Post by billmcdee on Jul 19, 2023 4:29:19 GMT -5
I wanted to try an old and real NBC game show that, to the best of my knowledge, has never been done before on the boards.
My first thought was a very short lived game show called KNOCKOUT, which starred Arte Johnson as host. But after thinking about it a while I came upon another very short lived NBC game show from 1976 instead.
The program was called "STUMPERS", and was hosted by Mr. Password himself, Allen Ludden.
The premise of the game was similar to Password, but instead, three clues were given, one at a time, for players to try to solve a puzzle.
The puzzle answer could be a person, a place, a thing, a landmark, an event, a fictional character, pretty much anything under the sun, and including the sun itself!
The format involved a civilian teamed up with a celebrity. They saw all 3 clues and would give them one at a time to the opposing team, and they would try to give the clue that was least helpful.
The faster the team solved the stumper, the more points they earned. After 2 or 4 rounds, the team with the higher score won the game and played an end game for $10,000.
In my version, I will only be using single players, and they will get to choose clues, one at a time, to try to solve the puzzle instead.
My game intends to award cash for correct answers and the first player to reach a certain goal will win the game and play for the bonus.
I'm still hammering out a lot of the details, but I have about two dozen or so puzzles jotted down thus far, and want to have a great many more in my database before I do a launch for a pilot episode.
Meantime, here is a sample "STUMPER" puzzle.
The board will look something like this:
1.
2.
3.
And the player whose turn it is will get to select any number and a clue will be revealed to them. Let's say they select 2.
1.
2. ORANGE
3.
At this point in time, they can make a guess, without any penalty for an incorrect try. They might answer "JUICE". If correct they would win a top dollar amount (e.g. $300). If wrong, they would ask for another clue and play for $200, then $100 if they needed all three.
1. HALLOWEEN
2. ORANGE
3. CARVED PUMPKIN
Clues can be one or more words as you can see in this example. In this case, the answer to the stumper would be JACK O'LANTERN.
Now if the player selected clue 3 first, they might have solved it with just one clue.
More to come, as this is still in the embryonic development stage in my noggin.
My first thought was a very short lived game show called KNOCKOUT, which starred Arte Johnson as host. But after thinking about it a while I came upon another very short lived NBC game show from 1976 instead.
The program was called "STUMPERS", and was hosted by Mr. Password himself, Allen Ludden.
The premise of the game was similar to Password, but instead, three clues were given, one at a time, for players to try to solve a puzzle.
The puzzle answer could be a person, a place, a thing, a landmark, an event, a fictional character, pretty much anything under the sun, and including the sun itself!
The format involved a civilian teamed up with a celebrity. They saw all 3 clues and would give them one at a time to the opposing team, and they would try to give the clue that was least helpful.
The faster the team solved the stumper, the more points they earned. After 2 or 4 rounds, the team with the higher score won the game and played an end game for $10,000.
In my version, I will only be using single players, and they will get to choose clues, one at a time, to try to solve the puzzle instead.
My game intends to award cash for correct answers and the first player to reach a certain goal will win the game and play for the bonus.
I'm still hammering out a lot of the details, but I have about two dozen or so puzzles jotted down thus far, and want to have a great many more in my database before I do a launch for a pilot episode.
Meantime, here is a sample "STUMPER" puzzle.
The board will look something like this:
1.
2.
3.
And the player whose turn it is will get to select any number and a clue will be revealed to them. Let's say they select 2.
1.
2. ORANGE
3.
At this point in time, they can make a guess, without any penalty for an incorrect try. They might answer "JUICE". If correct they would win a top dollar amount (e.g. $300). If wrong, they would ask for another clue and play for $200, then $100 if they needed all three.
1. HALLOWEEN
2. ORANGE
3. CARVED PUMPKIN
Clues can be one or more words as you can see in this example. In this case, the answer to the stumper would be JACK O'LANTERN.
Now if the player selected clue 3 first, they might have solved it with just one clue.
More to come, as this is still in the embryonic development stage in my noggin.
