Favorite Game Show

My Favorite Game Show is the $20,000 Pyramid. Although it is now in reruns on syndicated networks with host Donny Osmond, the original with Dick Clark as the emcee is still my personal favorite. This is still available on the Game Show Network that I can watch on cable tv Georgia.

Featuring a tricky wall of categories with different phrases designed to interest the contestants, each game is played to a maximum of 21. There are 3 round of 7 words to be guessed by the teams of 2. As long as there is no mention of the word or part of it, each player can help their partner by gesturing or rhyming. A normal person teams up with a celebrity to play each game, with the teams switching after the first one is finished.

The highlight comes when one team is declared the winner and gets to play for big money. A large pyramid of six categories is behind one player, while the other gives only a ‘list’ related to the title. There is no use of the hands here, and anything outside of the list is whistled as a foul. Unless the player reaches the top in 60 seconds, he/she only wins the amount of money listed on the back of each category.

$20,000 Pyramid is the most exciting game on TV in my opinion.