My Games Fever

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My Games Fever is a live daytime television game show in which viewers can participate via text messaging and Internet for a chance to win cash prizes. Players are charged 99 cents per text message they send to the show but can enter for free on the internet. Statistics show that participants who enter via the internet have a lower chance of being called.[citation needed]

The show premiered online on December 4, 2006. One week later, on December 11, My Games Fever debuted on the 10 stations of MyNetworkTV which are owned by Fox Television Stations Group; the eventual plan is for it to be syndicated to other stations. The show airs Monday through Friday at 1 p.m. ET/PT, noon CT and 2 p.m. MT.

The program airs without commercials; it has been reported in the New York Daily News (see below) that the stations carrying the program receive a percentage of the proceeds from the text messages that are received during the show in lieu of ad revenue.

My Games Fever is taped in Miami, Florida, under a grant from the Governor's Office of Film and Entertainment.[1]

My Games Fever is produced by Shine Matrix Limited. The company's principals are Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corporation chief executive officer Rupert Murdoch, and Debbie Mason.

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[edit] Methods of entry

  • By text messaging: text the letter G to the short code 55355. (When the show debuted, the requested message was FEVER; this was changed on New Year's Day 2007.
  • Online at www.gamesfever.tv (See external link below). The website also has the complete official rules.

[edit] Hosts

  • Natalia Castellanos
  • Nikki Stanzione
  • Charlie Venturi
  • Kourtney Brown
  • Erin Myers

[edit] Format

The show consists of mini-games that rotate throughout the two hours. During the first two weeks, all cash prizes on the program were $500 each. Amounts since Christmas 2006 have been lower, either $200 or $250. Occasionally there are bonus prizes.

My Games Fever has no "players lounge", unlike PlayMania, and callers are not screened in advance. Viewer/contestant selection is based on call volume, as reflected by an on-screen thermometer. When the thermometer reaches a certain level, or after a certain amount of time, a caller is selected to play the game.

Mini-games include the following:

  • "Find the Celebrity" consists of celebrity names shown in an anagram format. It is up to the viewer/contestant to unscramble the anagram.
  • "Read My/Our Minds" is similar to Match Game. Here, contestants must guess what the host(s) has/have written on card(s) to complete a phrase. On the first show, four hosts (Kourtney, Erin, Nikki, and Charlie) contributed answers, but it was implied that future games will have only one answer.
  • "Sink or Swim" is similar to the "Will it float?" portion of The Late Show with David Letterman. Of course, the contestant attempts to guess whether or not a given item will float when placed in a tank of water.
  • "Letter-Piller" (a portmanteau of letter and caterpillar) is a game in which players must figure out a nine-letter word in which all the letters snake through each other.
  • A crossword-style game in which a contestant must guess a four-letter word going down which also makes four other common words that go across.
    • There is also an actual crossword game in which there are multiple connected answers and multiple cash prize awards.
  • A word search that consists of a 5-by-5 grid with four correct answers hidden within it. The words can appear horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  • A game in which contestants have to "fill in the blank" to form a phrase. The correct answer is sealed in an envelope, which is open after the correct answer is revealed.

As on PlayMania, the money can be raised in some cases, like low call volume and after incorrect answers. Wrong answers in "Sink or Swim" result in an automatic carryover.

[edit] Jackpot game

During the February sweeps in 2007, My Games Fever offered a $10,000 jackpot prize to a contestant that guessed, correctly, the number of cents in a fictional check in the amount of a little more than $10,000.

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