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Nt1310 Unit 6 Exercise 1

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Premise: A team of three contestants answer a series seven questions by attempting to diffuse seven bombs before they explode. On each question, one contestant will have a certain amount of time to clip the wires that lead to the correct answers on each bomb. Each teammate must answer at least one question in the game. Successfully diffusing a bomb adds the money at stake for the question to the team bank. If a contestant clips a wire which leads to an incorrect answer or if time expires, the bomb explodes, sliming the contestant with a mystery substance (maple syrup, pesto, tomato sauce, etc.), and eliminates them from the game without adding any money to the team bank. Here’s how the game is structured for each bomb: #1: $5,000; 30 seconds to get 3 right answers (4 possible answers) #2: $10,000; 30 seconds to get 3 right answers (4 possible answers) #3: $15,000; …show more content…

The gameplay is well constructed with the rising levels of difficulty, big risk/big reward end game, the absence of frivolous elements including “lifelines” and challenging trivia questions. BOOM! successfully challenges each team’s speed, strategy, and the ability to think and move quickly under pressure. The physical aspect of the show with the contestants manually clipping the wires under the pressures of time and cash at stake gives you exhilarating feeling as if they are diffusing an actual bomb in a spy movie. From the hundredth-second countdown clock to the five-second pauses between contestants clipping wires to abruptly cutting to commercial breaks during tense moments, the producers of the FOX version did an wonderful job creating the suspenseful atmosphere on BOOM!. The impromptu commercial breaks would normally annoy me, but it’s far from a deal-breaker on this show considering no gimmicky teasers are added to allow viewers to enjoy each episode without being annoyed by

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