Across the Board
A ko'ina cikin Hukumar wasan wasan cacar-baki ne na Amurka wanda aka nuna akan ABC na tsawon watanni hudu a shekarar 1959. Masu gasa suna warware makasudin wanda aka ba da amsa ta hanyar jumla da hoto. Nunin, wanda aka yi rikodin a cikin birnin New York, Hal Tulchin ne ya jagorance shi kuma Ted Brown ya shirya shi. Ya fara zuwa mara kyau reviews.

Masu fafatawa biyu, daya zakara mai dawowa,  suna gasa don cike grid iri daya akan babban allo na inji.   Ana ba da alamu daya bayan daya, cikin sassa biyu: ma'anar magana, sa'an nan alamar zane mai ban dariya da aka zana a ainihin lokacin daga bayan allon takardan shinkafa .   Misali, kashi na farko ya yi amfani da alamar [Wani irin bututu], da kuma zanen ɗan Scotsman, don amsar BAG (kamar yadda yake cikin bututu ). 

Masu fafatawa na iya yin katsalandan a kowane lokaci don kulle abokin hamayyarsu kuma su yi hasashen amsa da babbar murya.  Ana nuna madaidaicin amsa akan allo kuma yana da darajar maki kowane harafi; Amsar da ba daidai ba ta ba abokin hamayya damar yin hasashe da maki.  Yayin da grid din ya cika, yana yiwuwa ga ƴan takara suyi aiki da giciye da buzz cikin sauri tare da rabin ma'ana. 

Mai hamayya da maki da yawa ya ci nasara; motoci biyu shine kyautar ga wanda ba zai yuwu ba wanda ya cika dukkan murabba'i a cikin grid ba tare da izini ba.

Ci gaba, samarwa, da tarihin watsa shirye-shirye 
Hal Tulchin, majagaba a cikin faifan bidiyo da kuma darektan Across Board, ya ba da kansa ga ra'ayin don tsarin,  ko da yake ba shine farkon wasan  caca ba.  An kafa manufar zuwa ABC tare da taimakon masu samarwa Bob Stivers da Joseph Cates . ABC yana gudana a ko'ina cikin Hukumar kwanakin mako daga tsakar rana zuwa 12:30 pm daga 1 ga Yuni zuwa 9 ga Oktoba, 1959. 

Ma'aikatan gidan rediyon Ted Brown da George Ansbro sun yi maraba da sanar da shirin.   dan'uwan Joseph Cates Gilbert, mai gabatarwa don wasan kwaikwayo, ya yi zane-zane daga allon allo.   Ba kamar yawancin shirye-shiryen rana na ABC a lokacin ba, A duk fadin Hukumar an riga an yi rikodin fiye da rayuwa saboda kwarewar darektan a cikin faifan bidiyo. Duk da haka, faifan ba su da abin sake dauka kuma gyaran ya yi kadan (a lokacin, gyaran faifan bidiyo yana amfani da na'urar gani).  Tapings ya faru a Elysee Theatre a kan titin West 58th a Manhattan, New York City. 

Nunin yana da iska mai laushi. Masu gabatarwa sun fi son masu fafatawa masu ban sha'awa. Alamun sau da yawa suna nuna gags a cikin ruhun Broadway revue Hellzapoppin (1938). Brown ya kasance mai sauki, yana yin ba'a tare da masu hamayya kuma yana ba'a; mai ba da labari mara kyau, ya karanta amsoshin katunan da aka yi wa hannu. Wani mutum ya taɓa yin gasa a cikin janyewa kuma ya cire gashin kansa a karshen wasan kwaikwayon, amma ABC ta soke lamarin.

Karbar baki 
Mai sukar gidan talabijin na United Press William Ewald ne ya ba da labarin a wani bita na kashi biyu na farko, yana korafin cewa amsoshi sun yi sauki kuma ya kira shi da kyau ga " kasa maras hankali, mara hankali, gama gari " na gidan talabijin na rana.   Mai sukar Philadelphia Inquirer Harry Harris ya sami fili mai ban dariya na kashi na farko da kayan aikin injiniyoyi na wasu nunin wasan, kamar Dotto (kimar kalmomi daga zane) da Sunan Wannan Tune (ta amfani da buzzers).  Barbara Delatiner ' Newsday ya ayyana nunin a matsayin mafi karancin kwafin wani wasan wasan giciye daga birnin New York, WNTA-TV 's Double Cross .

Duba kuma 

 The Cross-Wits, wasan kwaikwayo na crossword na 1975–1980

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