[2] Taped at stage 40 at the CBC Vancouver studios via local station CBUT in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was hosted by Wayne Cox with local radio personality Dean Hill as announcer, while Doc Harris (announcer on Cox's previous show Second Honeymoon) filled in for Hill during Season 1.

During its original run on CBC, a concurrent prime time edition titled Celebrity Talk About was also added, which premiered on January 10, 1989.

The team not in control for a particular round was stationed at a desk to the side of the play area, wearing headphones and standing with their backs to the opponents so they could neither see nor hear anything.

Each team member was given 20 seconds to describe the subject, attempting to match as many keywords as possible in a list of 10 secretly chosen by the show's producers.

This rule was changed for celebrity specials; when time ran out at the end of an episode, the team in the lead won the game and received prizes for the charity sponsoring them; any tie would result in teams playing sudden-death rounds.

Any words that remained unsaid after 20 seconds were shown to the talking player, who then had to choose whether to continue the round or stop and take the accumulated money.

A UK version of the show hosted by Andrew O’Connor ran for three years on ITV from 1990 to 1993.

An Irish version of the show was broadcast by RTÉ in the early 1990s on Saturday nights, presented by Ian Dempsey.

Whichever team earned the most points at the end of round one battled against two celebrities (usually a comedic duo).