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[[Calvin Ball|Got all that?]]
''Winning Streak'' was doomed from the start — replacing ''[[Three On a Match]]'' (which had the same personnel and creator) on July 1, 1974, at the behest of Lin Bolen, it swapped timeslots with ''[[Jeopardy
But the original format was rather dangerous, with major problems had some particularly smart/gutsy contestants been on. While the claim was that players could win over $100,000, the theoretical top prize in ''each game'' on a network that didn't have a [[Game Show Winnings Cap]] was actually a whopping '''$819,200'''.
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* [[Calvin Ball]]: ...But it makes a bit more sense upon viewing them in action.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: ''Winning Streak'', for all its failure, actually had a few innovations that got recycled into ''good'' games.
** The Money Board had 18 spaces arranged in a square, with the contestant's face superimposed in the middle over the show's logo. [[Second Chance
** Part of the original maingame (picking letters from a board, with the question's correct answer beginning with that letter) got recycled into Bill's later ''[[Blockbusters]]'' (1980-82).
** The theoretical top prize of $819,200 is completely outlandish for the 1970s (really, nobody noticed that?!), but actually fits quite well as a big-ticket (albeit unorthodox) prize in the post-''[[Who Wants to Be
** The logo seen in the center of the Money Board during the December 26 clip looks remarkably like that of ''[[Russian Roulette (TV series)|Russian Roulette]]'' (2002-03).
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The quickest way to win $100,000 was to find the $200 card and give a word containing ten letters you had picked. Still easier than $409,600 for all 12 letters, though.
* [[No Budget]]: See above. Winnings generally hovered around $2,500 in the original format, and subsequent changes knocked it down even further.
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