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Post by johnnyo on Nov 7, 2019 1:04:37 GMT -5
Time for information on the 79 cars won through episode 163. The cars won most often were 6 Jeep Wranglers, 4 Honda Civics, 3 Dodge Lancers, 3 Jeep Cherokees, 3 Chevrolet IROC's, 3 Chevrolet Spectrum's, and 3 Pontiac Le Mans's. There were 19 car models won twice, and 16 car models won once. The most expensive car won was the IROC: 2x, at $17,533 each. The least expensive car was the Yugo GV: 2x, at $5,685 each. The car with an actual value closest to the overall average of $10,766 was the Oldsmobile Calais, which was won twice for $10,730. The fewest # of turns to win a car was 11 (3x), while the most turns was 19 (2x).
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Post by aaaa on Nov 7, 2019 4:44:51 GMT -5
April 1989 and November 1990 are the two known TofCs for CC.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Nov 21, 2019 21:04:30 GMT -5
Regarding the two-strike rule implemented in March 1988, I'd like to ask a question. Was the format still "solve one puzzle to play for the car" or was it the best two-out-of-three match by that point?
I did download many of the episodes since they have appeared on YouTube, and more will be downloaded in the coming days. I haven't had the chance to thoroughly view an episode from the original two-strike rule era, but I'd like to find out if the "solve one puzzle" format continued on, or if they switched to the "best two out of three" format.
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Post by aaaa on Nov 22, 2019 4:56:55 GMT -5
The best two out of three match format started circa July 1988. There's parts of two episodes that appear to be from June 8 and June 9, 1988, posted by Eric Ogren on YouTube with the two loss rule, but before the "best two out of three" format debuted.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Nov 22, 2019 7:27:02 GMT -5
Now, I'd like to ask another question. The show reinstated the two-strike rule in the 1990s, but I'd like to know, was it still the "best two out of three" still being used by that point when the two-strike rule was reinstated?
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Post by splinkynip on Nov 22, 2019 8:30:23 GMT -5
The original two strikes rule lasted from mid March 1988 through July 1988, then they switched over to best 2 out of 3 wins the match and one bonus round per show. In late June of 1990, they went back to two strikes and two bonus rounds per show. The only difference this time was that everyone had their own clock time which started at 35 seconds their first time. To help, they added 5 bonus car seconds as a prize on the board at this time.
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Post by johnnyo on Jan 3, 2020 11:05:12 GMT -5
The original two strikes rule lasted from mid March 1988 through July 1988, then they switched over to best 2 out of 3 wins the match and one bonus round per show. In late June of 1990, they went back to two strikes and two bonus rounds per show. The only difference this time was that everyone had their own clock time which started at 35 seconds their first time. To help, they added 5 bonus car seconds as a prize on the board at this time. Still working my way through the fall 2019 batch of fresh CC episodes (32 down, 28 to go), and I have not yet reached the "two strikes" episodes yet. I have one question. Did losses in interrupted games count as a strike? (Before the "two strikes" era, it was possible for a contestant to lose as many as six times, as long as the first five losses were in interrupted games.)
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Post by splinkynip on Jan 3, 2020 11:40:16 GMT -5
Interrupted games didnt matter anymore. Still considered a strike
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Post by vahan on Jan 13, 2020 0:17:05 GMT -5
If I am calculating this correctly, this episode should be coming up soon on Buzzr as part of the fourth week with what I'd like to call the Two Strikes 1.0 format.
And it would appear that by the first or second week of May 1988, they were now captioning the solution to the opening puzzle.
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Post by aaaa on Jan 13, 2020 4:37:27 GMT -5
The second puzzle in that episode was used in one of the 1985 Orson Bean pilots and in a 1997 Australian pilot for the show.
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Post by vahan on Jan 13, 2020 13:15:39 GMT -5
It'll be the following episode. My hunch was right.
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Post by badasp on Jan 14, 2020 13:42:02 GMT -5
Oh my goodness, I just saw something happen in episode #228 that is like a rare occurrence. I've only seen it happen once before, and... I'm sure plenty of CC fans will be talking about it.
You know I'm referring to finding all three WILD cards in one turn, right?
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Post by vahan on Jan 14, 2020 14:36:32 GMT -5
Was Janet disadvantaged? Your guess on the show has to be exact, and Bob answered "There's Safety in Number", not adding the plural.
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Post by badasp on Jan 14, 2020 15:37:52 GMT -5
Was Janet disadvantaged? Your guess on the show has to be exact, and Bob answered "There's Safety in Number", not adding the plural. It could just be an editing mistake though. Maybe he said it correctly and it somehow got cut off at the end? I don't know. I do know Janet will be coming back in the episode after this one. Maybe it won't even matter...
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Post by vahan on Jan 14, 2020 15:39:28 GMT -5
Excellent point. Didn't think of that.
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