YMMV / 1 vs. 100

• Harsher in Hindsight: One question was "Which one of these celebrities has never been charged with a DUI?", with Lindsay Lohan being an answer. The correct answer was Lohan, as the episode was taped before she was charged.
• Padding: Not as much as Deal or No Deal, but still there in the NBC version.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Seasons 3 and 4 (the Xbox version) had the same format as the end of the NBC run (every ten Mob members eliminated moved you up the money ladder) with no padding, no cliffhangers, and very little stalling. In addition, Extended Play shows were added, which had several 2× Bonus Questions during each game and a 3× Bonus Question wrapping up each session.
  • Season 4 (the second year of Live and Extended Play) improved things further with a host of new features, including Achievements and a level-up system (the more {and better} you played, the more dance moves you unlocked and the better your chances of being selected for the One/Mob). The set was also redone and made larger.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The rules changed considerably throughout the NBC run, beginning with tweaks to the payout ladder and helps. Upon the beginning of Season 2, this was replaced by a money ladder system where the total value won increased for every ten players eliminated (a format carried over to the Xbox and GSN runs).
  • Season 5 (the GSN run) had smaller prizes, the Mob being turned into just a video wall, and people thinking Carrie Ann Inaba was just as screamy as the contestants. The smaller prizes and video wall were an unfortunate but necessary change, considering GSN didn't have nearly a big enough budget to offer $1,000,000 prizes and the NBC set took up multiple soundstages - although why GSN went for the Americanized walk-away format instead of the original European all-or-nothing format, we'll never know, as nobody (besides that dumb woman who walked with $100) is ever going to be tempted by anything but the largest prizes.
  • In Russia, the show (which ran on TV Centr with rules and visuals unchanged) was heavily retooled to fit it on Karusel, a channel for children. "Ask the Mob" was replaced with an option to skip a question, the Mob became the Class with only 25 members (all of which are schoolchildren) one of which gets chosen to be a player, the game is played for points, the studio was heavily redesigned and the questions became much simpler. Due to having the same name as the TV Centr adaptation (both are named 1 vs. All) and the score being unchanged, many Russian game show enthusiasts did not take the Karusel version well.

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