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Caesar's Challenge (or Caesars Challenge) was an American game show that aired on NBC daytime from 1993 to early 1994. NBC (an acronym for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
Ahmad Rashad hosted the show. Dan Doherty served as the show's assistant, dressed as a gladiator, originally rotating with Chad Brown and Zach Ruby, who served in the same capacity early on. Steve Day announced. Ahmad Rashad Ahmad Rashad (born Bobby Moore November 19, 1949 in Portland, Oregon, raised in Tacoma, Washington) is an Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver for the St. ...
Chad Brown (born in Manhattan, New York) is an American actor, poker player and commentator, based in Los Angeles, California. ...
Front Game Format
Three contestants, one a returning champion, competed.
Three rounds were played, with the object in each round being to solve a jumbled word which was displayed on a 9-screen slot machine on the stage. Each word would be increased by one letter each round. Each of the words had a category (originally revealed to everybody, then to only the home viewers (it was only mentioned to everybody when the puzzle was over)). Rashad would ask the players a toss-up question based on said category. The player who buzzed in with the correct answer won money and got to place one of the letters in the word in its correct place, then would have a chance to guess. If they couldn't, play continued until one guessed the word. The bonus for guessing the word was determined by how many letters were unplaced.
Scoring | Round | Number of Letters in the Word | Score | Maximum Total | | 1 | 7 Letters | $100 (X Unplaced Letters) | $700 | | 2 | 8 Letters | $200 (X Unplaced Letters) | $1,600 | | 3 | 9 Letters | $300 (X Unplaced Letters) | $2,700 |
The Lucky Slot Also, for every word, one letter could be placed into the "lucky slot." If the contestant guessed the word at that point correctly, they won a cash bonus which started at $500 and went up by that amount for every word it wasn't won.
Speed-Up Round If time was running out, a speed-up round was played. One at a time, the letters would be placed automatically (no lucky slot), and the first contestant to buzz in with the correct answer got the bonus.
The player with the most money advanced to the bonus game.
Bonus Round The bonus game for Caesar's Challenge had two formats.
Format #1 A giant rotating squirrel cage with balls branded with letters would be lowered from the ceiling. One by one, the letters would come out of the cage, and gladiator Doherty would call them out as they came. Once a dictionary-certified nine-letter word could be formed with the letters, the cage stopped rotating and a booming voice said "Caesar says stop!".
The nine letters would then be placed on the slot machine, and based on how long the contestant had been on the show, they got letters placed in their correct spots (a first time champ would get one letter placed, two days earned two letters, etc.). The contestant would then have 10 seconds to try to solve the word. If the contestant did this, they won a car and retired as champion; otherwise, they returned on the next show.
Format #2 Towards the end of the run, the bonus game was changed. This time, the champion would face a board with 5 words, with 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 letters each. The word in play would have its letters placed automatically, and the contestant had to guess correctly to move on to the next word. Guessing all 5 words in 30 seconds won the car.
Starting w/the introduction of this bonus round, the appearance limit was changed; contestants now stayed on until they won a car or remained champion for a maximum of three consecutive shows, whichever came first.
Note: For several shows, the bonus board would be displayed on a monitor. Later it was superimposed on a blue screen. Superimposition is a graphics term meaning the placement of an image or video on top of an already-existing image or video, usually to add to the overall image effect, but also sometimes to conceal something (such as when a different face is superimposed over the original face in a...
The bluescreen setup. ...
Notes This article contains a trivia section.
Content in this section should be integrated into other appropriate areas of the article or removed, and the trivia section removed. - Caesar's Challenge was taped at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- This was the last daytime game show to air on NBC to date, and also the last new network daytime game show to date.
- At the end of every show during the closing credits host Rashad and gladiator Doherty would go out into the studio audience to give them an opportunity to unscramble 5-letter words and win casino tokens and gold covered chocolate medallions.
- The most money ever won in the main game is $20,700, achieved by Neil Bines, who had solved every one of his words with the lucky slot (save for the speed-up word).
Caesars Palace is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
For other uses around the city, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ...
External links - Caesar's Challenge fanpage
- Rules for Caesar's Challenge
- Sounds from the show
- YouTube clip featuring a contestant who was blazing through the game.
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