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Author: Scalondragon

Jan 21st 2013 at 4:31:06 PM

The game show "Street Smarts" had "The Wager of Death" as it's take on "Final Jeopardy!"  Each player would wager any or all of their score on a final question their chosen recorded person had been asked before the show and they'd have to guess whether that person got it right or not.

Also, magic shows have "The Table of Death" where a magician or escape artist is chained or otherwise secured onto a table.  Above the table is an array of deadly spikes that would otherwise impale him or her IF the restraints can't be escaped and the spike array can't be avoided in time.  The time limit is enforced by a rope holding the array up which is then set burning--and is up when the rope's burned all the way through.
* This turned into a literal example for an episode of DiagnosisMurder when someone who knew this trick sabotaged it for the MaskedMagician of the episode in a spoof of his "Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed."  It (for the show) "literally killed him" and it was up to Dr. Mark Sloan, who liked magic as well, to see who set the Magican up as the victim.