Password game show words3/3/2024 There are no high dramatics, there’s no gambling money, there’s no emotional turmoil. They did Password right! The classic format works better than you’d expect in modern times and it’s because they’re playing the tone of it right. PASSWORD - Season 1 - Pictured: (l-r) A contestant, Jimmy Fallon, and host Keke Palmer - (Photo by: Jordin Althaus/NBC) The winner plays the bonus round which is essentially Alphabetics from Password Plus and Super Password for up to $25,000. First to 15 points wins the game, and two games wins the match. Words start at 6 points and each wrong guess lets the opponent try for one less point. Two teams consisting of a celebrity and a contestant try to get one another to guess words by giving one word clues. NBC’s Password follows the older versions very closely. But your mileage will vary on if you can stand Jimmy Fallon for an hour. Luckily for us all NBC did Password right and it’s hitting most of the notes it needs to. Would the 60s format still work today? Would Jimmy Fallon’s constant presence wear thin? Would they play this closer to other recent Fremantle revivals or would this be, for lack of a better phrase, NBC’ed (see Weakest Link and The Wall). There was some understandable skepticism of NBC’s revival of Password as information started to trickle out.
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