Should the million be easier to win?

I agree with Wayoshi and Daniel. Doing things like the Million Dollar Mission and Who Wants to be a Millionaire's tournaments to have a guaranteed million dollar winner shows desperateness to give away the top prize. Imagine if on TPIR's Million Dollar Spectaculars (with Drew Carey rules), the Double Showcase/Million Dollar Win margin was increased by $500 every time both showcases and the million weren't won. In fact, they actually had to DECREASE the margin from $1,000 to $500 after they had two winners already (though one was still within $500). A million dollars isn't supposed to be made one step closer to being handed on a silver platter every time it's not won. Look at "Millionaire". Ever since the format change (and I assume ever since the last tournament), nobody's even SEEN the million dollar question (the most won so far is $250K).



While I agree that was going way too far (suspenseful music and all), the show does this just about every time somebody gets the MDW in their online promos. Of course, unlike that one particular teaser, nobody is forced to watch them, and they don't air them on TV anymore. I believe they stopped doing that regularly starting in Season 28, but doesn't Jeopardy! air them near the end of their shows like how Wheel does the opposite? And of course, stations airing the show usually air super-short versions of them, too. My station only airs them during daytime, and the worst I've ever seen them show is someone picking up a 1/2 Kia tag.

I watched this week's ("America's Game") as soon as Friday's show was over just to see if it showed Mark getting the MDW, and it did. Then again, at least they don't devote the entire thing to that one clip and outright say "Somebody might win the million dollars! We beg you to tune in!", but I guess they have to resort to that kind of stuff (also sometimes spoiling people finding the Mystery $10K) so that viewers will be like, "Oh, somebody's going to spin that tiny, green million dollar space. I better tune in to see if he wins it...or loses it to a Bankrupt like everyone else. " Also, I remember seeing one last season that showed Pat holding the million dollar envelope above the Bonus Wheel, outright saying that there would be a MDBR, but the million wouldn't be won.

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I saw Brazil's version recently and their million has been won at least twice if not three times. Maybe we can try the same thing.

My proposed style is this.

Three Million Dollar wedges would be put on the wheel (with or without the Bankrupts still beside them, I don't know). The number of Million Dollar envelopes on the bonus wheel depends on how many wedges you bring to the Bonus round replacing the top most valued envelopes, which can increase your chances of winning it.

You still have to solve each puzzle for each round you pick up at least one wedge in. If you have a wedge from a previous round pick up a wedge in a second round and fail to solve the puzzle the second round, you lose the second wedge but still keep the first.

Bankrupts still take away all the wedges you got, but not Lose A Turn like Brazil does.

That's a great idea germanname. Here's a couple of points I have with that:

- Decrease the wedge count from 3 to 2, like the mystery wedges. I feel that 3 is a little too much.
- Get rid of some cardboard. It looks like the green plate in the middle of the wheel is the only place where there's no tags/wedges.
- Change the Bankrupts to small amounts, such as $300. 1, there would be too many Bankrupts. 2, there has to be some sort of risk in aiming for the Million, which is why low amounts work.

Yes, it should. Either treat it as the WC or the 1/2 Kia tags.

For the MDW, if you pick it up and somebody else solves the puzzle reguardless if bankrupt is hit or not, it gets placed back in the wheel until round 4.