Shaquille O’Neal’s new game show dares contestants to hide him — all 7 feet, 1 inch — in plain sight for a cash prize

Now ABC is betting eight strangers can do a better job at hiding him. In the new show “Can You Hide... Shaq?” contestants try to keep the 54-year-old Hall of Famer hidden in plain sight around Dallas, with a cash prize for whoever wins.

“I’m 7-foot-1. I’m not exactly easy to miss,” O’Neal said in ABC’s announcement. Comedian Nicole Byer hosts the show, and it’ll premiere Dec. 3 on ABC and the ESPN App.

ABC hasn’t said anything about how much the final prize will be. “The stakes are high, and so is the prize,” is all O’Neal would say. But whatever the winner takes home, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) counts the winnings as income, so it may be worth less than it looks on TV.

How ‘Can You Hide... Shaq?’ works

In the game, the contestants split into two teams. Each team gets a mission and a time limit, and they play it out at landmarks like Reunion Tower and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Every time someone spots and recognizes O’Neal, it counts against the team that tried to hide him.

If a team has the fewest spottings, they win immunity for one player on the team, who leads the next round as the captain. Meanwhile, both teams earn money throughout the game to add to a shared pot of cash (the Shaq-pot) that the winner takes home. The winner has to make it through every round by winning immunity or making sure they’re not voted off the show.

The first two episodes will air on Thursday, Dec. 3, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST. Another two will air on Dec. 10, and you can stream them on Hulu the next day.

The show is an ESPN Original from Fulwell Entertainment and O’Neal’s own company, Jersey Legends Productions.

The IRS treats a game show prize like income

According to the IRS, if you win a prize on a “television or radio quiz program,” “you must include it in your income.” The prize money gets added to everything else you earned that year and taxed along with it.

If you win $2,000 or more, you’ll get a tax form called a 1099-MISC. The IRS gets a copy too, so it’ll know about your prize. It doesn’t mean you’re off the hook if the prize is smaller, too. Even a $50 prize from a photography contest counts as income.