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''Tic-Tac-Dough'' is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe. Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, ''X'' or ''O'', on the board. Three versions were produced: the initial 1956–59 run on NBC, a 1978–86 run initially on CBS and then in syndication, and a syndicated run in 1990. The show was produced by Barry & Enright Productions. Jack Barry, the co-producer, was the original host of the 1950s version, followed by Gene Rayburn and then Bill Wendell, with Jay Jackson and Win Elliot hosting prime time adaptations as well. Wink Martindale hosted the network and syndicated version beginning in 1978, but left the program and was replaced by Jim Caldwell who hosted during the 1985–86 season. Patrick Wayne hosted the 1990 version. ==Gameplay== The goal of the game was to complete a line of three X or O markers on a standard tic-tac-toe board (with the reigning champion always mounting X's). Each of the nine spaces on the gameboard featured a category. Contestants alternated choosing a category and answering a general interest or trivia question in that category. If they were correct, they would get an X or O in that square; otherwise, it would remain unoccupied. The center square, being of the most strategic importance, involved a two-part question, with the contestant given ten seconds to think of the two answers needed to win the square. After each question, the categories would shuffle into different positions (in the 1950s series and early in the 1978 revival, the categories would shuffle after both contestants had taken a turn). In the 1990 series, the categories were shuffled prior to the start of each contestant's turn and the shuffe was stopped when the contestant in control hit his/her lock-in button. If at any point in a game it became impossible for either contestant to win with a line (a so-called "cat game"), the match was declared a draw and a new game would start. The process would continue until the deadlock was broken, however long it took to do so; the exception was the 1978 CBS version, where if each contestant had four markers on the board and could not complete tic-tac-toe, a jump-in type "tie-breaking" question was played with the contestant who answered correctly winning the game. This meant that a match could take multiple episodes to complete, which happened quite often. ''Tic-Tac-Dough'' used a rollover format to enable this to take place smoothly; this meant that a match could start at any point in an episode, continue until time was called, and then resume play on the next episode where the game left off with the same categories in play. The gameboard on the original 1950s series used rolling drums (each containing the same nine categories) to display subject categories, with light displays beneath them to display the X's and O's. When ''Tic-Tac-Dough'' was revived in 1978 the game board was made up of nine monitors, which displayed the categories and X's and O's. The 1990 series used a completely computer generated setup. On the original 1950s ''Tic-Tac-Dough'', a winning contestant could play until either he/she was defeated or elected to stop on their own. The second option was a Barry & Enright staple that had been used on ''Twenty One'', and it was important for a contestant to consider as if he/she chose to play another game and lost, the new champion's initial winnings would be deducted from the outgoing champion's final total. On the 1978 CBS daytime series, contestants played until either being defeated or reaching the network's $25,000 total winnings limit. There was no such restriction on the syndicated series that debuted in the fall of 1978 at any point during its run. This includes the period between 1981 and 1984 where both ''TTD'' and ''The Joker's Wild'' aired on stations owned by CBS; a limit in winnings had apparently been agreed to by Barry and Enright as a condition for picking the series up, as Jack Barry implied in 1983 on ''Joker'' when a contestant was forced into retirement. Nothing was ever said about ''TTD'' adopting said limit, however, and several contestants during that time won amounts well in excess of any limit. The 1990 series did impose a win limit of fifteen matches but it was never reached, as the longest contestant winning streak stopped at twelve victories early in the show's run. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tic-Tac-Dough」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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