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Scarlett: The San Antonio Spurs won the NBA championship more than thrice.
This athletic fact could help you win big as we play -- Hot Dice.
Scarlett: From CDM Enterprises, a division of Trax Productions, here's your host for Hot Dice, Doug Morris.
Doug: Thank you, Scarlett, and welcome to Hot Dice. We've got a potentially big show -- so let's get right to it by welcoming our players back to the dice table, Kourtney Wilson and Nikolai Wataja.
                       
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Doug: Kourtney's back with CY$22,850 and has one loss. Nikolai has put together three straight victories in winning CY$61,950. If he wins this game, he plays the mega roll for CY$1,000,000.
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Doug: Let's commence this important game of Hot Dice. If you win a toss-up question, you'll get to build a pot of cyber-money by rolling the dice.
After we play six rounds, we go to a catch-up round. The player who has banked more cyber-money at the end of the catch-up round wins the game.
You keep playing until you lose two games. So -- let this important game with this.
Castle, Moat or Drawbridge. Which of these is a TV title character played by Nathan Fillion?
Doug: Nikolai.
Nikolai: Castle.
Doug: That's it. (audience applause) Take a free roll of the dice, please.
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Doug: And you start with an 8 for CY$800. Nikolai, as you know, from now until the end of the round, a roll of a 7 is a bust roll -- meaning you lose everything in the pot and score nothing for the round.
Now, let me point out something. Nikolai had lost a game earlier -- but we made a clerical error and didn't let the loss count against him. So...
Doug: ...in the spirit of fairness, when the dice are hot for Nikolai, "lose loss" will not be on the double decision board. Kourtney, when the dice are hot for you, "lose loss" will be hiding somewhere on the board.
As you know, if you roll a double, you can have CY$100 per point added to the pot -- or take whatever's hiding behind the corresponding space on the board.
So, Nikolai, with CY$800 in the pot -- want to bank the moolah or risk and roll again?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Nikolai: I may as well give 'em a roll.
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Doug: And you virtually double the pot. CY$1700. Bank the moolah or roll 'em again?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Nikolai: I'm going to press my luck one more -- uh, I mean, I'm going to roll 'em one more time.
(audience laughs)
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Doug: And you've just hit our version of the whammy. Sorry aboutthat.
Kourtney didn't mind that a bit. No score as yet as we start Round 2 with this.
Spades, Hearts or Clubs. Saddam Hussein was the Ace of what suit in the most wanted Iraqis deck of playing cards?
Doug: Kourtney.
Kourtney: I am going to say the ace of spades.
Doug: And I'll say -- the dice are hot for you -- becuase you're right.
(audience applause) (amounts are shuffled on the double decision board; after shuffling stops, the amounts are covered immediately with the doubles)
Doug: Lose loss is up there for you, Kourtney. Roll 'em.
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Doug: And you start off with six bills. Bank the CY$600 or roll again?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Kourtney: Let's roll.
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(scattered cheers)
Doug: And that's a 9 for CY$900 more. Is 1500 enough -- or you want to keep on rolling?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Kourtney: Let's go one more.
Doug: The classic "one more".
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Doug: And a big roll. Ten for CY$1000 more. Was that *really* one more -- or are you willing to gamble away CY$2500 on the next roll?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Kourtney: Yes, I meant that. Bank please.
Doug: Two and a half grand into your bank.
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Doug: Nikolai yet to score as we move on to Round 3 -- and -- uh -- speaking of scoring.
Does moose intercourse typically last more or less than ten seconds?
(scattered laughter and snickers from the crowd)
Doug: Kourtney.
Kourtney: I would hope it would be more.
Doug: Moose intercourse typically lasts about *five* seconds -- so the right answer's less. Nikolai, you win the question by default. Roll the dice, please, before I say something terrible about moose and their romantic interludes.
(audience laughs) (amounts are shuffled on the double decision board; after shuffling stops, the amounts are covered immediately with the doubles)
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Doug: And a 4 to start you out. Remember, no double decision to make on a free roll. But the next double counts for a decision.
Decision right now is to bank the 400 or risk 'em and roll 'em?
Nikolai: That's too little, so I'll roll on.
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Doug: Ohhh -- and a 7 busts you out. Sorry about that.
Score remains 2500 to nothing in Kourtney's favor. Round 4 starts with this question.
C, B or S. For much of the first five days in September of 1986, then network anchorman Dan Rather signed off the evening news with a seven-letter word that starts with what letter?
Doug: Nikolai.
Nikolai: C.
Doug: He signed off with the word -- "courage" -- which starts with C. (audience applause) Dice are hot for you. No need to shuffle the board since you last touched the dice.
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Doug: Starting off with a 6 this time. Bank the six bills or go for more thrills?
(audience shouts suggestions)
Nikolai: They've got to go good for me sometime. I feel a double coming, so let's roll 'em.
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Doug: Well -- far from a double. But not a bust. Five brings the pot up to CY$1100. Roll again or bank?
(audience shouts suggestions)
HOT DICE CONTINUES
