TV Slagalica explained

Native Name:
Creator:	RTS
Presenter:	Marija Veljković Kristina Radenković Milica Gacin Jelena Simić
Country:	FR Yugoslavia (1993–2003) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) Serbia (2006–present)
Location:	Belgrade
Language:	Serbian
Num Seasons:	170
Num Episodes:	9011
Company:	Radio-television of Serbia
Camera:	Multiple-camera setup
Runtime:	20-25 minutes
Network:	RTS 1
Last Aired:	present
Image Alt:	The opening screen showing the mascot, Skočko

TV Slagalica (Serbian Cyrillic: Serbian: ТВ Слагалица; English: TV Puzzle) or simply Slagalica is a Serbian quiz show produced by RTS and airs on RTS1. It is based on Des chiffres et des lettres, a French game show. It first aired on 22 November 1993. at 7 pm. It consists of seven 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 four female hosts: Marija Veljković, Kristina Radenković, Milica Gacin and Jelena Simić.^[1] After the end of each 10th series, winners of each of the previous 10 series', with the addition of 6 runners-up, play in the superfinal using the same system as a regular series. In the superfinal, there is also an additional game played.

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 22 November 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, 5000 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 7 April 2006 the quiz aired its 3000th episode. Since May 2007 the show has started airing daily at 19:00 Central European Time.^[2] The 157th season of TV Slagalica began airing on 2 December 2022. On 8 January 2024, the quiz aired its 9000th episode.

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 contestants. The introduction used to include the supervisor Milka Canić that welcomed the viewers with the, now iconic, greeting: Good evening.^[3]

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.

Games

Slagalica - Igra sa slovima (Puzzle - Letter game)A computer flashes letters of the Serbian Cyrillic 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 1 point. If the word declared is the longest possible, an additional 5 points is awarded. The person with the word with more letters 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 3-digit number and 6 more numbers (4 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, with the value in points decreasing as more steps are revealed. 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 4-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.

Slovo po Slovo (Hangman)This game is only played in the superfinal.

The players are offered blank letter spaces that when filled, contain a phrase, book name, movie name and similar. The game is played twice, each time started by a different player. Each player starts off with 30 points. The player guesses a letter. When guessed, the letter appears in all empty spaces it would show up in when the phrase is complete. Every time they guess a letter that appears in the clue, they lose a point, but if the letter does not appear at all, they lose three points. After the time runs out, the player guesses the phrase. If they manage to do so, they are awarded the number of points they had left. If they do not, the other player gets a chance to guess the phrase. If they manage to do so, they are awarded five points. No points are awarded if neither player guesses the given phrase.

Spojnice (Connections)The players are offered two sets of 10 words or sentences. The game is played twice, each started by a different player. Each game has a theme and each word from the first set needs to paired up with the corresponding word in the other set. Each connection is worth two point. When they make a mistake, they move onto the next word, not getting points for the missed word. The process repeats until the last word. If any words remain unconnected, the second player tries to connect them, receiving one point per connection. No points are awarded for words that none of the players could connect.

Ko zna zna (General knowledge game)Ten general knowledge questions are asked, the first one always being related to the Serbian language, and the last one always being related to sport. When the question is asked, players can apply to apply to answer. If players apply, the player that applied first gets the opportunity to answer first. Each question is worth 10 points. If the first applied contestant does not know the answer, and the second contestant applied as well, the second contestant gets a chance to answer and vice versa. If a contestant answers incorrectly, they lose five points. It is possible for a contestant's score to fall below zero. This game brings the most points to the players, with up to 100 points up for grabs.

Asocijacije (Associations game)Contestants must solve 2 associations. They have four minutes to do so.

Retired 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 they bid for or more, they win, 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 five numbers from the randomly chosen set of numbers. Then the player randomly chooses a target number, which contestants must reach by adding up their chosen numbers. They take turns adding numbers. If a player reaches the target number they are the winner. If it is players' turn to add, and after the addition the sum becomes larger than the target number, their opponent wins.

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 five titles to guess and has five seconds for each. After that, the other player tries to guess the ones the first player missed.

Crew

Current crew of Slagalica:

• Hosts: Marija Veljković, Kristina Radenković and Milica Gacin.
• Director: Živojin Čelić
• Quiz coordinator: Anja Vasiljević

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.^[4] Canić is not present in the studio during the competition since 2012, but is still credited as the supervisor.

Seasons and rankings

As of May 2024, Slagalica is on its 174th season. Winners and rankings in each season can be seen in the table below.

Season	Winner	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
1	Ivan Jakovljević	Dragan Bešević	Jan Bažik	Nenad Komadinić
2	Dušan Nikić	Miroslav Cvetković	Branislav Nikić	Miroslav Lalić
3	Dejan Nedić
4	Omer Ekić	Đorđe Simić	Vitomir Pavlović	Aleksandar Vujanović
5	Marko Obradović	Miroslav Cvetković	Miodrag Vojvodić
6	Mihajlo Nejkov	Bojan Đokanović	Veselin Sekulić	Čedomir Milanović
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 Milićević
16	Damir Duraković	Vladimir Miletić	Nenad Mušikić	Nebojša Jevtović
17	Ilija Loncar	Arsenije Milivojevic	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 Ćosić	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	Daniel Pantović
37	Branislava Knežević	Milan Đorić	Vojislav Lazarević	Olga Simonović
38	Dušan Babić	Branko Hristov	Stanko Simonović	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	Ivan Branković
59	Milorad Ankić	Đorđe Lacmanović	Dragan Rajković
60 (Superfinal)	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 Nježić	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^[5]	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
89	Jovan Error	Đorđe Dragićević	Dušan Vuković	Bogdan Ašković
90	Nikola Lacković	Dragan Kreculj	Ivan Todorov	Marko Kostić
91	Nikola Tomić	Nenad Petrović	Jana Jonlija	Predrag Lazarević
92	Vesna Bogdanović	Nikola Milošević	Aleksandar Tomašević	Slobodan Veličković
93	Srđan Selimovski	Dragan Mikić	Aleksandra Stanković	Milan Grubetić
94	Žarko Stevanović	Nikola Ilić	Aleksandar Stanković	Miroslav Kičinja
95	Bojan Lukić	Aleksandar Simić	Ivana Pešterac	Pavle Škorić
96	Marko Dukić	Dragan Spasenić	Goran Nedović	Stefan Savić
97	Vlastimir Purić	Dejan Kovačević	Vesna Prvulović	Darko Arnaut
98	Sanja Milovanović	Milica Marković	Nikola Stojanović	Dejan Mršević
99	Ivan Babić	Ilija Dragić	Dragan Isailović	Nedeljko Šujica
100 (Superfinal)	Žarko Stevanović	Vladimir Nikolić	Sanja Milovanović	Dušan Erceg
101	Zoran Horvatov	Ljubiša Vidanović	Velibor Marjanović	Ljiljana Radulović-Dimitrov
102	Žarko Vidosavljević	Jasmina Aleksić	Aleksandar Savković	Filip Stevanović
103	Filip Tot	Nenad Isailović	Miroslav Jevremović	Uroš Armuš
104	Bojan Savić	Stevan Todorović	Miloš Petrović	Nemanja Malinović
105	Vladimir Krnač	Branimir Arsić	Milan Ugrenović	Marija Nikolić
106	Milan Vukadinović	Srđan Jeremić	Stefan Vardić	Stefan Stošić
107	Miloš Timotijević	Dragan Petrović	Aleksandar Cvrkotić	Dragan Tomašević
108	Miladin Sekulić	Boris Baćan	Dimitrije Spasić	Nikola Smiljanić
109	Jovan Mišković	Petar Rogan
110	Zdravko Tomić	Bogdan Gavrilović
111	Bojan Pjevac	Jugoslav Ratković
112	Dejan Komar	Igor Burlica
113	Petar Stojković	Vladimir Jokanović
114	Ivan Gavrilović	Marko Protić
115	Dejan Kovačević	Vladimir Tomić
116	Dušan Erceg	Ljubiša Bojadžija
117	Vladimir Mladenov	Ivan Petrović
118	Vladimir Krnač	Neđeljko Svrkota
119	Sergej Prošić	Želimir Lalić
120	Janko Valenćik	Vuk Milutinović
121 (Superfinale)	Ivan Gavrilović	Dejan Kovačević	Dušan Erceg & Jovan Mišković
122	Zoran Ivanović	Nemanja Mandić
123	Darko Krčmar	Nikola Jelenić
124	Stefan Grnčarski	Mihajlo Zdravković
125	Rade Goljović	Dušan Macura
126	Dragan Stojanović	Aleksandar Stanković
127	Stefan Stanković	Danilo Ćosić
128	Dušan Nedović	Nikola Smiljanić
129	Nikola Mihajlović	Željko Mršević
130	Dušan Ivanović	Vukašin Janjić
131	Miloš Karna	Aleksandar Tomašević
132	Aleksa Grubešić	Miloš Timotijević
133 (Superfinale)	Miloš Karna	Rade Goljović	Dušan Macura & Stefan Stanković
134	Biljana Milanović	Željko Jelaš
135	Nedeljko Šujica	Milan Novaković
136	Aleksandar Simić	Marko Stamenković
137	Mihajlo Nejkov	Aleksandar Milošević
138	Slobodan Obućina	Petar Alempijević
139	Branimir Arsić	Miladin Šakić
140	Boris Stanković	Mirko Krstović
141	Vlastimir Purić	Filip Stevanović
142	Damir Duraković	Bojan Đokić
143	Ivan Manić	Bojan Savić
144	Đurđe Radić	Tanja Cvetinov
145 (Superfinale)	Branimir Arsić	Boris Stanković	Aleksandar Simić & Nedeljko Šujica
146	Arsenije Arsić	Lazar Živkov
147	Bogdan Cvetković	Dragan Jovanović
148	Aleksa Stefanović	Stefan Savić
149	Luka Radić	Dejan Vacić
150	Đorđe Nikolić	Veselin Sekulić
151	Miloš Spasović	Nikola Bojić
152	Marko Nikolić	Ljubomir Babočajić
153	Vanja Tomašev	Ivan Todorović
154	Jovan Eror	Aleksa Krkić
155	Kristian Knežević	Veljko Mihajlović
156	Biljana Malinović	Dragan Isailović
157 (superfinale)	Kristian Knežević	Aleksa Stefanović	Arsenije Arsić & Veljko Mihajlović
158	Nikola Simić	Filip Kovačević
159	Saša Stajčić	Milan Singurilović
160	Aleksa Kondić	Dragan Jonović
161	Stevan Brdar	Darko Živanović
162	Dušan Popov	Dušan Miolski
163	Stevan Todorović	Svetomir Šindić
164	Vladimir Vulić	Dušan Bogdanović
165	Nikola Vasić	Milorad Obrenović
166	Dušan Grgovski	Zoran Petrović
167	Miloš Rakita	Darko Arnaut
168 (superfinale)	Miloš Rakita	Aleksa Kondić	Nikola Vasić & Stevan Todorović
169 (superfinale)	Filip Tot	Žarko Stevanović	Kristian Knežević & Miloš Karna
170	Ema Avramović	Vladimir Mitrović
171	Emil Ikonić	Danko Brajović
172	Zoran Horvatov	Dragan Mikić

Superfinals

Besides regular seasons, as of March 2013, four superfinals 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	Year	Winner	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
Superfinal 1	1994	Jan Bažik	Dušan Nikić	Dragan Bešević	Miroslav Cvetković
Superfinal 2	1995	Omer Ekić	Bojan Đokanović	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
Superfinal 5 (also Season 100)	2017	Žarko Stevanović	Vladimir Nikolić	Sanja Milovanović	Dušan Erceg
Superfinal 6 (2019 Winners and Runners-Up)	2019	Ivan Gavrilović	Dejan Kovačević	Dušan Erceg & Jovan Mišković
Superfinal 7 (2020 Winners and Runners-Up)	2020	Miloš Karna	Rade Goljović	Dušan Macura & Stefan Stanković
Superfinal 8 (2021 Winners and Runners-Up)	2021	Branimir Arsić	Boris Stanković	Aleksandar Simić & Nedeljko Šujica
Superfinal 9 (2022 Winners and Runners-Up)	2022	Kristian Knežević	Aleksa Stefanović	Arsenije Arsić & Veljko Mihajlović
Superfinal 10 (2023 Winners and Runners-Up)	2023	Miloš Rakita	Aleksa Kondić	Nikola Vasić & Stevan Todorović
Superfinal 11 (30 years quiz show)	2023	Filip Tot	Žarko Stevanović	Kristian Knežević & Miloš Karna

External links

• Slagalica at rts.rs
• Slagalica.tv - a website where you can play all games from slagalica online
• Igrica Slagalica (.exe file)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Slagalica, naše drugo prezime . . 11 October 2014 . 6 January 2015 . Slagalica, Our Second Last Name . Serbian.
2. RTS: Programska šema, 30 May 2010
3. Web site: Good Evening by Milka Canic. 23 July 2012. YouTube. 15 February 2018.
4. Web site: Dve reči za slavu . . 2 August 2008 . 6 January 2015 . Two Words for Glory.
5. Web site: Srđan Stanković: Najobrazovaniji, a prodavac ribe . . 23 May 2013 . 6 January 2015 . Srđan Stanković: The Most Educated One Sells Fish . Serbian.