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Eye Guess

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12 feature instances
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Eye Guess	type	TVTItem
Eye Guess	label	Eye Guess
Eye Guess	page	EyeGuess
Eye Guess	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Late-1960s NBC Game Show produced by Bob Stewart after leaving Goodson-Todman, in association with Filmways (who would later acquire Heatter-Quigley Productions). Two contestants faced a board of nine windows in a 3x3 setup. The windows were opened, with the outer eight (numbered) showing answers, for eight (later seven) seconds. Afterward, host Bill Cullen read a question and the players had to find the window the answer was in; 10 points were awarded for a correct pick, and that player kept going until picking a wrong window.If the player believed that the answer was not among the eight shown, s/he said "Eye Guess" and the center window was revealed: the answer if correct, a blank space if wrong. The first to reach 100 points won the game and some cash ($1 per point) and played the Bonus Round.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Sometime in 1969, the format was changed to use prizes instead of points in the front game. Whoever won seven prizes first would go to the Bonus Board.While the entire run was destroyed (network practices of the era), from the surviving footage it's clear Eye Guess ran on Rule of Funny: the game wasn't taken too seriously, Bill and later announcer Jack Clark bantered at times and lobbed puns at each other, the home game plug used a Password game at least once, and by 1969 a prize began to be awarded for four consecutive wrong picks - both players got a set of home memory-improvement courses.
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Eye Guess	processingComment	Dropped link to GrandFinale: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Eye Guess / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Eye Guess / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Quicksilver, on USA Network.
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Eye Guess / int_3a4f1e40	type	Celebrity Edition
Eye Guess / int_3a4f1e40	comment	Celebrity Edition: At least one, from October 17-21, 1966 - which is when Mel Brooks infamously discovered Bill's issues with walking, as he's recounted several times.
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Eye Guess / int_47696b0	type	Progressive Jackpot
Eye Guess / int_47696b0	comment	Progressive Jackpot: Jack's Pot, which got up to $1,500 at least once.
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Eye Guess / int_68d43ebc	type	Game Show Host
Eye Guess / int_68d43ebc	comment	Game Show Host: The venerable Bill Cullen, a good friend of Stewart.
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Eye Guess / int_95496a1d	type	The Announcer
Eye Guess / int_95496a1d	comment	The Announcer: Don Pardo for the first year, Jack Clark for the rest.
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Eye Guess / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Eye Guess / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: The show's bread-and-butter, especially during the second Bonus Board era.
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Eye Guess / int_be9d4a56	type	Home Game
Eye Guess / int_be9d4a56	comment	Home Game: Four were released, one per year, and were the only ones of Bill's career that had him on the cover.
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Eye Guess / int_d3435454	type	Bonus Round
Eye Guess / int_d3435454	comment	Bonus Round: Three were used, all referred to as the Bonus Board. The first, only used for the first two weeks (January 3-14, 1966), involved eight sets of celebrity couples. Bill read a name, and the contestant had to find that person's spouse on the board. Each match awarded $25, and matching all eight won a new car (placed behind the "Eye Guess" spot on the board). The second iteration, introduced on January 17, simply had seven prizes of varying value on the board (originally including cash amounts up to $100, although these were removed by November 8, 1967). The contestant continued to pick numbers until s/he found all seven (which also awarded the car) or found the "STOP!" card (which ended the game with all prizes accumulated up to that point). The last version, which debuted sometime in 1969 and remained through the show's demise on September 26 of that year, replaced the prizes with "GO" cards and didn't use spaces 4-5. The player now won prizes of increasing value for each GO card, whereas the STOP! now took away their prizes; as such, the contestant could now quit at any point, although finding all five GO cards also awarded the car.
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Eye Guess / int_d35193cc	type	Bonus Space
Eye Guess / int_d35193cc	comment	Bonus Space: "Jack's Pot" (a cash jackpot) was added to the Bonus Board around 1968. The jackpot started at $200 and increased by $100 every day it wasn't found on the first pick (in which case it was revealed immediately). Also, whoever picked five consecutive right answers won the "jackpot prize", which changed from week to week.
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Eye Guess / int_e54b7b17	type	Zonk
Eye Guess / int_e54b7b17	comment	Zonk: The STOP! card in the second Bonus Board format. The third format promoted it to Whammy.
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Eye Guess / int_f870d50	type	Consolation Prize
Eye Guess / int_f870d50	comment	Consolation Prize: During the second bonus round era, picking the STOP! first allowed that player to choose another number for a consolation prize. As mentioned above, four consecutive wrong picks in the front game awarded both players a set of home memory-improvement courses.
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	Eye Guess	hasFeature	Replaced the Theme Tune / int_e33ef44d

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