PLACE YOUR BETS!
The home version of TV's exciting Dealer's Choice
(Gamut of Games 1974)
CONTENTS:
    Eleven large game cards
    Game card frame
    Deck of regular playing cards
    16 Bingo/Keno markers
    3 Dealer's Derby horses
    3 Tropicana 500 cards
    4 plastic color-coded betting markers
    Cardboard bonus dice (assembly required)
    One die
    Play money

GAME PLAY:
        Each game is played in a total of five rounds.  The first four rounds are chosen from among the eleven available game cards.  All players participate in the final Bonus Dice Round.  All the games are easy or familiar gambling games, usually with simplified rules for television purposes.  Each player starts with $100, and makes a bet in each of the four preliminary games which can, depending on the game and the result, pay back at anything from even money all the way up to 20-1 odds.

THE GAMES:

Game Round Uses Max Bet Top Payout
Hi Lo 1 Cards $10 4 x bet
In Between 1 Cards $10 4 x bet
Combination 1 or 2 Cards $10 or $25 4 x bet
Any Pair Loses 1 or 2 Cards $10 or $25 4 x bet
Total Up 1 or 2 Cards $25 20 to 1
Bingo 2 or 3 Markers $50 4 to 1
Keno 2 or 3 Markers $25 or $50 5 to 1
Blackjack 3 Cards $50 2 to 1
Dealer's Derby 3 or 4 Markers $50 or $100 5 to 1
Tropicana 500 3 or 4 Markers $50 or $100 5 to 1
Wheel of Chance 4 Spinner No Limit 11 to 1
DIFFERENCES TO TV SHOW:
        In the TV show, the high scorer after the preliminary games would play the Bonus Dice Round alone, trying to reach $1000 without rolling the spade that appears on one face of one die.  In this version, all players predict how much money will appear on the dice before the spade appears (up to $1000) and the player or players who comes closest without going over has her winnings to that point doubled (or tripled if the player is exactly right).

COMMENTS:
        An elaborate, adult game from a company that tried and failed to make a big splash in the board game market around the mid-seventies. All the Gamut games, which included word, strategy and war games as well as another TV adaptation (The Diamond Head Game) were clearly aimed at an older audience than typical board game fare.   Parker Brothers already had a used-car game on the market called Dealer's Choice, which is why this game featured the different, awkwardly worded title.  Some versions have a plain game card frame, others have a colorful photo from the show inside the frame.  Jack Clark and model Jane Nelson are prominently featured in the many photographs from the show inside and on the cover, but are not identified.