America Says

America Says is an American television game show hosted by John Michael Higgins and broadcast on Game Show Network. The series consists of two teams of four guessing the top answers to fill-in-the-blank survey questions. It is a restructuring of the Audience Match portion of Match Game. Gameplay Main rounds Two teams of four compete, consisting of friends and family. One team is shown a fill-in-the-blank and its top seven answers, with the first letter of each word in each correct answer being shown as a clue. For example, if the question is "When I think of Italy, I think of [blank]," an answer might be "L__ T" for Leaning Tower. The length of the blank is a further clue to the length of the correct answer. In each round, each team is given one question. The team has a total of 30 seconds to guess all seven answers correctly. The first player offers an answer and keeps giving answers until giving an answer that is not on the board, at which point control passes to the next player in line. This process continues (going back to the beginning of the line as often as necessary) until either all seven answers are given or time runs out. If a teammate speaks out of turn at any time, the team is penalized five seconds. The team is awarded 100 points for every correct answer, and a 1,000-point bonus (1,700 total) if they can get all seven answers within 30 seconds. If the team cannot guess all seven, then the opposing team is given a chance to steal the remaining answers at 100 points each. Steal attempts are untimed but end when either the board is completed or the stealing team gives an incorrect answer. In early episodes, the opposing team was allowed to confer on steals. In episodes filmed using a socially-distanced set during the COVID-19 pandemic, individual players give one answer each, without conferring.