[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'173828\' date=\'Jan 4 2008, 03:36 PM\'] Board: Nine ganged-together Apple II computers, probably driven by a tenth. Certainly more hackable, but it would have taken a pretty elaborate scam to do it. [/quote]
TTD wasn't hacked, but it was... exploitable.
If you pay attention to the category shuffle, you'll notice that the selections weren't all that random (at least, they weren't during the Jim Caldwell season when I first noticed this, because it was more obvious with all of those red boxes). In fact, there was a pretty set-in-stone order of movement, not unlike Press Your Luck boards. My pre-teen BASIC-using brain at the time said, "They're using the same seed for their randomize every time!"
If you were to pay attention to this as a contestant, you might have had a good idea what was coming down the pike and more carefully selected some of your early boxes, so that your weaker categories were off the board in later turns.
Now this isn't at all relevant to rigging, because there would be no collusion necessary to do something like this. I just thought it was really interesting all those years ago.