GAME PLAY:
The host (called the "narrator" in the game's instructions) takes a comment
card and places it in the reader. Each card has a series of comments,
which are clues to a person, place or thing the players must identify.
The first clue is worth 100 points, each additional clue is worth five
points less. The narrator reads the clues one at a time until any
player stops the game with the squeaker. That player's answer and
point value is recorded on the scoreboard, but the narrator then continues
to read clues in case any other player wishes to make a different guess.
After everyone has guessed (or the last clue is read), the answer is revealed
and the correct player earns her points in dollars. Play continues
with a new subject and the first player to $200 is the winner.
A TYPICAL SUBJECT:
100 "They've
saved lives in emergencies."
95
"I think they're underpaid."
90
"They are sometimes hard to reach."
85
"They work around the clock."
80
"Their work is extremely important."
75
"I would have trouble staying awake if I were one."
70
"They're just average working girls."
65
"They're almost exclusively women."
60
"When I was one I sometimes talked to over a hundred people a day."
55
"They say the same thing over and over again."
50
"You have to make the right connections."
45
"I tried to make a date with one and she turned out to be a recording."
ANSWER: Telephone Operators
DIFFERENCES TO TV SHOW:
In the TV show, players watched film clips of people offering clues, and
the value of the correct answer started at 100 and decreased at roughly
a point a second. Besides that and slightly different requirements
for winning the game, a faithful adaptation.
COMMENTS:
A good adaptation of a forgetable game. Tons of material, and most of it
still plays pretty well today. Watkins-Strathmore acquired the rights
to this and another TV game show at
about the same time. Their other one was a little better known.