The People's Lima- Being Myself: 08/22/10

There was one that I try not to miss every day after school when I was a kid back in the day and the show was Finders Keepers on Nickelodeon. The show debuted on Nickelodeon back in November 2, 1987 and was hosted by actor Wesley Eure of "Land Of The Lost" and "Days Of Our Lives" fame. When the show hit syndication for the 3rd season on September 12, 1988, actor and writer Larry Toffler hosted this version until it ended in 1989.

The rules of the game are simple, 2 teams, red and blue, try to find a hidden object in a picture. If they find the object in the picture, they get $25 and the right to search a room in the Finders Keepers house. If they find the hidden object in the room within 30 seconds, they will get $50. If the team fails to find the object within 30 seconds, the money goes to their opponents. In the second round, the hidden picture objects are worth $75, the room is worth $100. But in one of the rooms is an instant prize room and the team that finds the object in that room wins that prize. The team that wins the most money at the end of the main game goes on a wild Room-To-Room Romp throughout the Finders Keepers house for some fabulous prizes and a grand prize.

In the Room-To-Room Romp, the winning team has 90 seconds (1 minute and 30 seconds, if you're keeping score, LOL!) to cover 6 rooms. In each of those 6 rooms, there is a object clue card to help the team out by revealing the clue for the next room they go to. They get all 6 rooms, they win the prizes and the grand prize!

The hidden picture round in the seasons hosted by Wesley Eure you have to just circle the object in the picture with a telestrator pen but in the seasons hosted by Larry Toffler, you would have to use Colorform-like stickers to find the object in the picture.

In the Finders Keepers house, there are the usual rooms that we all have in a regular home and the majority of these rooms are featured in the first season, like the following:

The bathroom (sometimes it's Ali Baba's or Buck Rogers')

The kitchen (Sometimes it's Granny's or Old Mother Hubbard's)

The living room (Sometimes it's the Caveman's living room or the Old Homestead)

The attic

The add-on room

Mom & Dad's room

Dad's Den

The family room

The library room

The dining room

Big Sister's room

The kids' room

The laundry room

The exercise room

The closet

The garage

The artist's loft

Then you got some rooms inside the Finders Keepers house that are real life places but they are not normally inside a house like the following:

The backyard

The beach

The sewer

The pastry shop

The general store

The jungle

The toy store

The moon

The swamp

The oasis

Then there are fantasy rooms planted in the Finders Keepers house to throw off the teams from a psychological standpoint while searching the following rooms:

Dungeon Room

Dracula's Castle

Frankenstein's Laboratory

The Torture Tower (If you get rid of the coffin & skeleton and add a wheel, it's Rumpelstiltskin's Tower}

The Egyptian Room/ King Tut's Tomb (Which is my personal favorite room as you can see the majority of the pics I posted here in this blog, LOL!)

There are also these fantasy rooms that are pretty normal rooms if you're reading a book about them:

Fairy Tale Room

Sherlock Holmes' Study

Tarzan's Treehouse

Cowboys' Bunkhouse

Dinosaur Den Rainforest

Here some of the Finders Keepers logos with many different looks throughout it's tenure:

This Finders Keepers logo is from the Toffler version, which is like the "backyard" of the house.

This is the board game featured as one of the consolation prizes from the Eure version.

This is the Finders Keepers logo from the Eure version in the "front of the house".

Yup, I have the actual board game of Finders Keepers!!! I posted this on Instagram and tagged both Wesley Eure and Larry Toffler and Mr. Toffler responded with an interesting story about promoting this. Thank you, Larry!!! This was featured as one of the consolation prizes in the Toffler version.

This is from a form to buy a Finders Keepers t-shirt.

The pyramid object from the logo but it is on the timer of the board game.

Here is my favorite room on the board game version of the show: The Egyptian Room aka King Tut's Tomb.

Here are more screenshots from my favorite room in Finders Keepers: The Egyptian Room aka King Tut's Tomb, first is the Eure version, which is the 3rd room on the 1st floor of the Finders Keepers house:

This Egyptian Room in the Eure version is missing one thing: A sarcophagus!

Another picture of the Egyptian Room in the Eure version without a sarcophagus.

Next is the Toffler version of the Egyptian Room aka King Tut's Tomb, which is the 2nd room on the 2nd floor of the Finders Keepers house:

Then there is the Torture Tower, in which you will see and hanging skeleton and a coffin, which is not a good combination for those who do not find the hidden object in that room, LOL!

If you get rid of the skeleton and the coffin and add the spindle wheel, this is Rumpelstiltskin's Tower.

Watch out! This is Dracula's Den in the Eure version!

Here is the Finders Keepers house, the Smashable Palace, the Happy Hacienda containing rooms that are doomed!

Ahh, the Nintendo set.....usually can give given away as an Instant Prize or one pf the prizes in the Room-To-Room Romp. I don't know if this was a consolation prize. Heck, if it was a consolation prize, I'd be one of the happiest losers on the show, LOL! "Hey, I lost on Finders Keepers and all I got was an awesome NINTENDO SET! YEAH!" LOL!