Answers On a Postcard
Do you know the phrase “answers on a postcard”? It came from the show’s original run in the 1950s. Now, fans use the app to estimate the cost of a bundle. If they’re right, they could win the whole thing.
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Viewers used to have to send their guesses on postcards, and the phrase has stuck ever since. The contest turned out to be a giant hit. They eventually had to hire hundreds of people solely to sort through all the postcard entries to conclude if they had a winner.