Author Topic: 4 player Jeopardy (Read 5964 times)

Dbacksfan12 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 03, 2005, 05:54:17 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 05:48 PM\']Do NOT encourage him. The last thing I need is Zach wearing out a term as if it's a compliment.
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Too late, if you ask me.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #31 on:** January 03, 2005, 06:08:37 PM »

[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 05:54 PM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 05:48 PM\']Do NOT encourage him. The last thing I need is Zach wearing out a term as if it's a compliment.
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Too late, if you ask me.

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Exactly my point. I don't want another one worn out, not that I'm trying to make this about me.

clemon79 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 03, 2005, 08:53:54 PM »

[quote name=\'gameshowsteve\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 03:06 PM\']According to Harry Eisenberg's J! book, the reason they went to $100-$1000 instead of $50-500 in '84 was because they didn't want to slow the game down by having contestants ask for clues "for one hundred and fifty" and "two hundred and fifty."
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I've been trying to tell people that for years, when they try to "improve" upon J!'s scoring system. Personally, I think "sixteen-hundred" is enough of a mouthful.

clemon79 · « **Reply #33 on:** January 03, 2005, 09:21:37 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 3 2005, 03:48 PM\']Do NOT encourage him. The last thing I need is Zach wearing out a term as if it's a compliment.
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Just so long as it's eminently clear to him that we're laughing AT him and not WITH him, I think it will be okay.

And make no mistake, Zach, that's what I'm doing, at least.

Craig Karlberg · « **Reply #34 on:** January 04, 2005, 05:26:18 AM »

What's wrong with players saying "one fifty" as oppoaed to "one hundred & fifty"? My thinking is that people may hear that as being the same as $1.50 in written form(same with "two fifty($2.50)). That's why they chose the hundreds incraments for clarity sake I think.

Don Howard · « **Reply #35 on:** January 04, 2005, 08:44:12 AM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 05:26 AM\']What's wrong with players saying "one fifty" as oppoaed to "one hundred & fifty"? My thinking is that people may hear that as being the same as $1.50 in written form(same with "two fifty($2.50)). That's why they chose the hundreds incraments for clarity sake I think.

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Good point, Craig. In fact, while watching Jeopardy! in 1978, when someone called "Odds And Ends for one twenty-five" I was certain the value of the clue was $1.25 and told this to my mother.

clemon79 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 04, 2005, 11:44:13 AM »

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 03:26 AM\']What's wrong with players saying "one fifty" as oppoaed to "one hundred & fifty"? My thinking is that people may hear that as being the same as $1.50 in written form(same with "two fifty($2.50)). That's why they chose the hundreds incraments for clarity sake I think.

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I've noticed you do much better when you don't bother thinking. Because you're not even freakin' close here.

The problem is still that people read numbers in different ways, and it's going to slow down the game regardless. JEEZ.

J.R. · « **Reply #37 on:** January 04, 2005, 12:45:48 PM »

[quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Jan 1 2005, 08:39 AM\']The Super Jeopardy tournament that the ABC-TV network aired during the summer of 1990 compensated for that by increasing the score values for the game clues (to 200-1000 in the first round of play, and to 500-2500 in the second round), and playing the games for points, rather than dollars.

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I was curious, why didn't "Super Jeopardy!" just do 400-2000 instead?
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clemon79 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:06:57 PM »

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 10:45 AM\']I was curious, why didn't "Super Jeopardy!" just do 400-2000 instead?
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Because 500 is a nice round number, and it doesn't matter as much when it's only points.

tvwxman · « **Reply #39 on:** January 04, 2005, 01:13:28 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 01:06 PM\'][quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Jan 4 2005, 10:45 AM\']I was curious, why didn't "Super Jeopardy!" just do 400-2000 instead?
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Because 500 is a nice round number, and it doesn't matter as much when it's only points.

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And that , to me, was the problem with SJ!.... no money syndrome....i think, for the race to 250K, they could have put dollar signs on the board....with the winner of the tourney getting a bob stewart-like total raised to 250K....

It wouldn't have cost THAT much more...

ChuckNet · « **Reply #40 on:** January 05, 2005, 12:00:57 AM »

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Good point, Craig. In fact, while watching Jeopardy! in 1978, when someone called "Odds And Ends for one twenty-five" I was certain the value of the clue was $1.25 and told this to my mother.

You sure you weren't watching the Canadian version? :-D

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")