''Friday Night Games'' was a spin-off from ''

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, hosted by

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(Blue Coordinator only in the Grand Final) with

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(Green Coordinator) and Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald (Yellow Coordinator) and was produced at Dreamworld, Gold Coast,

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. Two teams, each composed of three celebrities and one chosen contestant (dubbed the "celeb-to-be"), competed and tested their skills in a series of games and challenges. Each game had a different set of rules and difficulty rating. The "celeb-to-be" was chosen out of hundreds of applicants, most being eliminated through challenges until a final challenge on the ''Friday Night Games'' set. Challenges included holding onto a balloon whilst riding "Wipeout", or holding a piece of paper above their head whilst riding on the Tower Of Terror, a roller coaster at Dreamworld, without ripping it. During each Game there would be a referee (or ref for short) which the crowd booed at. At the grand final the ref was booed off stage and The ref Gave the crowd

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.However this was edited out. Each episode was pre-recorded in front of a live audience at Dreamworld's games arena and aired on Friday nights. The ultimate Friday Night Games Champion Team won a A$50,000 donation to the charity of their choice, courtesy of

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. Slightly less than half of the show's episodes are still lost to this day. Episodes 2, 4, 6, 7 and 10 have been found in their entirety and Episode 8 has had 47 minutes of its 64 minutes run time discovered. A six-minute ending to Episode 9 also exists, however, everything else from the show still remains lost.

Episodes

The winner of each episode is marked in Bold. The Brunettes, consisting of Patrick Harvey,

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, team captain

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and Celeb-to-be Karyn, were the winners of the series. They chose to give the $50,000 to

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References

https://lostmediawiki.com/Friday_Night_Games_(partially_found_Australian_spin-off_of_%22Big_Brother%22;_2006)#Episode_List

External links

* {{Big Brother AU 2006 Australian television series debuts 2006 Australian television series endings 2000s Australian game shows Network 10 original programming Australian television spinoffs Television series by Endemol Shine Australia Television series by Endemol