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At any time, the describing contestant may pass the word to the next teammate, who immediately takes over describing it. If the same word is passed twice, an illegal clue is mentioned by the clue giver, or the guesser passes on the word and the clue giver gives an illegal clue, it is thrown out and a new word is given.
The contestant can pass on a word if it is too difficult, returning to any passed words if time remains on the clock. Clue givers must keep their hands on the electronic tablet at all times. Clue givers cannot use a word itself, a part of a word, or a derivative form of a word, in a clue. Clue givers are also forbidden from using hand gestures.
The answer boxes denoting the number of letters in a word was shown with a crossword clue and a dollar value. As the game progressed, a word could have multiple blanks already filled in. After the clue was read, the contestants could ring in, with the order they did so denoted on the screens on the front of their podiums.
Register is the highest-earning game show contestant who has only appeared on one game show and the first woman to win more than one million dollars in a game show. 9 David Legler $1,765,000 Twenty-One, $1,765,000 [44] Legler earned $1,765,000 over six wins on the 2000 revival of Twenty-One, making him the show's biggest winner. 10 Matt Amodio
For each word, Woolery gave a clue that often involved a pun or play on words (e.g., "Some people want him to get off their case" for "detective"). Viewers could win a Scrabble T-shirt by submitting a word and clue and having them selected for use in the show's opening title sequence.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
In the first taped episodes of the show, which aired in December 1985, the bonus round was played under the same basic rules, but with a different set of prize levels. A line of five that did not include the M still won a prize worth roughly $5,000, but if that square was used, the champion received his/her choice of three prizes worth over ...