Main Game
Three contestants – each situated at either a red, green, or blue desk – competed to answer trivia questions and acquire squares on a 7x7 game board. The category icons and grade levels lit up on the front of each desk when a question was answered correctly. Grade levels, which ranged from elementary school and grades 7 through 12, ran along the top of the board; six subjects plus a "special elective" ran down the left. The contestants' goal was to answer one question from each grade level and one question from each category.
Most squares contained questions. If a contestant answered the question correctly, he earned that square for his desk and control of the board. If incorrect, the other two had a chance to answer once the host re-reads the question. Additionally, several squares contained "wild card" panels that could ultimately alter the outcome of the game. The wild cards were:
- Take: Allows a contestant to steal any square from an opponent.
- Lose: Forces a contestant to give up a square of his/her choice, which would be placed back on the board as another question or wild card.
- Free: Gives the square to the contestant who picked it without having to answer a question.
- Fire: Leads to a "Fire Drill", a physical challenge for all three contestants.
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