Says You!

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Says You!

Genre	Panel game
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Home station	WGBH
Syndicates	Pipit & Finch
Hosts	Richard Sher
Creators	Richard Sher
Producers	Zach Moore
Exec. producers	Richard Sher
Website	Official website

Says You! is an American panel radio show distributed by Pipit & Finch in the United States. Although many NPR stations carry it, it is independently produced. It was created by host Richard Sher, and is produced in Boston, Massachusetts, by Pipit & Finch. Its tagline is "A game of words and whimsy, bluff and bluster."

The show's website is integrated with the show. Audience members can suggest questions for the show through the website. The website also offers subscriptions to and individual episodes of the show are available for a fee as well as a per-state and per-day schedule for listening to radio broadcasts.^[1][2]

Format

The show features a regular group of panelists divided into two teams. The team makeup varies from week to week. The program is recorded before live audiences at locations throughout the United States. These highlights are taken from listener requests. Both in its panel-game format and its literary bent, the show's debt to the BBC's now defunct My Word! is evident. Rounds 1, 3, and 5 vary from week to week. Rounds consist of word games, brain teasers, trivia and parlor games. Typical games include "What's the Difference?," "Odd Man Out," "What Came First?," "Melded Movies," and variations of anagrams, homonyms and other language games. For many years, the show had a tradition of providing a musical interlude/intermission with an acoustic house band named "The Dactyls" whose humorous tag line was "Second takes are for wimps." Rounds 2 and 4 are the same game each week, known as the Says You! bluffing round. It's a variation on the popular word game fictionary. The three members of one team are given an obscure word; one of them gets the actual definition, and the other two must bluff with fake definitions composed within a minute or so. The other team attempts to select the correct definition. Points are awarded for guessing or bluffing successfully.

With the expansion to one hour, a new round was added in October 2006 called the Spotlight Round. This round is a highlights portion of the show featuring funny or amazing highlights from the first ten years of the show.

Personnel

• Richard Sher (creator, producer and host)
• Francine Achbar (panelist)
• Carolyn Faye Fox (panelist)
• Tony Kahn (panelist)
• Paula Lyons (panelist)
• Barry Nolan (panelist)
• Arnie Reisman (panelist)
• Phil Salkind (producer)
• The Dactyls (house band)
• Zach Moore (associate producer)

Notes