Four-letter lingos were worth £500, five-letter lingos were worth £750, head-to-head lingos were worth up to £1,000 (minus £200 per wrong guess) and puzzlewords were eight, nine and ten letters long and worth £750 (minus £100 per revealed letter), £1,000 (minus £150 per revealed letter) and £1,500 (minus £200 per revealed letter). Should they opt for the six-letter Lingo and fail, they'll still take home their five-letter winnings but failing on a seven letter Lingo means they lose everything.Ĭelebrities got it even easier their puzzlewords were eight, nine and ten letters long. The third series' final round offered a choice after the four and five-letter Lingos had been answered correctly, pairs had the option to either play the six-letter Lingo for double their winnings or gamble the lot and face a seven letter Lingo for £15,000.
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Possibly to futureproof themselves against running out of common twelve letter words, the second series posed nine, ten and eleven letter puzzlewords instead of the first series' ten, eleven and twelve.
Lingo came a few weeks after the first series of Winning Combination, a much faster game in comparison. Compare with Channel 4's Countdown, which has numbers games and entertaining anecdotes to add some variety. The problem is, guessing words involves a certain amount of luck anyway (one poor pair in the first series got HO*E on their first guess but guessed five different valid words to HOPE and as such lost the money) played seriously, it simply didn't work.Īs a replacement in Tenable's slot this was alright, if a bit monotonous, being word puzzle after word puzzle. Physical distancing forced a well-spaced set.
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The top prize was £3,200 plus whatever the couple won in the main game, making it possibly the highest cash prize on network television at the time, although this was no doubt superseded by the jackpot on Wheel of Fortune, which started soon after. There was a silver ball in this round that did something amazing too, if memory serves. The contestants could choose whether or not to play another round - if they were unlucky enough to complete a line, they would go home with half their previous winnings.
There would be one line that needed only one number to complete it, and the host would hold onto the corresponding ball for the first round, but after that, it would have to go in with the other balls - and Daniels was always keen to encourage the contestants to mix the balls around so that they wouldn't pull out said ball any too easily. The end game was played in reverse, the winning team had to guess words but the longer they took, the more balls they would have to draw with a view to NOT making a line. They also had to avoid picking a "Dreaded Red" ball which automatically handed control over to their opponents.
If they did it, they could draw balls from their table which would get crossed off their board and if they made a line they would get mega points. Objective Media Group North for ITV, 1 January 2021 to presentĪs Celebrity Lingo: 4 September 2022 to presentĪ mixture of Bingo and Scrabble, two teams of two players attempted to find five letter words using a Mastermind sort of system (the board game thing, not the one with the Black Chair). Thames in association with Ralph Andrews Presentations and Action Time for ITV, 12 May to 14 July 1988 (10 episodes in 1 series)
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