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An imaginary phone, whose futile hope, is to alert the terminally oblivious to reality. This put down probably unintentionally originated in 1973 with the forerunner of Wheel of Fortune, Shopper's Bazaar. A player could pick up the clue phone in front of them to hear whether the puzzle was a person, place or thing.
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