| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $400: Skipjack is the most common species of this that you'll find canned in the United States tuna |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $800: Koi are an ornamental type of this common fish carp |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $1200: The longjaw mudsucker, which burrows in mud or sand, is a type of this fish found in the Eastern Pacific, not an Asian desert goby |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $1600: Dory could tell you that surgeonfish is another name for this blue fish whose natural habitat is coral reef a blue tang |
| #9012, aired 2024-01-09 | 4-LETTER FISH $6,000 (Daily Double): The muskellunge, or muskie, a large member of this 4-letter family, can eat frogs & waterfowl a pike |
| #8565, aired 2022-01-28 | HOOK $1600: No mistake, the 4-letter hook seen here has been known to pull in a fish or two a gaff |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BLUE $1000: Coral reefs are home to the blue fish known by this 4-letter name a tang |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | BARRIERS IN LIFE $1200: Electric barriers were built in the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal to stop the spread of the invasive this 4-letter fish carp |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
| #8454, aired 2021-07-29 | TAKE A FEW LETTERS $400: In the season we also call fall, you can catch this 4-letter fish tuna |
| #8330, aired 2021-02-05 | FISHING FOR THE RIGHT WORD $600: This 4-letter fish also means to complain carp |
| #8269, aired 2020-10-29 | 4-LETTER SYNONYMS $200: When preparing fish, its synonym is smoke; for healthcare, it's remedy or heal cure |
| #7143, aired 2015-10-07 | SEE THE SEA CREATURE $1600: This freshwater fish that can weigh up to 4 pounds is cousin to the pike & starts with the same letter a perch |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $400: The Atlantic bluefin species of this fish can swim 45 miles per hour tuna |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $800: This family of freshwater fish that includes the muskellunge can be identified by its duckbill-shaped snout pike |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $1,000 (Daily Double): The name of this shark, a popular gamefish, is from the Maori mako |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $1200: The Dover species of this flatfish was named for the British seaport sole |
| #6644, aired 2013-07-04 | 4-LETTER FISH $1600: The smallmouth species of this is also called a bronzeback due to its brown hue bass |
| #6000, aired 2010-10-15 | 4-LETTER WORDS $1000: A small boat with a flat bottom: when it follows "John", it's a kind of fish a dory |
| #5870, aired 2010-03-05 | THE LURE OF FISHING $200: 4-letter term for living creatures, such as worms, attached to a hook to entice fish bait |
| #3972, aired 2001-12-04 | GO FISH $1000: The savory silver salmon with its bright red flesh is also known by this 4-letter name coho |
| #3904, aired 2001-07-19 | 4-LETTER WORDS $400: Deep-bodied with flat sides & a small head, a bream is a type of this a fish |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | 4-LETTER FISH $200: Lemon & Dover are 2 popular varieties of this food fish sole |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | 4-LETTER FISH $400: Georgia & Mississippi have designated the largemouth species of this their state fish bass |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | 4-LETTER FISH $600: The goldfish is one of many species that belong to this family of fish carp |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | 4-LETTER FISH $800: The American variety of this fish is the largest member of the herring family shad |
| #2100, aired 1993-10-22 | 4-LETTER FISH $1000: Prized as a game fish, this species of shark is known in Australia as a blue pointer mako |
| #1570, aired 1991-05-31 | 4-LETTER WORDS $500: A type of freshwater fish, or to complain constantly to carp |
| #775, aired 1988-01-08 | 4-LETTER WORDS $200: To set down a plane or pull in a fish land |
| #22, aired 1984-10-09 | 4-LETTER WORDS $100: Pronounced one way it's a fish, the other a deep male voice bass |
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