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The winning team was shown one last crossword puzzle, with 10 words none of which are clues to a master puzzle. The host reads rapid-fire clues to each of the 10 words. Each correct words brings the winning team extra closer to a holiday for the contestant, and if they can solve all ten clues in 60 seconds or less, they'll win the holiday ...
The Cross-Wits is an American television game show. Two contestants, each paired with two celebrities, competed to fill in words in a crossword puzzle.It premiered on December 15, 1975, and lasted for five seasons until its cancellation on September 12, 1980.
Softly, Softly is a British television police procedural series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC1 from January 1966. It was created as a spin-off from the series Z-Cars, which ended its fifth series run in December 1965.
The game is played among three contestants. On a player's turn, they choose one of 8, 9, 10, or 11 words on the board, identifying it in the same way as a regular crossword puzzle (i.e., 1-across, etc.). The contestant is shown the first unrevealed letter in the word, and a clue is given.
The Crossword Extra word was not part of the main puzzle (so it was truly an "extra" word) and announced before certain clues in each round. A correct Crossword Extra answer was worth $300 in Round 1 and $600 in Round 2 with no deduction for a wrong answer or no answer at all. There was no Crossword Extra in Round 3.
This is a list of the longest-running United States television series, ordered by number of years the show has been aired.This list includes only first-run series originating in North America and available throughout the United States via national broadcast networks, U.S. cable networks, or syndication.
As a result, NBC canceled Scrabble after twenty-one weeks of episodes and aired its last episode on June 11, 1993. The show was then replaced on June 14 by reruns of Classic Concentration which moved to 12:00 pm from a half-hour earlier and remained there until its final airing on December 31, 1993.
James L. Brooks got the inspiration for the episode from the 2006 documentary Wordplay which chronicles the national crossword puzzle championships, and he thought that Lisa should go to a championship in the episode. [2] [3] Will Shortz and Merl Reagle, who both starred in the documentary, appear in the episode. [4] "