Ok so I know I’ve complained how the new game shows these days act like reality shows yet aren’t. I also know that Million Dollar Password is no where near a reality show but I’m liking it so much I’m bending my own rule just a bit. So CBS revived one of my favorite game shows: Password. I was once addicted to Game Show Network so I’ve seen countless episodes of the old version. Thew NEW Password now has a million dollar prize, fancy new lights, a new host and well a new stance: standing. I know it’s not much but the new version truly does trump the old one in my opinion. It’s more flashy, has a great new “rougher” attitude and is a ton of fun! Regis Philbin is the host and is doing a great job so far. He knows most of the celebrities on the show so it’s fun to see him interact with both them and the contestants. They’ve also had a few good celebrities so far: Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Ray, Tony Hawk, Rosie O’Donnell and even Betty White (who was awesome by the way)!

Million Dollar Password takes two celebrities and two contestants and pits them in a game of words. In the beginning an elimination challenge takes place where each celebrities plays with each contestant twice. In one round the celebrity will be shown a word and they must give the contestant one word clues as to what their word is. They have a set time limit on how long they have to get the five words for a round and once that’s’ done the celebrity and contestant switch positions. Once that’s done the player with the most points gets to play for the million dollars. Here it’s a solo round where only the winning contestant and the celebrity they did best with play to reach a certain amount of words. Each round the number of words and the difficulty of words increase until they either fault o reach the amount or they take the amount of money they are currently at. It’s finally a game show where people actually have to have SOME skill to play and it’s bringing a ton of entertainment and fun to the summer season! If you want to check out Million Dollar Password its on CBS on Sundays at 8. Sometimes it’s on Thursdays at 8 as well but not sure how often.

Here are some of the fun segments on that were on the show so far:

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