We were informed from a very good friend that Blue Square Casino has a new “Wheel of Fortune” slot machine online game up. It’s called Triple Action Frenzy. I’ve been playing it for a little, and it’s actually a lot of fun, be sure to check it out when you get a chance. It’s much better than basically any other slot machine game they have there, and I think it includes new music plus the current set.
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1 vs. 100 Open Casting
If you want to be on one of the next 10 or 15 or whatever episodes of 1 vs. 100 as a contestant or a mob member, this is for you.
Exclusively from NBC (for now at least):
Ever wonder what YOU would do with one million dollars?
Are you a risk taker?
Do you feel lucky?
Now’s your big chance to try to find out.
OPEN CALL- NOVEMBER 4th
The Shrine Expo Center
700 W. 32nd St. on the corner of Figueroa and 32nd St.
10am-1pm
For directions visit ShrintLA.com
For more information about how to be a contestant, please contact Alex Davis by the Call button at the top or visit NBC’s site.
Golden-Road, a trustworthy Price is Right website is reporting that Bob Barker will be retiring from The Price is Right in June of 07, at the end of The Price is Right’s 35th season. On December 31st 2006, Bob Barker will celebrate the anniversary of his 50th year on national television. When a more official word comes out, we here at Buzzer will bring it to you, but unfortunately this seems official. No word of the future of The Price is Right.
Edit: We contacted CBS and it’s official: he will be leaving.
Edit 2: An official article from the AP if you don’t believe us.
Daniel Weber, a 17 year old senior from Keystone Oaks High School, has just won $5,000 and the chance at $40,000 in
GSN’s “National Vocabulary Championship”. He will travel to New York City to compete in the $40,000 finals on February 26, 2007. The NVC is a nation-wide educational initiative to spread the importance of having well developed vocabulary school for all aspects of life. Each of the eight city finalists will be rewarded with $5,000, while the grand champion wins $40,000.
Weber said about his performance, “Coming into this there were 96 other kids that knew a lot of vocabulary. I just wanted to do well and it turned out in my favor.” Weber sealed the deal by answering his final ten questions read by “Chain Reaction” host Dylan Lane in a speed round in 1:15. GSN Senior Vice President of Marketing, Dena Kaplan, stated “GSN is taking the NVC across the country to raise awareness of the importance of language arts in the classroom. We’re investing in America’s future by providing money for college to winning students as well as making vocabulary fun and relevant in the game of life. We are thrilled that we will be seeing Daniel Weber at the national finals in February.”
“GSN is taking the NVC across the country to raise awareness of the importance of language arts in the classroom,” said Dena Kaplan, Senior Vice President of Marketing, GSN. “We’re investing in America’s future by providing money for college to winning students as well as making vocabulary fun and relevant in the game of life. We are thrilled that we will be seeing Daniel Weber at the national finals in February.”
If you’ve been watching NBC since Thursday night, you may know an outcome already.
William Shatner’s new game show, “Show Me the Money”, which by the way ABC is promoting it is starting to sadly become a mix of “Deal or No Deal” and “Dancing with the Stars”, has been pushed forward one week to premiere on November 14th at 9:30PM ET with a 1.5 hour premiere episode. All this according to The Futon Critic.
A bit ago, BuzzerBlog announced “Chain Reaction”, GSN’s new word game, was renewed for a second season. It apparently got decent ratings, but a good deal of the game show community, quite frankly, disliked it and wondered why it was renewed instead of other things like “I’ve Got A Secret”. Many issues came up with things like game play, set, music, host, contestants, and everything. So, we called out to our readers to submit their changes. The results were rather astounding. Including emails, we got over 50 comments. We thought it would be nice to showcase our favorite ideas and then combine them to make what we feel would be a better edition of “Chain Reaction”. These are also going to be submitted to GSN and Embassy Row.
One quick comment before we start. We would like to note that, in theory, “Chain Reaction” is not a bad game. It has the makings of something terrific. However, there are so many tiny errors and flaws in the game play, set changes, music issues, host issues, and more, that it really takes away. When I say that we are making what we feel is a better show, I stress the we as in BuzzerBlog. We are not saying this is terrific to you or compares to the classic. This will just be a combination of your game play that was suggested into a format. Please click below the link to read your hard work.
ONE MORE NOTE: BuzzerBlog is reviving it’s podcast talk show “The Buzz”. If you would like to be featured in it and interviewed about “Chain Reaction”, please leave a comment about this post or email us.
Regular visitors to the main site may have noticed a recent addition to the homepage: a new logo which reads “FLASHGames² Holiday Giveaway: Details Coming Soon.” Well, FLASHGames² is our parent company, so let’s enter our new category: Shameless Promotion. Click below to learn how you can win prizes, straight from the mouth of MrGameShow.
Edit: We are aware of the Firefox 2 issue, and we are currently working on resolving it. Thanks for your time and patience.
Take this as you want: Shandi Finnessey, co-host of Lingo and Playmania, stated in the news section of her website that Lingo will be taping after New Years, which is Q1 2007. No word on when episodes will tape. We’ll try to get more. I’m glad to see that at least one of their decent shows is being renewed. Now if only we could get “I’ve Got A Secret”.
Later tonight or early tomorrow, we will post our “Chain Reaction” article about game play changes you submitted.
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