A player can opt to freeze at any point. However, after one player freezes, they claim no one else can, but this wasn’t entirely clear. In the first game, one player froze with 18, the other player made 20, and they stopped asking questions and began to just deal me cards. My next card was a face card, so I won with 21. There was a bit of confusion because technically, if the second player was not frozen, there should have been another question which, if I got it, I would have busted the player with 20 with any non-ace or ten and taken a 10 for myself otherwise.

I think the key thing they were going for was just who understood the rules and would play the game enthusiastically. I won both matches (got 20 early in the second game, the other two busted), but I’m guessing that didn’t matter as much as the fact that I was having fun.

The woman who was the head contestant coordinator was named Bev and was very nice. Apparently she had also done contestant coordination for a ton of other shows, including Don’t Forget The Lyrics. The other two contestants had also been on other gameshows previously, and Bev remembered one of them from way back when. She thought I looked familiar as well, but we couldn’t figure out from where.

There might be an issue with my Crosswords episode being not far enough in the past, but we’ll see what happens.

You know, there is no doubt that Wink coming back to host one more show would be awesome! But what are the REAL chances of that happening? I don’t mean to pessimistic, (I hate Pessimism!) but I’m just saying that it’s not likely. Although, it would be nice to be proven wrong in this case.

You might think i’m crazy, but Wink Martindale should host. It is a show built for him. http://www.tvpmm.com has two episodes on line you can watch the master at his best.

The first is from 1974 on CBS, the second is from the Las Vegas virson in 1980, both with big wins!