Here’s the show that I was watching as part of the
#CipasCoinContest
Clue 1 sets out the TV station and decade it was on. Last contest the episode was from 1990 and that clue was Happy New Decade. This clue suggests the show either wasn’t on in 1990 or it was and as different in some way. It’s actually the latter as the show contained a different format with different colours when it first started in 1990. The episode I watched was dated 24 July 1995
Clue 2 was the first indication of reversals of some kind. The BBC’s young people’s channel is Cee Beebies. Or CBB (BBC backwards). The show I was watching wasn’t aimed at that audience and was an early afternoon show.
Clue 3 related to music. Endeavour’s theme is practically identical to Morse’s and is just a modern reworking. But both themes spell out the name Morse in morse code throughout the theme tune. So Morse’s title is in the theme throughout but Endeavour’s is not as it spells Morse not Endeavour. The series I watched also contained the name of the show repeated throughout its theme tune.
Clue 4 shows colours playing a part. What contains 5 colours? Well the Olympic rings do and Ring, Ring is an ABBA song further pointing towards it. Some might not bee there with the incorrect spelling as a hint suggests that yellow and black aren’t part of this and we’re left with the remaining Olympic colours of Red, Green and Blue. ABBA is a palindrome so ABBA backwards is ABBA. Again the reversal aspect.
If you remember last time I gave you a clue the night before on my post previewing the contest. This was true this time too as on my post previewing the contest I referred to the female sellers taking part in this as contestants which brings into mind a game show. Clue 4 shows the host sitting by himself whereas Clue 5 shows three contestants sitting together. The fact it is a game show is further referenced with Big Break which was a snooker game show on BBC at around the same time. Snooker has 9 coloured balls (Thanks to the Saudi Arabia masters) but we’re eliminating them in this clue. Pink and White is a Frank Ocean song from the album Blonde, Yellow and Black were repeated in the bee clue and Golden Brown is a Stranglers song from C’est Folie (It’s Foolish). Eliminate those six colours from a snooker table and you’re left with Red, Green and Blue once again. Everything Changes is a number 1 single and also a number 1 album from Take That. This suggests the colours on the show are changing from one to another.
Clues 5 and 6 suggest the game show is a knockout competition and not a game show where the contestants only appear once. The two losers won’t be seen again while the winner advances. The contestants are looking hot because they’re playing in the first round or as the show itself calls it, the heats. The looking cold for the host and the Olympic connection in clue 4 suggests his name has a tie in with the Winter Olympics.
Clue 7 is the crux of the gameshow itself. It lists three sequences of letters all missing the same three letters. In this case it’s eon that’s missing. Eon ties in with the word ages as part of the clue. Adding that word at the end turns them all into Pokemon names Flareon, Leafeon and Vaporeon with their types in the games being Fire, Grass and Water (Red, Green and Blue once again).
Clue 8 reverses Cagney and Lacey. Sharon Gless who played Cagney starred in a US show with the same title as the show I was watching.
Clue 9 mentions a maximum. You might think it’s snooker again but the Bullseye comment suggests it’s darts. However, it’s not a sports game show as emphasised by the clue so it’s not Big Break or Bullseye. The good nature of the show means the contestants are competing in a sporting manner to win.
Uno is mentioned. This is a game which holds a reverse card.
The darts maximum is a 180. Another way to describe a 180 is an About Turn.
What happens when you reverse that?
What show was hosted by Rob Curling where three contestants competed in a knockout format playing as Red, Green and Blue trying to change or reverse their opponents colours and leave their own in its place?
I was watching Turnabout. The BBC afternoon gameshow from the 1990s.
So that’s it. The mystery is over. The puzzles are all solved. Or are they??
Last time I mentioned a secret contest 🤫but I didn’t this time. Did you notice there was a secret contest running in the background throughout this one??
Did you notice the clues and hints to the secret contest spread throughout??
Did you know that you had to get 3 elements right to win it??
Did you know that unlike the main contest there were multiple correct answers to the secret contest so long as one of your guesses contained all of those three elements??
Did you know that the most anyone who entered the contest got was 1 out of those 3 elements and nobody got 2 or 3??
No??
Ok!! Maybe we’ll revisit that another time then 😈😈