Boggle: The Interactive Game

Boggle was part of a very early interactive TV experiment. It featured real in-studio contestants who played a professionally run game. What was special was that in some of the commercial breaks, instead of commercials, people at home could call in and play using their telephone key pads. $2 per call. They awarded very nice prizes to winners and on Fridays all the winners of the week were called by the studio to play a Grand Prize Game. I won many prizes and a pair of Grand Prize Games, week-long all-expense-paid vacations for two, one to a resort in Jamaica and the other in Vermont.

There were three other Family Channel game shows with the same call-in format: Trivial Pursuit, Shuffle and Jumble. All four were daytime shows. They were all hosted by Wink Martindale who was the same smooth professional he always was in his earlier game shows.