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Post by retched on Sept 2, 2015 15:21:17 GMT -5
So I just watched a video of the Australian "Millionaire: Hot Seat" and found myself quite enjoying it as a faster pace of Millionaire similar to our (US) clock version. Here's what I can figure out (and excuse me if this is already discussed).
Procedure (from what I can see):
- Six people are chosen to be on the show and make up the Ring of Fire.
- Starting with the person chosen to go first, they will be the first one to sit in the Hot Seat and answer questions of varying difficulty and value. (The money tree is slightly different and only has one safety at question 5.)
- For lifelines: a contestant may pass on answering the question, one time, to the next person in line. If a question was passed on to them, that contestant must answer the question.
- Each question is timed. 15 seconds for the first five, 30 seconds for the middle five, and 45 seconds for the last questions. (There are a total of 15 questions to be asked.) There is no banked time for the final question however. If the timer has expired, the contestant is FORCED to use their pass lifeline (if available) or is credited as if they answered wrong.
Here's where I start to lose track of everything and have questions before I start trying to make a fan game (after the one I'm making now).
The $1,000,000 is the top prize of the show. However, if at any point in time a contestant guesses the incorrect answer... they are eliminated from the show, the next contestant takes up the Hot Seat and the top prize now falls to the previous level (so on the first wrong answer it falls to $250,000 and so on).
My question is, for anyone who watched the show, what happens if it falls LOWER than the current level? For example, let's say they play up to question #13 ($100,000) and the person gets it wrong. So they are eliminated, the next person in order plays, the top prize falls to $250K and then a new question of that difficulty ($100,000, #13) is asked. If that next contestant gets the question wrong, again that contestant is eliminated, and the prize shrinks to $100K (the current question). What happens if the contestant who follows gets that wrong? Does the prize still falls back to the previous level ($50K)? And does the difficulty also fall withit?
Secondly, the format of the show states that whoever is in the actual hot seat and answers the final question correctly is the one that gets to go home with all the prizing. Does this mean that no other contestant receives prizing? Example: Four contestants used their PASS lifeline and the next person runs the gambit and answers them all. (I know there is a bonus $1000 for the person who answers the first five correct.)
Thirdly, how exactly does the safety exactly work. I noticed that there are some possibilities that people can get nothing if they answer all incorrectly but I'm reading the Wikipedia article and seeing conflicting things.
Thanks for the help.
Procedure (from what I can see):
- Six people are chosen to be on the show and make up the Ring of Fire.
- Starting with the person chosen to go first, they will be the first one to sit in the Hot Seat and answer questions of varying difficulty and value. (The money tree is slightly different and only has one safety at question 5.)
- For lifelines: a contestant may pass on answering the question, one time, to the next person in line. If a question was passed on to them, that contestant must answer the question.
- Each question is timed. 15 seconds for the first five, 30 seconds for the middle five, and 45 seconds for the last questions. (There are a total of 15 questions to be asked.) There is no banked time for the final question however. If the timer has expired, the contestant is FORCED to use their pass lifeline (if available) or is credited as if they answered wrong.
Here's where I start to lose track of everything and have questions before I start trying to make a fan game (after the one I'm making now).
The $1,000,000 is the top prize of the show. However, if at any point in time a contestant guesses the incorrect answer... they are eliminated from the show, the next contestant takes up the Hot Seat and the top prize now falls to the previous level (so on the first wrong answer it falls to $250,000 and so on).
My question is, for anyone who watched the show, what happens if it falls LOWER than the current level? For example, let's say they play up to question #13 ($100,000) and the person gets it wrong. So they are eliminated, the next person in order plays, the top prize falls to $250K and then a new question of that difficulty ($100,000, #13) is asked. If that next contestant gets the question wrong, again that contestant is eliminated, and the prize shrinks to $100K (the current question). What happens if the contestant who follows gets that wrong? Does the prize still falls back to the previous level ($50K)? And does the difficulty also fall withit?
Secondly, the format of the show states that whoever is in the actual hot seat and answers the final question correctly is the one that gets to go home with all the prizing. Does this mean that no other contestant receives prizing? Example: Four contestants used their PASS lifeline and the next person runs the gambit and answers them all. (I know there is a bonus $1000 for the person who answers the first five correct.)
Thirdly, how exactly does the safety exactly work. I noticed that there are some possibilities that people can get nothing if they answer all incorrectly but I'm reading the Wikipedia article and seeing conflicting things.
Thanks for the help.
