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Game Show Winnings Cap
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Way back in the earlier days of television in The '50s (more specifically, 1956), a man named Herb Stempel competed on the Game Show 21. Although he claimed to have intentionally lost to Charles van Doren upon instruction by producer Dan Enright, he was ignored until Dotto was found to have been certifiably rigged two years later. After that, the entire game show industry was nearly brought down. Although the genre regained popularity in the 1960s-70s, many shows from that point onward had to endure a series of standards and practices to prove that they were on the up-and-up. Among these limitations was the Game Show Winnings Cap, which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a limit to the amount of money that a game show contestant can win and/or how long s/he can be a returning champion. In response to the seven figures available on big-money shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, many other game shows have offered seven-figure winnings. With the late-1950s rigging far in the genre's past, tighter security to prevent cheating and rigging, and multiple $1,000,000 game show winnings in the 2000s, winnings caps are pretty much a Forgotten Trope. Returning champion caps, however, are still present, as most remaining game shows are one-and-done while Family Feud continues to hold onto the same five-game limit it has had since 2002. Further, contestants may not participate on more than one game show within a one-year period, or three in ten years.note This last point applies specifically to American game shows; limits may vary between countries. |
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A number of shows (examples: The $10,000/$20,000 Pyramid, Now You See It, and The Moneymaze) retired a contestant who won its top prize, regardless of what it was (on Now You See It, it could be as little as $5000). | |
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Downplayed on Wipeout Roblox, but anyone who makes it to round 3 is not allowed to compete in the next episode. | |
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The Price Is Right in its early days offered much cheaper prizes than the American original. Despite this, the IBA still forced it off the air for repeatedly breaching the prize limits. | |
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Break The Bank (1985-86) limited the winnings to $75,000 - this was due to airing on CBS' New York O&O station, so they had to follow their winnings cap. Once the Master Puzzle format was instituted, breaking the Bank retired a winning couple immediately. | |
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To ensure the combined value of cash and prizes didn't get over the limit, Family Fortunes originally awarded only a fixed prize for Big Money, regardless of whatever points had been scored beforehand. Like The $64,000 Question, the Big Money prize was £1500 for the first episode of the series, and in any episode where the prize had been won the week before, and £3000 in any week where the prize had not been won. In the post-cap revival, the Big Money prize was £3000 plus points, later joined by a bonus of a car for tendering all five top answers. |
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Sale of the Century's derisory prizes became such a joke that successful contestants were invited to play the Australian Sale for bigger prizes. | |
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The daytime Wheel of Fortune, although they didn't have the massive prize budget as the syndicated series, sometimes had weeks with increased budgets, with Porsches and yachts parked onstage in the years before the syndicated show premiered. As far as returning champions went, contestants were limited to a five-day stay during (roughly) the first two years before a three-day maximum stay was instituted for the rest of the run (over both NBC and CBS). | |
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The original Concentration also did not have a winnings cap, again thanks to NBC's rules, but a 20-win maximum was instituted. That said, some of the big winners could come away with well over $20,000 in prizes – and that's in 1960s dollars – if their puzzle-solving skills were sharp. When Classic Concentration came around, champions were at first retired after winning five games (sans interrupted games) [theoretically they could've won as many as five cars; the most anyone actually claimed was three]; this later changed to a contestant being retired immediately after winning a car, although the five-win maximum was left in place. | |
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Jeopardy! also used to limit contestants to $75,000 in winnings, with the balance donated to the player's chosen charity. The cap was gradually raised over time and abolished entirely in 2003. The only two players who were ever affected by the cap were 5-time champions Bob Blake and Frank Spangenberg, who each exceeded the original $75,000 cap by winning $82,501 and $102,597, respectively, during the 1989-90 season. Blake gave $7,501 to Oxfam, while Spangenberg gave $27,597 to the Gift of Love hospice (according to Spangenberg, his sum helped them bring their place up to fire code). The removal of the winnings cap coincided with the removal of the five-day limit imposed on returning champions; since 2003, any Jeopardy! contestant can stay on as long as he or she keeps winning, and keep all money earned. The very next year, a certain young man named Ken Jennings took full advantage of this rule. In an additional subversion, Jeopardy! champions who win at least five games in a row earn a bid to a future Tournament of Champions. |
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