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Four players face-off competing in a test of strategy, psychology and nerve. It's a high-energy game show combining fast-action and calculated risks taken by each contestant.

The game begins with five "Money Clocks" ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. The players secretly buzz-in for each round as the money amount is displayed on the clock. He/she attempts to capture the second highest amount of money as the greediest player is awarded nothing throughout the first four "Money Clocks." In the 5th (all-important) "Money Clock" round, the two contestants who buzz -with the Most and Least dollar amounts get nothing while the two players in the Middle money range proceed to bank his/her cash.

The two players with the most money remaining in his/her bank after the $5,000 "Money Clock" round then advance to the FINAL Face-Off, wherein the "Money Clock" starts at zero and increases to reach the combined dollar amount of the two player's total banks.

The first player to buzz-in will win that amount of cash on the FINAL "Money Clock" while the greedier player departs HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? poorer…but wiser.

How Much is Enough? debut, 9 p.m., GSN (Game Show Network). Contestants simply try to take a bunch of money, knowing that the one who takes the most will get nothing. It's a game show with zero play-along factor for viewers. Think of it as "Deal or No Deal" without the big money, the glitz or (presumably) the audience.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:So, the show awards mediocrity?

Shade wrote:I watched an episode, I don't really like it. It doesn't make you think like a good trivia game show and it doesn't have a lot of money at stake like Deal or No Deal so I deem it not worthy of 30 minutes of my time but I may still watch it if there is nothing else on.

MarleysGh0st wrote:I also watched it last night, probably for the last time. If there's nothing else on TV, there are always books.

BackInTex wrote:looks like an opportunity to cheat.

Two players each agree to split the winnings by both punching in immediately.

Of course, I haven't read all the rules, but it seems like that would work.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:So, the show awards mediocrity?

That's it! Because if you're not mediocre enough, you're "too greedy".

GSN's beancounters must love this set of rules.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

Shade wrote:I watched an episode, I don't really like it. It doesn't make you think like a good trivia game show and it doesn't have a lot of money at stake like Deal or No Deal so I deem it not worthy of 30 minutes of my time but I may still watch it if there is nothing else on.

I also watched it last night, probably for the last time. If there's nothing else on TV, there are always books.

For variety, the rounds alternate counting up the money clock and then down, e.g. from $0 to $1000 and then from $2000 to $0. Contestants were holding their buttons behind their backs so their opponents couldn't see them, then doing all sorts of silly fake-out moves, which the host started having lots of fun with. He was probably the only one.

Starting in the second round, they started drawing out the suspense before revealing the amount each contestant rang in with. "Do you think your opponent was greedier than you or not? Oh, well played!" Feh.

General strategy seems to be to wait until the money clocks were at about half their full values, more or less. Except for the final round, with the two remaining contestants face off with their buttons in full view of each other. Then it was just a matter of nerves of steel and lightning reflexes. If such a meaningless game can rate such exciting adjectives.