Rules
The game featured three players competing against each other. Host Jim Perry gives one or more categories of an identity (person, place, thing, event, etc.), fact or fiction; and the announcer, Dave Devall, gives a clue to the identity in the form of a news headline. The first player to buzz in with the correct identification earned the at-stakes points. However, an incorrect identification locks the player out of the rest of the identity and deducts the at-stakes points (though no player's score was allowed to go below zero). For each additional headline given, the point value is reduced accordingly. Each round has four different identities and five headlines for each identity. An unlimited number of rounds were played in the game before a times-up buzzer would sound.
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