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Money money everywhere

Google News coughs up some odd game show items. This article in a Princeton alumni newsletter, of all things, recalls the ancient Diamond Head Game.

A very short-lived syndie from 1975, the Hawaii-based show featured a "money volcano" where contestants literally tried to grab cash blowing in the wind. That's why the Princeton newsletter is interested in the show. A couple of alums have written a book about how people manage or mismanage their money. We're all in a chaotic money volcano, get it?

As so often happens, YouTube offers a fair amount of the show, including a funny clip where Eubanks briefly thinks he's on Newlywed Game. (He catches his own mistake and laughs about it, as the screenshot shows.) Diamond Head Game got an induction from Game Show Garbage, which makes me think better of the show than it probably deserves. At least the volcano was fun.

GSN reran the show a couple decades ago. The it slipped down the memory hole, except for a couple of Princeton alums.

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