# The $25,000 Pyramid Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162 "2006-08-10T15:08:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/241 "2006-08-14T14:57:23Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Admirer > Anti-Perspirant > Garden > Top Secrets. Bicycle Sump Bilge Shoes ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/242 "2006-08-14T14:58:18Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Secrets. > > Bicycle > Sump > Bilge > Shoes Right, and Pumps. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/243 "2006-08-14T15:00:59Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Admirer > Anti-Perspirant > Garden > Top Secret. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/244 "2006-08-14T15:01:29Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > Perhaps actresses who have shaved their head for a role? To which we could add Sigourney Weaver. Man, I suck. I even watched _V for Vendetta_ last frickin’ night. 🙂 Throat French Elmo Fight Pink ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/245 "2006-08-14T15:02:56Z")
> [@dasgupta](#): > > Perhaps actresses who have shaved their head for a role? To which we could add Sigourney Weaver. Thank you. Yes. And thank you again. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/246 "2006-08-14T15:03:21Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Man, I suck. I even watched _V for Vendetta_ last frickin’ night. 🙂 > > Throat > French > Elmo > Fight > Pink Tickle almost works here… ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/247 "2006-08-14T15:05:51Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Reasonable guess – could even be right – but not what I was going for. They’re the Olympic colors, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/248 "2006-08-14T15:06:27Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Tickle almost works here… No, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/249 "2006-08-14T15:06:51Z")
If we could bend the rules just a tad, just this once, and just for a laugh, pretend you’re Johnny Carson’s Carnac and pick up the envelope from Ed McMahon and give the answer: Lincoln Wilson Ford What’s in the envelope? Then 36 24 36 9 What’s in the envelope? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/250 "2006-08-14T15:07:57Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > They’re the Olympic colors, yes? Roger. Bonus points for why. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/251 "2006-08-14T15:08:50Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Roger. Bonus points for why. The inhabited continents, IIRC. Which one, other than Australia, is excluded, I don’t remember. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/252 "2006-08-14T15:09:29Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Roger. Bonus points for why. I dimly recall my Dad saying it was because every country in the world had at least one of those colors in its flag. But he could have been totally full of it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/253 "2006-08-14T15:09:58Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > The inhabited continents, IIRC. Which one, other than Australia, is excluded, I don’t remember. That’s not the version I’m after. Why those specific colors? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/254 "2006-08-14T15:11:05Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > I dimly recall my Dad saying it was because every country in the world had at least one of those colors in its flag. But he could have been totally full of it. 😉 You got a smart daddy. That’s it! ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/255 "2006-08-14T15:14:24Z")
Sen. Huey Long (1935) Sen. Wayne Morse (1952) Sen. Srom Thurmond (1957) Jimmy Stewart (1939) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/256 "2006-08-14T15:23:03Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Sen. Huey Long (1935) > Sen. Wayne Morse (1952) > Sen. Srom Thurmond (1957) > Jimmy Stewart (1939) filibusters? ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/257 "2006-08-14T15:30:00Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > filibusters? Correct. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/258 "2006-08-14T16:05:26Z")
Wilding Hilton Warner Todd Burton Fisher ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/259 "2006-08-14T16:07:59Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Wilding > Hilton > Warner > Todd > Burton > Fisher Eliabeth Taylor’s husbands (and you forgot Fortensky) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162/260 "2006-08-14T16:09:38Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Eliabeth Taylor’s husbands (and you forgot Fortensky) I didn’t want to give it away! 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-25-000-pyramid-game/368162.md?page=14)