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tvwxman

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"You Don't Say!" - twice a local game show?
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2005, 09:08:33 AM »
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'May 23 2005, 09:16 PM\']and KTTV (Ch. 11) aired Liar's Club as a weekly show during the 75-76 season (which was good, since they needed time to work the kinks out of the scoring system).
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How many scoring formats were there? I remember from the USA days , 3 or 4 easy, and those were all within one season, right?
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zachhoran

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« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2005, 09:37:16 AM »
[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'May 24 2005, 08:08 AM\'][quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'May 23 2005, 09:16 PM\']and KTTV (Ch. 11) aired Liar's Club as a weekly show during the 75-76 season (which was good, since they needed time to work the kinks out of the scoring system).
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How many scoring formats were there? I remember from the USA days , 3 or 4 easy, and those were all within one season, right?
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There was the first round 1-1, second round 2-1, third round 5-1, and fourth round 10-1 format, bet up to the number of dollars/points you have(with a 100 max bet each round), which was also used in the Eric Boardman version(where they played for points as opposed to dollars). Part of that format during the Armstrong years offered a contestant double their wager if they were the only one to pick the correct celebrity in a given round. One format during the Armstrong years had one contestant playing for 2-1, one contestant playing for 5-1, one contestant playing for 10-1, and one for 20-1 odds in a given round. The odds would change for each player  for the next round. A player in that format could bet whatever they wanted, even if they had more than 100 points. I suspect that latter format was the shortest-lived because it would hurt Ralph Andrews' pockets(and that's something that seemed to happen on several occasions)

ChuckNet

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« Reply #17 on: May 26, 2005, 10:10:20 PM »
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There was the first round 1-1, second round 2-1, third round 5-1, and fourth round 10-1 format, bet up to the number of dollars/points you have(with a 100 max bet each round), which was also used in the Eric Boardman version(where they played for points as opposed to dollars).

Actually, on the late 80s revival, you were only allowed to bet half of your initial 100 pts...another feature on said version was a bonus prize given to any player who had a correct bet in all 4 rounds, in addition to the standard prize given for winning the game.

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« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2005, 10:42:15 PM »
Another first-season format that was quite awkward: each celeb was only available to be bet on once a round, w/odds for the first player 2-1, next player's were 5-1, 3rd player's 10-1, and since there was only one celeb left, the last player's odds were 20-1 (and unlike the later eps, bets of $1 increments were the rule...wasn't uncommon to see bets for "odd" amounts often).

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