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74-731: Drawings were broadcast on WCCT-TV (channel 20), the CW affiliate in the Hartford/New Haven television market prior to June 30th, 2024. A few days later the Connecticut lottery announced that it would no longer be televising the drawings. A three-digit numbers game -style game drawn twice daily, with day and night drawings. Tickets can be bought in 50-cent multiples. Bets include straight (all three digits in order), box (all three digits in any order) and pairs (any two digits). A four-digit numbers game similar to Play3, but with 4 digits. Cash5

148-552: A 9mm Glock pistol , shot and killed four of his supervisors, and then killed himself. WCCT-TV WCCT-TV (channel 20), branded on-air as CW 20 , is a television station licensed to Waterbury, Connecticut , United States, serving the Hartford – New Haven market as an affiliate of The CW . It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Hartford-licensed Fox affiliate WTIC-TV (channel 61). The two stations share studios on Broad Street in downtown Hartford ; WCCT-TV's transmitter

222-434: A draw . Hence, tic-tac-toe is often played by young children who may not have discovered the optimal strategy. Because of the simplicity of tic-tac-toe, it is often used as a pedagogical tool for teaching the concepts of good sportsmanship and the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the searching of game trees . It is straightforward to write a computer program to play tic-tac-toe perfectly or to enumerate

296-472: A "$ " free space in the middle. The player needed to make at least two complete horizontal, vertical, or diagonal lines to win a cash prize. If the player completed the board(matching all eight printed numbers), they won $ 50,000. A doubler option, for an extra $ 1(called "2X Power"), doubled a prize for matching three to six lines. Prizes were $ 5(2 lines), $ 10(3 lines), $ 50(4 lines), $ 100(5 lines), $ 1000(6 lines), and $ 50,000(7 & all 8 lines). The chance of winning

370-498: A "social" setting have a monitor for witnessing the computer-drawn numbers. On July 20, 2020, the CT Lottery launched a new category of games called Fast Play. Fast Play games are like instant (scratch) games, but are printed on-demand from a CT Lottery retailer terminal or self-serve CT Lottery vending machine. The first family of games is “Jumbo Bucks,” and is available at the $ 1, $ 2, and $ 5 price points. Fast Play progressive games are

444-405: A center mark, a corner mark next to the X, or an edge mark opposite the X. Any other responses will allow X to force the win. Once the opening is completed, O's task is to follow the above list of priorities in order to force the draw, or else to gain a win if X makes a weak play. More detailed, to guarantee a draw, O should adopt the following strategies: When X plays corner first, and O is not

518-517: A chance to win an increased non guaranteed-jackpot prize with other prizes available to win on the same game. The name was changed to Cash 5 when the Kicker option was introduced; the game began nightly drawings. Five winning numbers are chosen from 1 to 35. The basic Cash5 game costs $ 1; for an additional 50 cents, the Kicker option is activated. The Kicker option gives a player more opportunities to win. Connecticut's in-house jackpot game, Lotto! ,

592-442: A combined $ 1.32 billion. The sale was completed on September 19, 2019. In July 1993, WTXX debuted a nightly 10 p.m. newscast produced by NBC station WVIT, called Connecticut News Live at 10 . The news team consisted of WVIT's evening news team (anchors Gerry Brooks and Joanne Nesti, weather from Brad Field, Beasley Reece with sports), along with reporters from WVIT. In 1998, when WTIC replaced WVIT as WTXX's LMA partner,

666-876: A more powerful transmitter that more than doubled its signal and gave it a coverage area comparable with the major network stations in the state. It was a typical general-entertainment independent, carrying off-network series, movies , and cartoons presented by the local children's show Kidstime with T.X. Critter , a puppet created by and puppeteered by Paul Fusco who later created ALF . WTXX also carried some sports, most notably New York Mets baseball games from WOR-TV in New York City (now WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey ) and Boston Celtics basketball games from WLVI-TV in Boston . WTXX prospered in its new status, and continued to do so even after WTIC-TV signed on in 1984. WTXX bid for

740-424: A more traditional(albeit with "playing cards" instead of numbers) drawing-style game. The first drawing was held on May 5 , 2014, in keeping with the "five" theme. Sales for the game were suspended on November 14, 2015. Each play cost $ 2. There were no play slips, multi-game tickets, or advance play. A ticket(quick-pick only) won instantly if it matched a poker hand(straight, flush, or " jacks-or-better )." Prizes in

814-459: A part-time agreement. Renaissance then moved some of WTXX's stronger shows to WTIC-TV, leaving the station with a considerably weakened schedule. Renaissance's sale of WTXX to Counterpoint, and Renaissance's subsequent acquisition of WTIC-TV, became official in March 1993. Under the terms of the sale to Counterpoint, WTXX retained few syndicated programs and some movies, and began airing programming from

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888-493: A perfect player, the following may happen: Consider a board with the nine positions numbered as follows: When X plays 1 as their opening move, then O should take 5. Then X takes 9 (in this situation, O should not take 3 or 7, O should take 2, 4, 6 or 8): or 6 (in this situation, O should not take 4 or 7, O should take 2, 3, 8 or 9. In fact, taking 9 is the best move, since a non-perfect player X may take 4, then O can take 7 to win). In both of these situations (X takes 9 or 6 as

962-527: A prize was 1 in 8.4; the chance of winning the top prize was 1 in 319,770. Drawings were held daily at 1:45 PM and 10:15 PM EST. Only the Monday through Friday drawings were televised. All game tickets were Quick Picks. Sales for the game ended on June 30, 2020. On May 4, 2014, the Connecticut Lottery began sales of 5 Card Cash . This game, the first of its kind in Connecticut, combined an "instant" game with

1036-482: A repeat on WCCT at 11 a.m. Other than simulcasts and default carriage of WTIC's newscasts in the event of Fox Sports programming delays, WCCT does not carry traditional local newscasts produced specifically for the station. The station holds the local rights to air 29 New York Mets games from WPIX . WCCT held the local broadcast television rights to the WNBA 's Connecticut Sun until 2023. Prior to airing Sun games,

1110-487: A second set of 43. For the first time; a "lifetime" winner could choose the annuity or cash. This format change added a second "lifetime" tier. Lucky for Life became a "quasi-national" game on January 27, 2015, adding eight lotteries on that date. As of April 2, 2017, the game is offered in 22 states and the District of Columbia . Players choose 5 of 48 "white balls", and a sixth number, from 18 green "Lucky Balls." Top prize

1184-612: A separate company, with the split finalized in 2014. WTIC-TV and WCCT-TV remained with the Tribune Company (which also retained all non-publishing assets, including the broadcasting, digital media and Media Services units), while its newspapers (including the Hartford Courant ) became part of the similarly named Tribune Publishing Company . Sinclair Broadcast Group announced it had agreed to purchase Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $ 3.9 billion. Tribune Media terminated

1258-511: A series (or family) of games that all share the same name, appearance and playstyle, but are available at different price points (wager amounts). There are no numbers to pick, no play slip needed and no drawings. Each game in a family contributes to ONE progressive jackpot that grows with ticket sales, until someone wins. Fast Play also offers single top prize games such as BINGO and CASHWORD. Lucky Links began April 26, 2015. Played similar to tic-tac-toe , each $ 2 ticket contained eight numbers, with

1332-551: A simple grid and requires three pieces in a row to finish, and Picaria , a game of the Puebloans . The different names of the game are more recent. The first print reference to "noughts and crosses" ( nought being an alternative word for 'zero'), the British name, appeared in 1858, in an issue of Notes and Queries . The first print reference to a game called "tick-tack-toe" occurred in 1884, but referred to "a children's game played on

1406-448: A slate, consisting of trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored". "Tic-tac-toe" may also derive from "tick-tack", the name of an old version of backgammon first described in 1558. The US renaming of "noughts and crosses" to "tic-tac-toe" occurred in the 20th century. In 1952, OXO (or Noughts and Crosses ), developed by British computer scientist Sandy Douglas for

1480-435: A stronger transmitter in 1980, leading channel 20 to relaunch as a regional independent in 1982 under a new call sign, WTXX. It became Connecticut's UPN affiliate in 1995, switching to The WB in 2001 and The CW in 2006. It took its current call sign in 2010. It has been managed by WTIC-TV since 1998. The station commenced operations on September 10, 1953, as WATR-TV on channel 53, the second UHF station in Connecticut. It

1554-530: A waiver in anticipation of the FCC relaxing its rules to allow such media combinations to exist with the agency's blessing, which would include television duopolies. In March 2005, the FCC requested that Tribune sell WTXX to a new owner, but did not raise any additional pressure outside the request to force a sale or threaten a license forfeiture. In late 2007, the FCC loosened its restrictions on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership perhaps creating an opening for Tribune (which

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1628-400: Is an instance of an m,n,k-game , where two players alternate taking turns on an m × n board until one of them gets k in a row. Harary's generalized tic-tac-toe is an even broader generalization. The game can be generalised even further by playing on an arbitrary hypergraph , where rows are hyperedges and cells are vertices . Other variations of tic-tac-toe include: One can play on

1702-481: Is $ 1,000-per-day-for-life(with a $ 5,750,000 cash option); second prize is $ 25,000 per year-for-life, with a $ 390,000 cash option.(A similar game, Cash4Life , began in June 2014; it is currently available in nine states). Connecticut began selling Mega Millions tickets January 31, 2010, following a 2009 agreement in which lotteries then offering either Mega Millions or Powerball were allowed to offer both games. Connecticut

1776-575: Is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns marking the spaces in a three-by-three grid with X or O . The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner. It is a solved game , with a forced draw assuming best play from both players. In American English , the game is known as "tic-tac-toe". It may also be spelled "tick-tack-toe", "tick-tat-toe", or "tit-tat-toe". In Commonwealth English (particularly British , South African , Indian , Australian , and New Zealand English ),

1850-413: Is a nightly five-number game ; it was originally known as Cash Lotto when it debuted in 1992, and was drawn only on Saturdays. The game went to Monday, Wednesday and Saturday by 1995. It became nightly in 1997 and the name was changed to Cash 5. It gives players a chance to win up to $ 100,000. The basic game is won by players who match at least 3 numbers in any order drawn. The Kicker feature gives players

1924-491: Is among 46 lotteries selling Mega Millions tickets. Mega Millions plays are $ 2 each, or $ 3 with the Megaplier option. The current format for Mega Millions began on October 28, 2017. Mega Millions players choose 5 of 70 white ball numbers and a "Mega Ball" numbered 01 through 25. Jackpots began at $ 40,000,000 with minimum rollovers of $ 5,000,000. Jackpot winners chose either 30 graduated annual payments(increasing 5% per annum ) or

1998-516: Is currently on display at the Computer History Museum . When considering only the state of the board, and after taking into account board symmetries (i.e. rotations and reflections), there are only 138 terminal board positions. A combinatorics study of the game shows that when "X" makes the first move every time, the game outcomes are as follows: A player can play a perfect game of tic-tac-toe (to win or at least draw) if, each time it

2072-406: Is drawn Tuesdays and Friday nights. Six numbers are drawn from 1 to 44; the 6/44 matrix has been used continuously since 1989, when the game's name was its original name, Connecticut Lotto (without an exclamation point ). The minimum jackpot is $ 1,000,000 (annuitized; payable in 21 equal yearly installments unless the cash option is chosen.) The jackpot rolls upon the sales of the game (until it

2146-507: Is located on Rattlesnake Mountain in Farmington, Connecticut . WCCT-TV was established 1953 as WATR-TV on channel 53, originally serving Waterbury, New Haven, and southern Connecticut. It moved to channel 20 in 1962. From 1966 to 1982, it was the NBC affiliate for southern Connecticut, as Hartford-based NBC affiliate WVIT was all but unviewable in that part of the state at the time. WVIT activated

2220-410: Is now Lotto! began in 1983 as Connecticut Lotto , a 6/36 game. The matrix was changed to 6/40 in 1986, and to the current 6/44 in 1989(The then-current game logo was 36, 40, or 44 yellow squares forming a rectangle, reflecting the game matrix.). The cash option was added in 1997. The game became Wild Card Lotto in 1998(adding a seventh ball, which was used for additional lower-tier prizes, but not for

2294-404: Is played on a three-by-three grid by two players, who alternately place the marks X and O in one of the nine spaces in the grid. In the following example, the first player ( X ) wins the game in seven steps: There is no universally agreed rule as to who plays first, but in this article the convention that X plays first is used. Players soon discover that the best play from both parties leads to

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2368-692: Is the largest prize in Connecticut Lottery history. On January 15, 2012, Powerball became a $ 2-per-play game; $ 3 with Power Play . The Connecticut Lottery, in April 2011, began its "Replay" option; players can use old tickets, in lieu of betting cards, to repeat number selections played in the appropriate games. The replay feature makes use of either of the two large data matrix barcodes found on Connecticut Lottery tickets. They contain information such as The Connecticut Lottery offers numerous scratch games with price points of $ 1, $ 2, $ 3, $ 5, $ 10, $ 20, $ 30, and $ 50 with differing themes and prize levels. Beginning with

2442-459: Is their turn to play, they choose the first available move from the following list, as used in Newell and Simon's 1972 tic-tac-toe program. The first player, who shall be designated "X", has three possible strategically distinct positions to mark during the first turn. Superficially, it might seem that there are nine possible positions, corresponding to the nine squares in the grid. However, by rotating

2516-455: Is won), with a guaranteed minimum increase in the jackpot of $ 100,000. The jackpot has the potential to grow to more than $ 25,000,000. The Biggest jackpot thus far is $ 25.8 million which was won in November of 2019. Players win by matching at least three of the six numbers drawn; a parimutuel prize is won by matching at least 4 numbers and a guaranteed $ 2 prize in won for matching 3 numbers. What

2590-509: The EDSAC computer at the University of Cambridge , became one of the first known video games. The computer player could play perfect games of tic-tac-toe against a human opponent. In 1975, tic-tac-toe was also used by MIT students to demonstrate the computational power of Tinkertoy elements. The Tinkertoy computer, made out of (almost) only Tinkertoys, is able to play tic-tac-toe perfectly. It

2664-469: The Fox affiliation two years later, but lost out to WTIC-TV. Channel 20's transmitter was located further south than the other major Connecticut stations, resulting in a significant overlap with Fox flagship WNYW . Fox opted to affiliate with WTIC-TV, which did not have as large an overlap. In October 1992, Renaissance Broadcasting sold WTXX to Counterpoint Communications, a non-profit media firm with close ties to

2738-632: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford . Renaissance had recently acquired several stations, including WTIC-TV, from Chase Broadcasting, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations of the time did not allow common ownership of two stations in the same market. However, Renaissance retained the rights to all the programming it bought for WTXX. WTIC-TV wanted to establish a full-time local marketing agreement (LMA) with WTXX, which basically amounted to channel 20 being programmed by its main competitor. Counterpoint balked, wanting only

2812-555: The federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 12 to UHF channel 20 for post-transition operations. The digital signal's change in channel location was necessary to avoid interference with PBS member WHYY-TV in Wilmington, Delaware . Tic-tac-toe Tic-tac-toe ( American English ), noughts and crosses ( Commonwealth English ), or Xs and Os ( Canadian or Irish English )

2886-416: The "instant" game ranged from $ 3 to $ 5,555. Additionally, while a "lower" pair did not win immediately, a pair of 5s won a 5 Card Cash ticket. The draw-game portion required a player to match at least three of the five cards drawn. Matching three cards won $ 20; four cards, $ 555. Matching all five cards won or shared $ 255,555. In 2009, Connecticut began a $ 2-per-play game called Lucky4Life . Three years later,

2960-659: The 19 WB affiliates that the company owned at the time, including WTXX. In August 2008, the station changed its branding from "CW 20" to "txx" in a corporate effort by Tribune to strengthen its CW affiliates' local identities and reduce the dependence on the use of network branding. In June 2009, after 56 years of transmitting from various locations in New Haven County , WTXX shut down its analog transmitter in Prospect, solely using WTIC-TV's tower in Farmington for its full launch into

3034-433: The 765 essentially different positions (the state space complexity ) or the 26,830 possible games up to rotations and reflections (the game tree complexity ) on this space. If played optimally by both players, the game always ends in a draw, making tic-tac-toe a futile game . The game can be generalized to an m , n , k -game , in which two players alternate placing stones of their own color on an m -by- n board with

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3108-520: The April 8, 2013 launch of its 19th version of Win for Life , all prizes in Connecticut Lottery scratch games are paid in lump sum (some games' top prizes are annuitized with a cash option. None of the winners of previous versions of Connecticut "lifetime" scratch games could receive their prize in cash.) On March 6, 1998, there was a mass shooting at Connecticut Lottery headquarters, which was then located in Newington . An employee, Matthew Beck, armed with

3182-668: The Home Shopping Network ( HSN ) for 15 hours a day (including daytime and prime time). In addition, channel 20 would air a daily Catholic Mass, along with other Catholic religious programs, for one hour per day. While trying to negotiate an LMA, WTXX continued to run some Renaissance-owned programming daily from 3 to 7 p.m. free of charge. These shows were the Disney Afternoon cartoon block, double runs of The Cosby Show and Growing Pains on weekdays, and some hour-long first-run syndicated dramas on weekends. Renaissance sold

3256-453: The New Haven stations or WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV. Tegna Inc. agreed to purchase WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV from Nexstar on March 20, 2019, upon consummation of the merger, marking Tegna's entry into the state and southern New England. The sale of WCCT-TV and WTIC-TV was part of a larger series of deals involving nineteen Nexstar- and Tribune-operated stations to Tegna and the E. W. Scripps Company worth

3330-583: The October 2017 format change( all six numbers must be matched to win), is not available in Connecticut.) Connecticut has been a member of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) since 1995. MUSL operates Powerball, which is offered by 44 lotteries. A jackpot of $ 254.2 million was won in the November 2, 2011, drawing by one ticket, sold in Fairfield County . Three men claimed the ticket; it

3404-633: The Sinclair deal on August 9, 2018, and filed a breach of contract lawsuit, nullifying the transaction; this followed a vote by the FCC to put the transactions up for a formal hearing and a public rejection of the merger by commission chairman Ajit Pai . After the collapse of the Sinclair deal, Tribune agreed to sell itself to Nexstar Media Group for $ 6.4 billion. Nexstar already owned two stations in Connecticut— New Haven -based ABC affiliate WTNH and WCTX —requiring that it divest either

3478-682: The WVIT-produced broadcasts were replaced with a simulcast of the first half-hour of WTIC's nightly 10 p.m. newscast; on April 24, 2006, the station began simulcasting the entire newscast; if Fox sports programming kept the newscast from starting on time on channel 61, it was aired on WTXX under the title News at Ten . On December 12, 2009, WTIC, WCCT (then WTXX), and the Hartford Courant moved into new combined newsroom facilities in downtown Hartford, and WTIC rebranded from Fox 61 to Fox CT (a transition completed in July 2010); in addition, WTIC became

3552-447: The ad time for the slot and WTXX paid nothing to run the programming during these hours. That July, after negotiations with WTIC collapsed, WTXX entered into a lease agreement with Viacom-owned WVIT, which would provide 27 ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ hours a week of its programs. Its schedule now included cartoons and children's programs during the morning and afternoon hours, and syndicated shows whose local rights were owned by WVIT during

3626-491: The board, we will find that, in the first turn, every corner mark is strategically equivalent to every other corner mark. The same is true of every edge (side middle) mark. From a strategic point of view, there are therefore only three possible first marks: corner, edge, or center. Player X can win or force a draw from any of these starting marks; however, playing the corner gives the opponent the smallest choice of squares which must be played to avoid losing. This might suggest that

3700-492: The cash value option. Other prizes range from $ 2 to $ 1,000,000. The Megaplier option, which increases the cost of each $ 2 play to $ 3, multiplies non-jackpot winnings by 2, 3, 4, or 5; a second-prize(all five white balls but not also the "Mega Ball") wager can win $ 5,000,000 cash. As of March 26, 2018, Connecticut has yet to produce a Mega Millions jackpot winner. The "Just the Jackpot" option for Mega Millions, which began with

3774-438: The corner is the best opening move for X, however another study shows that if the players are not perfect, an opening move in the center is best for X. The second player, who shall be designated "O", must respond to X's opening mark in such a way as to avoid the forced win. Player O must always respond to a corner opening with a center mark, and to a center opening with a corner mark. An edge opening must be answered either with

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3848-499: The digital age. In July 2010, the station changed its branding again to "The CT" with "The CT is the place 2B" slogan; to go along with this branding, the station changed its call letters to WCCT-TV on June 18. In March 2012, the station changed its logo and began to use its calls, WCCT-TV, as its branding, though the station remains a CW affiliate. In August 2018, WCCT-TV returned to the "CW 20" branding. Tribune announced plans on July 10, 2013, to spin off its publishing division into

3922-639: The early evenings. Most of the cartoons were shows WTXX previously had on a barter basis that WTIC couldn't fit on its schedule. The Disney Afternoon and other syndicated shows previously on WTXX moved to WTIC or stopped airing in the market. HSN programming remained during middays, prime time, and the overnight hours. WTXX became Connecticut's UPN affiliate on April 3, 1995; for the 2½ months prior to that, Hartford viewers who wanted to watch UPN programming had to view it on cable, by way of WSBK-TV from Boston; viewers in Fairfield County were able to watch UPN programming over-the-air and on cable via WWOR-TV. This

3996-407: The first two moves, O takes a bad position in the third move: O takes a bad position as first move (except of 5, all other positions are bad): Many board games share the element of trying to be the first to get n -in-a-row, including three men's morris , nine men's morris , pente , gomoku , Qubic , Connect Four , Quarto , Gobblet , Order and Chaos , Toss Across , and Mojo . Tic-tac-toe

4070-410: The game became Lucky For Life (drawing five numbers from the first chamber, and one lucky ball from the second chamber of the machine), expanding to include Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; its "nickname" became New England′s Game . Lucky for Life changed its double matrix on September 17, 2013. Players chose 5 of 43 "white ball" numbers, and a green "Lucky Ball" from

4144-450: The game is known as "noughts and crosses", alternatively spelled "naughts and crosses". This name derives from the shape of the marks in the game (i.e the X and O); "nought" is another name for the number zero , while "cross" refers to the X shape. Sometimes, tic-tac-toe (where players keep adding "pieces") and three men's morris (where pieces start to move after a certain number have been placed) are confused with each other. Tic-tac-toe

4218-777: The goal of getting k of their own color in a row. Tic-tac-toe is the 3,3,3-game. Harary's generalized tic-tac-toe is an even broader generalization of tic-tac-toe. It can also be generalized as an n game , specifically one in which n = 3 and d = 2. It can be generalised even further by playing on an arbitrary incidence structure , where rows are lines and cells are points . Tic-tac-toe's incidence structure consists of nine points, three horizontal lines, three vertical lines, and two diagonal lines, with each line consisting of at least three points. Games played on three-in-a-row boards can be traced back to ancient Egypt , where such game boards have been found on roofing tiles dating from around 1300 BC. An early variation of tic-tac-toe

4292-479: The jackpot). Due to slumping sales, Wild Card Lotto was dropped and Classic Lotto introduced Memorial Day weekend in 1999. The name Classic Lotto was retired on Saturday, March 9, 2013 (which did not coincide with it being drawn), as the game's name became Lotto! the next day, although the format was not changed ( Lotto! tickets, including Advance Action , purchased on or before March 9, 2013 have "Classic Lotto" printed on them, but were valid for draw(s) under

4366-817: The new name. As the 6/44 matrix was not changed, "Classic Lotto" bet slips can still be used). On April 25, 2016, the CT Lottery began offering Keno. It is drawn at four-minute intervals, with over 300 drawings daily. An agreement with Connecticut's two tribal casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun , was necessary to allow the Lottery permission to offer Keno; unlike in the two casinos, Lottery keno players need only to be at least 18 years old instead of 21. (The agreement allows Lottery tickets to be sold on tribal property, in areas accessible to those under 21; Mohegan Sun also houses one of Connecticut's "High-Tier Claim Centers" for claiming prizes of $ 600 to $ 5,000). Keno wagers may be made at any Connecticut Lottery retailer, although only those in

4440-414: The second move), X has a ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ property to win. If X is not a perfect player, X may take 2 or 3 as a second move. Then this game will be a draw, X cannot win. If X plays 1 opening move, and O is not a perfect player, the following may happen: Although O takes the only good position (5) as the first move, O takes a bad position as the second move: Although O takes good positions in

4514-519: The second station in the market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . The news simulcasts on WCCT were included in the transition. In June 2010, the station ended the simulcast of WTIC's 10 p.m. newscast. It now airs a rebroadcast of WTIC's 11 p.m. newscast at 1 am, while the 10 p.m. newscast is re-aired on weekends; these rebroadcasts include a sports highlight program called Xfinity Sports Desk at 1:45 a.m. on early Sunday and Monday mornings. Originally, this

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4588-692: The southwestern portions of the state. In the 1970s, the station offered limited local news and instead aired older syndicated programs and religious shows such as The PTL Club when NBC programs were not offered. A notable local production was Journeys to the Mind , a half-hour talk show with host Joel Dobbin, which approached topics of the occult with a serious and sober tone. Journeys ran from 1976 to 1981. The original Viacom bought WHNB-TV in 1978 and changed its call letters to WVIT . Two years later, WVIT more than doubled its transmission power to cover New Haven. It became clear that WATR-TV's NBC affiliation

4662-622: The station changed its on-air name from "UPN 20" to "Connecticut's 20". It also picked up Boston Red Sox baseball games; the station's feed (with the "Connecticut's 20" bug) was carried during Red Sox highlights airing on ESPN for much of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 1999, WTXX and WTIC consolidated their operations in a new facility at One Corporate Center on Church Street in Downtown Hartford. On January 1, 2001, WTXX and WBNE (channel 59, now WCTX ) swapped affiliations, with WTXX joining The WB and rebranding as "Connecticut's WB". This

4736-546: The station held the over-the-air broadcast rights to the NHL 's Hartford Whalers . WCCT-TV provides four subchannels, which are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Hartford–New Haven television stations: In 2021, WCCT-TV began serving as the ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) lighthouse for Connecticut broadcasters with all subchannels on UHF 33. WCCT-TV (as WTXX) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on June 12, 2009, as part of

4810-623: The station into an independent station . though NBC was considering ending its affiliation in any event. NBC programming aired on channel 20 for the last time on April 10, 1982. The station stayed off the air the next day ( Easter Sunday ), returning that Monday as WTXX (for "Television 20", or "XX" in Roman numerals), Connecticut's first full-service independent since Hartford's WHCT-TV (channel 18, now Univision affiliate WUVN ) served as an independent from 1957 to 1975. Soon after taking over, Odyssey replaced channel 20's tiny 250-foot (76 m) tower with

4884-556: The station relocated to UHF channel 20 and moved to a new studio and transmitter site in Prospect , south of Waterbury. Channel 53 was later occupied by WEDN, Connecticut Public Television 's outlet in Norwich . In August 1966, WATR-TV joined NBC . At the time, the network's primary affiliate in Connecticut, WHNB-TV (channel 30) in New Britain , was hampered by a weak signal in New Haven and

4958-527: Was due in part that Viacom, who operated the station through a LMA with WVIT, owned a minority interest in UPN. Initially, it continued to run Home Shopping Network in prime time on nights without UPN programming. By spring 1996, the station expanded its LMA with WVIT to cover the entire day, except for overnights and the hours when the Catholic Mass aired. By this point, WTXX upgraded its syndicated programming, and HSN

5032-555: Was due to in fact that the Tribune Company had a minority interest in The WB. Later that year, Tribune purchased WTXX outright, creating a duopoly with WTIC. Tribune, having already received a temporary waiver from FCC rules barring common ownership of a newspaper and a television station in the same area when it purchased the Hartford Courant a year earlier, received an additional waiver for its purchase of WTXX. Tribune had been seeking

5106-511: Was in jeopardy. Facing the prospect of having to buy an additional 18 hours of programming per day, in May 1981 the Thomas/Gilmore interests announced they were selling channel 20 to a joint venture of Odyssey Television Partners (later to become Renaissance Broadcasting ) and Oppenheimer and Company . The FCC approved the deal that December. The new owners of channel 20 ultimately opted to convert

5180-466: Was not simulcast on WTXX but has since been added (the 10 p.m. newscast continues to be shown live on WCCT, if it is preempted on WTIC due to sports programming overruns). The station also carries the 8 a.m. hour of WTIC's morning newscast (a previous simulcast of Fox 61 Morning News had aired at one point , but was later dropped). WTIC also produces a weekly public affairs show called The Real Story , which airs Sunday mornings at 8:30 a.m. with

5254-699: Was owned by the Thomas and Gilmore families, along with WATR radio (1320 AM). The station's studios and transmitter were located on West Peak in Meriden . At the time, the station's signal only covered Waterbury, New Haven and the southern portion of the state. WATR-TV was originally a dual secondary affiliate of both DuMont and ABC , sharing them with New Haven-based WNHC-TV (channel 8, now WTNH ). DuMont ceased operations in 1956, and shortly afterward, WNHC-TV became an exclusive ABC affiliate, as did WATR-TV. Both stations carried ABC programming through Connecticut. In 1962,

5328-464: Was played in the Roman Empire , around the first century BC. It was called terni lapilli ( three pebbles at a time ) and instead of having any number of pieces, each player had only three; thus, they had to move them around to empty spaces to keep playing. The game's grid markings have been found chalked all over Rome. Another closely related ancient game is three men's morris which is also played on

5402-562: Was purchased by investor Sam Zell in December 2007) to retain WTXX without a waiver. On January 24, 2006, Time Warner announced that the company would merge the operations of The WB with CBS Corporation 's UPN (which CBS acquired one month earlier in December 2005 following its split from Viacom ), to form a 50/50 joint venture called The CW Television Network . The network signed a ten-year affiliation agreement with Tribune Broadcasting for 16 of

5476-405: Was relegated to overnights before being dropped completely. In 1998, WVIT was sold to NBC, and WTIC (now owned by Tribune Broadcasting ) replaced WVIT as WTXX's LMA partner. As part of the deal, some of the shows previously owned by WVIT were kept by WTXX and WTIC. The LMA change caused no impact on WTXX's daily broadcasts of the Catholic Mass, which continues to the present day. Around this time,

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