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* The original 60s version of ''The Series/MatchGame'' had a segment late in its run where a random call was made to a viewer in the 48 contiguous states. That caller tried to match a studio audience member on a fill-in-the-blank for a split cash prize. It was revived in a way in 1984 on ''[[Series/MatchGame The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour]]''. In that instance, a phone contestant tried to match answers with a celebrity panelist for a $5000 cash prize and an appearance on an NBC soap opera.
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* The original 60s version of ''The Series/MatchGame'' had a segment late in its run where a random call was made to a viewer in the 48 contiguous states. That caller tried to match a studio audience member on a fill-in-the-blank for a split cash prize. It was revived in a way in 1984 on ''[[Series/MatchGame The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour]]''. In that instance, a phone contestant tried to match answers with a celebrity panelist for a $5000 $5,000 cash prize and an appearance on an NBC soap opera.opera.
* The entire point of ''Series/TeleQuest''; home viewers could register to play along with the show with their touch-tone telephones, answering the same questions the in-studio contestants got. Four games were played per episode, each one costing a fee to play (and an additional fee for playing the bonus round). The best performing home players of each game would win a percentage of all the money sent in to play along. ''Tele-Quest'' also stated that people who played the home game enough could potentially qualify to be in-studio contestants, but the show was cancelled before that could happen.
* The entire point of ''Series/TeleQuest''; home viewers could register to play along with the show with their touch-tone telephones, answering the same questions the in-studio contestants got. Four games were played per episode, each one costing a fee to play (and an additional fee for playing the bonus round). The best performing home players of each game would win a percentage of all the money sent in to play along. ''Tele-Quest'' also stated that people who played the home game enough could potentially qualify to be in-studio contestants, but the show was cancelled before that could happen.
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* The whole late 1980s/early 1990s NBC game show line-up (back when NBC ''had'' a game show line-up) ''Series/{{Blockbusters}}'', ''[[{{Series/Concentration}} Classic Concentration]]'', ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'', ''Wheel of Fortune'' and ''Series/WinLoseOrDraw'' would often do combined contests, such as 1987's "[[IncrediblyLamePun Car-razy]] February".
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* The whole late 1980s/early 1990s NBC game show line-up (back when NBC ''had'' a game show line-up) ''Series/{{Blockbusters}}'', ''[[{{Series/Concentration}} Classic Concentration]]'', ''Series/{{Scrabble}}'', ''Wheel of Fortune'' and ''Series/WinLoseOrDraw'' would often do combined contests, such as 1987's "[[IncrediblyLamePun "[[{{Pun}} Car-razy]] February".
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A GameShow gimmick to allows home players to play the game, generally played during ratings sweeps periods, and usually by sending in postcards in the 1950s through the 1980s, calling a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber in the 1990s, and going to the show's Web site in the current era. Generally the host will offer an easy first question, with harder questions to come.
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A GameShow gimmick to that allows home players to play the game, generally played during ratings sweeps periods, and usually by sending in postcards in the 1950s through the 1980s, calling a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber in the 1990s, and going to the show's Web site in the current era. Generally the host will offer an easy first question, with harder questions to come.
