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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Don Howard on December 06, 2003, 04:19:00 PM
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There certainly have been many of those bonus rounds where ten correct answers were required within a minute to earn the top prize.
When The $10,000 Pyramid was in pilot stage, that was the original end-game scenario until it was deemed impossible--or at least highly improbable.
How many game shows can you think of where providing ten correct answers in a minute were needed to nail the bonus?
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[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 04:19 PM\'] There certainly have been many of those bonus rounds where ten correct answers were required within a minute to earn the top prize.
When The $10,000 Pyramid was in pilot stage, that was the original end-game scenario until it was deemed impossible--or at least highly improbable.
How many game shows can you think of where providing ten correct answers in a minute were needed to nail the bonus? [/quote]
Debt, The Last Word, Now You See It, Trivia Unwrapped(when the wheel doesn't stop on Who Wants Seconds? or the "8 in 60" square), WIntution, Whew!(if no extra time was won in the maingame, this was theoretically possible, but never occured IIRC), History IQ(IQ timeline round required the players to match 10 events to the years or decades they occurred in ), Password Plus/Super Password, Russian ROulette(season two), Win Ben Stein's Money(if Ben got nine of ten correct, and there was one episode, the pants pulldown bit IIRC where the contestant got all ten and Ben got nine), Hit Man(if the three columns used had a total of ten spaces to be filled with money men, a win could be done in as few as 4 or as many as 12), Quicksilver(some early episodes allowed the player 60 seconds to get ten correct answers instead of 45 as was the case for most of the run), Cross-Wits.
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The Chuck Henry version of Beat the Odds had the winner guessing ten words from definitions and first/last letters in under a minute for $5000.
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[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 04:24 PM\'] The Chuck Henry version of Beat the Odds had the winner guessing ten words from definitions and first/last letters in under a minute for $5000. [/quote]
Definitions? I bet Richard Kline was taking notes on this, as he used it 15 years later :)
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 04:23 PM\'] Debt, Now You See It, Trivia Unwrapped(when the wheel doesn't stop on Who Wants Seconds? or the "8 in 60" square), WIntution, Whew!(if no extra time was won in the maingame, this was theoretically possible, but never occured IIRC), Password Plus/Super Password, Russian ROulette(season two), Win Ben Stein's Money(if Ben got nine of ten correct, and there was one episode, the pants pulldown bit IIRC where the contestant got all ten and Ben got nine). [/quote]
Zach, Zach, Zach...how could you forget Friend or Foe?
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Or Russian Roulette?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 05:21 PM\'] Or Russian Roulette? [/quote]
He said that one.
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...oh. Sorry.
*plays Russian Roulette and blows brains out*
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 05:44 PM\'] *plays Russian Roulette and blows brains out* [/quote]
That's really an unnecessary thing to say.
Brandon Brooks
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Name That Video also had the 10 in 60 dealie.
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The bonus game in the pilot of PDQ (later back as Baffle) had contestants trying to guess 10 words in 60 seconds. How many right answers did you need in the Double Talk (Stewart) bonus? That was right up there, wasn't it?
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 06:07 PM\'] The bonus game in the pilot of PDQ (later back as Baffle) had contestants trying to guess 10 words in 60 seconds. How many right answers did you need in the Double Talk (Stewart) bonus? That was right up there, wasn't it? [/quote]
Indeed...one for each letter in the show's title.
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 06:07 PM\'] The bonus game in the pilot of PDQ (later back as Baffle) had contestants trying to guess 10 words in 60 seconds. How many right answers did you need in the Double Talk (Stewart) bonus? That was right up there, wasn't it? [/quote]
The Double Talk bonus required you to reveal all the letters in Double Talk. It was nine answers in 60 seconds because the D was given for free.
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Wasn't the bonus round on Body Language also of the 10 in :60 variety?
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Depending on the contestant's luck, "Shoot for the Stars" fits this category.
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[quote name=\'CBSJokersWildFan\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 07:48 PM\'] Wasn't the bonus round on Body Language also of the 10 in :60 variety? [/quote]
It was, but the 10 in 60 was only worth $1000($100 a word). To multiply the amount won in the first part by ten and to WIN the bonus game, the team had to get three more words within 20 seconds.
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Can't believe Idiot Savants has gone unmentioned.
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Depending on the contestant's luck, "Shoot for the Stars" fits this category.
Somebody with the one-existing ep. correct/support me here - some ATGS posts reported that for the series, the ten was dropped from the bonus scheme and the scale only went as high as 9.
Giving how the player on the pilot gave perfect clues FAST in 60 seconds and only got nine shows me why they (should have?) did this.
-Jason
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[Game shows whose end games required 10 correct answers in 60 seconds]
Debt, The Last Word, Now You See It, Trivia Unwrapped(when the wheel doesn't stop on Who Wants Seconds? or the "8 in 60" square), WIntution, Whew!(if no extra time was won in the maingame, this was theoretically possible, but never occured IIRC), History IQ(IQ timeline round required the players to match 10 events to the years or decades they occurred in ), Password Plus/Super Password, Russian ROulette(season two), Win Ben Stein's Money(if Ben got nine of ten correct, and there was one episode, the pants pulldown bit IIRC where the contestant got all ten and Ben got nine), Hit Man(if the three columns used had a total of ten spaces to be filled with money men, a win could be done in as few as 4 or as many as 12), Quicksilver(some early episodes allowed the player 60 seconds to get ten correct answers instead of 45 as was the case for most of the run), Cross-Wits.
I'll add one more -- Stumpers, Allen Ludden's short-lived derivitive of Password, that aired on NBC in 1976.
One other show, the original version of Chain Reaction that aired on NBC in 1980, would have also qualified for this list except that contestants got 90 seconds in the end game to get the 10 answers for its $10,000 top prize. Actually, it started out requiring 8 answers in 60 seconds for the $10,000: The contestant would start with $1 and would get a zero added to that score for every two correct answers given in the end game (as with The Price is Right's "Grand Game"). However, after one contestant won only $10 in the end game with that scoring system, the game was changed to make for bigger prizes.
Under the new system, the time for the game was extended to 90 seconds and the contestant received $1 for his/her first correct answer in the end game, and then had a zero added to that score for each of the next three correct answers ($1, $10, $100, $1,000). The next four correct answers would add $1,000 for each one ($2,000, $3,000, $4,000, $5,000), and the ninth correct answer in 90 seconds added $5,000 more for a total of $10,000. But the show ended up going over budget with that prize structure, so the game was changed again to require 10 correct answers in 90 seconds for the $10,000, and contestants who failed in so doing received a $100 consolation prize for each correct answer, as was the case on Stumpers, Whew!, and some of the other shows mentioned above.
Then, toward the end of the show's run, they went back to requiring only 9 correct answers in the end game for the $10,000, and the first $100 was awarded to the contestant automatically -- presumably for winning the show's main game after it changed its scoring from money to points.
Michael Brandenburg
("You've won $10 on Chain Reaction -- would you like to try to win $10 more on The Price is Right?")
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 07:55 PM\'] [quote name=\'CBSJokersWildFan\' date=\'Dec 6 2003, 07:48 PM\'] Wasn't the bonus round on Body Language also of the 10 in :60 variety? [/quote]
It was, but the 10 in 60 was only worth $1000($100 a word). To multiply the amount won in the first part by ten and to WIN the bonus game, the team had to get three more words within 20 seconds. [/quote]
It is amazing that $10,000 was won on the premire Body Language which makes that among the best ways to start a game show when it comes to winning.