This time the hopper contained balls with every even numbered Lingo space on them, regardless of whether they appeared on the board or not, and one gold ball. These gamers will tend to ignore classic and slightly older games in favor of these newer games, leaving the older ones unplayed.

Fourteen years later, Lingo was back in a brand new format and veteran host Chuck Woolery at the helm. Eurogames are sometimes alternatively refereed to as "Designer Board Games" or "German-Style Board Games".However, the show was later re-titled as Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned (for which this title references Woolery's one-hit wonder song from 1968 of the same name when he was formerly a lead singer of the band Avant-Garde at the time) in 2003. If the team did not guess the word after five chances, the correct word was revealed and two additional Lingo balls (a total of seven) would need to be drawn. In the Lingo Showdown, each team will have two minutes to solve as many five and six letter words as they can with the length of words alternating throughout.

The team could elect to use a bonus letter at any time to fill in the first unrevealed letter in a word, even if doing so would reveal the word.

The twist in this round is that the player in control needs to correctly place a letter to earn another guess, otherwise the opponent will take a turn.