Scattergories (game show)
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Scattergories, was a game show on NBC daytime hosted by Dick Clark, with Charlie Tuna as announcer. It aired in 1993 from January 18 - June 10. The show aired along with a revival of Scrabble with Chuck Woolery. Both shows debuted and were cancelled on the same day.
Scattegories was the last NBC daytime game show to be produced at the network's Burbank Studios, and also one of the last Reg Grundy-produced game shows to air in the United States.
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[edit] The Main Game
Two teams of four players competed in a battle of the sexes manner (four men vs. four women). The show was based on the popular board game of the same name.
[edit] Round One
The team in control had 20 seconds to name up to six items that fit a particular category and started with a particular letter of the alphabet. (For instance, things that you'd see at Disneyland that start with the letter T.) Each time the team gives an acceptable word they score a point. after the list is complete or time runs out, the other team could challenge if they think a word the controlling team said is bad. An incorrect challenge, in which the judges gave a majority of "yes" votes, gave the controlling team a bonus point. likewise, a successful challenge cost the controling team a point and removed the word from their list. There were two hitches: no player could give two consecutive answers, and no word could be used as part of more than two answers.
[edit] The Celebrities
If the controlling team named at least four items they get to play in the second half of their round. In the second half they face five celebrities on a game board. They were prerecorded & gave answers in advance. The controlling team would choose up to four stars; on each chosen star, the star's tape was played back for the team to reveal the answer he/she gave hoping that their answers were different from the star's. Each non-match is worth 1 point, but each match deducts 1 point.
Origianlly, The first letter was a toss-up with the team buzzing in first with an acceptable word getting control first in addition to getting a point. After the toss-up winners played their half of the round, the other team plays their half of the round under the same parameters. This was later changed to the challengers getting to play first.
[edit] Round Two
The second round is played the same way, but words/bad challenges/non-matches are now worth double or 2 points each.
The team with the most points at the end of round two wins the game, gets $500, and goes on to the bonus round.
[edit] Bonus Game
The winning team once again faces the five-celebrity game board, each star has given one answer in advance. (each star was assigned a different letter). The winning team now has 25 seconds to give up to 10 items in a particular subject (2 words per letter/star). When they're done, the team watches each celebrity's clip. Each time the star does not match one of the team's answers they capture that celebrity. capturing 3 celebrities won the jackpot that started at $4,000 and grew by $1,000 everyday until won.
Originally, the winning team picked one of 5 cards that assigned the jackpot to a particular celebrity; if that celebrity was among those captured, the team won a jackpot that began at $4,000 plus $1,000 for each day it wasn't won.
If the judges had problems with any of the answers given by the team, the celebrity the offending ones were attached to would be taken out of play.
In the event that the team failed to score the three requisite new answers, the answers that had not yet come into play would be read off.
