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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Kevin Prather on December 10, 2003, 10:42:03 PM
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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
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[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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And it's been exactly 10 years since we first saw them. Let me detail them for you:
RED: First shown in Spring 1993, this involved a home-viewer contest. They gave away over $1 million in prizes, and to win, here's what you had to do: You first had to write down all the red letters shown in the puzzle. Then you had to unscramble those letters and form a word. You had to use each letter, and use each one only once. This lasted for 3 weeks.
Then in the following season, this just involved the in-studio contestant, and he or she would win bonus money for guessing the word.
GOLD: To celebrate the upcoming 1993 Oscars in Spring 1994, they'd use this color, in what would be the second multi-colored letter home-viewer contest. Just like its Red counterpart, it involved writing down the Gold letters and unscrambling them. These would form the last names of Oscar winners.
RED/BLUE (in the order shown): To celebrate the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia; this color duo was used in yet the Third and FINAL multi-colored home-viewer. Just like the above two counterparts, it involved writing dwon those letters, and unscrambling them. In this contest, these letters would form sporting events you'd find in the Summer Olympics.
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[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 10 2003, 11:52 PM\'] And it's been exactly 10 years since we first saw them. Let me detail them for you:
RED: First shown in Spring 1993, this involved a home-viewer contest. They gave away over $1 million in prizes, and to win, here's what you had to do: You first had to write down all the red letters shown in the puzzle. Then you had to unscramble those letters and form a word. You had to use each letter, and use each one only once. This lasted for 3 weeks.
Then in the following season, this just involved the in-studio contestant, and he or she would win bonus money for guessing the word.
GOLD: To celebrate the upcoming 1993 Oscars in Spring 1994, they'd use this color, in what would be the second multi-colored letter home-viewer contest. Just like its Red counterpart, it involved writing down the Gold letters and unscrambling them. These would form the last names of Oscar winners.
RED/BLUE (in the order shown): To celebrate the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia; this color duo was used in yet the Third and FINAL multi-colored home-viewer. Just like the above two counterparts, it involved writing dwon those letters, and unscrambling them. In this contest, these letters would form sporting events you'd find in the Summer Olympics. [/quote]
Add to that list the Red White and Blue Sweepstakes c. 1994: The home viewers would see multi-colored letters(red and blue), those letters were to be unscrambled to form the last name of a US president.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 08:26 AM\'] [quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Dec 10 2003, 11:52 PM\'] And it's been exactly 10 years since we first saw them. Let me detail them for you:
RED: First shown in Spring 1993, this involved a home-viewer contest. They gave away over $1 million in prizes, and to win, here's what you had to do: You first had to write down all the red letters shown in the puzzle. Then you had to unscramble those letters and form a word. You had to use each letter, and use each one only once. This lasted for 3 weeks.
Then in the following season, this just involved the in-studio contestant, and he or she would win bonus money for guessing the word.
GOLD: To celebrate the upcoming 1993 Oscars in Spring 1994, they'd use this color, in what would be the second multi-colored letter home-viewer contest. Just like its Red counterpart, it involved writing down the Gold letters and unscrambling them. These would form the last names of Oscar winners.
RED/BLUE (in the order shown): To celebrate the 1996 Centennial Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia; this color duo was used in yet the Third and FINAL multi-colored home-viewer. Just like the above two counterparts, it involved writing dwon those letters, and unscrambling them. In this contest, these letters would form sporting events you'd find in the Summer Olympics. [/quote]
Add to that list the Red White and Blue Sweepstakes c. 1994: The home viewers would see multi-colored letters(red and blue), those letters were to be unscrambled to form the last name of a US president. [/quote]
THAT'S probably what I was thinking of.
Was each letter one color, or was each colored letter two colors blended?
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 11 2003, 06:04 PM\']
Was each letter one color, or was each colored letter two colors blended? [/quote]
Red on the top, blue on the bottom IIRC(or maybe they were reversed)
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Then I'm positive that's what I remember. Thank you. :)
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I don't remember the 1994 sweepstakes.
I thought it was Red on the left, Blue on the right, like the 1996 sweepstakes.