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The Big Board / Re: My Board Game Collection
« Last post by Chelsea Thrasher on September 01, 2025, 06:31:32 PM »
Seeing the pile of NES games took me back.  When I was a kid, I got my cousin's hand-me-down NES when he upgrades to the SNES, and a local rental place in town had several of the various game show adaptations. 

I played the hell out of the NES adaptation of Davidson HS (which did a ridiculously good job adapting the show's music for 8-bit).  I'm not generally a retro gaming person (and haven't had a console in years), but every single time I see the NES Squares adaptation I always get this dumb little grin.

I've seen the collection in person once, and it's outstanding - and be it the Strong Museum, those folks who take various pieces of it, or whomever: You're getting some absolute gems.
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The Big Board / Re: My Board Game Collection
« Last post by TLEberle on September 01, 2025, 06:03:57 PM »
That basically makes it drafting blackjack, yes?

I found the DIY TPIR and you could slap together Say When with the dry erase pads and prize compendium,
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by Ian Wallis on September 01, 2025, 05:49:50 PM »
Quote from: TimK2003 on September 01, 2025, 04:37:01 PM
What I dont remember offhand is if in the 80's reboot, once  the progressive check (up to $50k) was found, if the amount automatically reverted to the base $25k whether it was won or given up.  I suspect the progressive check remained if un-won and placed in a new box until it was actually won..

In the episodes GSN ran, it stayed at $50,000 until won, then reset to $20,000.  There was one episode where a contestant passed up the $50K, but it remained at that level until won a few shows later.
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The Big Board / Re: My Board Game Collection
« Last post by SuperMatch93 on September 01, 2025, 05:37:49 PM »
Those of you who own Say When!!:

Do you play it by Parker Brothers' rules, or do you adapt it? My own copy is relatively complete, but I don't like how the prize and its price are on the same side of the card.
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by That Don Guy on September 01, 2025, 05:34:26 PM »
Quote from: whewfan on August 31, 2025, 04:19:30 AM
This happened on a recently posted episode. I'm guessing they have the audience leave while the second check is placed. I wonder what they sacrifice to hide the second check, maybe a klunk, or a prize that's not part of the announced prizes offered on the show. Geoff told me for the 1980s run, that some boxes were duplicates, since there were 66 on that version. I wonder if they had duplicates also for this version.
They wouldn't need to sacrifice anything. They would just select a number, and if it was not the same as the one where it was in the first game, they just move whatever was in the box with that number into the box with the first winning number.

If you look at the boxes, you will notice that the tags with the numbers can be switched from one box to another. This probably makes it easier to set up different shows rather than actually move props from one box to another. In this case, they probably would switch just about all of the numbers around, as if they swapped just the two boxes' numbers, it would be too easy for someone to remember the colors/pattern of the first $25,000 box.
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by TimK2003 on September 01, 2025, 04:37:01 PM »
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But doesn't Johnny Jacobs say, "Hidden inside ONE of these boxes is a check for $25K"? If contestant #1 picks the box with the $25K check but you're the second contestant, well, that's just the luck of the draw.

He does, but there is verifiable proof that if the the first contestant picks the $25k box, win or lose, a second check is placed in a box for the second contestant.

What I dont remember offhand is if in the 80's reboot, once  the progressive check (up to $50k) was found, if the amount automatically reverted to the base $25k whether it was won or given up.  I suspect the progressive check remained if un-won and placed in a new box until it was actually won..

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Besides, didn't Treasure Hunt offer other prizes worth more than $25K?

I had thought so when they were offering the Rolls Royce on the original 70's version, but the model up for grabs wasn't that expensive...yet.
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The Big Board / Lost 1967 WML Episode Found
« Last post by Eric Paddon on September 01, 2025, 03:27:38 PM »
A 16mm kinescope of a lost WML episode from 1967 (July 23) with Carl Reiner as Mystery Guest has been found on e-bay and won by the administrations of the WML Facebook group who previously found on e-bay and restored a lost 1950 WML episode a few years back.    They will eventually get it digitized though that process will take a few months.    I held off mentioning the film was on e-bay because I didn't want any well meaning members here to suddenly start a bid war.   (As it was it went for $643).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/236289985108
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by Adam Nedeff on September 01, 2025, 02:15:46 PM »
Quote from: Brian44 on September 01, 2025, 12:52:54 PM

Besides, didn't Treasure Hunt offer other prizes worth more than $25K?
No.

Also, everybody here is giving completely plausible theories for how the show worked, but am I crazy for saying that Geoff explained how the show when he was alive?
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The Big Board / Re: Treasure Hunt question
« Last post by Brian44 on September 01, 2025, 12:52:54 PM »
But doesn't Johnny Jacobs say, "Hidden inside ONE of these boxes is a check for $25K"? If contestant #1 picks the box with the $25K check but you're the second contestant, well, that's just the luck of the draw.

If Plinko is played first on TPIR and is the only cash PG played that day, and you're the fifth contestant called to come on down, too bad, so sad. You don't get the chance to win $50K.

Besides, didn't Treasure Hunt offer other prizes worth more than $25K?
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The Big Board / My Board Game Collection
« Last post by Matt Ottinger on September 01, 2025, 12:05:00 PM »
At the risk of crossing a line into crass commercialism, a lot of you wanted to know what's in my collection, so I hastily took some pictures and posted them on a hidden page on my I've Got a Secret site.  You can go there just to browse my collection for fun, but if you're interested in owning some for yourself, there are instructions on that page for how to get that ball rolling.

A great many of the older games will be donated to the Strong Museum of Play (including the collection I'm most proud of -- my radio games, which are not pictured) but I wanted my game show friends and acquaintances to fill in some holes in their own collections if they were so inclined.

Please do not make requests on this thread.  Because my ego needs it, feel free to comment on the collection itself.  This was a large part of my life for a long time, and it feels weird breaking it up after all these years.

I haven't gotten back to everyone who's already contacted me, but I am working on it.  Please have patience.  This is just one element of several I am juggling as we plan our move.

https://ivegotasecret.nicepage.io/Games.html
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