Number Please (game show)

Did You Know?

• The show was initially conceived for CBS in 1958 and was to be sponsored by Brown & Williamson, but it was cancelled before airing an episode as a result of the 1950s quiz show scandals.
• Only one episode is known to exist, dating from sometime in May 1961, and exists on 2" videotape.
• The surviving episode was rerun on GSN on the morning of October 9, 2006 and on Buzzr on September 27, 2020 as a part of its 5th annual Lost & Found marathon.

Game play

Two players faced off in a puzzle challenge on a game board. Each had their own row of twenty numbered spaces. They took turns picking a hidden number from their own row, which would reveal either a letter or a blank. The puzzle in each row described a prize. The first player to believe they could solve both rows would buzz in and state the answer for each row exactly as shown on the board. A correct guess won both prizes, sometimes with extra items. At first, a winner stayed to face a new challenger, retiring undefeated after five victories. By May, the rules changed to a best-of-three format, and the five-win limit was removed.