Let\'s Ask America started its second season today. Among the changes:
The contestants are introduced before the game begins.
Kevin now stands behind a podium.
There is a new set.
There is a new logo.
There is a new font.
There is now a studio audience.
There is a new round format:
R1 $100, $200, $300, $400
R2: $500, $1000, $1500
R3: $2000, $4000
There are new sounds for the answer reveal, and when a contestant gets its right.
The bonus round has been tweaked. If a contestant goes all in and wins, he/she
gets 5X their maingame winnings - but if he/she goes all in and misses, he/she gets...NOTHING! Weird.
Brian
The bonus round has been tweaked. If a contestant goes all in and wins, they get 5X their maingame winnings - but if they go all in and miss, they get...NOTHING! Weird.
How is that different from last time?
Initially if you bombed out, you won $1,000 consolation. If you won, it was 4x your maingame winnings.
Not a big fan of an all or nothing bonus round being played with what you picked up in the front game.
Not a big fan of an all or nothing bonus round being played with what you picked up in the front game.
...then don\'t call it a bonus round.
Not a big fan of an all or nothing bonus round being played with what you picked up in the front game.
...then don\'t go All In.
I personally wouldn\'t, but it doesn\'t change my disliking the concept. Didn\'t like it when Card Sharks did it 12 years ago, and not a fan of it here. I\'m with Gene on this one.
Thinking about it, I do see Chris\' point more about you at least having the option to walk away here, an option not offered on Card Sharks 2001...so I suppose that\'s kind of an apples and oranges comparison.
However, with Sale, I\'d argue that contestants could at least build up the \"cash in front of them\", plus any Instant Bargains/Fame Game loot, so even after six days, they could go home with a nice consolation package of a couple thousand in cash, plus some household appliances and/or trips. So it would be more along the lines of going home with $1,000 on Millionaire IMO.
I know the daytime version of 5th Grader offered a Best Buy gift card, but did the FOX version offer anything for a flameout, if you didn\'t reach the $25K safety net?
/Contestant coordinators would hate me
//Not a gambler when it comes to the kind of money offered on these shows
To be fair, that Card Sharks didn\'t give you the option of not playing the Money Cards while risking your own money. You could choose to wager $0, I imagine, on the last question of LAA. Not that it would make good TV.
The \"push = loss\" rule took effect around October. I don\'t even think it was a month into the run.
ETA: I tried to pinpoint a date on Google\'s ATGS archive, to no avail. However, someone there mentioned that if you bombed out, you got a $700 consolation prize. I don\'t remember that rule, but can someone confirm?
The \"push = loss\" rule took effect around October. I don\'t even think it was a month into the run.
ETA: I tried to pinpoint a date on Google\'s ATGS archive, to no avail. However, someone there mentioned that if you bombed out, you got a $700 consolation prize. I don\'t remember that rule, but can someone confirm?
There was an episode where someone bombed and got $700. Then I believe there was another \"Bust\" and was no money given (later in the run).
I applied online and got redirected to the main page (with no confirmation or anything) after clicking Submit...is that normal?
I\'ve still never seen this show. I was hoping a station in this area could pick it up this year, but I guess not.