got pretty hectic. But it's nice to lurk again, and to read what's happening in the game show community. I used to post all the time over at Golden-Road.net as well. I had forgotten about the VENOMOUS VILLAINS on the boards who try to cause trouble. :-) (Yes I've been surfing Randy's old Whew! site)
I assure you I am not one of them.
You can close this if you want; the subject's run it's course, plus I have that link to the old thread.
-Brent
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No sense in closing it. If it has run its course, it will die naturally. As long as the contributions to it are genuine, it can stay open.
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Well, I'm glad we didn't close this -- that way I don't have to start another topic for this query.
On a barely tangential line of thought -- does anyone know how I might go about hiring someone to build a trilon-esque set of the Winner's Circle? I'm talking about the board (I'll use chairs for where they sit). No, I don't need lights and crap. And no it doesn't need to be as big as the real one.
I'm doing part of this party for some friends (about 120 guys, all of whom are gay (and judge-y), and almost all of whom LOVE Pyramid and asked that we play it) in a few months. As you will recall, I was asking earlier about subjects, because I volunteered to be in charge of the entertainment/games (shocker there, I know). I'm just trying to figure out a way to do this -- I don't know the first thing about axis, and geometry and carpentry....(shocker #2)
It can even look really.....well, ghetto, for lack of a better term. I can spruce it up. I just want something that's functional. Anyone know of any retired game show set builders who would work for 500-1,000 bucks? :-) Or even just how I might go about something like this? Is it even that hard to MAKE a working board like that? I searched all over Google but cataloguing "game show sets" isn't exactly a high priority for them. If this doesn't pan out, I have a back up plan, but I'd rather not use a computer/projector type thing.
Thoughts? Ideas? Sarcastic things to say? :-) Anyone else ever done this before (I seem to recall SOMEONE did this before, maybe at Game Show Congress, but my memeory is hazy)....
Regards,
-Brent W.
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There was a video floating around (I want to say it was on John Ricci's site) and a Clark Pyramid WC board that someone had built. You may want to start checking there.
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Well, I spent the last hour going through every picture on John's site and no luck. There are no videos now (I think he used to have them). I also searched every freakin Google page; who knew that Christina RICCI and the word "game" or "pyramid" would be so closely linked? :-)
If anyone knows where to point me to, for this video, or pictures, or ANYTHING, help a poor boy out. :-D
Gracios.
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'142247\' date=\'Jan 5 2007, 08:12 AM\']On a barely tangential line of thought -- does anyone know how I might go about hiring someone to build a trilon-esque set of the Winner's Circle? I'm talking about the board (I'll use chairs for where they sit). No, I don't need lights and crap. And no it doesn't need to be as big as the real one. [/quote]
If you're really willing to spend money to hire someone, I don't think you need anybody with specialized game show expertise. Show a decent general contractor one episode of the program and he'd probably be able to come up with something pretty easily. The fundamental mechanics of it really aren't all that complicated.
Something even simpler would be to get the trilon idea out of your head and work with something a lot closer to being two-dimensional: A large flat surface and cards that can be pulled out from behind, like the old Jeopardy board or, for that matter, something close to what the home versions of Pyramid are like. Your buddies will be impressed by a large game board regardless of whether it authentically has spinning trilons.
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And if you absolutely have to have trilons, cardboard is your friend. You'll save literally hundreds of dollars.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'142327\' date=\'Jan 6 2007, 12:03 PM\']
Your buddies will be impressed by a large game board regardless of whether it authentically has spinning trilons.
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Oh, but I so LIVE for the trilon. :-)
Kidding. Actually that ain't a bad idea. Maybe something where you can pull out the card (with the pyramid sign on it) and flip it around with the $$ amount on it. That ain't bad at all.
Cardboard would work, but I don't know what to put it on, how to suspend it, etc. When I was a kid, I used to use old video tape holders as the letter on WOF. I had some collapsible shelves that I put the puzzles on, and I turned the letters. ROFL! Of course, I had only 12 tape holders, so the puzzles were always very short and Bonus-round-like. Drove my parents nuts. LOL I'm sure I'm not the only boy here to have done that....
All right....I'll give it some thought. I'll post the end result. If anyone ever digs up that old video that we think was on the Ricci site, lemme hear from ya.
Regards,
Brent
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[quote name=\'BrentW\' post=\'142332\' date=\'Jan 6 2007, 09:43 AM\']
Kidding. Actually that ain't a bad idea. Maybe something where you can pull out the card (with the pyramid sign on it) and flip it around with the $$ amount on it. That ain't bad at all.
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My advice: kick in an extra ten bucks for a couple extra pieces of posterboard, and do it as a three-layer thing: the logo, the subject, then the dollar amount. (Hell, are you feeling REALLY cheap? Buy a box of file folders at Staples, and cut those up.) When it's pulled the logo can be dropped in the back of the stack (or you could drop another $5, buy a couple more pieces, and have your stack be logo-subject-dollar-logo), and then to resolve the "trilon" you just pull out one more card when they get it right, or two (thereby revealing the logo again) if they give a buzzable clue.
(In fact, the more that I think of it, the more I think you want the four-card solution, because during the WC you're gonna make it way easier for your board op(s) if they only have to pull out cards.)
And then, a gameboard (with little holders for the pull-cards) would be REALLY easy to build out of plywood. Even with no carpentry skill, I bet you could do it yourself. At worst, you'd need to find someone who knew how to use a jigsaw to cut the holes out of the main facade. I have no idea what giant sheets of plywood go for these days, but if the total cost of materials (including paint) was $200, I'd be shocked.
(I just checked online. $200 was vastly overestimating, from what I'm seeing.)
(Hell, find a sign store, and see how big of a sheet of plastic they would sell you. Might be cheaper, and you could cut it yourself with an Xacto knife or Dremel tool (though you would have to be careful about a Dremel melting the plastic).)
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I built one before (not very well). The trilons are actually pretty easy. Go to any hardware store and ask for these (http://\"http://www.rufkahrs.com/hardw5/table5.html\"). Attach a triangular piece of wood to these. I echo the other recommendations and use cardboard for the remainder of the trilon.
--Mike
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Thank you both for your suggestions. :-) I am certainly going to examine every option. I received a couple of private emails as well, so thank you for those.
We will see what comes of this. Hopefully I can do something pretty snazzy...
Brent
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(Before I ask this question, I would like to say: sorry for the double post. I've searched the archives, Jay's site, Ryan's site, and performed a search on THESE forums using the input: +font +Pyramid and +font +Winner's Circle, but no luck. I've also searched Google. That's just an FYI, so I don't get bitch-slapped like I do when I post over at BigJon's forum...) :-)
That said: does anyone know the font type used for the Clark $25,000/$100,000 Pyramid? I'm talking about:
-the numbers ($50, $100, $150, etc) used in the Winner's Circle once a subject was ruled correct;
-the font for the $100,000 sign at the top
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-the logo's font, used at the beginning of each show when they said "This is the $100,000 Pyramid ('da-da-da-da-duh-da, da-da-duh-da-DA')". Yes, I know the font is STRETCHED out toward the bottom, but I can fix that in Photoshop.
Your help, as ever, is much appreciated.
Gracias.
Brent W.
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I would almost bet money the logo was drawn, and therefore not a font, at least not in the sense you mean.