The opposing celebrity’s, who with the other contestant had heard the entire description, would then try to make it more difficult for the first contestant to guess the word through use of a plunger known as the “blackout button”. Each time the plunger was pushed down, the recording would be silenced, or “blacked out”. Initially, each blackout button enabled the team to use it for seven seconds. If the celebrity giving the description repeated a word in his/her description, an extra second of blackout time would be added.