O, how X-citing! Tic Tac Dough is again on our screens, 35 years after the final iteration ended. Brooke Burns is internet hosting the revival, which premieres on Monday, April 14, at 7/6, on Sport Present Community.
In keeping with a GSN press launch, the brand new Tic Tac Dough will as soon as once more have two contestants answering trivia questions to put their X’s or O’s on a large tic-tac-toe board. And as soon as once more, a dragon character is hiding within the grid, ready to dam the contestants’ progress. The contestant who wins after three rounds strikes on to the grand prize spherical, the place they’ll attempt to defeat the dragon and make three in a row for a $10,000 prize.
“It’s the identical recreation however with an incredible new look,” Burns says in a GSN promo for the reboot. “And me!”
Besides it’s not fairly the identical recreation, as followers have identified on-line. For one, the set seems to be digital — with CGI cubes coming out from the sport board to disclose the questions — with no studio viewers.
Additionally, the questions are actually multiple-choice, main one YouTube commenter to complain, “Oh, nice, a dumbed down model of Tic Tac Dough.”
And it seems that the jackpot doesn’t roll over and that contestants received’t have an opportunity to go on streaks like Tom McGhee, who famously received $312,700 — $200,000 in money, three sailboats, eight vehicles, and 16 holidays — on the present in 1980, per The Atlantic.
“Winner will get the standard GSN $1,000 and goes to the bonus spherical, which may also be considerably completely different, for the standard GSN $10,000,” one Reddit consumer noticed. “So principally, it’s Tic Tac D’OH.”
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One other Reddit consumer, in the meantime, complained concerning the inexperienced display use. “It’s essentially the most bare-bones manufacturing ever,” they wrote. “As a former contestant, nothing is cooler than being on a set of a recreation present. This cheapens the expertise for the contestants and, by proxy, the viewers at residence.”
Reddit customers on that thread did, nevertheless, reward the internet hosting skills of Burns, although. “She may save [the show] if the sport is nice sufficient.”
The unique Tic Tac Dough premiered on NBC daytime in 1956 — with co-creator Jack Barry internet hosting, adopted on the podium by Gene Rayburn and Invoice Wendell — and aired till 1959. A nighttime model aired in on NBC in 1957 and 1958 — and was caught up within the Fifties game-show rigging scandal. In 1959, as a part of a congressional investigation, Tic Tac Dough producer Howard Felsher admitted to feeding solutions to contestants and estimated that about 75 % of the quizzes on the nighttime model had been rigged, per The New York Instances. (“I used to be attempting to place collectively an entertaining and thrilling present,” Felsher instructed a congressional subcommittee.)
The New Tic Tac Dough, hosted by Wink Martindale after which Jim Caldwell, aired on CBS daytime in the summertime of 1978 and in syndication from 1978 to 1986. And a syndicated model of the sport present, additionally referred to as Tic Tac Dough, had a short run in 1990, with Patrick Wayne as host.
Alongside the best way, the gameplay developed. The New Tic Tac Dough elevated the prize quantities of the tic-tac-toe packing containers and added a bonus recreation through which the dragon made its debut, in response to The Encyclopedia of TV Sport Reveals. The 1990 syndicated model upped the field prize quantities once more, rotated the trivia classes after each query, and added a dragon-slaying knight that might save the ultimate contestant’s winnings.
Now, many years later, the 3-by-3 grid is open once more, and Burns is elated to be bringing the present again to TV. “It’s great,” she mentioned in a behind-the-scenes Q&A. “I like the historical past of recreation reveals and watching recreation reveals collectively as a household, and understanding that Tic Tac Dough goes all the best way again to the Fifties, starting out with Jack Barry after which after all with Wink Martindale, it’s such an honor to be part of that sort of legacy. I’m very honored.”
Tic Tac Dough, Sequence Premiere, Monday, April 14, 7/6c, GSN