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In the final season hosted by Milton Berle, two matches were played in each show. Rolling six strikes in a row in the first match won a flat $ 5,000. The winner of the first match played against the "king of the hill" bowler for another $ 1,000, and the right to return the following week as "king of
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Two players competed to bowl up to nine strikes. After each bowler took nine turns, the player who bowled the most strikes won $ 1,000. Any player who rolled six strikes in a row won a jackpot which, in the earlier seasons, started at $ 5,000 and increased $ 1,000 each week it was not won.
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its 30-year contract with Berle, whose popularity had been in steady decline, and also to emphasize more comedy as the nation's taste for high-budget contests had waned in the wake of the
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