Thanks to an email from reader Bob Hagh, we have the rules for season two of ABC’s Duel which is somehow magically coming back next Friday, April 4th, at 9:00PM ET. It seems like they’ve taken a portion of both end games of the British version. The game’s basically staying the same.
After each game, you get to answer the “Max Moment Question” just to throw a bit more shameless product promotion in there. If you’re right you double the money you’ve earned. You have the chance to leave with your money after each duel, or you can risk it all and play another opponent that you select.
If you win five duels, you win $500,000. What remains to be seen is if you can double that $500,000 to $1,000,000. That might be a bit of a contradiction right now since the casting notices constantly tout a $1,000,000 top prize but other releases state $500,000 though host Mike Greenberg did say you get a chance to double your money. No idea how the money is decided either. Last season it was $5,000 for each chip you had remaining.
If the top prize is just $500,000 tops, ABC might want to stop showing the $1,500,000+ jackpot totals in their advertisements for the show. Seeing mega money be brought down to $500,000 is bad enough. Having commercials saying the last winner won more than $1.7 million, and the champion this season wins $500,000, it almost depressing and pathetic. But hey, it’s a relatively fun question format. Let’s see if they’ve done anything to change some of the issues season one had.
The Mole really can’t come soon enough.
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I think is that sad, Greeny could of just been referring to the “max question” for dbl what was won that duel when saying “you could double”
It’s probably $5,000 per chip still- $500,000 is what you would win if you won all five duels with all ten chips remaining and then answered the bonus question correctly each time…
5,000 x 10= 50,000 x 2= 100,000 x 5= 500,000
The question is, is it $500,000 PLUS what you won in the first four Duels or is it just “We up your winnings to a TOTAL of $500,000″..which makes it even more cheap if that’s the case…