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After a decent three-year run, followed by a one-year hiatus, the show moved to daily syndication with Geoff returning as host; the show ran just over a half-season, and ended when the production company went bankrupt.
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* [[Bonus Round]]: The Super Jackpot.
* [[Bonus Space]]: Double Dollars and Bonus Prize were on all versions. Instant Target Match appeared only during the syndicated run...which, considering that run's budget problems, probably wasn't the best idea.
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* [[Progressive Jackpot]]: The entire premise; build a jackpot by answering riddles, then solve another to win it.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: As blooper king Kermit Schaefer recalls in one of his books...
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'''Expert:''' A hooker!
'''Contestant:''' A "''cash register,''" you louse! }}
* [[Grand Finale]]: The 1975 finale wasn't all that grand, partly due to the format change and partly due to an Expert not being able to pick the Jackpot Question in the second-to-last game when the gallery was whittled down to two. A male Expert then won the final Jackpot of $500 (rather than go for the Super Jackpot of $3,800), after which Geoff did a speech telling viewers to come back the following Monday for a new game helmed by Dick Enberg (''3 For The Money'' ran just eight weeks); Geoff then congratulated the big winners of the week (the biggest was a lady named Diana who won $4,475) before signing off. The last person heard on this version was Tom Snyder, doing a voiceover to promote the night's 90-minute episode of ''The Tomorrow Show'' with [[Jerry Lewis]].
* [[Opening Narration]]: "Today, 16 players are here trying to win $25,000/$50,000. Every one of them holds a different riddle, but only one of them holds the Jackpot Riddle. You never know when someone in our game will [[Title Scream|stand up and yell]]..." (''contestant stands up, yelling'') "JACKPOT!"
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: The NBC version used "
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: One of GSN's original games, ''Hollywood Showdown'' (created by Bob Stewart's son Sande), had a fairly similar format.
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