By Nickie Wang
Manila Standard Today
10 April 2008
Watch, play and win, as GMA Network brings back Gobingo, hosted by Arnel Ignacio. Expect fun-filled and explosive surprises as the interactive game show invades the primetime viewing starting Monday next week.
From Monday to Friday, before 24 Oras, the game show will go interactive by including home viewers as players through text messaging. The program that is set in high-tech studio promises exciting and even bigger prizes and electrifying entertainment.
How to Gobingo
In every episode, there will be three studio players selected through auditions. They will try to outwit each other for three rounds by answering the questions asked by Ignacio as quick as possible. A 15-digit number board will be designated for each player. Once a player gives a correct answer, the light will be switched on in one of the numbers in the board. In round no. 1, the players have to complete the four-corner pattern of their number boards. In round no. 2, the players will choose a different category for the questions and they have to complete the middle row pattern. In the third round, just like any other bingo games, the players have to complete the blackout pattern or all the numbers in their number boards must be lighted up.
The victor on the third round automatically advances to the jackpot round. If the studio player failed to win the jackpot round, the pot prize will be added onto the next episode until someone gets the roll-over prize.
On the other hand, home viewers can also participate in the interactive game. To join, all they have to do is to complete proofs of purchase that they can exchange for scratch cards redeemable at selected Mercury Drug outlets nationwide. By texting the unique code embedded in the scratch cards, they can get their Gobingo virtual playing cards. They have to watch the show and wait for the numbers that will light up in the contestant’s number board. To win, home players have to match the numbers on their Gobingo cards with the lighted up numbers in the studio contestants’ number board. Whoever completes the blackout pattern on his or her Gobingo virtual playing card wins the game as a home player.
Flashing back the cards
It was in 1996 when Gobingo first aired on Philippine television and became a huge success. Hosted by Arnel Ignacio with Maricar de Mesa, it was the most watched game show of its time until it went off air in 1999. Hosting this game show earned Ignacio a PMPC Star Awards for Television as Best Game Show Host in 1997.
The latest version of the game show follows the same format of its first edition. Studio contestant must outwit each other by being alert and attentive to the questions asked by the game show host.
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