In the latter days of the original run of "Jeopardy!", there was a bonus for running a category, starting at $500 and increasing by another $500 each day until a contestant does it. It's added to the contestant's winnings at the end of the show.
> On Sep 20, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now that the season has started the episodes are shorter and are based around > recaps of the previous week’s shows. It looks like the long form interviews > were for the summer rerun weeks. > > Michael brings up brainstorming ideas which might or might not go anywhere. > One is some kind of bonus for running a category. He brought the idea up > again, this time with Buzzy. Buzzy asked if the bonus money would be part of > the score amount and Michael said it wouldn’t. Michael said it might be a > prize and not money. Sarah said she looked in the records and there was a > time Jeopardy gave out sponsor prizes but they were all pretty tacky. > > Reading from a viewer’s comment, Michael suggested only giving the bonus if a > contestant started from the top of the category and worked their way down. > Buzzy said it would impact game play a lot as it disincentivizes jumping > around the board which a lot of top players like to do. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGOmUN88uCq%2BiGJskjjq6aqYH1%3DkE0rpGhd4iq-7aj63A%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGOmUN88uCq%2BiGJskjjq6aqYH1%3DkE0rpGhd4iq-7aj63A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/0F6D4579-81C6-4748-802E-6AA846C2F0FC%40ellwanger.tv.
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