[quote name=\'Tim L\' date=\'Oct 25 2004, 01:39 AM\']9:30
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"Bill Burns Emcees Word Game"
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Ghost is an old word parlor game. Don't remember how to play it, but there was a national attempt to do the game called "Super Ghost," hosted by Bergen Evans of "Down You Go" fame and also employing a panel, with one or two of "Down You Go"'s regular panelists also involved, IIRC.
Bill Burns, of course, is a legend in Pittsburgh television, forming for many years at KDKA what was the probably the only father-daughter anchor team in the business with his daughter Patti.
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Oct 25 2004, 03:58 PM\'][quote name=\'Tim L\' date=\'Oct 25 2004, 01:39 AM\']9:30
2 Guest To Ghost-Bill Burns-Local
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"Bill Burns Emcees Word Game"
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Ghost is an old word parlor game. Don't remember how to play it, but there was a national attempt to do the game called "Super Ghost," hosted by Bergen Evans of "Down You Go" fame and also employing a panel, with one or two of "Down You Go"'s regular panelists also involved, IIRC.
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If I recall from the ride home from a 5th grade field trip, the idea with Ghost is players take turns adding letters to a series trying not to complete a word. The trick is that there must be a word with those letters--the next player could challenge you to come up with it. Each round you lost gave you a letter in G-H-O-S-T (a la H-O-R-S-E).