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{{quote| ''Come on! You only have 60 seconds left to call in for a shot at $100! All you have to do is unscramble this famous thing! "TVTORPES"! Keep ringing those phones! We don't have all night! Call! Call now! <ref>Call costs $100 a minute, 18+ only, many will enter, very few will have a bloody chance.</ref>''}}
A phone-in game show is [[Exactly What It Says
Despite the allure these programs have to viewers, they're not without controversy. But why, you ask? The idea of a phone-in game show is pretty much a trope on its own, because practically every single phone-in quiz show on Earth follows the exact same series of events:
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=== Okay, you're on the air! Name us [[Game Show Tropes|a trope relating to this type of show]], one of them on the prize board is hiding $5,000! ===
* [[Bonus Round]]: Some of these shows offered bonus games to win jackpot prizes.
* [[Carried
* [[Double the Dollars]]: Sometimes done as an incentive to "[[Just for Pun|double the dialers]]"
* [[Let's Just See What Would Have Happened]]: In the case of puzzles having more than one answer.
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* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: It feels like one, but we can legally prove that it's not!
* [[One Episode Wonder]]: ''The Debbie King Show'', aired by ITV Play, was a cross between a phone-in quiz and a news programme. Hosted by QuizMania's Debbie King, they still decided to go on with the show, even though ITV had announced earlier that day that the Play channel would be "suspended" as part of investigations into their use of premium-rate lines. [[Sarcasm Mode|Whoops.]]
* [[Screwed
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{{quote| ...oh I'm so sorry, the answer we were looking for was "Vest Port", popular retailer of sweatervests!
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