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board and play continued with the next word. Teams alternated describing the four words in the puzzle. Saying the word or any form of it, or making a sound similar to the word in the description, immediately awarded $ 100 and a free guess at the puzzle to the opposing team. If both teams missed the fourth word, Goen read a definition of it as a toss-up, and the first team to buzz in with the answer received the $ 100 and a guess at the puzzle. If the team that guessed the fourth word failed to solve the puzzle, their opponents were given a chance to solve it.
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more words during the first two rounds (or the winner of a backstage coin toss if there was a tie) chose to either play the word or pass to the opponents. The contestant giving clues had 10 seconds to describe the word for his/her partner, and the opposing contestant had three seconds of blackout time, with the same repetition penalty as in the first two rounds. A correct guess won the game, while a miss gave the win to the opposing team.
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he/she would say, "Solve it!" The guesser then turned to face the screen, read all the displayed clues, and could offer one guess. The host announced whether the guess was correct or incorrect, and the guesser turned away from the screen as a new subject was played. The contestant won $ 10,000 if the team solved five subjects before time ran out, or $ 250 per correct response otherwise.
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The clock started when the category for the first subject (Place, Thing, etc.) was displayed on the screen and the subject was shown to the giver. Up to six clues would be shown, one every two seconds. Once the giver felt that there was enough information on the screen for his/her partner to guess,
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