Both shows' objective was for contestant/celebrity teams to guess a given word or phrase in the shortest amount of time with the fewest letters given as possible.

The basic principle of this puzzle is that you have to move the colourful buttons until they all line up (not too dissimilar from similar colourful puzzles). Contestants stayed on the show until they were defeated or won five games, regardless of how many cars won; at least one contestant won a car in all five games. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The partner in the booth would shout out answers until the correct one was guessed, at which time the clock stopped, or the time limit of 60 seconds was reached. For those of you who want to turn your grey matter into great matter, this Baffle Puzzle is just the ticket to truly tremendous brainpower.

The contestant won a prize based on how many correct answers were given, with the prize for eight always being a new car.

In June 2014, a clip of the April 10, 1973, episode, featuring Hollywood Squares regulars Peter Marshall and Rose Marie, was uploaded to Wink Martindale's YouTube channel.These two teams played a word game in which a player seated in an isolation booth attempted to guess a famous name, title, or phrase posed by their teammate who displayed letters as clues (one at a time, starting with three letters, with one of them being the first letter in the subject) on their own individual game board. I am a classic Boggle fan and this app reproduces the basics of the game, but I don’t like the controls (tap each letter then tap submit) compared to other similar games in which you swipe words. The object of the revival was for a team of two players (a contestant and a celebrity player, in the original version, pairs of celebrities in the second) to guess a word or short phrase in less time than the opposing team.