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| '''''Match Game''''' was an ] ] ] where contestants tried to match a panel of six ] in answering fill-in-the-blank questions. | |||
| ==Broadcast history== | |||
| The original ''Match Game'' ran from ] through ] on ]. Although the fill-in-the-blanks premise was the same, the rules of this version were significantly different from those described in this article. | |||
| ] revived the show on ], ], as ''Match Game '73'' (the number changed to match the current year). After CBS canceled the show on ], ], the show found new life in daily ], where it ran until ] as ''Match Game'' (without the year). A weekly syndicated version, ''Match Game PM'', also ran from ] to ]. ]s of these versions currently air on ]. | |||
| ''Match Game'' was revived on ], ], as part of NBC's ''Match Game-] Hour''; that version ended on ], ]. Two unsuccessful revivals were attempted in the ]: from ], ], to ], ], on ], and during the ]-] season in syndication. | |||
| ==Hosts and celebrity panelists== | |||
| ] hosted all versions of the show through 1984. ] hosted the 1990 version, and ] hosted the 1998 version. | |||
| ] and ] were regular celebrity panelists through most of the 1973-82 version's run; ] was also a regular from 1973 through ]. Other frequent panelists from this era included ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
| ==Main game== | |||
| Two contestants competed to see who could match more of the answers of the six celebrities. Much of the show's humor sprung from questions that were heavy on double-entendres; one of the principal question-writers also was a writer for "Mad" magazine. | |||
| In the first round, the challenger chose one of two cards, A or B. The host then read the back of the card to the celebrity panel. A typical question was something like: "Mary Mary Quite Contrary couldn't make her garden grow with water, so she used blank instead." The contestant had a moment to decide what word would best fit the blank while the celebrities wrote their answers down on index cards; after all of them were finished, the contestant gave his answer, and the host asked each celebrity for an answer. The contestant earned one point for each celebrity who wrote down the same answer as he had chosen, up to a total of six points for matching everyone on the panel. Then the back of the other card was read and the returning champion followed the same procedure. | |||
| In the second round, whoever was leading the game got to choose a question first. Only the celebrities who did not match that contestant in the first round played. A third round was played on ''Match Game PM'' after its first season; again, the only celebrities who played were those who did not match that contestant in previous rounds. Tiebreaker rounds -- during which the scores were reset to 0-0 -- were played if the game was tied after the last round. On "PM," a time-saving variant of the tiebreaker was used that reversed the game play. The contestants would write their answers first on a card in secret, then the celebrities were canvassed to give their answers. The first celebrity response to match a contestant's answer gave that contestant the victory. | |||
| The CBS daytime version had returning champions and each show would end at whatever point they were in the game, to resume with the next show; the "PM" version was self-contained with no returning champions and each show would end with the "Super Match." | |||
| ==Super Match== | |||
| The winner of the game won $100 and went on to play the Super Match, which consisted of the Audience Match and the Head-to-Head Match segments, for additional money. | |||
| ===Audience Match=== | |||
| A fill-in-the-blank phrase was given, and it was up to the contestant to choose the most common response based on a studio audience survey. After consulting with three celebrities on the panel for help, the contestant had to choose an answer. The answers were revealed after that; the most popular answer in the survey was worth $500, the second-most popular $250, and the third most popular $100. | |||
| Two Audience Matches were played on ''Match Game PM''. | |||
| The Audience Match became the basis for another game show from the ''Match Game'' production team of ] and ] -- '']''. ''Match Game'' regular Richard Dawson was chosen to host that show. | |||
| ===Head-to-Head Match=== | |||
| The contestant then had the opportunity to win ten times what he or she won in the Audience Match by exactly matching another fill-in-the-blank response with a celebrity panelist of his or her choice. | |||
| Richard Dawson was the most frequently chosen celebrity in the 1970s version, so much so that in ] the "Star Wheel" was introduced; contestants spun the wheel to determine which celebrity they played with. They could double their potential winnings if the spin ended on one of the stars on the wheel ($10,000 was the top prize in the daytime version; with the two audience matches on ''Match Game PM'', a jackpot of up to $20,000 was possible there). | |||
| ==Versions outside the USA== | |||
| In the ] it is known as '''Blankety Blank''' and has been presented by ], ] and ]. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
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