Jumble: The Interactive Game

One of three interactive game shows produced for the Family Channel after Trivial Pursuit.

Broadcast
FAM - June 13, 1994–December 30, 1994

Packager
Martindale-Hillier Productions/Fiedler-Berlin Productions/The Family Channel

Host
Wink Martindale

Announcer
Randy West

Premise
Four contestants compete in an interactive game based on the newspaper word game.

Gameplay
The game is played in three rounds. In each round, the contestants were shown a series of scrambled-up or "jumbled" words, and their job was to unscramble them. Host Martindale read four clues to four words (one for each clue). Each word is three and four letters long. On each clue, the contestants typed in the correct word by pressing the buttons on their telephone keypads. They typed in according to the letters over the numbers; for example, if the correct word was rice, then they must press "7, 4, 2, 3". The contestants have 10 seconds on each clue to type in the word, and if any of them are correct, they score points according to how fast they punched in up to 1,000. After playing the four clues, the players then tried to unscramble one more word. This last word uses circled letters from the first four words and it is part of a caption punchline to a cartoon riddle. The contestants have the usual 10 seconds to solve the riddle; same rules apply. For example: (this was used on the show) "Why did Susie leave the classroom while carrying a chair?" The punchline would currently say "Teacher said to take hear ____."; and the circled jumble would say "TEAS" The answer to that riddle would be: "Teacher said to take hear SEAT. (7, 3, 2, 8)". After all four clues/words and the cartoon riddle were played, the players with the highest scores advanced to the next round.

Round 1
Four players played round one with the three highest scorers advancing to round two.

Round 2
Three players played round two with the two highest scorers advancing to round three.

Round 3
Two players competed in the final round, and the player with the highest score wins the game and will also receive a trip and one other prize. The runner-up received a prize of his/her own.