[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Sep 30 2004, 12:55 PM\']I saw this show mentioned in another thread, but do not see it listed in the EoTVGS and found precious little information on Google. I know it originated from Canada, but anyone know how it was played? Was it an update of "$1M Chance of a Lifetime?" in some way? When did it run, and was it seen in the States at all?
--Sam
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It was an inane word game where players had to form words, unscramble anagrams, etc. If they made it through 5 questions, they won $1000--something that wasn't done often--despite the show being rather easy. If they made it to--10? word puzzles they won a trip, or something in a jar behind them....I never saw them make it this far, and the host [who was an annoying idiot, Ian Jamison, I believe was his name] never explained the rules.
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Sep 30 2004, 06:08 PM\']One player actually made it to the final level, but couldn't unscramble the word.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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It was about 12 letters long. Heck if I could remember it. The tenth level was indeed a trip of some sort.
Supposedly there was some sort of matching game with the "prize banks" attached to the wall of the set if someone made it through all 14 levels. Of course, no one did.
One more prize was that if someone came up with a word that their computer couldn't find (which happened more than often), they got some number of tens of dollars by picking from yet another stack of envelopes.