The first question simply revealed one letter at a time until someone rang in, to determine who started. From then on, Bob asked trivia questions. A randomizer hopped along a blank word puzzle which spelled out a trivia question; once the randomizer stopped, the players took turns answering more trivia questions. They were given the answer, but scrambled with one letter added; correctly unscrambling the answer dropped the extra letter into the word puzzle. If the contestant thought they knew the question, they could stop and read it for five points.
Round 2 was the same, with doubled values, and the answer to the question was no longer spotted at the top of the round.
This show provides examples of:
- Bonus Round: A one-man version of the main game, basically. Doing better in the main game also gave a better chance to win, since your points were converted straight across to seconds, followed by 10 more seconds at the end to guess the question and give the answer for $5,000. Fail, win just $500.
- Double the Dollars
- Foreign Remake: It's a remake of a Dutch game and, much like Lingo, Season 1 was filmed on the Dutch set.
- Game Show Host: Bob Goen, no stranger to the genre, 13 years after his last hosting gig (the short-lived Born Lucky).
- Rouge Angles of Satin: Season 1 had this in nearly every round.
- Studio Audience: Averted, as with most GSN originals.
- Title Drop: "That's the question!", said every time the contestant correctly read the question. It was said by a computerized voice during Season 1, and Bob himself in Season 2.
