[quote name=\'AH3RD\' date=\'Jun 29 2004, 07:51 AM\']
From Television City In Hollywood, It's Everybody's Game Of Strategy, Knowledge And Fun! It's The New Tic Tac Dough
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There were several instances on CBS'
Tic Tac Dough which differentiated it from its impending syndicated version:
[*]For the front game, the game board consisted of six categories with a black background and three with an orange background. The black-backgrounded categories were regular category questions; whereas the orange-backgrounded categories were jump-in questions. The categories only shuffled before the game started and after both the "X" and "O" player have had a turn at the board. When the categories shuffled, so did the colors as to which ones were regular categories and which ones were jump-in categories(because of the "jump-in's", this is why the podiums at the beginning of the syndicated run had signaling buttons despite the fact that they were never used).
[*]In the event of a tie game, a jump-in question decided the winner.
[*]For the bonus round there were four X's, four O's (both are $150 for each one found), and the dragon on the board. Finding The Tic Tac Toe on the board wins a prize package along with the money.
[*]Contestants retired after surpassing/reaching the CBS $25,000 limit.
[*]The Dragon had flashing red eyes and a yellow background.
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Are you sure about some of those?
You left one difference out: the main game's dollar values were 200 in the center and 100 for the other eight (so a nine-square tie game carried $1000 over).
Also:
* I'm pretty sure that tied games carried over, although that may have just been at the beginning of the run;
* The first round of questions did not have any jump-ins (and occasionally, when the jump-ins showed up, there weren't three of them; I assume that three of the squares were selected at random, including squares that already had an X or O in them);
* Are you sure about those colors? I seem to recall them being the same as in the syndicated version (normally blue, but black for jump-ins - white on orange would have been very tough to see on black-and-white TVs).
* Not a "mistake", but I think you should have pointed out that in the end game, there was only one way to get three in a row, and the contestant was not told in advance if it was three Xs or three Os.
-- Don
