The two remaining contestants retained their scores from Round 1, and the high scorer had initial control. Play proceeded as in Round 1, with one change: if an "Opponent's Choice" card came up on the far right wheel, the opponent selected the category for that turn.

The losing contestant left with parting gifts. On January 7, , the front game format was reworked to incorporate elements of the version hosted by Jack Barry and Bill Cullen.

Although the game was still played with the definition format, the wheels were loaded with categories and jokers and the contestant in control selected a displayed category after spinning.

As in the first format, a miss or failure to respond gave either opponent a chance to buzz in and steal the money and control.

It was possible for the same category to appear on more than one wheel after such a spin. The options to discard jokers or go off the board with them were removed; if one or two came up on a spin, they all had to be matched to a displayed category. In addition, no bonus was awarded for spinning a natural triple.

A new set of categories was loaded onto the wheels for Round 2. The pace of gameplay was changed to allow games to straddle between episodes, if an episode ended without enough time to play the bonus round. In both formats, a second-place tie at the end of Round 1 was resolved by allowing each contestant to answer as many clues unopposed as they could, with their turn ending at the first miss.

The contestant who gave more correct answers advanced to Round 2. The champion had 60 seconds to identify as many words as possible, all starting with the same letter of the alphabet. The host read a maximum of three definitions per word, and the champion could offer multiple guesses at any time without penalty.

The host would only move on to a new word once the contestant either identified the current one or passed after hearing its last definition. Each correct response awarded one spin of the machine, whose wheels were now loaded with prizes, jokers, and cash amounts.

After each spin, the champion could freeze one or more wheels, putting them out of play for the rest of the round. If one or two jokers came up, they had to be matched immediately to a displayed prize. If the champion got the same prize showing on all three wheels before running out of spins, they won it.

One audience member at a time was chosen to spin the machine up to three times, under the same rules as the bonus round. During the final first-run week of this version March 4—8, , the format reverted to the original format without categories. On May 17, , it was announced that TBS would reboot the show with Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus acting as host and serving as the executive producer along with Michael Strahan.

Beginning in the second season, there is no co-host. Each episode is self-contained, with no straddling games or returning champions. The front game consists of two rounds, each of which uses a separate set of five categories.

Both contestants receive four spins in the first round and three in the second. Dollar values are doubled for the second round, with the trailing player or, in case of a tie, the player that went last, spinning first.

Jokers may not be used to go off the board, but must be matched to a displayed category, and the game can end early if one contestant attains an insurmountable lead.

If one contestant misses a question, their opponent is not given a chance to steal. If the scores are tied after two rounds, each player takes one last spin and the high scorer becomes the champion.

In the second season, the game is played in three rounds. Both players get two spins in each round, with all values doubled for the second round and tripled for the third. New categories are only introduced at the start of the second round. Additionally, in the third round, a player may challenge their opponent to answer the question "Slang That Thang" ; the opponent receives the money with a correct response, while the player scores on a miss.

If the scores are tied after three rounds, each player chooses one of three face-down cards and the one with the higher draw becomes the champion; if the cards match, further tiebreakers are played until there is a winner. In season 2, the host occasionally offers extra cash in addition to the accumulated total as an incentive for the player to quit the round.

Prior to the shows' premiere, [14] an all-exclusive six episode documentary series aired on the TBS app, TBS social media handles including the Facebook Watch tab along its very own website at TBS.

Directed by Rory Karpf , the show chronicles Snoop Dogg 's transition to a game show host as it explores his creative processes behind the show's reboot. The six episodes were posted on the official Facebook and YouTube page every Friday at p. in Plans for an Atari and Mattel Intellivision version of The Joker's Wild were announced by The Great Game Company in , but due to the video game crash of , it was never released for either console.

In , Philips produced two editions for its CD-i platform based on The Joker's Wild , licensed by Sony Pictures Entertainment , who owned the franchise at that point. These games featured television game show hosts and were based more or less on the first syndicated series, while the sets on both games resembled the version.

Wink Martindale hosted the first edition, while Marc Summers could be found on a special "Junior" edition of the game. The late Charlie O'Donnell served as the announcer for both games. Martindale was among the first candidates to host the original series when CBS was still not entirely sold on Jack Barry as host, due to his involvement in the quiz show scandals of the s.

However, Martindale already chose to host Gambit , another of the three game shows that premiered on the same day in on CBS The New Price Is Right also debuted that day. O'Donnell was an announcer on the series. The theme music in these games was a remix of the —86 theme. In , a mobile game based on The Joker's Wild was released by Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment.

In , , and , IGT released video slot machines based on the s version of the show. A Snapchat [18] video lens was released on October 18, , where Snoop would dance in the lens next to the snapchat user who would act as the dancing joker. The lens features custom green screen footage of Snoop Dogg that was shot exclusively for the lens experience.

An online game [19] was released on October 24, , where fans of the show can play along via the TBS Android and iOS apps, or on TBS. In , a slot machine game [20] based on the show was released by Everie.

The status of the KTLA series is unknown; only brief footage is known to survive through CBS promos. For many years, only the third season of the CBS run was known to exist, as the first two seasons were presumed to be wiped due to network practices of the era although CBS was far less prone to master tape wiping than ABC and NBC.

In , a search of New York's WCBS-TV found the original master tapes of both the first two seasons restoring the full episode run of the original CBS daytime series and the entire series of Spin-Off which replaced Joker in in a tape storage room. A clip from a January celebrity week was used during the network's anniversary special CBS At The — syndicated episodes exist, and were rerun with the exceptions of the —81, —82, —84, and —85 seasons on GSN, as were the first few months of the CBS era.

USA Network reran episodes of the Cullen era from April to April In , Sony Pictures Television and King World attempted to develop a new version for syndication, paired with a new show called Combination Lock ; however, neither project was picked up.

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The randomly determined mystery win amounts to between 50 and coins. The basic bet in the super game is coins which will be taken from your super meter. Your winnings from the base game are used for the super game.

Please check out the relevant paytable for winnings in the super game. But what we can tell you is that due to the higher basic bet possible wins are also much higher.

If you have accumulated 10, coins on your super meter they will be automatically transferred to the coin meter. The joker is having a ball in the super game — not only does he pay the highest winnings but he also substitutes for other symbols as Wild and completes winning combinations.

Each reel contains three stacked joker symbols in the super game. The joker will make you jump for joy in Jackpot Joker online if he appears nine times on the reels.

Just like the regular game, the Super Game is played on three reels with five win lines. However, the basic bet is coins, which is taken from the super meter. Your winnings from the regular game are used for the Super Game.

The super meter is limited to 10, Coins. As soon as this limit is reached, all of the Coins in the super meter will be transferred to the Coin meter. To find out what you could win in the Super Game, please see the paytable.

Please note that the potential winnings differ from those in the regular game. The Joker symbol is activated for the Super Game. This is a Wild symbol that appears stacked on each reel and can substitute for all other symbols. Can you see nine Joker symbols on the reels in the Super Game?