On our birthday, someone gets the present. It's time to laugh your blanking head off, as Match Game returns to HKC Radio as a part of the celebration of one year since our rebirth. Join Nick Giannak of Sonic Onslaught and friends on Saturdays from July 9 to July 23 (the anniversary) at 4 PM EDT for a blanking good time. One contestant will walk away with their choice of five great tech prizes! We thank all who applied to play Match Game during our enrollment period. Read on for information about the game itself and our new tournament format. If you want to relive the laughter, archives for all Match Games since 2021 are available.

What is Match Game?

Match Game is a rather simple game involving senses of humor and fill in the blank type questions. Each contestant is asked a question with a blank to fill. The contestant thinks of an answer that might match what the panelists might say. For example, “the baby ate the fish blank.” The panelists write their answers. Once finished, Nick calls on each person, one at a time, to reveal their answers, starting with the contestant. In this example, if the contestant said “fish tank”, he or she would match with the panelists who said “fish tank”, but not the panelists who said “fish tale” or any other answer. At the end of the game, the contestant with the most matches wins. If the game is tied, as many rounds of super-match are played as needed, in which questions are asked as completions of a shorter phrase rather than a longer sentence. E.G. “Long Island blank.” Super-Match style questions are also used if a contestant's answer and a panelist's answer are ambiguous and a match cannot be determined. When this happens, it's called match-off.

What are the dates and how will the tournament be organized?

This year, contestants were able to pick their start date, as the first two weeks are organized as blocks. July 9 is the A Block, while July 16 is the B Block.

On July 9, a group of 4 contestants will play 3 games in a miniature, single-elimination tournament. The contestant who wins game 3 on July 9 will win the A Block. A different group of 4 contestants will do the same thing on July 16 in order to determine the winner of the B Block. The winners of blocks A and B will face off on July 23 to crown a new Match Game champion.

What prizes will be played for?s?

Sonos Roam Portable Waterproof Smart Speaker

If you've ever heard Sonos before, you know how good this is. Even if you haven't, it's a battery powered WiFi speaker with your choice of Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. Its new, proprietary assistant makes it that much more flexible. sounds great for its size, too.

Zoom H1N Handy Digital Audio Recorder

Are you a filmmaker recording stereo audio for a video? Perhaps you're a podcaster doing interviews wherever you go. Maybe you just like to record family gatherings in high quality audio. The Zoom H1N does it all and sounds great, too.

Amazon Fire 7 Tablet

Need a new tablet as a gift for your partner or child, or perhaps for yourself? Pick this prize, newly updated by Amazon. Just remember to tell them what you went through to get it! (Child-specific version available upon request)

AKG K371 Studio Headphones

If you want to wear what many of our broadcasters and listeners wear, pick these up. They are a great all-round headphone that most people can enjoy. Its ability to render accurately contributes greatly to several HKC Radio shows and productions. What more can we say?

Apple AirPods, third generation

For convenience, they are the standard everyone else measures against. They connect seamlessly to the devices you own, have the best quality microphones available on a Bluetooth headset, and, for Apple devices in particularly, unleash several new tricks not available anywhere else. They sound good, too.