Post by dougmorrisontheair on Nov 20, 2014 22:37:03 GMT -5
Hello, everybody. It's time to start the holiday special of “The Name's The Same”.
In case you're not familiar with the show, rules are included in this Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name%27s_the_Same
For the games played here, these will be the slight differences from the 1950s series...
\ There will be three celebrities on the panel (several episodes of the original series had four panelists; others three panelists; we'll go with three here).
\ Each panelist will be allocated seven “yes/no” questions instead of ten.
\ At the start of a game, each panelist is spotted a check for $5000 (in virtual funds, of course). However, all three checks will go to the favorite charity of the panelist who correctly names the challenger –– or all three checks will be awarded to the challenger if the panel is stumped after 21 total questions.
\ Challengers are friends from my past or present, people I know/knew or -- in the case of at least one game -- a viewer-submitted name (read: someone on NGC told me about a person (s)he knew who also shares his/her first and last name with a famous person). Identities of things (“A. Lamp”), places (“Virginia Beach”), familiar phrases (“Mary Christmas”), etc., won't be used here. Identities of fictional characters, however, won't be off limits. (Which leads us to...)
\ To help move the game forward, some “head start hints” will be given before a panelist asks the first question of the game (if the name were Rob Schneider, for example, the “hints” would likely note the challenger shares his first and last name with a former cast member of “Saturday Night Live” who has since starred in movies; should the challenger share his/her first and last name with a fictional character, the panel will be so notified in the “hints”).
\ We'll plan for three games in this episode -- each with its own challenger. The first question of the first game would go to “Panelist #1”. Then, “Panelist #2” would start the second game and “Panelist #3” would commence the last game.
Want to be a panelist? The only prerequisite is that you host at least one series on this forum. So if you want to be a panelist, please reply with your first and last name as well as the title of at least one series you're hosting in this forum.
Save for November 27th-30th (Thanksgiving and the remainder of the month in the U.S.), we'll operate on 24-hour deadlines.
In case you're not familiar with the show, rules are included in this Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name%27s_the_Same
For the games played here, these will be the slight differences from the 1950s series...
\ There will be three celebrities on the panel (several episodes of the original series had four panelists; others three panelists; we'll go with three here).
\ Each panelist will be allocated seven “yes/no” questions instead of ten.
\ At the start of a game, each panelist is spotted a check for $5000 (in virtual funds, of course). However, all three checks will go to the favorite charity of the panelist who correctly names the challenger –– or all three checks will be awarded to the challenger if the panel is stumped after 21 total questions.
\ Challengers are friends from my past or present, people I know/knew or -- in the case of at least one game -- a viewer-submitted name (read: someone on NGC told me about a person (s)he knew who also shares his/her first and last name with a famous person). Identities of things (“A. Lamp”), places (“Virginia Beach”), familiar phrases (“Mary Christmas”), etc., won't be used here. Identities of fictional characters, however, won't be off limits. (Which leads us to...)
\ To help move the game forward, some “head start hints” will be given before a panelist asks the first question of the game (if the name were Rob Schneider, for example, the “hints” would likely note the challenger shares his first and last name with a former cast member of “Saturday Night Live” who has since starred in movies; should the challenger share his/her first and last name with a fictional character, the panel will be so notified in the “hints”).
\ We'll plan for three games in this episode -- each with its own challenger. The first question of the first game would go to “Panelist #1”. Then, “Panelist #2” would start the second game and “Panelist #3” would commence the last game.
Want to be a panelist? The only prerequisite is that you host at least one series on this forum. So if you want to be a panelist, please reply with your first and last name as well as the title of at least one series you're hosting in this forum.
Save for November 27th-30th (Thanksgiving and the remainder of the month in the U.S.), we'll operate on 24-hour deadlines.
