The show started with presenter Fritz Egner, who presented Dingsda a total of 132 times and handed over to his colleague Werner Schmidbauer in July 1994, who again presented 27 new episodes on ARD in 1999.

In each show, two celebrities in the red team played against two celebrities in the yellow team. Children explained terms that the adults had to guess in the various rounds of the game. It sounded something like this: “It’s yellow-brown and orange and it lives underground in America”. – What is that? – A pineapple! It was quite simple, wasn’t it?

Over 5,000 children from Germany and Austria have explained terms on Dingsda. If they accidentally slipped out the term to be guessed during their descriptions, an audible and visible “oops” was displayed. That’s why Dingsda fans have long since adopted “oops” into their language.

Almost 20 years after its first broadcast in the USA, Dingsda returned to German screens on Kabel 1 on October 10, 2001. The concept remained the same, with Thomas Ohrner taking over as presenter.

The format of whatsapp has its origins in the USA and is based on a format from “Mark Goodson Productions”. On September 20, 1982, the quiz show was launched under the name “Child’s Play” as a daily game show on CBS – hosted by Bill Cullen. To date, the timeless format has been sold to 19 countries.