All right, a short recess from main game proceedings to give you a chance to win big in an audience game. This is open to anyone except our current main game participants. The closest to the right answer, high or low, gets to play.
On August 10, 2012, at 7:00pm Central, we watched a rerun of "Family Game Night" on The Hub. One of the games the competing families played was Yahtzee Bowling. The five numbers on the first roll of the dice pins added up to what sum? Please make sure your answer is higher than 4 and lower than 31.
(To translate for the Yahtzee purists, if the team went ahead and scored on Chance right after the first roll, assuming there were a Chance option available, how many points would the roll be worth?)
(time passes)
All right, that first roll of that game was a 6, 6, 5, 3 and 2. Add 'em and you get...
  
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...22. Who's the closest?
Eddie Timanus 22
Can't get closer than that. Eddie plays Pass or Fail -- right after this.
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(LAA theme plays)
Voice guy: Jay Cross challenges you to read the nation's mind.
Net Let's Ask America -- only VBS.
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Doug: And welcome back to Hot Dice. During the break, Eddie Timanus won the right to play an audience game -- for this.
Scarlett: Eddie, it's a gold and diamond necklace. (audience applause) This 18 carat white and yellow gold necklace come with 75 colorless diamond and 18 fancy colored diamonds. Yours with a gift certificate from Service Merchandise worth -- CY$10,000.
Doug: Hey now -- a lot of bling can be yours in a game we call Pass or Fail.
 
     
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Doug: Now I'm going to give you an academic question with a numeric answer. The right answer is higher than 0 and lower than 7. You'll have a maximum of five chances to roll the correct answer with one dice cube.
If you think you rolled the right answer, we'll lock it and see if you've passed or failed. On your fifth roll, we must automatically lock in whatever you rolled as your answer.
You must lock in the right answer to win that jewelry. And here's the question.
How many different letters are in the first word of America's Declaration of Independence?
(Eddie rolls)
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Doug: And you start with a 2. If you think the Declaration of Independence starts with a two-letter word, lock it in. If not, you have four rolls to go.
Eddie: Nope, not it. Got to roll again.
(Eddie rolls)
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Doug: And -- a 1. Well, do you think the first word in the Declaration of Independence is "A" or "I"? If not either way, you may roll again.
Eddie: Nope, it's not. Got to go again.
(Eddie rolls)
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(a few groans)
Doug: And it's a 1 again. Now we're starting to run out of time for this game. You have two rolls left if you want to keep playing.
Eddie: For the record, everyone, the magic number is 4. Let's see if we can get it this time.
(Eddie rolls)
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(more groans)
Doug: Well -- got half the 4 -- a 2 again. Eddie -- you're down to the last roll. You may lock 2 in as your answer -- or take your last roll. Whatever you roll on your final roll, we have to lock it in.
Eddie: Well, no point locking in a wrong answer. Let's get that 4.
(Eddie rolls)
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(more groans)
Doug: And your final roll is a 6. That was your last roll. We have to lock it in.
Now I tell you what. Let's stretch for a moment. Let's give a time traveler from the 30th Century (a few laughs from the crowd) a few moments to go back in time to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence (a few more laughs) and have that time traveler recommend to the scribe to make that first word a six-letter word instead of a four-letter word.
Doug: OK, now I'm getting a wrap signal from the floor director. So we have to go to the board and find out if the right answer is 6. Does Eddie pass or fail?
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(strike buzzer; audience groans; BB87 loss cue)
Doug: Ah, darn it. The 30th Century time traveler didn't answer the call to action. Sorry about that. I tell ya what we're going to do, Eddie. You thought the right answer was 4. If that's right, I'll give you a CY$500 gift certificate to Service Merchandise.
Is it 4?
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Doug: It is -- and that first word in the Declaration of Independence is "When". Well, CY$500 worth of shopping is better than nothing. Thanks, Eddie, for playing our game. Back with another main game -- after this.
HOT DICE CONTINUES
