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Kevin Prather:
Does anyone remember a few years back with the old board, when the board would occasionally have multi-colored letters? Was this a gimmick? What was it for?

Adam Nedeff:
I remember this because I entered the contest...It was a contest where certain letters in a puzzle were red instead of black, and when you re-arranged them, they spelled the last name of an Academy Award winner. They did this for two weeks and then held a drawing from all the entries that had at least eight right, with the winner getting a gold Cadillac.

Kevin Prather:
I don't think that's what I remember. I think there was a time when each letter had a couple colors. I seem to remember red and blue. Am i crazy?

cyberjoek:
Nope, at least not for this :-)
That was the "Olympic Dream" contest from 1996.  There were RED and BLUE letters that were re-arranged into two new words that made up the name of an Olympic event, each week one winner was selected from each station and they won a small prize pack, each weekly winner was eligible to win a trip to the 1996 Olympics (and tickets to all the event answers), the local prize in our area was a WOF/MSU/Olympics 1996 package.  The only reason I know this I just found a TV guide advertising this contest.
-Joe Kavanagh

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 10 2003, 10:42 PM\'] Does anyone remember a few years back with the old board, when the board would occasionally have multi-colored letters? Was this a gimmick? What was it for? [/quote]
 Besides the home contests mentioned in this thread, there were "Red Letter Puzzles" for a time in the mid 90s. When one of those was played, a contestant upon solving a puzzle could win bonus money for unscrambling the letters shown in red to form a word.

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