(Note: This will not be a regular feature. I want to bring attention to this new offering in the Buckeye State and to show how it’s played.)
Host: David McCreary (cut from the same cloth as Dylan Lane)
There are 31 contestants each week–1 returning champion and 30 new players. To start, 15 of the 30 new contestants play. They’re broken into five teams of three players. As is the case with every lottery game, the object is to attain the most cash. In this game, it’s done on two separate boards each with 20 squares. A team is chosen at random. Each team’s members vote to play the safe board (less money and less zero values) or to take the risk (5 of 20 squares have zeroes to start, but the money is larger). The middle player of the team hits a spin button. The board “spins” and chooses a random value from whichever board is chosen. The dollar amount is added to the team’s total. Another random team is chosen to participate. This continues until all the teams have played a round. In rounds 2 and 3, the money values go up on both boards, as do the number of zero values. Whichever team has more money after 3 rounds advances and splits their winnings three ways. A second game with the 15 remaining new players is done. Every contestant is guaranteed $1000.
The six winning team members from the first two games each choose a card from a set of six. Four of the cards are worth nothing. One card is worth $5000. The other is worth $10,000. Each player picks one of the numbers and has the opportunity to steal cards from other players. The $5000 card is revealed. Each player has the opportunity to keep their card or swap it with a random card, including possibly the $5000 card. After the round of swapping, the holder of the $5000 card can either leave the game with the $5000 or steal someone’s card. The person whose card is taken in the swap receives $2500, and $2500 is added to an Extended Play jackpot. (Extended Play tickets are $2 instant tickets, versus regular tickets which are $1.) The people who have nothing are revealed randomly one-by-one. The $10,000 holder advances to play the champ for $50,000.
The end game has the champ and the last survivor of the 30 new players picking balls from a container. There are 10 balls–7 red, 2 white, and 1 green. Whomever picks either a white or green ball first wins $50,000. If the green ball is picked and that player got on the show via an Extended Play ticket, that person wins $50,000 plus whatever is in the aforementioned Extended Play jackpot. The returning champ is given the opportunity to pick first or second. From there, the players continue picking balls until a winning ball is pulled. There is no limit on how long someone can be on the show. For those who care, your first winner is a gentleman named Adam from Twinsburg. Adam won $63,116 and will return next Saturday to pick more balls and defend his title.
Images from this new offering can be found by clicking the link below.
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10 Responses
brett
1October 7th, 2006 at 7:37 pm
The rules seem complicated in print, but I would love to see it in action.
Mitch
2October 7th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
The front qualifier game reminded me quite a bit of Press Your Luck… even with the contestants shouting “Big Money!”. I very interesting offering,a big improvement over the last few years of Cash Explosion. I was very pleased………. host wasn’t bad by the way, he just needed to lose the silver jacket.
Mitch
3October 7th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
I forgot to add that during the qualifing round, values increase on each ’spin’ and 0’s are added as well to each card. I believe in turn 1 the top value on the ‘risk’ board is $5000, turn 2 is $10,000 and turn 3 wsa $30,000.
Mike
4October 7th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Brett,
There is a possibility this might end up on Google video. Mills James, the company which produces Make Me Famous, put Cash Explosion eps. on Google several days after each airing. Check Google for it over the next week. If it doesn’t end up on Google, I’m sure I can upload something next weekend.
Scott Meckley
5October 8th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
where can I see this show? the rules are complicated but maybe after watching it played out then maybe I could understand it? I tend to understand rules of most gameshows especially after watching them. one day hopefully my created games will be on TV.
Jonathan
6October 8th, 2006 at 7:53 pm
This show blowed! I actually auditioned to be the host of this show and shot a pilot for it over the summer. The production company created this game to maintain the audience of the former Cash Explosion show while attracted a newer hipper one. Besides from David McCreary’s tacky blazer and inability to throw to break, he was OK. I’m just afraid he’ll be committing career suicide with this show. I don’t think it’ll last. The game is confusing, and in addition to all the extra stuff they’ll be packing into the half-hour (i.e. co-host search and extended play option) it’ll just get more confusing. Being the game show addict I am, even I was confused when they sent me the rules and layout for the pilot. I think it’ll end up scaring away more Cash Explosion viewers than keep them. Frankly, this show won’t last beyond two seasons, and that second season will probably undergo some major work. Can’t we just bring back Sharon Bicknell and call it a night?
Joe Mello
7October 9th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Boy, I hope that’s not sour grapes I hear.
30 new players per show seems a little unrealistic. 12 would be a bit more feasible with some more strategy thrown in. I do like the returning player aspect, though. It’s unique and original, something lottery games don’t have a lot of.
Ohio Weatherman
8October 9th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
I got the chance to watch it over the weekend and I have to say that considering the changes, It is not too bad. I think the only issue they had is that they were moving very very fast from thing to thing and it may have a bad effect on the older viewers who are used to seeing the slower Cash Explosion. I’m only 20 so of course I like the change to the show. And the jacket was pimp. lol… I would have thought that the extended play would start at like $10,000 instead of $0.
Once everyone sees a couple shows, they will most likely enjoy the changes. I was kinda shocked at the set design. I would have thought they would go much bigger with more people on the show.
jhc2010
9October 10th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
This is a huge improvement over Cash Explosion’s final years — the show just became unwatchable! I agree that it might be too fast-pased, and there might be too much to fit into an episode since I noticed a few sloppy edits in the premiere. And to the person (Jonathan) that thinks the show won’t last two years, I’d like to know why…
Scott
10October 11th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Go to http://www.makemefamousmakemerich.com and navigate to the episodes tab. The fist show has been posted. It will also appear on Google in a few days.
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