Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2023 20:15:13 GMT -5
I did a quick search of the forum and didn't see that anyone has ever done a show based on this game created by Jonathan Williams a.k.a. BigJon (at least the search revealed no results anyway).
The idea of this game is to occupy as many squares with your designated color as possible. You win in one of two ways -- occupying the most squares in your color or being the last one standing after the others have been eliminated.
The game starts with each of the four players occupying one of the four corners. The rest of the board is available to be claimed by a player. To gain control of the board, a player buzzes in to provide an answer to a given clue. The answer will always contain a color. A correct answer is worth $50. Here's an example:
Clue: A popular breakfast beverage
Answer: Orange Juice
Once a player controls the board, they can decide to play or pass. If they play, random squares start to illuminate as the active square and the player must stop the board from shuffling, similar to what happens on Press Your Luck. If the player stops on an unoccupied square, they take possession of it and earn money in the amount of the dollar value listed multiplied by the number of squares they were in possession of at the time. If they stop on one of their own squares, they are safe and that is worth $25. If however they stop on one of their opponent's squares, their game ends immediately and that opponent claims all of that player's squares in their own color. As the game progresses and there are fewer unclaimed spaces remaining, it is sometimes better to pass rather than play to put the pressure on your opponent, but this of course can backfire if your opponent goes on a run and fills up the rest of the board with their color.
The winner earns an additional $50 for every square of their color that they possess. This person becomes the champion and goes on to face the Bonus Board for up to $100,000.
I plan to use the same AutoHotKey script to stop the board as I was using with Press Your Luck. I will also be using "buzz ranges" rather than asking you for buzz codes and here is how that will work:
The person who signs up first will be the Blue color with buzz codes ranging from 1 to 25.
The person who signs up second will be the Red color with buzz codes ranging from 26 to 50.
The person who signs up third will be the Yellow color with buzz codes ranging from 51 to 75.
The person who signs up fourth will be the Green color with buzz codes ranging from 76 to 100.
I will use a random number between 1 and 100 inclusive from Random.org to determine who has buzzed in.
I think that covers it. We will start this show as soon as we get 4 contestants. Who would like to give this a go?
