Simple Questions & Answers Thread

[jhc2010]

Clock starts when the bell rings.

Then why does Drew tell the contestant "as soon as you start talking the clock starts"?

Also, could the show sync the clock ticking sound effect to align with the actual seconds disappearing from the game board? The sound effect ticks seem to be just slightly less than 1-second apart.

[Nick]

Then why does Drew tell the contestant "as soon as you start talking the clock starts"?

Hm... Scott, is that what you told him?

OK, but in all seriousness, as Barker used to say, "The clock will start with your first bid on the...", when the contestant starts talking, that should be by giving his first bid; and thus the clock starts.  Yes, that is technically after the contestant starts taking that the clock starts moving, but timing it exactly to when the contestant speaks is more complicated than its worth doing, so making it after the first bid is spoken with the sound of the bell ensures accurate timing.

[tpirfan28]

Wasn’t Bob’s spiel something along the lines of the clock starting on your first bid?  Basically the same action just sloppier verbiage.

[jhc2010]

Why do 3-digit prices on the Take game board not line up with 4-digit prices? Since the game is addition, wouldn't it make sense for the ones, tens and hundreds digits for 3-digit and 4-digit prizes to line up?

[bonkers77]

There are chances to see in the next season Safe Cracker, Eazy az 1 2 3 and Pay the Rent?

[Nick]

Why do 3-digit prices on the Take game board not line up with 4-digit prices? Since the game is addition, wouldn't it make sense for the ones, tens and hundreds digits for 3-digit and 4-digit prizes to line up?

Considering the sleeves covering the prices reveal left to right when pulled, you don't want the first thing you show to be a blank space.

Now you have me wondering when the switched from centering the prices to having them left-aligned.

[gamesurf]

There are chances to see in the next season Safe Cracker, Eazy az 1 2 3 and Pay the Rent?

Anything's possible, I guess, but we don't know what their plans are and nothing has been announced.

I personally am not holding my breath.

[gamesurf]

Considering the sleeves covering the prices reveal left to right when pulled, you don't want the first thing you show to be a blank space.

Now you have me wondering when the switched from centering the prices to having them left-aligned.

As best I can tell, sometime in the early 2000s.

The last centered 3-digit price I can find at the moment is 2000.

The earliest left-aligned price I can find is from 2003... although funnily enough it seems it wasn't consistently done on that playing.