The Letter of the Day Games

The Letter of the Day Games are a series of Sesame Street game shows which have occasionally appeared in Season 36. (So far, only the letters P, W, and Y have had game-show sketches made.)

Unlike most Sesame Street game shows, this one has a voice-only announcer (not a Muppet host). He promises Cookie Monster "lots of cookies" for finding three things beginning with the letter of the day. As on Beat the Time, Cookie has to race against the clock (a 30-second limit, in this case).

He follows the same general pattern in each sketch: The first item is a food (such as watermelon in the W game). The second is a non-food object--often taken from some protesting Anything Muppet (such as a wig, whose elderly owner complains). The third item always involves Prairie Dawn in some way; the unseen announcer usually objects that she doesn't qualify. ("Sorry, Cookie, but 'girl' doesn't begin with the letter 'W'!)

Cookie Monster, however, finds some way to win the cookies on a technicality (such as pointing out that Prairie Dawn is still "wet" from the shower where he found her). The sketch always ends with dozens of CGI cookies falling from above, which annoys Prairie Dawn even further as Cookie Monster tries to grab some.