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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: TLEberle on May 04, 2004, 07:22:07 PM
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Remembering back to the short run of "Paranoia," the players could spend $1,000 to trade one Satellite player for another, or $3,000 to knock a player out of the game completely.
Questions:
Did that money go to the forced out player, or disappear back to the vault?
If you were to Swap Out a Satellite player with one strike, would the new player come in with no strikes?
Thanks,
Travis
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Questions:
Did that money go to the forced out player, or disappear back to the vault?
I believe for the first couple of shows, no one got the money, and then they started awarding the spent money to the home contestants.
If you were to Swap Out a Satellite player with one strike, would the new player come in with no strikes?
I don't believe that ever happened on the show (and I have all 12 on tape)
Thanks,
Travis
You're Welcome,
Tyshaun
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'May 4 2004, 07:22 PM\'] Remembering back to the short run of "Paranoia," the players could spend $1,000 to trade one Satellite player for another, or $3,000 to knock a player out of the game completely.
Questions:
Did that money go to the forced out player, or disappear back to the vault?
If you were to Swap Out a Satellite player with one strike, would the new player come in with no strikes?
Thanks,
Travis [/quote]
From the official rules...
At any time during the play of the Paranoia rounds, a Studio Contestant may eliminate one Location Contestant by agreeing to relinquish $3,000 which shall go to the Location Contestant. The game will then continue against the remaining Location Contestant(s). If a Studio Contestant relinquishes $1,000 he/she may exchange one Location Contestant for another Location Contestant. The $1,000 will go to the Location Contestant.
The second scenario happened when I tried out for Paranoia and I was involved in said situation. The replacement player inherits any strikes accrued by the swapped out player. I replaced a swapped out player who had one strike.
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Paying $3,000 to knock off a Satellite player was a very risky proposition. Not only does it keep the player from going for the max $1.5 million possible jackpot question, it also cuts down the number of questions that are needed to win the game anyway. To me, the $1,000 Swap-out was the most common strategy used thus in effect, making sure there was still a chance a player would try for the 100x question with a lot of money left over.
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Dear Craig:
WTF?
1) How many times did you see a contestant use the knock-out option? (Hint: pretty much every show)
2) How many times did you see a contestant use the swap-out option? (Hint: Considerably less than every show)
3) You were never going to go for the $1.5M Jackpot. Ever. 1/3rd of that was conditioned on the performance of the online and phone players.
4) Knocking out a player was very much NOT risky. If you only have one opponent left, and you pay $3,000, you win the game. Hello? McFly?
5) The difference between $3,000 and $1,000 is $2,000. If you swap-out instead of knock-out, and your opponent reveals two right answers, that's the other $2k right there. Actually, it's more than $2k because of the home-player drainage. THAT'S your risky proposition.
Sheesh.
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I actually won $$$ on the home portion of "Paranoia". I think I got a check for $100.
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You got $50 each time you were chosen as one of the home viewers who got a Paranoia challenge question, and answered it correctly.