Channel 660.

Wednesdays from October 7. Eight o'clock. The wheel is the dial — spin it & see what's on.

Not trivia. Nobody is going to ask you the capital of Bulgaria at half nine on a Wednesday.

This is the other thing that was on television — channel six at four o'clock, after school, on a couch. Newlywed Game. Match Game. Family Feud. Hollywood Squares. Pyramid. The shows you watched before you were old enough to know they were cheap to make.

Eight shows, one night

Here is the part that matters, and it is the whole reason this works.

It is never the same Wednesday twice. Eight formats in the library, one a week — four ready for opening night on Wednesday, October 7, the rest arriving through the fall. Come every week for two months and you will not see a repeat. Come back after Christmas and the one you liked has come round again.

That is deliberate. A quiz is the same quiz every week and everybody knows it by March. This does not get old, because no single game has to carry the night — and it means there is always a reason to ask what is on rather than assuming you already know.

Which one is on which week is up on the calendar.

What you might walk into

Still Married — the Newlywed Game, except nobody is newly married. We take couples who have been at it fifteen years or more, put the wives on stage and the husbands in headphones, and find out how well anybody was listening. A fifty-five-year-old Berwyn couple is funnier than a pair of twenty-six-year-olds for one reason… both of them already know exactly how bad the other one's answer is going to be. Been married twenty years? Prove it.

Fill in the Blank — Match Game, played table against table. The host reads a blank — Dumb Dora was so dumb, she ___ — every table writes an answer, and you score for every other table you matched. No stage, no volunteers, no waiting your turn. The whole room is playing from the first blank, and the trick is not being clever. It is thinking like the room you are sitting in.

Family Frenzy & The Whammy — Family Feud, four teams of four, plus the ending it was always missing. Win the round and you face the wheel. Point multipliers, three Whammies. Bank it or spin again. Nothing gets a room of strangers on their feet like watching a family they have never met decide whether to be greedy.

Back Seat — Mad Libs, grown all the way up. Every table gets a card of blanks with no idea what the story is. That is the game. Then we spin for the genre — the local paper, a 1987 personal ad, a medical pamphlet, a best man's speech going badly — and one of you reads it out cold, having never seen it. Nobody is a spectator. The game you played in the station wagon. All grown up.

The 660 Pyramid — Dick Clark, thirty seconds & a partner you barely know. Six categories, describe & guess, twenty-one takes it. Then the Winner's Circle, sixty seconds, no hands. Spin to set the difficulty & let the room chant for Brutal.

Being built

Three more coming. Not on the calendar yet.

Get Me To 3 — Hollywood Squares, cut down to three. Three squares, three people on stools, and a contestant who has to take all three to win. Agree or disagree with each of them. Nine squares lets you survive a bad call; three does not, which is exactly why it is quicker and meaner.

Straight Face — three comedians, three stories each. Two of them true, one invented, and the room has to work out which is which. Three people from the audience get one question apiece — that is the whole interrogation, so make it count. Then everybody scores a card. A perfect card wins a twenty-five dollar gift card, so it is worth paying attention rather than just enjoying yourself.

Still Single — the Dating Game, and the companion piece to Still Married. One person, three strangers they cannot see, questions they will regret asking. The screen comes down at the end and the room decides whether it was a good night's work.

Not a game show — the talent night

Please Don't Buzz Me is a different animal and it deserves saying so. Any talent at all — a singer, a magician, a dance troupe, a kid on a violin. Three judges, three buzzers, and an act that is dying gets stopped. Monthly rather than weekly, and the prize is a real paid Friday booking on this stage.

It is not part of the Wednesday rotation and it is not a game. If you have an act, that is the night you want. Tell us what you do.

How the schedule works

One format a week, Wednesdays at eight. Which game is on which Wednesday lives on the calendar, not on this page. Enter the Wednesday once and it appears on what's on, on the show list and on the home page by itself.

That is already how karaoke works here — every date entered as a booking, currently sitting out to August 2027. Game night simply joins it.

Which means this page never carries a date, and therefore can never go stale. That is the whole point of doing it this way.

The dial

Some of the room came for dinner. So it moves with the hour, and the moving is part of the bit — it goes up on the screens between rounds and the room cheers when it turns over.

Channel 660, by the hour

One rule that never moves whatever the hour… the joke is the collision of the words. Never anybody in the room.

Getting on

Most weeks, turning up is enough. Fill in the Blank and Back Seat are played from your table by the whole room — there is nothing to sign up for and nobody has to stand anywhere.

Three need a heads-up:

- Still Married takes three couples. Sign up at the bar the week before or tell us here — we cap it at three and the waiting list rolls to the next time it comes round. Appetizers are on us if you play.

- Family Frenzy takes four teams of four. Bring your own team.

- Get Me To 3 and Straight Face need people on the stools. If you would rather be asked the questions than answer them, say so — and if you do stand-up, come to the open mic on a Thursday, because that is where we look first.

Questions

What night is game night at 660 LIVE?

Wednesdays, from 8pm. Channel 660 runs eight game show formats in rotation — one a week, never the same two weeks running. The calendar says which one is on.

Is it trivia?

No. Trivia rewards whoever knows the most. These are the afternoon syndication game shows — Newlywed Game, Match Game, Family Feud, Hollywood Squares, Mad Libs, Pyramid — where the funny answer beats the right one.

Do I have to get up in front of people?

Only if you want to. Fill in the Blank and Back Seat are played from your table by the whole room, and Straight Face is scored from your table too. Still Married, Family Frenzy and Get Me To 3 need volunteers, and those you sign up for in advance.

Do you run the same game every week?

No, and that is the point. Eight formats rotate, one a week. Two months of Wednesdays without a repeat.

Is it family friendly?

Between eight and nine, yes — that hour runs at what we call Broadcast, which is network television. It gets a bit bluer at nine and bluer still at ten, and we put the change on the screens so nobody is surprised. The house rule lines up with it: under-21s are welcome with a parent until ten, and after ten it is twenty-one and over. So the Broadcast and Cable hours are the ones with kids in the room, and Premium is not.

How long does it run?

The headline format runs about ninety minutes from eight. The bar & the kitchen run to their usual hours around it.