The first team to reach $500 won the game and advanced to the bonus round. In the second round, the roles were reversed, and each puzzle was worth $250 starting in 1985 and continuing towards the end of the run, getting all five words awarded a cash bonus of $500 (bonus prize in case of teen contestants) which did not count towards the final score. If they failed to solve the puzzle, the puzzle was thrown out and the value of that puzzle carried over to the next puzzle. If neither one had solved it after all seven blanks were filled in, the celebrities were each given a guess. The two contestants alternated revealing blanks and making guesses until one got the correct answer and won the puzzle. If not, the opponent was called over to choose a blank to reveal and then make a guess. Whatever blanks whose acted words the contestant had managed to guess were then filled in, and the player won $100 if he/she could guess what the puzzle was describing. After over a month on the air and to avoid confusion, parentheses appeared around two missing words which indicated that those words were unacted. The puzzle was a sentence or question with seven numbered blanks. Should an actor violate any of the said rules above or even give away the word itself, the opposing contestant got first chance at the puzzle using the words said by the first player. Once time ran out or all five words or phrases had been guessed, the contestant was shown a puzzle. They could pass on any words they wished and come back if time remained (a la Pyramid 2002, if a word was guessed after being passed, it wouldn't count until it was returned to and guessed then). Actors could not talk, make sounds or use props, including clothing. Contestants had 60 seconds to guess as many of five words/phrases/names as they could. Teams played separately, with one player standing behind a podium, and the other in the acting area in front of it. The gameplay centered around the party game charades, but contestants also had to solve word puzzles to win money. The show pitted two teams against each other, each consisting of a contestant and a celebrity guest.
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