I'm sure everyone on this site has heard some kind of crappy ideas for new game shows, but just hear me out.

A new game show called Whatchamacallit, where u have to guess the prizes to win them!

5 rounds, 3 players, each player, starting with one on the left, asks a question to what the prize may be (20 questions sorta format) which can be answered only with a yes or no by the host/judge. Each player has 3 guesses per round to what the prize may be, and if a player has guessed 3 times per round, they are out for the rest of the round.

Whoever guesses correctly what the prize is (don't need a brand name or dimensions or stuff like that) i.e a trip to wherever... a new living room, an entertainment center, specific amounts of money... will win that prize, and $1000 extra!

Prizes go up in value per round, whoever has the most money in prizes at the rounds' end will go to the bonus round.

In the bonus round, called 20 questions, players have 2 minutes and up to 20 questions to identify their grand prize. Once time is up, players have one guess to identify the grand prize. A guess during the time limit is registered as one of the 20 questions. If it's a trip, the player has to identify its location (city, country); if its cash, exactly how much; if a car, the brand name (Audi, BMW, Mercedes...not like a BMW 5 series convertible...), if its something like a new high def big time modern entertainment center , they have to identify the maker of the prize, or what's included in the prize. If they guess it incorrectly, no win... if guessed correctly, they win the prize and a base value of $10000!

Players can come back for a maximum of 5 days.

Maybe a bit too old fashioned for today's modern tv viewers, maybe would've been better for the 80's or 70's, but who knows???? I like it!!!!

Oh, no. We've heard full-fledged PISS-POOR ideas for game shows.

That, um, no, that doesn't interest me in any way, shape, or form. Plus, I see a LOT of prizes not given away because nobody guesses in time.

And how do you break that three-way tie at 0? Is this going to fit into a half-hour block? Five rounds AND a bonus? No freakin' way. And please don't tell me you plan to subject an audience to an HOUR of this.

No, I'm pretty sure it would have sucked then too.

This is a very interesting concept...and that's about as far as it gets.

I don't even think having Blake Emmons as emcee would save this show.

Try Al Dubois.
Anyhow, a tape of Free 4 All awaits you. Thanks for playing.

Yep, sure do. The Crap-o-matic usually churns out some real pieces of...well....every three months or so...



You haven't addressed one key question: What happens when no one guesses what the prize is.

The $1000 extra seems to be nothing but throwing around cash for the hell of it. You waste $5000 per show from the prize budget just for the sake of handing out cash. Using the $5000 to up the quality of prizes at little bit would be a better strategy, IMO.


OK, we've got a 2-2-1 tie at the end of the game. What happens next? And please, PLEASE, don't say that the person with the highest value of prizes is automatically the winner...That just makes early rounds look cheap and/or irrelevant.



How original...



SO, after FIVE rounds of questions, that progresses at a rather slow pace, you want a TWO minute bonus round? (Shakes head in disgust).



With what you just said, that means that a player could just name off 21 (total) random big-ticket prizes...that goes against the very grain of your own format. It's just silly.



The whole thing is just nuts, and the specifity you're asking for is just the icing on the cake. Bonus games are supposed to be the climax of the action started by the main game, not a SLOWER, MORE complex version of the same thing. Look at the best bonus games...They're simple, and an extension of the main game. Winner's Circle...Alphabetics...et al. Study them...see why they work.


Unneccesary. If you're using a big-ticket item (Car, NICE Vacation, etc) as the bonus prize, added cash is just Money for the sake of money...and that's just wrong. I've never seen the need in padding formats with superflous money.



Don't anticipate anyone WANTING to come back for 5 days, to be frank.



Of COURSE you like it, it's YOUR format. Its not too old fashioned for today's modern viewers....It wouldn't work in ANY era, be it 1964, 1984, or 2004.

This sounds like "What's My Line?" with prizes instead of jobs and WML has not been revived in 29 years. Here's what may speed up the process, cut the rounds to two, show the prize to the home and studio audience (to assure a prize plug). I'm trying to think of other wrinkles, but they would all be steals from other shows ("Temptation," "Number Please," "Give-N-Take," etc.) Maybe a bonus game ripoff of CC where the contestants have to match manufacturers to prizes, example: under #3 column one-Chevrolet, in #6 column two-Range=no match, under #2, C2 is Hotpoint, etc. what ever is matched after a certain time limit is won. The era of innocuous daytime game shows has been over for some time (ending around 10 years ago), like the TV western or the variety show it would have to be something beyond the ordinary to make it to air.

Sorry to add to the lumps, but it sounds like it's a bit derivative of the old 60s CBS show Your Surprize Package, where 3 contestants had a certain amount of time to try and guess the contents of a giant prize package behind them. It vanished rather quickly, even with such pros as Allan Sherman and George Fenneman at the helm. Keep thinking.

Exactamundo.


They go home with a carton of Winston cigarettes?

Alternate title: What's My Prize?

Not one of my better ideas according to this site....

Thats okay, just curious what others thought about it...

Besides... who would watch it anyway????

You tell us, you're the one that purposed the show.

I probably would watch the show just to hear the daily exchange, "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" "No," "Is it a breadbox?" "YESSSS!"

Do the losers get paid in candybars. *Ducking*

Wow. You're REALLY not helping yourself.

I'll give this show a Scarecrow Award. I'll bet it lasts about as long as It's Your Chance of a Lifetime if it makes it to the airwaves.

But it's a good idea!!!!!!!! Although nobody would watch it!!!!!!!?????????!!!!!!!!!

You really should try harder. That one didn't elicit any Snickers from me. :)

Maybe the prize should be 100 Grand then.

His trophy is going to be a giant exlamation point with straw and a hat at the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't expect to win Mounds of money on this show.

"From 5th Avenue in New York, ..."

If you got Elmer Fudd to host it, he could ask an amateur magician contestant, "How's twix?"

WITH THAT I WILL SAY THIS:

I have had many game show ideas, this one has always been my sketchiest (but I like it because its the first almost complete game show concept I came up) and yes, if I don't like my own game show concept, then that is very bad...

My opinion, if it would help its ratings... players can be paid in candybars, snickers, dollar bills, winston cigarettes... WHATEVER, IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME!! ;)

The basic gist of the whole game show was for the players to guess the prize they were going to win. Exactly how to do it, and the other rules involved can be scratched out and edited however much necessary. I just thought it was interesting that on the price is right, contestants guess the price of prizes, so why not have a game show where they just try to guess the prize itself instead???

You hit the key word there. It is TPiR just without people guessing prices. It's To Tell The Truth without people. It's not original. It's boring.

Well, um, you could do a show where we guess how many unnecessary extra punctuation marks you're going to put after each sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How's that for an idea???????????????????????????

We could do a drinking game here, if nothing else (those under 21 need not apply).

In his defense, ever since I pointed it out to him, he seems to have cut down on that some. We should cut him some slack there.

It would be even more annoying if we didnt even use punctation at all Then all posts would be one big long runon sentence And IMO the English language is deteriorating enough as it is

Viva la punctation

Ummm, i think Irismason has gotten a hold of your forum posting priveledges...