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After watching a season three repeat from last week, (the first Monday of September is not Columbus Day), I wondered how many contestants over the years have truly earned the sobriquet "llama" by missing the $100 question. I know of Robby and Brian, and the guy who took up the entire last act of the show I was watching, but were there more?
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"Start spreading the word..." *BZZZ*
$100 asks about the word that completes the line "Start spreading the..." in the song "New York New York". The contestant said "word" instead of "news". I think that was $100.
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I seem to recall a contestant losing out on a $100 question about what Little Jack Horner pulled out of his Christmas pie. He guessed a blackbird, not a plum. (I guess he might have confused Little Jack Horner's pie with the one from "Sing a Song of Sixpence", which mentions "4-and-20 blackbirds baked in a pie".) Or is that the one Travis is talking about?
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[quote name=\'Marc412\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 10:01 AM\']I seem to recall a contestant losing out on a $100 question about what Little Jack Horner pulled out of his Christmas pie. He guessed a blackbird, not a plum. (I guess he might have confused Little Jack Horner's pie with the one from "Sing a Song of Sixpence", which mentions "4-and-20 blackbirds baked in a pie".) Or is that the one Travis is talking about?
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That would be Brian Fodera, on the show following Dan Blonsky's big win.
And yes, he did, indeed, have "Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie" in mind.
Brian later returned for the ABC $0 special, and was the first contestant in the hot seat. After Regis stopped him from walking away before answering the first question, [;-)] he went on to win $16,000.
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See thread:
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 19 2005, 07:41 PM\']That would be Brian Fodera, on the show following Dan Blonsky's big win.
Brian later returned for the ABC $0 special, and was the first contestant in the hot seat. After Regis stopped him from walking away before answering the first question, [;-)] he went on to win $16,000.
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Of course Rosie O'Donnell gave him a new car the morning after that episode aired. *rolls eyes*
Upon seeing another $0 winner this week, I'm wondering, will (daytime) Millionaire do another Tournament Of Losers ($0) special like they did on ABC? Considering the show will be in production for a few more years, I'd think it's likely, but how about you all?
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Syndicated Millionaire did a Zero Dollar Winners Week in their first season. They didn't do one last season, and I haven't heard of one being filmed this season.
People always like seeing someone get a second chance, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them do it next year, now that they've got a bunch of candidates stacked up.
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I remember a question (fairly sure it was a $100 question) early on in the run that was incorrectly answered:
ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, ________ FISH
a. Green
b. Blue
c. Yellow
d. Flounder?
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By my count, they've had enough $250,000+ winners to have a Return of the Champions week, too...two winners, two with $500k, a dozen or so with $250k...it'd be great.
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 01:29 AM\']By my count, they've had enough $250,000+ winners to have a Return of the Champions week, too...two winners, two with $500k, a dozen or so with $250k...it'd be great.
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I suspect Peter won't argue much over that notion either. :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 12:37 PM\'][quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 01:29 AM\']By my count, they've had enough $250,000+ winners to have a Return of the Champions week, too...two winners, two with $500k, a dozen or so with $250k...it'd be great.
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I suspect Peter won't argue much over that notion either. :)
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I wouldn't hold my breath. I had read that during the prime time version, the producers focus grouped or did a survey about the champions of Millionaire tournament and found out that people didn't like the idea of big winners winning more money.
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[quote name=\'Peter Sarrett\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 02:40 AM\']Syndicated Millionaire did a Zero Dollar Winners Week in their first season. They didn't do one last season, and I haven't heard of one being filmed this season.
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They're pretty much done taping for the season. Could happen next year.
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[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 09:33 AM\']I wouldn't hold my breath. I had read that during the prime time version, the producers focus grouped or did a survey about the champions of Millionaire tournament and found out that people didn't like the idea of big winners winning more money.
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Don't tell the folks over at Jeopardy!-- they seem to think a Tournament of Champions is a dandy idea.
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[quote name=\'Peter Sarrett\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 10:56 AM\'][quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 09:33 AM\']I wouldn't hold my breath. I had read that during the prime time version, the producers focus grouped or did a survey about the champions of Millionaire tournament and found out that people didn't like the idea of big winners winning more money.
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Don't tell the folks over at Jeopardy!-- they seem to think a Tournament of Champions is a dandy idea.
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I don't think that was quite his point, though. On a show like J!, where contestants compete against each other, there is a desire to see the best play against each other to see who El Jefe really is. On Millionaire, it's all solo players playing against the house, so that aspect of things doesn't exist.
Now, if Millionaire were to develop a format where the former champions all sat in a Deluxe Ring Of Fire or something (think, a bunch of isolation booths), and worked off of the same stack of questions (using lifelines individually and when desired, according to the game rules), last man standing wins, that could be something interesting...
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Believe it or not, I've been toying with just such an idea for a couple of years. I question whether it would require isolation booths, and it would probably function a bit differently scoring wise. I envisioned a strike system instead of lifelines.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:28 AM\']Believe it or not, I've been toying with just such an idea for a couple of years. I question whether it would require isolation booths, and it would probably function a bit differently scoring wise. I envisioned a strike system instead of lifelines.
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Well, I've been toying with just such an idea for about five minutes. :) You prolly wouldn't need the booths, I just think they would look cool, and it would allow players to invoke a PAF without the other players seeing what's happening. (You could prolly accomplish the same thing with flats between the players, like on Greed.)
You gotta have at least the base three Lifelines, because those are the trademark of Millionaire.
As soon as I sent the message, I started thinking about it, and I think a strike system would help to draw the tournament out over several days. Make it real simple: three wrong answers, and yer done. Wanna make it more interesting psychologically? Announce to the other players whenever someone has two strikes, but don't tell them who.
I dunno. This is all quick and dirty thinking, and I'm sure it could and should be refined if the Millionaire people decided they wanted to try it. But it's for sure an interesting notion.
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[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:33 AM\'] I had read that during the prime time version, the producers focus grouped or did a survey about the champions of Millionaire tournament and found out that people didn't like the idea of big winners winning more money.
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*&^%@ focus groups!
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Was there an episode where given the choice of which item was the largest - the women choose Elephant. Even though The Moon was also an option?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 12:53 PM\'][quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:28 AM\']Believe it or not, I've been toying with just such an idea for a couple of years. I question whether it would require isolation booths, and it would probably function a bit differently scoring wise. I envisioned a strike system instead of lifelines.
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Well, I've been toying with just such an idea for about five minutes. :) You prolly wouldn't need the booths, I just think they would look cool, and it would allow players to invoke a PAF without the other players seeing what's happening. (You could prolly accomplish the same thing with flats between the players, like on Greed.)
You gotta have at least the base three Lifelines, because those are the trademark of Millionaire.
As soon as I sent the message, I started thinking about it, and I think a strike system would help to draw the tournament out over several days. Make it real simple: three wrong answers, and yer done. Wanna make it more interesting psychologically? Announce to the other players whenever someone has two strikes, but don't tell them who.
I dunno. This is all quick and dirty thinking, and I'm sure it could and should be refined if the Millionaire people decided they wanted to try it. But it's for sure an interesting notion.
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Using a standard stack of 15, put 10 people in the Ring Of Fire. Put a time limit on the questions (say 30 sec for first 5, 60 secs for second 5, 2 minutes for 11-14, and if you get to 15, say three minutes or walk.) I had originally thought the strike system would go all the way through, but then said nah! Make it 14, and put the 15th out by itself. Standard Millionaire rules otherwise apply (players could vote to walk, and if everyone else voted to walk or struck out, the walk players split the money.) Question 15, if 2 or more players were left, the million would go to the correct "fastest finger".
You're correct in your belief that, in this version, more money would be given away. That's the downside to it. But it would allow players to compete on "Millionaire" directly instead of the "Hot Seat" format. And if someone wanted to put it in PT, you could run 2 full games consistently per hour.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 02:19 PM\'] Question 15, if 2 or more players were left, the million would go to the correct "fastest finger".
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Wow. You believe in the shootout in hockey, too, don't you?
To each their own, but that really isn't how I would do it.
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[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 12:33 PM\'][quote name=\'TLEberle\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 01:29 AM\']By my count, they've had enough $250,000+ winners to have a Return of the Champions week, too...two winners, two with $500k, a dozen or so with $250k...it'd be great.
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I wouldn't hold my breath. I had read that during the prime time version, the producers focus grouped or did a survey about the champions of Millionaire tournament and found out that people didn't like the idea of big winners winning more money.
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That's probably why they did only one Champions' Edition during the original run of the show. Personally I would be interested in seeing the players come back for normal games but not for a tournament as some have described. Though such a tournament would be neat, it might be better to do it outside of the Millionaire format since it would be tough to keep the show Millionaire with all of the changes proposed.
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Check out Show Summaries - I forget the date, but within the last two weeks there was a lady who missed the $100 question and this past week some other lady missed the $200 question.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:25 AM\']Now, if Millionaire were to develop a format where the former champions all sat in a Deluxe Ring Of Fire or something (think, a bunch of isolation booths), and worked off of the same stack of questions (using lifelines individually and when desired, according to the game rules), last man standing wins, that could be something interesting...
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I like that idea, actually. So much of Millionaire has always been "Yeah, his stack was dead easy, mine was tough...".
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[quote name=\'Gromit\' date=\'Jan 30 2005, 05:35 AM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:25 AM\']Now, if Millionaire were to develop a format where the former champions all sat in a Deluxe Ring Of Fire or something (think, a bunch of isolation booths), and worked off of the same stack of questions (using lifelines individually and when desired, according to the game rules), last man standing wins, that could be something interesting...
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I like that idea, actually. So much of Millionaire has always been "Yeah, his stack was dead easy, mine was tough...".
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We've heard that line so many times. A format like the one Gromit asked for and a few of us offered up can solve that problem in a hurry.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 30 2005, 02:28 PM\'][quote name=\'Gromit\' date=\'Jan 30 2005, 05:35 AM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2005, 11:25 AM\']Now, if Millionaire were to develop a format where the former champions all sat in a Deluxe Ring Of Fire or something (think, a bunch of isolation booths), and worked off of the same stack of questions (using lifelines individually and when desired, according to the game rules), last man standing wins, that could be something interesting...
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I like that idea, actually. So much of Millionaire has always been "Yeah, his stack was dead easy, mine was tough...".
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We've heard that line so many times. A format like the one Gromit asked for and a few of us offered up can solve that problem in a hurry.
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Wouldn't that game be called "Win Ben Stein's Money", except with harder questions, higher stakes, and the lifelines?
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[quote name=\'fsk\' date=\'Jan 31 2005, 07:50 PM\']Wouldn't that game be called "Win Ben Stein's Money", except with harder questions, higher stakes, and the lifelines?
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No.