Catch Me If You Can (game show)
Russian television game show
Catch Me If You Can (Russian: Поймай меня, если сможешь, romanized: Poymay menya, esli smozhesh') is a Russian television mystery music game show, featuring its format where a team of guest artists attempt to identify good and bad singers through batches of mystery singers. It first aired on Rossiya-1 on 24 May 2024.
Instead of following the original South Korean rules, the series implemented its own "invasion format", a variation of the "battle format" that resembles from Giọng ải giọng ai. Being a "replacement" to the original counterpart Ya vizhu tvoy golos during wartime with Ukraine, the series designated as a unofficial adaptation that also technically included to the I Can See Your Voice franchise.
Gameplay
The game is played in two phases, featuring two opposing teams — a team of four guest artists (known as "stars") and a team of mystery singers performing in batches (known as "invaders").
Rounds
Lip sync phase
Each mystery singer performs a lip sync to a song; good singers mime to a recording of their own, while bad singers mime to a backing track by another vocalist. After the "stage of truth" performances, they are now allowed to talk freely.
If the guest artists guessed the mystery singer right, they get points depending on batch, otherwise the mystery singers did the same points have if they guessed wrong.
Dark horse
A "surprise" mystery singer dubbed the "dark horse" (Russian: Темная лошадка) is appeared on the "stage of truth"; the highest-scoring team or both of two (if the game ends in a tie) would have do the same mechanic as the lip sync solo phase. The winning team is determined on two different conclusions:
If either guest artists or mystery singers guessed the "dark horse" right, they win 1,000,000 ₽; if either guessed them wrong, their money is given to the opposing team instead.
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