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- CreatorFrank WayneStarsJack NarzJohnny OlsonThe Mystery Word Search game consisted of 5 contestants (4 Challengers & 1 Champion) are playing for points. In the Premilinary Round, Contestants will find a answer (from a 14x4=56 gridded game board) in one(1) of the four(4) lines and the fourteen(14) columns (positions) from a question that the host been asked. A correct line, position & a word will win 1 point; A wrong line & word that can led a team to find a correct line & word. Changing team members are assessived and then the team scores the most points wins and go to the Semi-Finals. The Semi-Final Round consists of 2 contestants of the disbanded winning team go to line by line in every position to position letter one (1) at a time before shown the last letter as one(1) of two(2) contestants will see & say the word answer to a question correctly wins 1 point and continues up to 4 points became the winner receives a prize package worth around $1500 and becomes the challenger to the Champion in the Finals. In The Championship Finals, Now the points are locating between the 4 word lines & the 14 letter positions. The lines are worth from 1 to 4 points & the columns are worth from 1 to 14 points (i.e.:"Waste"-2+3=5). The teams will find a word was located in the game board and that look different than the Premilinary Round and the contestant scores the most points wins becomes the New Champion or otherwise still being the champion. In Late 1974 The Teams of the Premilinaries write down the favorite word will become the bonus answer as it shown immediately wins 10 points to their score & also for the Championship Finals either his or her score the same thing. In Early 1975 and towards to the end of the period 2 Contestants playing for 5 points to win the game and an $1500 Prize Package and faces the champion in the Finals. At The Finals One(1) contestant scores 50 points and the game will continue and that make the point values are doubled (Lines: 2-8 pts. & Positions: 2-28 pts.) and the team reached 100 points wins the game and go to the "Solo Round!" The "Solo Round" has 10 words in the grid and the team has 1 minute to find all 10 words. Each word they found is worth $100 and 10 words they all found wins $5000, $1000 will added for tomorrow's show when they don't find all 10 words. Later in the program's period, Contestants are now following the pattern than 2 teams & 1 player. Contestants/Teams must compete before defeated.
- CreatorSeon-Young LeeStarsLeeteukYoo Se-YoonKim Jong-kookA reality show platform which offers talented singers the chance to make their dreams of stardom a reality.
- StarsGene RayburnJohnny OlsonBetty WhiteThis is The 1st Edition of the program. Composed of 2 Teams of 3 Members (2 In-Studio team members and 1 Star Team Captain) are writing answers to an question {e.g.: Name a part of a chicken} that'll/this'll read(ing) by the host/star (Gene Rayburn) and one(1) member of the team wrote/writes the answer {e.g.: Leg}. The 1st and 2nd Members of the team has/having the same answer is/are matched and that'll/this'll be worth 25 points (10 points-early in the run from December 31, 1962 to February 8, 1963) and the star team captain matched the same answer and that'll/this'll be worth 50 points (20 points). The 1st Team score 100 points wins the game and collect $100 and played "The Studio Audience Match." In "The Studio Audience Match", That/This has 3 Secret Survey Questions which it This/That all occurs the date this/that held/holds the 3 Questions prior to the broadcast of "The MATCH GamE". Each 1 of the 3 secret survey questions that/this has/having the all-time popular answer will be match by the same 3 members of the winning team called "THE BEST ANSWER." Each matching answer that'll/this'll determine what he or she thinking up that/this answer of their judgment is valued at in the following - 1 Person Matched worth $50, 2 People Match worth $100 and All 3 People Match includes A Star Team Captain worth $150 and the possible total of the 3 questions is worth $450 and that/this can be added to $100 and can be the perfect total of $550. The Game Continues before time's up with the sound of whistle blow and the 2 members of the team has the highest cash amount became today's winners. On the weekday of February 27-March 3, 1967 Before the show is over...There's "The Telephone Match" becomes a feature to the program. The Host reads the question {i.e.: _____ Soup} to the home viewer via telephone call and picks 1 member of the studio audience (by a number from 1 to 100+) will match the answer {i.e.: Vegetable Soup} as well the member wrote the answer and that's a match wins the share of jackpot started at $500. $100 will be added when it's a mismatch {i.e.: Alphabet Soup}.
- CreatorMerv GriffinStarsArt FlemingDon PardoMel BrooksA quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of questions.
- CreatorBill CarruthersJan McCormickStarsPeter TomarkenRod RoddyCharlie O'DonnellA game show where contestents answer trivia questions and then have to gamble their winnings on a randomly flashing game board.
- StarsJane LynchAlexandria SounisTim NeffFeatures two contestants, each with a team of celebrity guests, competing in pop culture party games for a chance to win $25,000.
- StarsMarc SummersJohn HarveyRobin MarrellaOne in a long-running series of game shows, where two-member teams of children compete to answer questions and complete stunts.
- StarsDon PardoBill CullenJack NarzThe original version of an American icon, "The Price is Right" rewarded contestants with valuable prizes for their ability to price items.
- CreatorMark GoodsonStarsRichard DawsonGene WoodJohnny GilbertTwo families compete by trying to outguess the opponents about survey results.
- StarsMonty HallCarol MerrillJay StewartAudience contestants picked at random, dressed in ridiculous costumes, try to win cash or prizes by choosing curtain number 1, 2 or 3. Hilarious situations occur, from winning a rotten prize to jackpot.
- CreatorGunnar WetterbergStarsMark L. WalbergBurton RichardsonCurt ClendeninContestants compete in a hybrid general knowledge quiz-game of chance, where incorrect answers could literally cause them to drop out of the game.
- StarsJack BarryCharles Van DorenHerb StempelTwo contestants were placed in separate isolation booths. Each player in turn would be given a category and asked how many points, from 1 to 11, he wanted to risk. Points increased with the questions difficulty. A correct answer earned the stated number of points, whereas a wrong answer would result in the points being deducted from the player's score. The first player to get 21 points won, unless the other player matched the score and forced a tie. Players could also end the game early if they felt they had enough points to win.
- CreatorChris BeardeStarsChuck BarrisTrixie DejongeGary OwensAmateur talent contest judged by three celebrities.
- StarsPenn JilletteStacy KaiserJoe CiprianoContestants rely on their own perceptions and judgment in order to match up a group of strangers with a list of unique characteristics about each person such as their shoe size, weight or career.
- StarsBill CullenGene WoodFred SaxonTwo contestants attempt to correctly guess words based on definitions given by children ages five to nine.
- StarsBradley WalshShaun WallaceMark LabbettA fast-paced game show where contestants must compete against 'The Chasers,' the show's eccentric and pompous know-it-all characters, in a variety of questions in order to win money by answering more of them correctly than the Chasers.
- StarsDick ClarkBob ClaytonJack ClarkTwo contestants, each with a celebrity partner, must guess words from their partners' clues; then the roles are reversed. Winners face the pyramid.
- StarsJim PerryJanice BakerGene WoodHosted by Jim Perry, were contestants are asked questions about how 100 people answered a poll question then played a card game where they tried to guess whether the next card drawn from a deck in a sequence would be higher or lower.
- StarsBill MaloneWally KingDoris HargroveContestants race around a supermarket, collecting as high a dollar value in groceries as they can in their shopping cart within a specified time limit.
- CreatorMerrill HeatterBob QuigleyStarsPeter MarshallKenny WilliamsCliff ArquetteContestants guess the correctness of celebrities' answers in order to win spaces in a tic-tac-toe game.
- StarsJack KellyBill WendellMadelyn SandersIn this quiz/game show, contestants had to answer relatively simple questions on general knowledge categories. Correct answers earned the contestants a few dollars. The show's gimmick was that the contestants could then exchange some of their money for expensive prizes which would be offered at extreme discounts. The contestant who finished the show with the most cash could then return to compete in the next show.
- StarsJay JacksonJack BarryGene RayburnThe classic quiz show hosted by Win Elliot. In this game, the contestants are faced with a tic-tac-toe board with a different category in each square. To put their mark (X or O) in the square they want, they must first answer a question in the category listed there. For each question they answer correctly, they win a cash prize. The first contestant to put their mark in three squares in a row gets to keep the cash and move on to a bonus round for even bigger prizes.
- StarsJerry SpringerJames J. Zito IIIRob Marrocco"Baggage" is a dating game show with a difference. In order to advance in the game, you must show your potential match every embarrassing piece of Baggage about yourself. In the first round, three women enter with three suitcases each; small, medium, and large. They can alternatively be three men with a woman as the main contestant. The main contestant brings with them a huge red bag containing a shocking piece of Baggage that is revealed at the end of the night. The three women open their smallest piece of Baggage, which is normally an annoying habit, something they did as a child, or another comical secret. The main contestant gives their views on each of the cases, and then is presented with three medium ones. These contain more embarrassing secrets, and each belongs to one of the three women, but it not revealed who until the main contestant decides which case they will eliminate from the game. The women then claim their baggage, and the one who owns the eliminated case exits the game. The remaining two face off by opening their biggest suitcases, which hold their deepest and darkest secret, and the main contestant must choose which secret he finds less shocking. The owner of the worse case is forced to leave. The winning woman is given three choices of what is inside the red bag, and professes which they would react to the most. The big red bag belonging to the main contestant is opened, and the chosen woman must choose whether she can live with the secret. If she cannot, the main contestant is told "that they have too much baggage" and must leave.
- StarsJohnny GilbertBill CullenRobert MandanChain Reaction was hosted by Bill Cullen in 1980, but went off the air that same year. In 1986, it was revived as "The New Chain Reaction" in 1986 with host Geoff Edwards. It ran until 1991. Two teams of two players (two celebrities and two contestants) competed. Each team was composed of a giver and a guesser. The giver could give the letter in the next word of the chain to either his/her partner or opponent. A correct guess won the appropriate number of points for the round and retained control, while an incorrect guess passes control to the opponents. If you give a letter to your opponent and he/she doesn't get the word, you get to go again. In the first round, the first four words were worth 10 points each, while the last word was worth 20 points. In the second round, words were worth 20-30 points, and the third round 30-50 points. Also in later rounds, a cash word was in the chain worth $500 to the team who guessed it. The first team to reach 300 points won the game and advanced to the bonus round.
- StarsGeno SegersLaura HamiltonLouis J. YoreyAnother version of the world-famous and widely acclaimed Fort Boyard adventure game show with an original format but this time around all the contestants are teenagers. Set in the familiar Napoleonic sea fortress off the south-west coast of France, kids from the US and UK compete in a series of thrilling quests to uncover Fort Boyard's hidden treasures. Dancing on Ice finalist Laura Hamilton and American actor Geno Segers are the hosts.
- CreatorMerv GriffinStarsSusan StaffordCharlie O'DonnellChuck WooleryDaytime version of the game show in which contestants guess letters in order to complete a word, phrase or name.
- StarsVicki LawrenceBert ConvyLinda BlairSyndicated show which debuted in the USA in September 1987, and ran until 1989. Two teams of three men and three women competed, one person from a team was given the name of a famous person and had to communicate the name to the rest of the team by drawing pictures.
- CreatorE. Roger MuirNick NicholsonStarsBob EubanksJohnny JacobsJames FarentinoMarried couples compete to see how much they really know about each other.
- StarsRegis PhilbinJohn CarpenterMeredith VieiraContestants are chosen based on their ability to arrange 4 answers to a question in the correct order the fastest. They then have 15 multiple-choice questions correctly to win increasing amounts of money, the largest is $1,000,000.
- StarsChuck WooleryMark ThompsonMelissa SkirbollFox's high-stakes quiz show where a team of up to five contestants could win $2 million by correctly answering questions.
- StarsBob SagetDexter Takashi OdaniHyunjin JoOne contestant competes against 100 people by answering trivia questions for a chance to win a huge cash prize.
- StarsChris HardwickRussell RopeMichele WilliamsTeams of two compete in four rounds of games in hopes to win millions of dollars in prizes.
- StarsJim LangeJohnny JacobsAnna MarloweThree out-of-view contestants of the opposite sex are asked prepared questions, snappy answers for which will lead to the selection of one, with the prize being a chaperoned date.
- StarsTara BeaulieuMark McGrathSteve-OThe series will challenge contestants to break into song in the midst of extreme situations.
- StarsAnne RobinsonJohn CramerAlan CummingIn this hybrid of "Inquizition" and "Survivor," contestants test their trivial mettle as a team and against each other. After each round of play, the team votes out the most expendable member, who instantly gets the biting send off of "You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye." In the end, only one player goes home with any money.
- StarsBruce ForsythMarc SummersGene WoodUnique, but short-lived game on ABC daytime. Two teams of 5 players, men vs. women, competed. In the main game, one member of the team would be given a secret word and would give a description of the word to the next teammate. Once he/she guessed it correctly, s/he would give the next teammate a description of the word, and so forth. This continued down the line, with 40 seconds given for all 4 "guessers" to name the secret word. The catch was, no "key words" could be duplicated in the various descriptions of the word or else scoring for that secret word would stop. Adding to the difficulty of this task was the fact that the guessers wore headphones that prevented them from hearing how the secret word was described by teammates earlier in the round. Each team had a chance to guess 3 words, and the team with the highest score at the end of the 3 rounds played the bonus round, which was an inverse of the main game. The bonus round was played in 3 rounds. In each round, a team captain was designated and given a word or topic. S/he would then pick 4 words/phrases s/he thought were most associated with the word. The other 4 members of the team wore headphones while the captain picked her 4 clues. The team would hear the topic and then have 20 seconds (5 seconds each) to try to guess the 4 clues that the captain had picked. The first two rounds earned money for a bonus bank each time one of the clues was guessed, while the final round was an all or nothing round that, if won, multiplied the bank earnings by five.
- StarsKevin PollakMelissa CookContestants are given $1 million and have to work together to keep the money by answering multiple-choice questions.
- CreatorJock MillgardhMattias OlssonStarsGuy FieriSean L. MalinJonathan LipowContestants can win $1 million by completing ten tasks involving common household objects, with a one-minute time limit for each task.
- StarsHowie MandelPatricia KaraMegan AbrigoContestants face 26 sums of money, 26 suitcases, and one question: Deal or no deal?
- CreatorBarry PoznickJohn StevensStarsJeff FoxworthyDanielle SoibelmanMadison LeisleA quiz show that features adult contestants and questions directly from the textbooks of first through fifth graders.
- CreatorJeff ApploffStarsWayne BradyRickey MinorMark McGrathContestants compete for $1 million by selecting songs from a myriad of different genres, decades and artists and singing alongside a karaoke-style video screen where the music stops, the words will disappear and the singer must belt out the correct missing lyric.
- StarsTom PapaMatt MarrMichael BellaviaA trivia show where the answers to the questions coordinate with colored wires. The contestant cuts the colored wire that corepondes with their answer, it it's wrong, color powder explodes.
- StarsTim StokesDan CampbellArt JamesContestants compete to guess rebus-type and punny puzzles for cash and merchandise prizes in this short-lived game show.
- CreatorPhilip GurinBob HorowitzStarsPaula MacneillJoey FatoneTim CampbellThe Australian version of the music game show where six contestants vocally put their knowledge of song lyrics to the test as they compete for the title of The Singing Bee Champion and the chance to win up to A$50,000 cash.
- StarsMark ThompsonBrooke BurnsLaila OdomContestants are challenged to fit through the odd holes of an approaching wall for prize money.
- StarsMelanie SykesDavina McCallGabby LoganGeneral knowledge quiz show with a big cash prize.
- StarsPaolo BedionesRegine TolentinoAwards Best Game Show by the PMPC Star Awards for Television (2001) Best Game Show Hosts (for Paolo Bediones and Regine Tolentino) by the PMPC Star Awards for Television (2001)