TV Slagalica

TV Slagalica
ТВ Слагалица

The opening screen showing the mascot, Skočko
Created by RTS
Presented by Marija Veljković and Kristina Radenković
Country of origin  Serbia
Original language(s) Serbian
No. of episodes 5000+
Production
Location(s) Belgrade, Serbia
Camera setup Multiple-camera setup
Running time 25 minutes
Production company(s) Radio-television of Serbia
Broadcast
Original channel Radio-television of Serbia
Picture format 4:3, 16:9 (on 1 December)
Original run 22 November 1993 – Present
Chronology
Preceded by Muzička Slagalica

TV Slagalica (Serbian Cyrillic: ТВ Слагалица; English: TV Puzzle) or simply Slagalica is Serbia’s longest-running quiz show produced by RTS and airs on RTS1. It is based on Countdown a UK game show. It first aired on November 22, 1993. at 7 pm. It comprises five simple mind games (word, number and knowledge games). Contestants play for a spot in the quarter finals, semi finals and then the finals. Contestants win prizes as they progress. It has two female hosts: Marija Veljković and Kristina Radenković.[1]

History

TV Slagalica is the longest-running quiz show which has survived competition from internationally created quiz shows with local production in Serbia (such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and The Weakest Link).

The first show aired on November 22, 1993 under the name of Muzička Slagalica (English: Musical Puzzle). The producers changed over time, there have been a total of 20 hosts, 20 different games, 5.000 contestants, the air time has changed numerous times, the studio design has changed as well as the sponsors, prizes and the name (to TV Slagalica).

On April 7, 2006 the quiz aired its 3000th episode. Since May 2007 the show has started airing daily at 7.00PM Central European Time.[2]

The 70th season of TV Slagalica began airing in September 2011.

Programming

TV Slagalica is aired according to seasons. Each season has 61 episodes and in each show there are 2 contestants. The contestants are chosen by a test conducted before the quiz is filmed. Out of the total 61 episodes in each season, 40 are qualifier shows for the quarter finals and 21 episodes are for those that have won in the previous forty episodes competing for a spot in the top 8. Each contestant gets an award even if they are defeated by their opponent. Each episode starts with the host announcing the episode number and current season and introducing the game supervisor Milka Canić.

Ratings

Even though the quiz show is not as high tech as others, TV Slagalica has managed to bring in a high ratings for its network averaging approximately 1.5 million viewers on work days.

The Games

Slagalica - Igra sa slovima (Puzzle - Letter game)

A computer flashes letters of the Serbian alphabet. The first contestant says "stop" 12 times and therefore twelve letters are displayed. The two contestants try and work out the longest Serbian word they can make from the 12 letters. Each letter is worth 2 points. The person with a word with the more letter wins. The game is played twice (each contestant chooses the letters once).

Moj Broj - Igra sa brojevima (Math game)

The players randomly (by saying "stop", like in the first game) pick a three digit number and six more numbers (four single-digit numbers, one which is one of 10, 15 or 20 and one is 25, 50, 75 or 100). The players must use the six numbers and basic mathematical operations to get a result as close to the given number as possible. A 90 second time limit is imposed. After the time limit, the players report their results and the one with the closer result presents the equation. If the equation is wrong, the other player presents his equation. The game is played twice, each time one of the contestants picks the numbers.

Korak po korak - Igra otkrivanja pojmova (Word detection game)

The players are trying to guess the hidden word through 7 steps. Time takes about 5 seconds on each step, then the player in turn must guess the word. If he cannot guess, the other player tries to do it. First step is always the hardest and last step is the easiest.

Skočko (Mastermind)

The players play mastermind game. Each player plays once and has 6 attempts to guess the four symbol combination. If the player fails to do so, the other player has one attempt to guess his opponents combination. Skočko refers to the mascot of the show, which is also one of the 6 images that can form the combination. Other are playing card suits (hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades) and a star.

Ko zna, zna (General knowledge game)

Ten general knowledge questions are asked. Each question is worth 10 points. If the first contestant does not know the answer the second contestant gets a chance to answer and vice versa. However, if the contestant answer incorrectly, he loses 5 points. This game brings the most points to the player.

Asocijacije (Associations game)

Contestant must solve 8 associations. They have 5 minutes to do so.

Memorable old games

Berza (Auction game)

The players have been offered a set of questions to which the answers are 50:50 or 3:1 chance to answer correctly (most usually yes/no questions), and then the players bid which one will have more correct answers. If the highest bidder answers the exact number of questions he bid for or more, he wins, otherwise, the other player takes points.

Budite detektiv (Detective game)

The players have been told about mysterious person or object and they must guess who the person/object is.

Dodavanje (Number adding game)

The players choose 5 numbers from the randomly chosen set of numbers. Then the player randomly chaoses a target number, which contestants must reach by using their chosen numbers. Whoever reaches the target number, or closest to it, is the winner.

Nije nego ("The other way around")

The players must guess the names of books, movies etc. by the title with antonym words (for example: "A Midwinter Day's Reality" for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"). Each player has 5 titles to guess and has 5 seconds for each. After that, the other player tries to guess the ones the first player missed.

Crew

Current crew of Slagalica:

Gaming supervisor Milka Canić became somewhat of a staple television personality from Serbia, as she always started the show by simply greeting the contestants and the host with the catchphrase "Dobro veče" ("Good Evening"), the remark for which she became notable for being in use for more than 10 years of the show's run.[3] Canić is not present in the studio during the competition since 2012, but is still credited as the supervisor.

Seasons and rankings

As of January 2014 Slagalica is in its 81st season. Winners and rankings in each season can be seen in the table below.

Season Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
1 Dragan Bešević Velibor Marjanović Jan Bažik Nenad Komadinić
2 Dušan Nikić Miroslav Cvetković Branislav Nikić Miroslav Lalić
3
4 Omer Ekić Đorđe Simić
5 Marko Obradović Miroslav Cvetković Miodrag Vojvodić
6 Mihajlo Nejkov Bojan Jovanović Radisav Nikolić
7 Zoran Jovanović Dragan Radosavljević Aleksandar Bjelica
8 Vladan Zarić Dario Goran Damjanović
9 Perica Đorđević
10 Miodrag Vojvodić Lazar Kojić
11 Vladimir Pešić Bojan Pijevac
12 Goran Damjanović Petar Miljković Aleksandar Đorđević Novica Lukić
13 Gordana Milešić Momčilo Šaranović Dejan Žukovski Dejan Komar
14 Dragan Stojanović
15 Zoran Milicevic
16 Damir Durakovic Vladimir Miletic
17 Ilija Loncar Arsenije Goran Radović
18 Stanko Bosnic
19
20 Željko Komarica Miroljub Arsić
21
22 Andrej Pešikan Novak Nikolić Marjan Gosta Miloš Đorđević
23 Goran Radović Ivan Stamenković Slaviša Simović Ivica Janković
24 Marija Subotić Vladimir Ranđelović Srećko Golubovič Aleksandar Kovačević
25 Aleksandra Čolakov Milan Živanović Dejan Doroslovački Ivan Bukumirić
26 Predrag Antić Milan Rmus Dejan Jelić Ksenija Danković
27 Sofija Necin Vladan Zarić Zvonko Vukićević Dragan Milenković
28 Milenko Marković Miloš Cvetić Miroslav Pavlović Milorad Cvejić
29 Đorđija Popović Mirjana Radmilović Vladan Stevanović Dejan Đorđević
30 Vladimir Vujović Sandra Trifunović Branko Milić Pero Đorđeski
31 Veljko Gluščević Dragan Zeljković Aleksandar Ostojić Balša Nikolić
32 Milan Ivanović Petar Tepavčević Aleksandar Bukinac Ivan Andonov
33 Darko Božičković Vlastimir Purić Dragan Pešović Žarko Milovanović
34 Dejan Vukelić Radomir Jovanović Andrija Dodig Milan Radulović
35 Jovan Ćuk Siniša Ljustina Gojko Šurbatović Saša Stoiljković
36 Želimir Lalić Saša Tonić Vojin Ostojić
37 Branislava Knežević Milan Đorić Vojislav Lazarević
38 Dušan Babić Branko Hristov Milan Pavlović
39 Dragan Isailović Svetislav Mijović Goran Stajić Staniša Nikolić
40 Miloš Slavković Vladimir Krnač Boban Luković Sajo Vilotić
41 Aleksandar Simić Ivan Ilić Nikola Ivanović Veljo Spasojević
42 Nenad Kunovac Vojkan Veličković Boroljub Zlatanović Nenad Milčić
43 Dušan Jovanović Nikola Vujičić Goran Jovanović
44 Marjan Gosta Goran Avalić Zoran Živojinović Vladimir Vilotić
45 Jovan Stojičić Zoran Horvatov Igor Markov Aleksandar Ivković
46 Draško Ešpek Duško Gvozdenović Dragovan Vasić Darko Kuzeljević
47 Kosta Željski Vladimir Jovičić Miroslav Cvetković Aleksa Popadić
48 Darko Krčmar Slavko Bovan Sava Mirčić Đorđe Cimerman
49 Miloš Petronijević Miodrag Petrović Milorad Cvejić Siniša Čolović
50 Dragan Đukanović Branislav Bošnjaković Bojan Janković Srđan Radović
51 Stevan Uzelac Miloš Stojanović Miroslav Luka Mrković Željko Bohinc
52 Slavka Bakalov Zvonko Vukićević Goran Ranđelović Miodrag Cerović
53 Aleksandar Vesić Đorđe Panić Saša Radonjić Sofija Ikonić
54 Vladimir Džamić Vladan Mihajilović Igor Repić Jovan Nikolić
55 Goran Sević Zoran Čekerinac Zoran Krstić Ranko Knežević
56 Velibor Marjanović Zlatko Emeđi Dragan Jonović Nenad Veljković
57 Bojan Peruničić Zoran Radisavljević Milenko Pelević Radosav Ilić
58 Milica Marković Mihajlo Simić Andrej Vujović
59 Milorad Ankić Đorđe Lacmanović Dragan Rajković
60 (Superfinale) Mihajlo Nejkov Novica Lukić Vlastimir Purić Bojan Savić
61 Vladimir Janjić Božidar Tanić Goran Vukojević Dragoljub Selaković
62 Aleksandar Divović Ivan Cvijović Dušan Ivanović Dragan Popović
63 Nenad Petrović Željko Tomašević Milan Stevanović Bojan Subotić
64 Vladimir Nikolić Siniša Marjanović Ratko Aleksić Goran Miletić
65 Veljko Mihajlović Vladimir Obradović Danijel Popović Dejan Vejinović
66 Ljubiša Vidanović Đorđe Karna Slađan Đorđević Ivanka Radisavljević
67 Igor Zeljković Nikola Živanović Žarko Stevanović Branko Martin
68 Braca Kundalić Nikola Stefanovic Zoran Duvnjak Igor Žegarac
69 Filip Vukojević Biljana Malinović Boško Knežević Nikola Lukić
70 Bogdan Ivković Dragoslava Medenica Nenad Vujadinović Zoran Miketek
71 Dejan Barać Damjan Bogosavljević Milan Jovanović Mina Đurić
72 Vladimir Asenov Nebojša Despotović Milorad Todorov Srđan Mirković
73 Radoljub Vranić Srđan Lakić Milan Nikolić Jovica Đorđević
74 Nenad Njezić Miroslav Anđelković Uroš Jovanović Luka Ristić
75 Milica Jokanović Vladimir Stefanović Marko Radosavljević Nebojša Savić
76 Vladan Vujanović Jovan Miljković Sanja Tadić Aleksandar Ostojić
77 Dragutin Đorđević Stojan Sekulin Igor Burlica Branka Šorak
78 Srđan Stanković[4] Boban Milutinović Borivoj Dević Jasmina Vortić
79 Mladen Mitrović Milorad Nedeljković Danilo Stevanović Nemanja Cvijić
80 Duško Sekulić Bojan Nikolić Đorđe Jovčić Bojan Zdravković
81 Srđan Lončarević Gradimir Veljković Jovana Pavlović Vuk Trnavac
82 Igor Biga Radiša Nikolić Dejan Maksimović Aleksandar Petrović
83 Marija Gvozdenović Dragan Kojadinović Magdalina Čivović Darko Jović
84 Branislav Belajev Novica Aćimović Marija Čivović Jelena Lazović
85 Vladislava Stanišić Zorana Đurđević Branko Đorđević Ivan Ilić
86 Božidar Ćukić Anastazia Tokić Jovan Javorina Dragan Lukić
87 Dušan Erceg Aleksandar Savić Dragan Andrić Nenad Rosić
88 Marko Jelić Danijel Predarski Darko Ostojić Ivan Petrović

Superfinals

Besides regular seasons, as of March 2013, four superfinals (superfinala) have taken place featuring best contestants in regular seasons. The fourth superfinal was also counted as Season 60, which took place in 2009 and it included the total of 231 best competitors since the inception of TV Slagalica. Below is the table of superfinal rankings.

Superfinal series Year Winner Runner-up Third Fourth
Superfinal 1 Jan Bažik Dušan Nikić Dragan Bešević Miroslav Cvetković
Superfinal 2 Omer Ekić Bojan Jovanović Mihajlo Nejkov Đorđe Simić
Superfinal 3 1997 Zoran Jovanović Aleksandar Bjelica Novica Lukić Lazar Kojić
Superfinal 4
(also Season 60) 		2009 Mihajlo Nejkov Novica Lukić Vlastimir Purić Bojan Savić

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Slagalica, naše drugo prezime" [Slagalica, Our Second Last Name] (in Serbian). Večernje novosti. 11 October 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  2. ↑ RTS: Programska šema , 30 May 2010 (Serbian)
  3. ↑ "Dve reči za slavu" [Two Words for Glory]. Vecernje novosti. 2 August 2008. Retrieved 6 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Srđan Stanković: Najobrazovaniji, a prodavac ribe" [Srđan Stanković: The Most Educated One Sells Fish] (in Serbian). Vecernje novosti. 23 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2015.

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