Super Six from season 2 which was changed to a graphic that flipped and took up the entire screen (a la the Daily Double on Jeopardy!). On The $20,000 Pyramid, if a team had 14 points, and the final category was the "Big 7", getting all seven answers added the "Big 7" bonus to the "Perfect 21" bonus, making it worth $1,500 (or $500 and a bonus prize during the final season). During the Cullen run it had two bonus prizes: the first was $1,000 during the second season, and the second was a new Chevrolet Chevette during the final season. The team that exposed this bonus had 30 seconds to get all seven and win $500 (originally a trip). It premiered in December 1974 (Seven months after the show moved to ABC), and during the Season 2 of the Cullen run.
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In the main game, a category's position on the pyramid is not an indicator of its difficulty. Each game starts with the introduction of six categories arranged in a pyramid. The game is played with two teams of two players (consisting of one celebrity & one contestant) in a game of word communication. 10.1 The Barack Obama/Osama bin Laden Incident.