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A [[Game Show]] gimmick to allows home players to play the game, generally played during ratings sweeps periods, and usually by sending in postcards in the 1950s through the 1980s, calling a 900 number in the 1990s, and going to the show's Web site in the current era. Generally the host will offer an easy first question, with harder questions to come.
[[Game Shows]] that featured Home Participation Sweepstakes:▼
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* Both ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' and ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' offered phone games in the 1980s, played over a touch-tone phone. ''Wheel'' currently offers home viewers chances to win prizes from its "Prize Puzzle" rounds, which features cross-promotion with the Sony Rewards program as well.
** The ''Phone Jeopardy!'' ad is where that infamous viral outtake reel of Alex Trebek spouting his mouth came from, by the way.
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