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At least 5.5 hours to make winner's row now.


At $198,000 to make 4th place, one would have to play 19,800 seconds or exactly 5.5 hours. Of course, the money counter would have to run continuously as soon as that person sits in the chair. But since it doesn't, it might take an extra half-hour to an hour.

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This is why the concept needs to be tweaked a little bit if they expect to keep the show on the air. Do they do a millions seconds at a time, and then start over from zero for the next version? I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that the early contestants have an advantage being able to accumulate more money than the later contestants. But of course the later contestants have a chance to steal their money by winning once over the course of 400 seconds. And the games that take place after the airing, but on NBC's website, don't have questions worth more than one point. so it's different rules than the aired show, which is odd. The idea is cool, and I'll continue to watch and hope to be on the show, but it has some problems.

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The only time it's worth to be in the chair in the later rounds is just before the live broadcast.

I don't have a problem with the one point questions online as the multi-point and doublers give some excitement for the TV viewers. It would be overkill for the online viewers, especially overnight.

Perhaps more winner's challenges would give later participants more of an opportunity (maybe 3 a day).

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