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by frogman042 » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:57 pm
Tim, that is so cool that you followed me. I wish I heard you but right after my game ended I had a conference call for work so I missed the last half hour of the broadcast. Congrats on your win.
I did hear the Money List win, didn't know that was goongas, though - congrats as well.
The Money List game (as far as I understand it, I may have gotten the details wrong since I only just started listening) is to reiterate a list of items that they had early given at various points in the broadcast, 5 at a time at. So you have to listen since they don't repeat each segment. Today it was a list of Stephen King titles. From what I seemed to figure out is that if they call you to play you state at the top how many you know and I believe you have to give the answers in the same order that the listed them (I'm not sure about that), in addition, I think you have to get all the titles that you declare you know and I think you get $5 for each correct response. So goongas went 20 for 20 and got $100 for his efforts - I guessing that if you don't get all the ones you claim you can get you get nothing - but that is also just a guess.
(edit - Goongas, thanks for filling in the details on the Money List - I didn't know that you would know you were playing prior to the list being broadcast).
If you are wondering about the game I got selected to play, it is called 'Are you smarter than the 5th caller' - it involves 3 rounds and 2 players - a reigning champion and a challenger who is called the 5th caller - although they call you to play. The challenger goes first and gets a question, if they want they can try to answer it cold for 3 pts or get a list of 3 choices for 1 pt. The 2nd round is the same and the last round the point value doubles - 6 pts for a correct answer without the list 2 pts to select from the choices. High score wins - ties go to a tiebreaker toss-up question. The winner gets $100 and the chance to play the same game again the next day. I will be playing again tomorrow just after 3:20 pm Central time.
I did have an unusual situation, my first game yesterday the current reigning champion could not be reached so that had two new players - I was put in the challenger role. By winning yesterday I didn't get to be the champion because today I actually played against the current champion who was on a 5 day winning streak - going for 6. So as of now, even though I've won twice, it is the first time that I'm consider the current champion.
---Jay