| Host | |
| Melissa Peterman | |
| Announcer | |
| Jamie Anderson | |
| Broadcast | |
 Syndication: 9/11/2023-2025 | |
| Packagers | |
| Dino Bones Productions | |
| Distributor | |
| Fox First Run | |
Person, Place or Thing is a new game show based upon the parlor game 20 Questions, where three contestants race to see who knows more about famous people, places and things.
Gameplay[]
This is a variation of the parlor game 20 Questions, as three players ask "yes" or "no" questions to the host in order to identify people, places, and things.
Main Game[]
On each subject, Melissa will give a specific category or clue. Then each player will ask a "yes" or "no" question to Melissa. After the three questions have been asked, Melissa will give a give a clue to the answer. The first player to buzz-in with the correct answer scores points. Buzzing in with a wrong answer loses a turn for the next go round. The contestants don't need to identify it during the toss-ups, they can guess during the question portions at any time as well. Play continues until someone guesses right or up to a maximum of three clues.
Round 1[]
Each category (person, place & thing) will come into play in this round. Correct answers are worth 100 points.
Beginning in the second season of the show’s national run, this round becomes a multiple-choice toss-up round. A category, three possible answers, and a clue are all given. Sometimes, a clue will be in the form of an image or a sound bite. A contestant who buzzes in and chooses the correct answer scores 50 points, but a contestant who buzzes in and chooses an incorrect answer gets locked out for the next subject. Nine subjects are played in this round.
Round 2[]
The contestants will be choosing the categories. Correct answers are worth 200 points.
Beginning in the second season of the show’s national run, each category can be chosen only once.
Round 3 - Speed Round[]
In this speed round, no questions will be asked on any further subjects. Melissa will fire off as many clues as it takes for somebody to guess the answer. Each subject has four clues. Correct answers are worth 500 points while incorrect answers eliminates a player from the subject. Once the subject is guessed, all the clues are given or if all three of them miss, another subject is played. This round lasts for two minutes (2:00) in the trial run and 90 seconds (one minute and thirty seconds (1:30)) in the national run. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. If the last round ends in a tie, one last subject is played with the player the buzzing in with the correct answer moving on. Buzzing in with wrong answer gives the opponent an automatic win.
Bonus Round[]
In this bonus, "yes" or "no" questions from the contestant come back into play. The object of the game is to identify one subject from each of the three basic categories (person, place, and thing) in 60 seconds (one minute (1:00)) or less, with a specific clue or category on each. The winning contestant can solve them in any order (s)he can choose. On each subject the contestant will ask rapid-fire "yes" or "no" questions and make equally rapid-fire guesses. if the winner gets stumped, (s)he can call for clue but (s)he gets no more than three on each subject. The winning contestant can also pass on a subject if (s)he wishes to, but must come back to it should time permits. Solving the first two in the trial run only was worth $1,000 each for a total of $2,000. The money was theirs to keep regardless of outcome. Solving all three before time runs out also won a trip in the trial run and $5,000 in cash in the national run. Failing to solve all three in the national run will win a consolation prize of increasing value depending upon how many subjects are identified in the bonus. If the contestant fails to identify any subject in the national run, they leave the bonus round empty handed. In the national run, champions return to play again until defeated in the main game.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- This program joins an elite list of programs that started out as a game show test run on FOX O&O stations before becoming a national game show. This one lasted from August 8, 2022 to September 2, 2022. For as of June 2023, this show was greenlit for placement on the fall schedule.[1]
- Throughout the program, mostly on the show's logo bug, an animated bird appears mostly to show his emotion over a player's performance.
- The show could possibly be inspired by the unsold pilot Safecrackers (not to be confused with the long-running and actively rotating pricing game from The Price is Right of the same name) hosted by the late Geoff Edwards from 1975.
- On July 28, 2025, it was announced by Fox First Run[2]that it will end the productions of Dish Nation, Person, Place or Thing & Pictionary in the Spring.
Music[]
21 South Media
Inventor[]
Jeff Proctor & Paul Franklin
Tagline[]
Melissa ends her shows with crazy ways of using the words "Person,” "Place," and “Thing”.