agreed

Darn it! You were only two years ahead of me on that joke lol

Oh yeah

I forgot about minesweeper. I was addicted to that game.

This was back in the days Mike still had a nice head of hair (it thinned a little by the time he did "JackPot").

Crosswords meets Battleship!

Bummed. I loved Cadence. Charlie wasn't all that great in it, but the other actor's were fantastic including daddy Sheen.

That would be composer Edd Kalehoff, the King of the Moog synthesizer music.

@@tyrese3745I wish there was a clean version of the theme. sounds real good! of course I knew that was edd off the spot.

It's also used in "Take 5", another unsold pilot.

Yeah, nothing says "This is totally a professional operation and you should give us money," like accidentally revealing part of a four-letter answer, *and then ignoring it and continuing play*. Mistakes happen, but giving away answers and trying to cover it up isn't OK even for a pilot. By game 3 I was feeling way too much Schadenfreude about those seven blanks to start the game. BTW Dick Clark said one of the blocks once fell out of the *Pyramid* Winner's Circle board -- I really wish I could find that one -- so it's really not the mistake that's the problem, especially in that era.

I wish someone would make this today because you’re absolutely correct

I agree with both statements about the blank spaces...way too many; and the opening poem. I mean yeah, most letters work out to spell words. duh. I was also gonna complain about the clues and how vague they are, but on further thought; once you get the first word, it gets easier and the clues made sense. I'm also bummed cause I can't see the board so guessing the words is out for me. but that's a personal problem. I'd still like to have seen more of this game. It's very Jeopardy level, so maybe it could be revamped and put on one of the brainy network channels. Discover? BBC? One of those channels that hosts stuff like Masterpiece Theatre or The Actor's Studio (think that's what it's called).

Maybe because literally like half the game is people picking blanks?

i've always said that sometimes daytime network heads can't see a good show when it's staring them in the face there's been a few pilots wink has put up that i think could have sold as is or with a few modifications

My sentiments exactly rodney.

Definitely. As a poker aficionado I'm predisposed to any game that makes a good effort to use bluffing. However, they ruined it with a subtle but fatal flaw: Darrow keeps asking them to answer, even when there's no challenge. Imagine if, on every poker hand ending without showdown, the dealer asked the bettor to flip their hand over! This disincentivizes bluffing: people feel shame at getting caught, even though they shouldn't, and not answering the question is pretty close to admitting you were bluffing. So they've undermined the mechanism. It's surprising we even saw two bluffs in one episode, and you notice it's only the runaway winner who's doing it.

I THOUGHT I recognized him from another game show. He hosted the 80's Canadian version of Jackpot.

Not necessarily true, I've known about anthracite since late grade-school, and I was raised nowhere near Coal Country.

I really want to know what's the name of this song from moneywords.

It was also used in the unsold pilot, "Take 5".

Gone too long by edd kalehoff

not really a graphic problem more so the person that is controlling the game board off stage accidently bumped the switch revealing that letter.

It doesn’t help that Darow kept forgetting it was $50 in the second round, until he was told by the producer or a staffer (you can faintly hear a voice before he corrected himself). This pilot should have been edited to remove these obvious mistakes.

Also, it seemed too hard at first.

This question has been answered before on different pilot videos. One way is that a show makes multiple pilots in order to sell the show. Another way is by making it up as in a plot for a story to build suspense to see if the returning champion will win more. The latter is generally the case, but is not always the case.