Matches 'n Mates

Matches 'n Mates was a word game in which two husband-and-wife teams attempted to match questions to answers in order to reveal letters of a mystery word called the "Hidden Item".

Broadcast
WJW-TV, Cleveland, and WAGA-TV, Atlanta, 1967/68

Host
Art James

Announcers
Dave Michaels, Bob McClain

Packager
Nicholson-Muir Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television

Gameplay
One member of each couple, in turn, calls out a letter between "A" and "I", and the host read an incomplete statement ("To paint a fence you would use..."). The other spouse called out one of 12 numbers, each representing a different answer. If the statement and answer matched, a letter or space was revealed on the nine-space Hidden Item Board. The first team to identify a Hidden Item won the round, and the first team to win three rounds won the game and a bonus prize.