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1	[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/joker1.gif]]
2	''"From Hollywood, here's the game where knowledge is king, and Lady Luck is queen! It's '''The Joker's Wild'''!"''
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4	''The Joker's Wild '' is a Creator/JackBarry-created GameShow during his post-scandal exile from TV in the 1960s. Two contestants took turns spinning an oversized slot machine. Each of its three wheels had five trivia categories and a Joker, which players could use to represent any category in the game.
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6	Barry produced the first ''Joker'' pilot for Creator/{{CBS}} on December 8, 1968, followed by a second attempt on January 5, 1969, and a third (''The Honeymoon Game'') on October 3, 1970. The series finally landed in 1971 for about three months on KTLA, followed by a three-year run (1972–75) on CBS and two syndicated {{revival}}s (1977-86 and 1990-91).
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8	Jack was host and producer from 1971 to 1984, with partner Dan Enright returning in 1977. During this time, it became part of a 90-minute syndicated block with sibling series ''Series/TicTacDough'' and ''Series/PlayThePercentages'' (the latter replaced by ''[[Series/BullseyeUS Bullseye]]''). Creator/BillCullen carried the show from 1984 to 1986 following Jack's death. Jim Peck substituted for both hosts on occasion during the entire 1977-86 syndicated run. Pat Finn was the host of a series {{retool}} for the 1990-91 season.
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10	In May 2017, [[http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/snoop-dogg-jokers-wild-1202429961/ it was announced]] that Creator/SonyPicturesTelevision (successor to Barry and Enright, and who had tried to bring the show back in 2006) would be bringing the show back on Creator/{{TBS}}, with Music/SnoopDogg hosting and producing, and now with more of a "faux-casino" theme. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer It premiered on October 24th, 2017]], and its second season premiered on April 15, 2018.
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12	[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Clown Prince of Crime]].
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14	!!This show provides examples of:
15	* AllOrNothing:
16	** The Fast Forward category. After every correct answer, players could either end their turn or take another question at the same value. If a question was missed at any point, the turn ended and all money accumulated on that turn was lost. This often led to the opportunity for large comebacks.
17	** The "Bid" category. Contestants decided in advance how many questions they wanted to answer[[note]](with a minimum of two questions)[[/note]]; if all of them were answered correctly, the player won the total amount (e.g., 3 questions at $100 each = $300). A wrong answer gave the opponent a chance to complete the bid and win all the money.[[note]](This backfired on at least one contestant, a challenger. On her first turn, she spun a natural triple with the "Bid" category {for $200 per question}, said she could answer five questions, and missed the second one. The champion finished the bid and won the game.)[[/note]] If the opponent missed a question, the original spinner could steal control back; if both players missed the same question, the turn ended and neither one scored.
18	* TheAnnouncer: Johnny Jacobs, Jay Stewart, and Charlie O'Donnell — the typical B&E trifecta. One notable substitute was [[Series/DoubleDare1986 Marc Summers]], then a CBS page, in his first television role. Ed [=MacKay=] announced the 1990 revival, and Charlie handled announcing duties on the CD-i versions and the 2006 pilots. Dave Burchell handles the 2017 version.
19	* ArtEvolution: The slides went from pictures of celebrity panelists and just category names (the pre-Jack pilots) to black-and-white pictures on colored backgrounds (starting with the Jack Barry shows, up until then only the "Joker" was multicolored with white face), and by the time of ''Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!'' colored pictures '''and''' backgrounds (one noticeable sign of this was the friendly "Joker" facing and smiling at the public; the original "Joker" was only seen with the side of his face).
20	** A more obvious example might be the "Disney" slides: The first one had a hand drawing Chip the chipmunk on a brown background; the second had a light blue background with Mickey, Donald, and Tinkerbell in front of Cinderella's castle (all very noticeably off-model).
21	* ArtifactTitle: Many fans consider the first format of the 1990 version to be this, since [[InNameOnly the Joker only appeared in the third window and was no longer "wild"]] (instead tripling the dollar amounts in the first two windows). Though in fairness, the show was still very watchable in its own right (as was pointed out by Website/GameShowGarbage), ''especially'' in comparison to the reboot of ''Joker's'' sister show ''Series/TicTacDough'' that same season.
22	* {{Auction}}: Two categories applied both the normal and reverse kinds.
23	** "Just One More" was a category where there was a question with multiple answers, and the contestants bid on how many answers they could get right in a row. If the winning bidder couldn't get all the answers then, much like ''Series/FamilyFeud'', the other player only needed to give ''just one more'' right answer to win the question and the cash.
24	** "How Low Will You Go?" was a reverse auction where a question was given, with a list of eight clues to the right answer. One clue was read at the outset, and the players bid back and forth as to how few of the other seven they would need. A wrong answer by the winning bidder meant that the opponent got to hear ''all'' of the clues before responding.
25	* AudienceGame:
26	** The first known instance was for the week of March 3, 1975: After every Face the Devil, Johnny Jacobs called down an audience member to play Face the Devil for the same prizes from a duplicate large handle located at the foot of the audience.
27	** On March 31, 1975, a tweaked version debuted for the next three weeks: This time, how the normal Face the Devil player did affected how many spins an audience member would get — spinning less than $500 (regardless of outcome) gave the audience player three spins, $500-$975 awarded four spins, and winning Face the Devil gave the audience player five spins. Hitting a Devil on the first spin meant no audience game was played.
28	*** After this, Jack presented the player a choice of three envelopes, each containing the name of an audience member. That player and the champ played a variant of the "Jokers and Devils" endgame: Spinning Joker-Joker-Joker awarded $100 to each player, and every subsequent Joker-Joker-Joker doubled it for a maximum of $1,600. A Devil took away both players' money, but gave the audience member a consolation prize.
29	** During the later seasons of the syndicated run, at the end of an episode three audience members (or two members and a home viewer playing by telephone, when Bill Cullen hosted) each took one spin, with dollar amounts from $10 to $100 on the reels. They each got to keep whatever total they spun, and the high scorer then played "Face the Devil" for a bonus prize and more cash, using the same rules and dollar amounts ($25-$200) as the onstage contestants.
30	** The 1990s version had an audience game, too, albeit only to fill in time when the endgame ended early, and had people picked from the audience playing the standard endgame; three spins to match anything for $100 (if the person couldn't do that, they got a t-shirt).
31	* BonusRound:
32	** '''1968-71:''' The winning player, after winning $250 for the game, could spin up to three times, taking whatever showed up on the reels (ranging from {{Zonk}}s to big prizes and cash) after each spin. ''The Honeymoon Game'' ended it with an extra ''Series/LetsMakeADeal''-style choice of three numbered slides, each of which contained a very decent honeymoon vacation.
33	** '''September 4 and 5, 1972:''' Same as before, but with only two spins. Some prizes had a black circle around them, and spinning three of those circles also won a new car.
34	** '''September 6–18, 1972:''' Same as before, but the circles were gone and the car was among the prizes that could be spun (along with other nice items such as boats and trips).
35	** '''September 18, 1972 - circa June 1974:''' The wheels now contained Jokers and Devils. The winner got three spins (originally four), and won a prize of increasing value each time three Jokers appeared. If a Devil appeared at any point, the player lost their prizes from that bonus round. (And no, that isn't a typo — the format changed ''mid-episode''.[[note]]This was due to the previous episode ending before the champion could spin for prizes.[[/note]])
36	** Beginning sometime between late April 1973 and Episode #418 (taped May 6, 1974), the bonus game became "The Money Wheels": The winner spun the reels for money while trying to avoid a Devil, and accumulating $1,000 or more awarded a prize package worth about $1,500 (although later in the CBS run, the cash was added to that total). Around September 1974, the game was renamed "Face the Devil".
37	*** A slight modification was used as the audience game from 1981 to 1985: three audience members spun the reels once for small amounts of money, and the person with the highest total played Face the Devil for cash and a decent prize. (Originally played a couple of times each week, it became daily in 1982.)
38	** '''1990-91:''' The winner had 60 seconds to guess words that all started with the same letter, hearing up to three definitions per word. Each correct guess earned a spin on the Joker Machine. Various prizes (trips, merchandise, and cash from $500-$2,000) were on the displays, and could be frozen after each spin; three of anything won. Jokers couldn't be frozen, however, and had to be converted... but spinning three Jokers won the Joker Jackpot, which at one point got as high as $36,000.
39	** '''2006 Pilots:''' "Face the Devil" returned, but with far more generous cash amounts- getting to $10,000 would be the threshold. However, the player could choose to risk it for more- a second Devil would be added, but so would three car images, and spinning those would get the player a luxury car.
40	** '''2017-2019:''' "Face the Devil" is back once more, but [[CompositeCharacter now with elements of the "Jokers and Devils" endgame]]. Money amounts from $300 to $1,500 (and, expectedly, one of the amounts is [[TheStoner $420]]), with Jokers worth $2,000. If the contestant manages to reach the $10,000 mark or spin three Jokers, they win $25,000. The Devils are there as usual and if hit the money goes [[IncrediblyLamePun up in smoke]].
41	*** The top prize is $50,000 as of Season 2, and now Snoop occasionally tries to get the contestant to bail out by offering several thousand dollars on top of the money earned to that point. Additionally, while the spins are still started by pulling the giant lever, the contestant now hits a BigRedButton to stop the Joker Machine.
42	* BonusSpace:
43	** The Joker was wild, as per the title, and could be matched with any displayed category to double its value. The player could also use a Joker to call for a category that hadn't come up in the spin, referred to as "going off the board"; if a category such as Fast Forward, Bid, Stumpers, or Mystery was in use, a trailing player could use them in conjunction with Jokers to attempt a large comeback. Spinning three Jokers originally won the game automatically, but this was quickly changed to require a correct answer from any of the categories.
44	** In the second format of the 1990 run, spinning three Jokers immediately added $250 to the player's score, set the question value at $100, and revealed three categories for the player to choose from. The same category could show up on two or even all three of the wheels. If one or two Jokers came up, they all had to be matched to a displayed category and the player couldn't use them to go off the board.
45	** They're a bit different in the 2017 run. A Joker still has to be matched to a displayed category, but spinning three of them now gives the contestant a chance to answer a bonus question not in any of the categories being used for the game. The question is worth $500 in round 1, $1,000 in round 2, and (starting in season 2) $1,500 in round 3.
46	** ''The Honeymoon Game'' used Bonus for the semi-finals, which added a point to that couple's score and nothing more. The finals had the middle reel continuously occupied by Take A-Chance, which could only be taken if the question was answered correctly and contained anything from Add $50 to Deduct $100 (which was kind of dumb, since the only three dollar amounts shown for the questions were $10, $30, and $100).
47	** For at least the week of September 16, 1974, to celebrate the show's 3rd Anniversary, special "Jackpot Jokers" were placed on the reels. Spinning three of them awarded a 45-day trip around the world worth nearly $4,000 plus a cash jackpot that started at $250 and increased by that amount every day it wasn't won.
48	** For a time beginning on January 8, 1975, there was a "Lucky Hundreds" promotion where the $100 spaces in Face the Devil were marked "Lucky", with {{Four Leaf Clover}}s. Spinning three Lucky $100 amounts won not only the bonus game (due to being a natural triple), but also a $7,200 trip and $3,000 cash. Beginning on January 15, the show began adding $100 to the cash bonus per day, which would grow until the trip was won or the prize package (trip and cash) reached $15,000.
49	* CelebrityEdition: A panel, referred to as "living categories", was part of the 1968 and 1970 pilots. The concept returned for a special week in January 1974.
50	** The concept of celebs being involved with questions returned for the 2017 run, albeit via video clips displayed on the large monitor behind Snoop, as opposed to the celebs being physically present in the studio (sometimes Snoop interacts with the stars in the clips, other times the celeb is solo).
51	* ChristmasEpisode: The very first one in 1972 had "[[SantaClaus Santas]]" and "[[Literature/AChristmasCarol Scrooges]]" replacing Jokers and Devils, respectively, for the bonus round. Also, one of the contestants was a department store Santa who played the game in a Santa suit and was even introduced by Johnny Jacobs as Santa.
52	* ComebackMechanic: The "Bid" and "Fast Forward" categories could act as this if they came up on a trailing player's turn, since that player could always take enough questions to reach or exceed $500.
53	* DisapprovingLook: The Devil from the CBS and syndicated versions had a particularly scathing one.
54	* DoubleTheDollars: A rare case where this was ''for questions'', not the entire round.
55	** The "Mystery(?)" category in each game was played for double value if chosen (see below for details).
56	** The "Stumpers" category in the second incarnation consisted entirely of questions that were missed by both contestants in a previous episode. When a player chose this category, s/he could hear the two wrong guesses and play for the normal value, or decline this help and go for double (originally a flat $100 extra in the first incarnation).
57	** For the 2017 version, the amounts in the first round are $100 for a single, $200 for a double, $300 for a triple and $500 for three Jokers. For the second round these amounts are doubled to rates of $200, $400, $600 and $1000, tripled to $300, $600, $900, and $1500 for the third round (in Season 2).
58	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
59	** During the first two weeks of the CBS run, triples were only worth $150, spinning three Jokers won automatically without the contestant having to answer a question first, it took four wins to claim the Joker's Jackpot, and the bonus wheels contained prizes.
60	** Additionally, the first two shows used a bonus round where some of the prizes had circles around them; spinning three circled prizes won the contestant a new car. By the third episode, this was dropped, and a car (or boat) became another one of the prizes found on the wheels.
61	** During the first three shows with the syndicated era audience game in September 1981, contestants could either take whatever amount they got on their first qualifying spin, or pass it up and take a second spin. Also, the "Face the Devil" round offered the same elaborate prize packages found in the regular bonus game, rather than just a single prize.
62	* EpisodeCodeNumber: The syndicated version was the first Barry-Enright game show to make use of the production company's letter-number code. It consisted of a letter represented by the current season and the episode's taping order. For example, "A-001" was the September 5, 1977 premiere.
63	* EveryEpisodeEnding: When series creator Jack Barry hosted, each episode usually ended with him asking the contestants "Can you come back tomorrow/on the next show?" (even though it was really, for the most part, just a 30-minute wardrobe change for the host and contestants). The contestants replied yes, and Barry would say his usual closing spiel.
64	* GameShowHost: [[Series/{{Password}} Allen Ludden]] hosted in the 1960s, followed by Jim [=McKrell=] in ''The Honeymoon Game''. Creator/JackBarry hosted from 1971 to 1984, followed by Creator/BillCullen from 1984 to 1986, [[Series/ShopTilYouDrop Pat]] [[Series/TheBigSpin Finn]] in the 1990s and Music/SnoopDogg in 2017. [[Series/TheBigShowdown Jim]] [[Series/SecondChance Peck]] substituted occasionally during the 1981-84 period, and again in 1986.
65	** Barry had originally planned to retire at the end of the 1983-84 season and turn over hosting duties to Peck. However, after Barry's death, Dan Enright picked Cullen as the new host instead.
66	** For the CD-i games, the hosts were [[Series/TicTacDough Wink Martindale]] (regular) and Marc Summers (''The Joker's Wild Jr.'').
67	** The first 2006 pilot was hosted by game show veteran Mark Maxwell-Smith[[note]]the creator of the short-lived Creator/{{NBC}} 70s game ''Knockout'' (starring [[Series/LaughIn Arte Johnson]]), B&E's international game shows ''Chain Letters'' and ''Series/BumperStumpers'', and Canadian game ''Series/TalkAbout''; as well as being a producer on ''Series/TheCrossWits'', ''Series/TruthOrConsequences'', ''Series/HotPotato'', ''Series/SupermarketSweep'' and [[Creator/ABCFamily The Family Channel]]'s ''Series/MastersOfTheMaze'' (where he played the Mirror Man and voiced the Guardians of Knowledge in season 2)[[/note]]; the second one was hosted by future ''Creator/{{GSN}} Live'' correspondent Alex Cambert.
68	* GoldenSnitch:
69	** In the main game, a contestant who spun three Jokers could win the game by correctly answering one question in any category, regardless of the scores or whether a full round had been played. This could easily render every other event within a game irrelevant.
70	** This was also possible if a player hit a triple on Mystery ($400) or Stumpers ($400 if they decided not to hear the two previous wrong answers).
71	*** This was different during Tournaments of Champions, though. If the "challenger" (first person spinning) did this first, or was otherwise first to reach $500, the "champion" was allowed one last spin in hope of tying or winning.
72	** The 1977–86 syndicated series originally had a bonus prize for anyone who spun three of the same category with no Jokers. This later became a Natural Triple Jackpot, a growing prize package. A prize was added for every game in which a Natural Triple didn't occur. However, winning this jackpot had no effect on the scoring.
73	** In the syndicated bonus round, getting three of the same dollar amount on any spin was an automatic win.
74	*** The Bonus Round in the 2017 version must be won by reaching the target amount or spinning three Jokers. Three of the same dollar amount will ''not'' automatically win.
75	** In the 90's version, during the category phase of its run, three Jokers gave a player an instant $250 and set the question value at $100. The player then had their pick of three categories, one behind each Joker, for that turn -- but sometimes two or even all three categories would be the same.
76	*** In the bonus round, three Jokers won the Joker Jackpot. If you got either one or two Jokers on one spin, you had to match all of them to one of the prizes displayed on the other reels. Two prizes and a Joker meant you could choose which prize to make a pair for, then use the last reel to complete the triple by spinning either that prize or a Joker. One prize and two Jokers, or a pair and a Joker, automatically awarded that prize.
77	** The 2017 version, due to how it's played and not being able to straddle between shows (having a weekly timeslot and all), actually averts this on a number of levels. For starters, each player gets four spins in the first round and three in the second (changed to twice in each of three rounds), and a set target money amount is no longer the sole determining factor in getting to the endgame. Hitting a triple awards no prizes in either the front game or the endgame, and a three-Joker spin no longer results in an automatic win by just one question. In the final round of the game, a player who comes down to their last spin will automatically lose if they're trailing by more than the value of a three-Joker question ($1,000 in season 1, $1,500 after that). A wrong answer doesn't allow the opponent a chance to steal, either.
78	* GoodLuckCharm: Some contestants on the syndicated version brought these onstage with them or did some gesture or ritual before spinning. Probably the best example was a contestant named Hal Scheer, who wore the same dark suit with a distinctive grid pattern on all of his shows. He got into the habit of brushing down both sleeves for luck.
79	* GuestHost:
80	** Jim Peck filled in for both Barry and Cullen at various points.
81	** Like many other game shows at the time, ''Joker'' also had various guest announcers. One of them was, believe it or not, the aforementioned Marc Summers! (He was a 22-year-old page at CBS at the time.)
82	* HomeGame: Milton Bradley made three of the adult series and one of the children's spinoff. Philips also released two video game versions of the show for their [[Platform/PhilipsCDI [=CDi=] console]] in 1994 (over three years after the show was last seen in first run)--an adult version and a junior version. An online version is playable via the TBS website for the 2017 run.
83	* LetsJustSeeWhatWouldHaveHappened: Often done if a contestant walked in the "Face the Devil" round before hitting $1,000.
84	* LovelyAssistant: Jeannie Mai served as this in the first season of the 2017 run, explaining how the game works and what the players have to do; she was removed for the 2018 episodes (likely because Snoop Dogg has adjusted to being a game show host).
85	* LuckBasedMission:
86	** As is typical of a Barry-Enright game show, winning the bonus round was simply based on luck (i.e., get $1,000 or more in as many spins as necessary or hit a natural triple before the Devil shows up).
87	** Also applies to the main game. If the challenger reached $500 first and was leading by more than $50, it was always possible for the champion to spin a combination with a low enough value to lose by default.
88	** The 2017 version averted this with respect to the scoring in a couple of ways. First, there was no definite total needed to win; each player got a set number of spins per round, and the leader after the last round won the game. Second, once the "Slang That Thang" option was introduced in Season 2, players could strategize as to whether to answer a question or throw it to the opponent and hope to score on their miss. On the flip side, the trope was played straight with the tiebreaker procedures (Season 1--each player takes one more spin and the high scorer wins; Season 2--pick one of three face-down cards and the high card wins) and at least one of the mini-games (roll a die to determine how many questions you had to answer in a chosen category).
89	*** During Season 1 (before "Slang That Thang" was introduced), the trailing player could lose by default if they didn't spin a combo worth enough to at least tie the score on their last spin. If they were trailing by more than $1,000 going into that spin, they automatically lost since it would be impossible to catch up.
90	** For the bonus round in the 2017 version, the goal was to either spin three Jokers or get at least $10,000 without hitting the Devil. A natural triple was no longer an automatic win, unlike the Jack Barry and Pat Finn versions.
91	* MinigameGame: The 2017 version has partially become this, with all sorts of added things like die-rolling or celebs giving questions.
92	* MustMakeAmends: On [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_hInWyoZnM this episode]], a champion hit three Jokers on the first spin and correctly answered the question, thus meaning his opponent never got a chance to play. Jack made an on-the-spot decision to invite her back on a future episode.
93	* NonStandardGameOver: This became possible when the Bid category was in play and the challenger hit $500 first. If the champ spun Bid (or used a Joker to go off the board for it) but didn't ask for enough questions to at least tie the score, he/she immediately lost the game.
94	** It could also happen ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ocEh7YM_s and did on at least one occasion]]) when Fast Forward was in play and the challenger hit $500 first. If the champ had a chance to play Fast Forward by either spinning it directly or getting at least one Joker, but didn't choose it, he/she immediately lost.
95	* ObviousRulePatch:
96	** In a holdover from shows like ''Series/TwentyOne'' and ''Series/The64000Question'', ''Joker'' originally had a rule in which winning contestants had to risk losing the money they won if they wanted to play another game. If they played another game and lost, their money (but not prizes won in the bonus game) would be deposited into the "Joker's Jackpot", which would be awarded to any player who won four games (quickly reduced to three). This caused some contestants to go home with only parting gifts, even if they won two or three games.
97	** The 1990s version changed on January 7, 1991, to using categories in the main game, with everything else remaining as it was. The last three episodes (March 6-8) reverted back to the money format, most likely to avoid straddling.
98	** When the show began the champion sat at the left spot (from Jack's P.O.V.), and the new contestant on the right. This was most likely changed so the champion could have one final spin once his opponent hits $500.
99	* OpeningNarration: Quoted at the top of this page.
100	* PieInTheFace: The first slides for "Comedy Movies" and "TV Comedy Shows" used a man getting hit in the face with a pie. When they used all-color slides for the categories, "Comedy Movies" used a picture of Groucho Marx and "TV Comedy Shows" used a husband-and-wife couple reminiscent of ''Series/HappyDays''.
101	* {{Pilot}}: At least six.
102	** December 8, 1968: The first known attempt was [[DeliberatelyMonochrome recorded in grayscale]] with Allen Ludden as host (CBS executives did not yet trust Barry to work on-camera). Each category corresponded to one of five celebrity panelists, who read the questions themselves; question values were worth from 1-3 points depending on the spin, the players answered 1-3 questions depending on the spin, and the contestants played to 13 points. Three Jokers earned a pick of the categories for a possible win.
103	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qYpwNIHIJo January 5, 1969]]: Produced in color with Ludden returning as host, however without the celebrity panel (note that the camera is trying not to show anything to the right of the Joker Machine's border, although it caught a bit of the "celebrity" desk anyway).
104	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBae3xVspxU October 3, 1970]]: ''The Honeymoon Game'', a weekly 90-minute(!) game hosted by Jim [=McKrell=], used the 1968 format for the last two-thirds of the show (including, yes, the celebrity panel).[[labelnote:About the first third...]](The first third of the show was a ripoff of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' which ended up being chopped out. While the uncut pilot exists, the circulating version begins with a taped introduction by Barry stating why it was removed and how the show would be reworked if the series landed.)[[/labelnote]]
105	** The pilot for the 1990-1991 revival, taped in September 1989, had a less-frightening logo on top of the Joker Machine; per a brief clip shown by Pat Finn when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAqUdK0tGI&t=45s he introduced the pilot for]] ''Series/ShopTilYouDrop'' on Wink Martindale's Website/YouTube page, the third window of the machine still had Jokers, but held time amounts instead of cash amounts.
106	** Two more were shot in 2006 for a planned revival, alongside another game show format called ''Combination Lock'' that had been bounced around since the late 1990s. This version had the classic format, just beefed-up cash-wise (with first to $5,000 winning). The endgame also had the stakes raised; see above for that. Both shows were planned for 2007 debuts, but neither series was picked up.
107	* ProgressiveJackpot:
108	** The original Joker's Jackpot described above was used from September 1972 until roughly May 1974, when the "Face the Devil" bonus round was introduced. It started at $2,500, and the cash winnings forfeited by defeated champions were added to it until the total reached $25,000 or someone won it.
109	** The cash bonus for the "Lucky $100's" feature in the last CBS season. It started at $3,000 and increased by $100 per day until someone won it and the trip it was paired with, or until the combined value of these prizes reached $15,000.
110	** The Natural Triple Jackpot. While the original version used from about 1974 to 1975 awarded a small prize worth about $300, the revamped version used from 1983 to 1986 awarded a prize package for spinning three of the same category. A new prize was added for each game it wasn't won.
111	** The 1990 revival had a Joker Jackpot, which started at $5,000 and increased by $500 per show until a contestant won it by hitting three Jokers on one spin in the bonus round.
112	* RecycledSoundtrack:
113	** A 1980 tournament borrowed the theme from another Barry-Enright show, ''[[Series/BreakTheBank1976 Break the Bank]]''.
114	** Over 2 decades after the 1990 version was canned, Creator/{{Greggo}} reused a copy of the 1990 theme for his original game show ''Farkle''.
115	* ReplacedTheThemeTune:
116	** The CBS version used Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley's "The Savers", a rare example of a RealSongThemeTune being used on a game show. Beginning on October 21, 1974, it used "Joker's Jive", a SuspiciouslySimilarSong composed by Alan Thicke.
117	** When the show returned in 1977, "The Savers" returned as the opening theme and "Joker's Jive" was the closer. Beginning in 1978, Hal Hidey's [[RearrangeTheSong rearranged version]] of "The Savers" became the opening theme, and an original Hidey composition unofficially called "The Whistle Theme" became the closer.
118	* SpeedRound: In the 1990 version (while it had cash amounts on the reels), spinning a Joker in the third reel triggered one of these for the contestant that got it (15 seconds, with each item being for triple the value on the other two reels). There was the caveat that a single wrong answer ended it regardless of time remaining, and the opponents could steal that one answer. If the contestant kept control for the full 15 seconds (without reaching the goal), they would then re-spin the reels.
119	* SpinOff: ''Joker! Joker! Joker!'', a children's version which ran from 1979 to 1981. Notable for being one of the few weekly syndicated games, and one of the few ''children's'' games, to use returning champs.
120	* TakeAThirdOption:
121	** If no Jokers were spun, the player ''had'' to choose a question for the full amount in one of the categories on the reels ($50 for a single, $100 for a pair, or $200 for a natural triple). However, if one or two Jokers came up, the player could go "off the board" and choose a category they liked better that wasn't displayed. Also, while a Joker could be played to increase the value of a displayed category, players often chose not to do so if the full amount would allow the opponent to win or take the lead.
122	** If a pair and a Joker came up, the player could discard the pair but use the Joker to go "off the board" in that category, playing for $50 rather than $100. This was the only situation in which a displayed category could be played for less than its full value.
123	** If the challenger reached $500 first during a game in which the Bid or Fast Forward category was in play, the champion could tie or win either by spinning and choosing that category, or by spinning at least one Joker and going "off the board" in the category.
124	** Averted in the 2017 version, which removes the "going off the board" strategy. A pair and a Joker, or a single category and two Jokers, automatically becomes a triple. Get two different categories and a Joker, and you must form a pair using one of them. If you miss a question, though, the opponent doesn't get a chance to answer.
125	* TheStoner: For the 2017 version, unabashed weed smoker Snoop Dogg is not only hosting but producing, so many of the questions now reference or revolve around weed in some fashion; also, one of the cash amounts in the Face the Devil bonus game is $420.
126	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: The "Unlikely Pairs" category had this pairing for the category's color slide.
127	* TournamentPlay: Held annually, from 1977 to 1980, with the top winners from the preceding year (or, for the CBS-era the top winners from the entirety of that series) were invited back for a tournament in which the winner won a huge jackpot. The first three seasons had top prizes of $50,000 (in 1977), $100,000 (in 1978) and $250,000 (in 1979), half of which was cash plus several rooms of furniture, a car (or two cars) and several luxury vacations. In 1980, the winner got $25,000 a year for 10 years, with the show donating $250,000 to the winner's favorite charity, while the runner up got $10,000 a year for 10 years and $100,000 donated to their favorite charity.
128	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: For the 2017 version, some categories have multiple-choice questions, while others have celebrities giving the questions, or become semi-minigames, such as one where the contestant rolls a die to determine how many questions they have to answer, or how many clues they get for a particular question. Another one seems like a knockoff of ''Series/MatchGame'', where Snoop writes down his answer to a question on a blue card and the contestant attempts to guess it.
129	** Starting with Season 2, players can challenge each other to answer unwanted questions in the third round ("Slang That Thang"). A right answer awards the money to the contestant who gives it, but a miss pays off to the challenging player instead.
130	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: During one audience playing of Face the Devil, one contestant put the bills Jack gave her down her blouse.
131	-->'''Jack:''' I want my money back!
132	* {{Whammy}}: Spinning a Devil in the bonus round took away the cash accumulated in that playing and ended the game. The 2017 reboot has the Devil now RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver with an EvilLaugh when he shows up.
133	* {{Zonk}}: Some of the prizes in the 1968–72 BonusRound.
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