Brother - next thing you know, someone'll tell me Camouflage came from those "find the hidden object" pages in the kids' magazines, Lingo sprung from Jotto, and Gambit was from some kind of gambing game. If that's true, maybe my new show idea has a chance - Celebrity Checkers! 12 celebs in red sweatshirts, 12 in black sweatshirts, and when a contestant answers a question correctly, he/she tells one of their celebrities where to move on a giant floor checkerboard! Naturally, the celebs will have to "jump" over each other, leapfrog style (Florence Henderson, jump over Coolio), and when you get one of your celebs to the other end of the board, they get "kinged" by carrying a celebrity on their backs (Congratulations, Tim Conway! Horatio Sanz, make him a king!). When you clean off your opponent's celebs, you get $250 for each of your stars still on the board!
Well, it's probably got a better chance than Celebrity Chess..unless the shows can straddle.....