- A new Australian version of the game show where two contestants have to match their answers to "fill-in-the-blank" type statements with those given by a panel of six celebrities.
- A new Australian version of the popular American game show Match Game (1973). The game is played by two contestants, who were both challengers (unlike the previous Australian iterations that ran from 1977-1978 and 1985-1986, this version didn't use carry-over champions). They played two rounds of the main game. The first round began with the contestant who won a toss conducted before the show selecting between two statements identified as A and B. After they made their choice, host Shane Bourne would pull out the card from the corresponding pocket and read out the statement that was written on it. The statement would always have one word replaced with 'blank' or an extension thereof, for example "Mary, Mary Quite Contrary couldn't make her garden grow with water, so she used 'blank' instead". The six celebrities would then try to fill in the 'blank' by writing their answer on a card and then locking it in (when they had done so, a bell would sound and their name would light up). After they had put their answers in, the statement would be read out to the first contestant who would then give their answer. Bourne would then get the celebrities to reveal their answers in turn, starting in the top row and going from left to right, then doing the same in the bottom row. For each celebrity whose answer matched that given by the first contestant, that contestant would score one point. If it wasn't clear whether a celebrity's answer was a match or not, a producer would have the final say on this matter. After all of the answers had been revealed, Bourne would take the card not selected by the first contestant, and the second contestant would play in the same way with that card's statement.
Round 2 was played in a different way from the previous iterations. It began with Bourne pressing a button to raise a breadboard between the two contestants, then he would read a single statement for which both contestants and the six celebrities had to fill in the 'blank'. Once they had all done so, the contestants' answers would be revealed on the screens beneath them. The contestant who had the lower round 1 score, or the winner of another pre-show toss if the scores were level, was then given a choice to play with either the top or bottom row of celebrities, with the row that they didn't choose playing with the other contestant. Every celebrity who matched the contestant that they played for earned two points for that contestant. The contestant who ended up with the higher score was then declared the winner. If the scores were level at the end of the second round (a scenario that was impossible if the round 1 scores differed by an odd number), a tie-breaker round was played to determine the winning contestant.
There was also a segment in which roving host Steven Jacobs would arrive at the home of a viewer accompanied by the person who had nominated them to appear on the show. After Jacobs "stung" the home contestant, Bourne would tell them who the six celebrities were, and the home contestant selected one of them to go head-to-head with them. Bourne then read out another statement that required both the home contestant and the chosen celebrity to fill in the 'blank'. After the celebrity locked their answer in, the home contestant would give their answer, then the celebrity revealed their answer. If the home contestant succeeded in matching their chosen celebrity, then they would win a Blankety Blanks T-shirt and cap, but if they failed to match the celebrity, then the person who nominated the home contestant won the T-shirt and cap.
Back in the studio, the winning contestant went on to play the Super Match round. In this round, the contestant had to fill in the 'blank' of a phrase, such as "cookie 'blank'", with a one-word answer that matched one of the three most popular answers given by a recent studio audience. The contestant would ask three of the celebrities for their suggested answers. After they had done so, the contestant could either choose one of the celebrities' suggestions or give an answer of their own if they had what they thought was a better option. After they made their choice, the top three audience responses were revealed from the third most popular to the most popular.
If the contestant failed to match any of the top three answers, the bonus round ended at that point, but if they succeeded, they would win $100 if they matched the third most popular answer, $250 if they matched the second most popular answer or $500 if they matched the most popular answer, and would then have an opportunity to play for 10 times the amount of money they had just won by matching one celebrity of their choice on another phrase with a 'blank' to fill in. After the phrase was read out by Bourne, the chosen celebrity wrote their answer down, and after it was locked in, the contestant gave their answer. If the celebrity's and contestant's answers matched, the contestant would win the extra money.
Unlike the previous iterations, episodes of this version always began with the two contestants playing round 1 and ended with the winning contestant playing the Super Match round.
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