Welcome to the High Rollers guide at TV Tome. In 1972, Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley helped revive the CBS daytime game show lineup with Gambit, a general knowledge quiz tied to Blackjack. The show's success inspired the duo to create a second quiz tied to another Vegas-style game - craps. The result? Another successful game show called High Rollers. This durable dice game went through three distinct formats during each of its runs - an original NBC run from 1974-1976 (with a concurrent syndicated version in 1975); a second NBC run from 1978-1980; and in five-a-week syndication from 1987-1988. But a number of things were identical to all three versions of High Rollers. The host (Alex Trebek in the 1970s, Wink Martindale in the 1980s) asks a toss-up question - usually multiple choice or true/false, often worded to trick the players into ringing before the host could read the entire question. A correct guess allowed that contestant to control a pair of large di
