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| • | The Who, What, or Where Game was an American game show, broadcast weekday mornings by NBC from 1969 to 1974. The host was Art James, and the announcer was Mike Darrow.
Three players competed in each episode, two challengers and a returning champion. Each player was spotted $125 to start, which was used to bid on their ability to answer questions in the presented category. Each category, such as "Newsmakers" or "American History," would have three available questions: a who question, a what question, and a where question. Each question would have posted odds displayed on a board, with odds increasing with the difficulty of the question; odds ranged from even money (1:1) to 4:1. "Pot Luck" was a special category which could be about any topic; the odds were always "two-to-one across the board," as James would say.
Each player would secretly bid on one of the three questions. When the bids were revealed on displays on each player's podium, the player bidding the most on a particular question would get the opportunity to answer the question; if all three bid on different questions, each got the opportunity to answer. If two or all three players bid the same amount for a particular question, the host would begin an auction, whereby the players could increase their bid up to their current score; the highest bidder got the question. (In the rare event that both players were matching high bidders ࢀ&#-2912;they were tied in score and bid the maximum, or one player bid the amount of the other's score, and the other opted to match the bid ࢀ&#-2912;the players would write their answers on cards, hidden from each other's view.)
A correct answer won the bid multiplied by the odds; an incorrect answer docked the player the amount of the bid only. In the rare event that a player's score dropped to zero, all players were given an additional $125, and play continued.
Later in the show's run, a "lightning round" category was played, where players buzzed in on rapid fire questions. This was the only time when any buzz-in technique was used in the game.
The first round had a maximum betting limit of $25, and the second raised the limit to $50. The final round was called "Pot Limit," a single question in which the bids were limited only by the player's scores. The leading player after that round was
Source: [wikipedia: the who, what, or where game]
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