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[[Game Show]] hosted by [[Bill Cullen]] and produced by [[Bob Stewart]] which ran on [[NBC]] from 1974-75. Two contestants picked letters from a 4×4 board with a category on top, and each question's answer started with the chosen letter. The first to buzz-in and answer correctly was given the letter to take (and place in one of the seven positions on the front of each podium) or pass it, with an incorrect answer awarding that letter to the opponent. The first contestant to spell a word which fit the category moved on to the Money Board.
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[[Calvin Ball|Got all that?]]
''Winning Streak'' was doomed from the start — replacing ''[[Three On a Match]]'' (which had the same personnel and creator) on July 1, 1974, at the behest of Lin Bolen, it swapped timeslots with ''[[Jeopardy
But the original format was rather dangerous, with major problems had some particularly smart/gutsy contestants been on. While the claim was that players could win over $100,000, the theoretical top prize in ''each game'' on a network that didn't have a [[Game Show Winnings Cap]] was actually a whopping '''$819,200'''.
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Not related to the long-running Irish game show of the same name, which has been running since 21 September 1990 and is funded by the Irish National Lottery with a top prize that can actually be won.
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* [[Bonus Round]]: The Money Board and Final Showdown.
* [[Game Show Winnings Cap]]: None, which is how the show could offer more than $400,000 to each player. Forget the idiocy of Fred Silverman, '''this''' would've brought down NBC.
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** [[Game Show Host]]: Bill Cullen.
** [[Studio Audience]]
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* [[Calvin Ball]]: ...But it makes a bit more sense upon viewing them in action.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: ''Winning Streak'', for all its failure, actually had a few innovations that got recycled into ''good'' games.
** The Money Board had 18 spaces arranged in a square, with the contestant's face superimposed in the middle over the show's logo. [[Second Chance
** Part of the original maingame (picking letters from a board, with the question's correct answer beginning with that letter) got recycled into Bill's later ''[[Blockbusters]]'' (1980-82).
** The theoretical top prize of $819,200 is completely outlandish for the 1970s (really, nobody noticed that?!), but actually fits quite well as a big-ticket (albeit unorthodox) prize in the post-''[[Who Wants to Be
** The logo seen in the center of the Money Board during the December 26 clip looks remarkably like that of ''[[Russian Roulette (TV series)|Russian Roulette]]'' (2002-03).
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The quickest way to win $100,000 was to find the $200 card and give a word containing ten letters you had picked. Still easier than $409,600 for all 12 letters, though.
* [[No Budget]]: See above. Winnings generally hovered around $2,500 in the original format, and subsequent changes knocked it down even further.
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