Match Game

The Match Game was an American television game show where contestants tried to match a panel of six celebrities in answering fill-in-the-blank questions.

Match Game (1990-91)

On this version of the show, matches were worth money instead of points -- $50 per match, to be precise. All panelists played both questions for each player, regardless of whether or not they matched in the first round.

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After each round of questions, contestants were given a chance to build their scores further by playing a new round, "Match-Up!", with one panelist of their choice. This was a rapid-fire series of Super Match-style questions, with two possible answers given; the contestant chose one secretly, and the panelist picked the one s/he felt the contestant picked. This process continued until time expired. The first Match-Up! round was played for 30 seconds at $50 per match, while the second lasted 45 seconds and paid off at $100 per match. Whoever had the most money at the end of the second Match-Up! round won the game.

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The Super Match was played identically to the 1978-82 version of the round (with the Star Wheel). Originally, payoffs for the Audience Match were identical as well, but after a few weeks it changed to $500-$300-$200 for each answer in descending order of popularity and $100 by losing the Audience Match.

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