Revivals/Alt. Versions
BIG SHOWDOWN
CHANGES: Money dial reads: $100, $200, $300, $400, $500 and $1,000. Each payoff during the 1:30 speed round after the one currently in play is worth $200.
Final Showdown is worth $500.
Rolling "SHOW" and "DOWN" on the first roll in the bonus is worth a jackpot that starts at $15,000 and increases by $1,000 each time it is not won. In the 30-second round "SHOW" and "DOWN" are worth $10,000. Rolling the payoff is worth $500 and 5 seconds added on the clock as it is rolled.
CELEBRITY SWEEPSTAKES
CHANGES: Raise the opening stakes to $100 with bets of $50, $25 or $10 per question. Also, change the "All or Nothing" round to the "big bet round" where the player can bet all, half or nothing.
HIGH ROLLERS
CHANGES: Games worth $250 each. Return the adding of prizes into the columns - with a max of three per column.
In the "Big Numbers" each number knocked off is $250 and knocking off all nine is worth a jackpot that starts at $10,000 and grows by $1,000 every time it isn't knocked off. Five wins is worth a car.
PITFALL
CHANGES: Fix the main game. There's a few ways I propose to do it:
If you want to keep the audience polling format, than I suggest this. Make the answer selected by the audience least the "pitfall". When picked, the contestant loses a point.
Another version does not always poll the audience. Poll questions asked to various groups are posed and five answers revealed - one is a fake answer nobody said. The contestant picks an answer and if anybody in the poll said it, its percentage value goes into the bank. They can bank the points and pass control or pick another answer. They can continue picking until the bank totals 100. If they pick the zero answer, the bank goes to their opponent. Contestants who run the bank to 100 get a "100% Jackpot" that starts at $1,000 and goes up $200 every game it is not won. Players alternate the right to start questions until one amasses 250 points or time runs out. The winner gets $250 and plays the bonus.
I believe the bonus should remain the same with steps 1 - 3 worth $250 each, the 4th worth a prize, and 5 - 8 worth $250. Crossing the bridge is still worth a prize package.
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