Pasapalabra (Laiorian game show)

Pasapalabra is a Laiorian game show. The Spanish-language version was broadcast on LTV Español 1 from 2004 until 2010, and again in a daytime format since 2018. The English-language version was broadcast on LTV English 1 from 2006 until 2007, and in daytime since 2020. Both were presented by Milton Holmes in their original runs, and by María Carmen Larriba in their revivals. the show was based on the, itself based on the British format .

Original run (2002-07)
Two contestants team up with celebrities to play various word games. Correct responses in these games earn seconds, extending the contestants' time in the final round. The final round, "El rosco", in which Holmes reads a definition of a word starting with or containing that letter. A contestant responds with a word or passes by saying "Pasapalabra". Completing El Rosco with all questions correct wins the progressive jackpot, which can often be worth millions of kronor.

Second run (2018-)
Two contestants team up with celebrities, while a fifth acts as judge. The five celebrities are there all week, while the contestants rotate. The contestants play a series of minigames, with 100 seconds now automatically added to the clock.

Letters Dream
This round sees the teams trying to buzz in for control of a question such as 'things I would do if I won the lottery'; the teams must then go through the alphabet to provide answers. The other team can challenge an answer if they feel it is incorrect, in which case the judge decides which team is correct. If the judge decides the challenging team is correct or a team member can't think of an answer, play passes to the other team. This round ends when one team passes Z. Each correct answer adds 3 seconds to the clock.

First letter
Each contestant in turn has 1 minute to answer as many questions as possible, with the correct answers all beginning with the same letter. The champion plays first, and a different letter is specified for each contestant. One second is added to the contestant's clock for every correct answer.

Last letter
Gameplay is identical to the first round, except that all of a contestant's correct answers will end with the same given letter.

Starting letters
A category is named, and each contestant is given a set of initials referring to a term that fits it. They are given a maximum of three clues, and have three seconds to respond after each clue. Solving the initials correctly on the first clue awards five seconds; on the second clue, three; and on the third clue, one. Two categories are played, with each contestant having one turn per category and the champion always playing first. At the end of the round, the challenger with the lowest total time on their clock is eliminated. If there is a tie for lowest time, a "first letter" tiebreaker question is played on the buzzer to determine who advances, with no seconds at stake.

Thirteen letters
Thirteen letters are selected at random and placed in alphabetical order. One toss-up question is asked on the buzzer for each letter in order, which serves as the first letter of its answer. Two seconds are awarded for each correct answer, while a miss freezes the contestant out of the next question. Once all 13 questions have been asked, the challenger with the lower score is eliminated. In case of a tie, a "first letter" tiebreaker is played as before.

El Rondo
El Rondo is played as in the 2002-2007 version, but with lower cash prizes: the jackpot starts at KR 10.000, with KR 1.000 added for every contestant's wrong answers.

Biggest winner
The biggest winner to date is Simon Galwitz, who won a KR 355.000 rollover jackpot on 20 December 2022 on the English-language version.

Trivia

 * After the result of an ongoing legal dispute in Spain, where the Dutch MC&F group are suing Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 for format rights, since November 2022 all episodes broadcast have attributed Reto Luigi Pianta and René Mauricio Loeb as the creators of the format, after it was adjudged by the Supreme Court of Catalonia that the two individuals had come up with El Rosco in 1998 and sold the rights to MC&F, who in turn licensed the game to Canale 5 in Italy for their version of the show.
 * Since the 2018 revival, the credits have based the game both on the British original The Alphabet Game and the format created by Pianta and Loeb, called "21 for 100".