Line #24 Series/Amazing


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3	Australian kids' game show that ran on the Creator/SevenNetwork for four seasons (1993-98). The show had kids from different primary schools competing for points. Each day, two kids represented their school, with the aim of collecting as many points as possible for their school's final total, updated daily and revealed at the end of the week.
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5	The show consisted of three rounds. The first and second round involved each team, separately, having to guess the answer to a what-am-I question from a series of clues given by host James Sherry in ninety seconds. Once the team had worked out the answer, they would then type out the answer on a giant keyboard, using their feet. The team was awarded one point for every second remaining on the clock when they finished typing. After a commercial break, the contestants would have to run through one of two mazes using the leftover time from the what-am-I question. Hidden in this maze were the letters that made up the word, and each letter was worth ten points. The process was then repeated so both team members could run the maze.
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7	The third round was the Computer Challenge, in which contestants played [[{{Platform/SNES}} Super Nintendo]] (later Platform/Nintendo64) games competitively. The player who had collected the most coins/bananas/points was awarded 50 points, with the runner-up receiving 25.
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9	The team with the most points at the end of each day's play then competed in the Key Run. [[NumerologicalMotif Seven keys]] were hidden in the maze, each worth one hundred points. Contestants had 90 seconds (120 seconds in Seasons 2-4) to find as many keys as possible. There was always a Bonus Key which gave both members of the team a Nintendo Game Boy (later a Game Boy Colour).
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11	After the Key Run, the points scored during that episode were added to the Leaderboard. At the end of the week, the winning team won their school a major prize, usually educational software.
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13	''A*mazing'' was easily the most popular Australian children's show of the 1990s, and holds a similar cultural significance in that country as ''Series/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple'' and ''Series/NickelodeonGuts'' do in America.
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15	!!This show provides examples of:
16	* BonusRound: If the players in the Key Run found the day's designated Bonus Key, they each won a Nintendo Game Boy.
17	* CatchPhrase:
18	** "The Game Boy comes in white, black, red, yellow, or...wicked see-through!"
19	** "It's a What-Am-I question with seven letters. Ninety seconds on the clock, and your time starts...now."
20	* ColourCodedCharacters: Contestants in Season 1 wore white t-shirts underneath green or yellow overalls. Beginning in Season 2, this became green or yellow t-shirts under black overalls.
21	* FourthWall: During a Season 4 letter run, one letter in the dungeon was hidden on the camera, so that most of the camera was obscured by the shape of the letter. The cameraman actually followed the player through the dungeon and got up really close to the player, at which point the player realised why she was being followed, turned around, and grabbed the letter off the camera before continuing.
22	* GameShowHost: James Sherry.
23	* GoldenSnitch: Keys were worth one hundred points per key.
24	* MercyKill: When contestants were too dim to work out the answer to the what-am-I question at the desk, after all the clues were gone and the contestants had around thirty seconds left, James would begin spelling the answer.
25	-->"First letter G. Second letter L. Third letter O. Fourth letter V. Fifth letter E. (''beat'') G-L-O-V-E...GLOVE is the answer, go!"
26	* MonkeyMoralityPose: The three monkeys sitting on the Jungle Walk. Upon hitting the button on the first monkey, the hands covering its eyes lowered, the second monkey had its hands on its ears and opened its mouth, and the third monkey lowered its hands covering its mouth. They were referred to as "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil".
27	* MyNaymeIs: ''A*mazing''. With the asterisk.
28	* RunningGag: After players check the cactus, "He watches ''A*mazing''!"
29	%% * StudioAudience
30	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: On rare occasions where a player was injured during the Maze, another player was permitted to join their team as the "runner". At the desk, all three players were permitted to answer the question, giving the team with the injured player an advantage.

Context Series / Amazing