Super Password

Host: Bert Convy
Announcer: Rich Jeffries, Gene Wood
Lifespan: 1984-1989

Premise: Another Password Plus variant. And it was really good.

Rules: The game was basically "Password Plus," with a few changes. Firstly, there was no "pass" option. Clue givers alternated giving one-word clues to get the partners to guess the password. The player who guessed the password would get a chance to guess the puzzle, which all five passwords led up to. Otherwise, the game continued, with that team starting control. In this way, one team could shut the other out by guessing all the passwords. If nobody guesses the password, it goes up on the board, but no one guesses. If one of the givers uses an illegal clue, the word goes up, and the opponent gets to guess. If, after all five clues are on the board, and the guesser doesn't know the puzzle, the partner can give one guess. If both of them are wrong, each player on the other team gets one guess. If no one guesses the puzzle, they play another one, and most likely edit the tape.

The first puzzle wins $100, and each puzzle is worth $100 more than the last, up to $400. The team that won the $200 puzzle got to play a bonus game called "Cashword." In this quick round, the celebrity looked at a moderately tough word, and gave three clues, after each one, the partner got five seconds to guess. Guessing the cashword won the jackpot, which began at $1,000, and had $1,000 added each game it wasn't claimed. After the cashword, the contestants would swap celebrity partners for the $300 and $400 puzzles. The team that won $500 won the game and the right to play "Super Password".

Bonus Round: "Super Password" The team now had 60 seconds to convey ten passwords, each starting with a consecutive letter of the alphabet. $100 was paid for each correctly guessed word, but all ten won the jackpot, worth $5,000 with $5,000 more added each time it was not won. An illegal clue this time out voided the word, and cost the team any chance at the big money.

A contestant could stay on the show for up to five games.
Notes: The first "Super Password" round was worth $600 to Ed Ash. Patricia Rehnquist won $10,000 in the next game. Leslie Gershwin won a $40,000 Super Password game, winning $53,600 in five games, being the only big winner not invited to the eight-female Tournament of Champions two week game. Natalie Steele was the tournament winner. After winning the main game's $25,000 final, she won Super Password in 35 seconds, for another $25,000; making her grand total $106,000. Natalie became the only player in Password history to break $100,000. The regular five-game winning record is $76,000 (including one of a few $55,000 wins).