A high-stakes solve-the-puzzle competition, Lingo pits teams of two in multiple fast-paced rounds of guessing letters that in turn reveal seemingly simple words. The winning teams of these early rounds then go head-to-head in a nerve-wracking and unpredictable showdown. It all spells out TV's newest word-based competition sensation, in which anyone's H-U-N-C-H can mean someone's cash P-R-I-Z-E.