Click (game show)
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Click was an American television game show based around computers and the then-relatively novel medium of the Internet. The youth-oriented series was created by Merv Griffin and hosted by future American Idol host Ryan Seacrest.
It aired in syndication from September 1997 through August 1999; reruns aired for several years on Game Show Network.
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[edit] Gameplay
Three teams of two teenagers (one each of two boys, two girls and a boy and girl) played three rounds, where the aim was to answer questions worth varying amounts of money.
In each round, the contestants stood at desks facing a large video wall (which acts as a computer), each screen of that wall had an icon with a symbol representing a category on it. A flashing cursor bounces around the board and stops when someone "clicks the mouse" (pushing down a large red button at the central station. A question is then read, and teams earned cash for correct answers.
Two main categories (called "Stations") were featured in the first season; regular knowledge categories would be answered at "the mother board," the station where teams would play the game:
[edit] Website
Possible topics included:
- e-mail - identifying a famous person who wrote a fictional e-mail.
- Click Pix - A visual clue was given for a question.
- Click Video - A video clue was given to the question.
- Sound Bytes - Audio clues were used for questions.
- Home Page - Identifying a topic from a series of clues, grouped into a "home page" format. Added during the second season.
[edit] Word Wizard
Topics included:
- Spell Check - Searching for a misspelled word in a sentence.
- Dictionary - Choosing the correct spelling, among a choice of three.
- Funetics - Identifying license plate-type puzzles, or a word spelled phonetically.
[edit] Rounds
[edit] Round One
Each team takes turns facing the computer. They each have 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible. The value of the questions are $25, $50, $75 or $100. One icon on the board is called "Double Click", where the team can double their current score with a correct answer. A team would win $100 if they had no money after a Double Click answer.
During the second season, regular questions were no longer at the motherboard; instead they were now at another station called "Hard Drive". One player stood at the motherboard clicking while his/her partner ran to one of the three stations.
[edit] Round Two
The team keeps control of the board as long as they answer questions correctly. If at anytime they miss a question or land on a "Virus" ("Crash" in the second season), a question is asked to the players at the main podiums for control. If nobody got the question right, the first team stays in control. Question values are still worth anywhere from $25-$100.
[edit] Round Three
Host Seacrest now did the clicking (he had his back to the board while he did it during season two), because all three teams had a chance to play every question. One member of each team stood at a different station while their partners remained at the podiums. After the station or category was chosen, the player at the appropriate place would hear the question and have a chance to answer for $100. A wrong answer meant that the players at the podiums would have a chance to buzz-in and take the money.
After several questions, an off-stage voice would then yell, "SWITCH, SWITCH, SWITCH!" Then the players would swap places with their teammates and more questions would be asked. At the end of round three, the top scoring team won the game and played the bonus round.
[edit] Bonus Round
In the bonus round, the winning team attempted to answer three questions in 45 seconds to win a pair of computers. In the first season, the team had that amount of time to accumulate three correct answers to win the grand prize. In season two, the team had 60 seconds, but the answers had to be given consecutively. Each correct answer in the second season bonus round was worth $100, even if the computers were also won.
[edit] Hostess Named Amber
The show had two hostess both named Amber. The first for the first season was named Amber Bonasso, and the second for the second season was named Amber Willenborg.
