FrankT
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Post by FrankT on Jul 4, 2012 11:19:16 GMT -5
It's because of THESE contestants that the Phone-A-Friend was so cruelly taken away from us! And to think, some of them actually won!!  They ruined it for all of us! |
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Post by millionairefan28 on Jul 4, 2012 15:47:22 GMT -5
What I want to know is who ruined 50:50
clearly nobody.
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Post by RegisFan on Jul 4, 2012 23:13:07 GMT -5
millionairefan28, I can't agree with you more. The same goes for Double Dip. I can see the case for removing Phone-a-Friend, but there's no good reason for canning 50:50/Double Dip.
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Post by idolsfan on Jul 6, 2012 2:28:30 GMT -5
As millionaire is full of rules like saying "Final Answer" to lock the answer chosen, the contestants should have been forced to read the whole question and 4 possible answers, it would have reduced the cases of internet-searching. What I like though, is that for a lot of them and especially Moe Cane, the time ran out before having the answer. That's what is called karma! I think that people would have reacted badly at the time if he had won the million dollar that way. Idolsfan  |
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Post by millionairefan28 on Jul 6, 2012 12:19:07 GMT -5
I'm surprised they waited until 2009 to drop the lifeline. I really didn't mind seeing it gone, it wasn't my favorite lifeline. I totally understand, today, people would do the internet searches much easier than in the primetime era, as technology and internet speeds for most home consumers increased tremendously. Anyway, it was only a matter of time because there was no rule in place to use the internet, because originally, Millionaire must have never had that in mind.
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Post by kplewisvox on Jul 15, 2012 0:28:10 GMT -5
IIRC, the British show actually had it written into the rules that any PaF caught looking up an answer, even in a book, was grounds for disqualifying the contestant. Obviously it never came to that.
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Jul 15, 2012 13:50:03 GMT -5
I remember reading somewhere that on the Austrian version, PaFs aren't even allowed to repeat the question in order to avoid other people giving them the right answer. But I agree with millionairefan28, I was never a big fan of Phone a Friend either. It slowed down gameplay and often the person called wouldn't know the answer anyway. Look at the UK People Play special, for example. I don't think any of the PaF were able to help out the contestants.
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FrankT
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Post by FrankT on Jul 20, 2012 1:41:57 GMT -5
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
They ruined it for all of us!
