The contestant with the most matches plays the Super Match round for a chance to win money (with an audience match and a head-to-head match similar to the TV show) of up to $5,000. Following Match-Up, another traditional question round was played with all six celebrities for $50 per match with all six panelists. After round two, contestants then played Final Match-Up for 45 seconds, with matches paying off at $100 each.
As in the 1970s version, two contestants have two chances to match as many of the six celebrities as possible. Celebrity answers are printed in the booklets, and after the contestant gives an answer, the M.C. Reads the celebrity responses one by one, marking correct answers on the game board.
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You have to call one of your partner’s parents and tell them how much you love your partner. Get within one inch of the other person, look them straight in the eye, and tell them how you feel about them for one minute. Someone gives you a back massage for one minutes while you’re blindfolded. If you like their style, you can choose to kiss them afterwards, but without knowing their identity.
Do your best fake “O” while looking the person to the left of you in the eye. In addition to the questions for your S.O., there are also some questions to try out with a few adventurous friends. And if you’re chatting with someone over text, Snapchat, Skype, or FaceTime, I’ve also got you covered.
The show was timed so that two new contestants appeared each Monday; this was necessary as the tapes of the show were shipped between stations, and weeks could not be aired in any discernible order. This was a common syndication practice at the time, known as “bicycling.” Usually, three pairs of contestants competed in a total of six games over the five episodes for each week. On Match Game PM, the third round was added after the first season as games proved to be too short to fill the half-hour. Again, the only celebrities who played were those who did not match that contestant in previous rounds. On Match Game PM, the questions with the most obvious answers were typically used in the third round.
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For other older men, it’s the technology that throws them. Dating a “digital native” – part of the generation born or brought up with digital technology – when you are anything but is no easy proposition. This is one of many dating truths exposed by the British reality showFirst Dates. I worked as a Contestant Coordinator for the show for a couple of years in the late 1960s. I can’t really put any hard numbers on it but certainly sometimes the winners didn’t go out together. I remember some show looking back at the Dating Game.
The contestants would write their answers first on a card in secret, then the celebrities were canvassed to give their answers. Originally, the regulars (Brett, Charles & Richard) would give their answers, later it was changed to having all six celebrities play. The first celebrity response to match a contestant’s answer gave that contestant the victory; if there was still no match , the round was replayed with a new question. On the CBS version, the tie-breaker went on until there was a clear winner.
On the CBS version, the winner of the main game won $100. The Match Game in its original version ran on NBC’s daytime lineup from 1962 until 1969. The show returned with a significantly changed format in 1973 on CBS and became a major success, with an expanded panel, larger cash payouts, and emphasis on humor.
The wheel was added to prevent people from constantly choosing Richard Dawson, although the first time it was used it landed on Richard nonetheless. This caused the rest of the panel to get up and leave, leading fellow star Charles Nelson Reilly to refer to it on that episode as “the famed and fixed Star Wheel”. The Star Wheel was also used in the 1990 version of the show. Richard Dawson was the most frequently-chosen celebrity in the 1970s version. On Match Game PM, a third round was added after Season One as the games proved to be too short to fill the half-hour. The audience usually would groan or boo when a contestant gave a bad answer, whereas they would cheer and applaud in approval of a good answer.
After the choices were made, the last celebrity who played Final Match-Up was told which answers the contestants selected and was then asked to choose one of them. The contestant whose chosen answer matched the answer said by that celebrity won an additional $100 and the game. On at least one episode of Match Game PM, if a contestant failed to win any money in either Clover audience match, Rayburn read a question similar to those in the main game. The contestant earned $100 per celebrity matched, for a maximum of $600. The contestant who matched more celebrities at the end of the game won the game and went on to play the Super Match, which consisted of the audience match and the head-to-head match segments, for additional money.
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