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Listeners call or send e-mails to nominate themselves as contestants. The producers select a group of these listeners to be on the show and play games with questions based on the week's news. These games include:

• Who's Carl This Time? – The contestant must identify the speaker or explain the context of three quotations read by Morning Edition news-reader Carl Kasell (or his substitute). Two correct answers constitute a win.
• Bluff the Listener – The contestant hears three stories read by the panelists and must determine the true news story from the fictional ones.
• Listener Limerick Challenge – The contestant must identify the last word or phrase in three news-related limericks read by Carl Kasell. Two correct answers constitute a win.
• Not My Job – A celebrityFor the 1998 movie, see Celebrity (1998 movie). A celebrity is a famous person. The etymological origin of the word is "one who is celebrated. An alternative definition of a celebrity is a person who is famous for being famous (regardless of what first br guest takes a three-question multiple-choice quiz on topic unrelated to the celebrity's field. Two correct answers constitute a win and the prize goes to a randomly selected listener who contacted the show but was not chosen as a contestant.

The prizeA prize is an award given to a person or a group of people to recognise and reward actions or achievements. Official prizes often involve monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them. Some prizes are also associated with extravagant awarding for winning any game is to have Carl Kasell record the greeting on the contestant's home answering machineAn answering machine also known as an answer machine (especially in UK and British commonwealth countries), ansafone tradename ), ansaphone tradename ), answerphone or telephone answering device TAD , is a device for automatically answering telephone call.

In between games, Peter Sagal asks the panelists questions from the week's news and the panelists earn points by giving correct answers. A panelist also earns a point if a contestant chooses his/her story in the Listener Bluff game, whether that story was true or made-up. At the end of the show, the panelists take a Lightning Fill-In-The-Blank quiz. Each panelist is given eight questions and scores 2 points for each correct answer. After the quiz all the points are totaled and the panelist with the highest score is declared the week's champion. Panelists do not receive prizes for winning.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is produced at the studios of WBEZWBEZ is the callsign of Chicago Public Radio in Chicago, Illinois. Financed primarily by listener contributions, they are affiliated with both NPR and PRI. Currently, WBEZ is perhaps best known as the producer of This American Life''. External links WBEZ. in Chicago ( Chicago Public Radio). A few times a year the cast travels to various cities in the United States and produces a road show in front of a live audience.