Talk:Chain Reaction (game show)

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>>the theme was composed by Bob Cobert which was once used as background music for the NBC series Supertrain.

Can someone specify which version of the show this refers to? It should be mentioned in the section for that version, not the intro of the article. (I'm assuming because of supertrain that it's the NBC version, unless USA used the same theme and it's both of them. But if someone can clarify, I've removed it from the article for now, since it's definately not referring to the current version. TheHYPO 18:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Both versions did indeed use the same theme. Lambertman 20:08, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bonus Rules?

"or if they build a clue that isn't a valid English question" I haven't seen every episode yet, but I've seen people try to keep going after one perosn doesn't continue the sentence they hope but they continue, however, most of the time I've seen this, one of them just has a brain freeze by not going in question form and passes - I haven't seen someone buzzed out for not using sentances or heard that as a rule from the host - has it occured in recent episodes? It would explain things like them always using questions, but I haven't seen a buzzer for that rule yet. TheHYPO 03:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I've seen that come up. There was one unfortunate guys' team on a broadcast a few days ago that clearly hadn't practiced the bonus round at all. They started their first two clues with something along the lines of "This... (noun)... is..." and immediately got cuckoo'ed. After the second one, the host reminded them that they had to use questions. Kickaha Ota 08:58, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

It might be better to say "a reasonably valid English question", though, since I've also seen the judges let a couple of clues go that were in the form of a question but had a extra word or two thrown in at the end that didn't make grammatical English sense. Kickaha Ota 09:31, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I tweaked it slightly, but I'll watch for that episode on the AM reruns. Thanks for the clarification :) TheHYPO 23:11, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maximum dollar amount?

Am I calculating incorrectly? I get $18,300 as the maximum possible winnings.

1st round: 5 x $100 = $500

Bonus: $100

2nd round: 5 x $200 = $1000

Bonus: $200

3rd round: 5 x $300 = $1500

Bonus: $300

Betting round: 5 x $500 = $2500

This totals $6100 and tripling this is $18,300.

Feel free to revert if I'm wrong. VectorPosse 07:42, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, you are wrong. That's why there was an explaination that someone thought was unnecessary and deleted it.

If the opponents have $0, they theoretically have no money to play the betting round. In addition, the trailing team goes first in that round. As such, the Team A must lose 200 dollars at some point in the first two rounds to team B. the score is then 3400-200.

At this point, B starts the betting round, bets 100, loses. If Team A had only 100 to bet, they'd go broke and the game would end immediately. the score is then 3400-100. and then team A can get all 2500 in bets. That would be 5900. Trippling this $17700. TheHYPO 04:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Makes perfect sense. Thanks. VectorPosse 07:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

no problem. I can't take credit for figuring it out - someone else posted the explaination in the article before it was deleted. TheHYPO 20:25, 27 October 2006 (UTC)