Mall Masters

Mall Masters was the short lived nine month shopping game show taped at Mall of America.

Broadcast
GSN 2001

Host
Chris Harrison

Round 1
Host Harrison read a toss-up survey question based on a poll of 100 shoppers at the Mall of America with three choices. The first one to buzz in with the most popular answer which was the right answer got a chance to choose from one of four stores inside the Mall of America. If incorrect, the correct answer was revealed and the other two players were asked a question with the third player locked out. If one of those players got that question wrong, then the remaining player would be asked another question unopposed. If that player gets the question wrong, the next question is asked to all 3 players once again. Once a store was picked, a person who was at that store would team up with the contestant to answer another question, this time, with four choices. The contestant could then agree or disagree with the mall shopper's pick. If the in-studio contestant disagreed, they had to choose from the other three possibilities. If correct, the contestant got another 100 points. Once a store was picked, it was gone, and another store took its place. If the shopper got the question right, regardless if the contestant got it right or wrong, they got a $50 gift certificate from Mall of America.

Round 2
Similar to Round 1 but the points are doubled at 200

Round 3: The Lightning Round
The Lightning Round would be played with 90 seconds (1:30) on the clock. Correct answers were worth 100 points. A question was asked with three multiple choices. The first to ring in with a correct answer got the points. If the first player got the question wrong, the other two players could ring in. If one of the other players got that question wrong, the question was thrown out and the correct answer was revealed since there were three choices and two wrong answers would automatically give away the right answer. When time ran out, the highest score won the game. If the game ended in a two-way tie for first place, or if all three tied, a tie-breaker question was asked, with the first to ring-in getting a chance to answer, and if correct, moved on to the bonus round, but if wrong, the opponent won (or in the case of a three-way tie, if the first to ring-in was wrong, he or she automatically lost, and the other two would ring in to answer, and if incorrect, the last opponent won).

Bonus Round
The contestant was asked up to nine questions, all asked regarding one of the stores in the Mall of America. Each question had two choices, and a right answer got $100, but a wrong answer got a strike, and three strikes ended the bonus round, but if the contestant could get seven of the nine questions correct, he or she won $5,000, accompanied by a flashing "$5,000" on the video wall and a picture of the mall shoppers waving hands zooming in.

Three new contestants competed on each show.