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Post by Gagamillionaire on Nov 14, 2015 3:18:47 GMT -5
So yesterday, another special edition of Millionaire was broadcast in Germany. I (and I'm guessing some of you, too) have come to cringe whenever I hear the words "Millionaire" and "special edition" in one sentence. The Germans, however, do a pretty good job at these, because they change the rules of the game but still let civilians play. I've never quite seen the appeal of (more or less) famous people playing the game. Anyway, to the rules: - 8 contestants play Fastest Finger to get into the hotseat. Nothing special about that.
- The way the game is played is no different either. The contestant may choose between 3 or 4 lifelines, just like in regular episodes.
- The first twist is that only the contestant who answers the most questions right gets all the money won that night. Everybody else leaves with nothing. Should the contestant give an incorrect answer, they drop down to the last safe haven. One woman answered question 11 incorrectly and chose the Risk version, so she dropped down to 5 correct answers.
- The way the jackpot is determined is different too. Instead of just adding the money value of the last correctly answered question, all the money values from each question are added up (think Shuffle Round 1). So, answering the first two questions (worth €50 and €100) adds €150 to the jackpot. If a contestant gives a wrong answer, the money they have added to the jackpot is not taken out again.
- Should two contestants walk away at the same level, and no other contestant surpasses them, a tiebreaker is played. Two buzzers are set up where the hotseat would be. The host reads out typical Millionaire questions (second tier difficulty) with 4 answers, and who buzzes in first after the question has been read out, has 5 seconds to give an answer. If the answer is correct, they get a point, if it is incorrect or they time out, their opponent gets a point. Whoever scores 3 points first wins it all.
To demonstrate the rules, here is a recap of yesterday's episode:
- The first contestant answered 10 questions right, but missed the €32,000 question. Thus she dropped down to 5 correct answers, but added €32,150 to the jackpot
- The second contestant answered 14 questions correctly and walked away, thus taking the driver's seat and adding €753,150 to the jackpot (total: €785,300)
- The third contestant also gave 14 correct answers and walked away, bringing the jackpot to a total of €1,538,450
- To determine the final winner of that amount, they played the tiebreaker, which was as close as can be with a 3 to 2 point win.
This was the second time that format was played. The last time a man won just under a million (€980,000 or something). I find this version interesting, because it doesn't radically change gameplay, but it forces the contestants to keep playing. I'm not a gigantic fan of the buzzer round, because speed competition games aren't my cup of tea, but the rest is pretty exciting stuff. Provided the players aren't all complete dum-dums who barely get beyond question 5, of course.
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Post by retched on Nov 14, 2015 3:53:06 GMT -5
So looking at this, it seems the rules of the game are essentially a combination of "King of the Hill" with Shuffle format's bank rules. It does seem like an interesting rule set to come by. The tiebreaker does kind of seem to be a let down but if you think about it's the two players who made a dash through the ladder the furthest. It just sucks that they get nothing if they walk away or come in second place.
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Post by germanmillion on Nov 14, 2015 9:51:29 GMT -5
I have the complet show. add me on email t.sarlacher@gmail.com and you can have the full show
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Post by retched on Nov 14, 2015 13:08:46 GMT -5
I have the complet show. add me on email t.sarlacher@gmail.com and you can have the full show Why not just upload the video to a site like YouTube, DailyMotion or such instead of emailing a link? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2015 13:16:41 GMT -5
I have the complet show. add me on email t.sarlacher@gmail.com and you can have the full show Why not just upload the video to a site like YouTube, DailyMotion or such instead of emailing a link? Copyright is the issue here. RTL might delete the videos for it if uploaded to YouTube or DailyMotion. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 15:22:38 GMT -5
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Post by markusizr on Nov 15, 2015 16:10:04 GMT -5
Did she won a top prize or not
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Nov 15, 2015 17:54:58 GMT -5
Did she won a top prize or not Well, read my summary and draw your own conclusions. If top prize means 15 correct answers for you, then no. She only answered 14 out of a possible 15 questions right. If top prize means maximum amount of money for you, then yes. The show has never offered a bigger pay-off. Which begs the question: Is she the number one Millionaire winner around the world in terms of monetary value? Super Millionaire offered a bigger prize, but nobody won it, and £1,000,000, the highest regular top prize internationally (as far as I'm aware) equals around €1.4m. |
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Post by retched on Nov 16, 2015 3:22:02 GMT -5
Did she won a top prize or not Well, read my summary and draw your own conclusions. If top prize means 15 correct answers for you, then no. She only answered 14 out of a possible 15 questions right. If top prize means maximum amount of money for you, then yes. The show has never offered a bigger pay-off. Which begs the question: Is she the number one Millionaire winner around the world in terms of monetary value? Super Millionaire offered a bigger prize, but nobody won it, and £1,000,000, the highest regular top prize internationally (as far as I'm aware) equals around €1.4m. She's not the biggest millionaire over all. There was a US Millionaire player, Kevin Olmstead, who won US$2,180,000 on a Jackpot edition of US Millionaire. The jackpot worked in the sense that it started off with $1,000,000 being the top prize on the money tree. Then, every time a show did not award it, another $10,000 was added on to it. By the time Kevin reached it, it ballooned up to $2,180,000 and he took the top prize. (Unless my Google and XE converters are wonky, 1,000,000 Euro is about $1075275) I will add a note that Ed Toutant was shorted out of his chance at an earlier show of the jackpot session, with a top prize of $1,860,000 available. But he did come back to play for it and eventually win. |
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Nov 16, 2015 6:45:20 GMT -5
Well, read my summary and draw your own conclusions. If top prize means 15 correct answers for you, then no. She only answered 14 out of a possible 15 questions right. If top prize means maximum amount of money for you, then yes. The show has never offered a bigger pay-off. Which begs the question: Is she the number one Millionaire winner around the world in terms of monetary value? Super Millionaire offered a bigger prize, but nobody won it, and £1,000,000, the highest regular top prize internationally (as far as I'm aware) equals around €1.4m. She's not the biggest millionaire over all. There was a US Millionaire player, Kevin Olmstead, who won US$2,180,000 on a Jackpot edition of US Millionaire. The jackpot worked in the sense that it started off with $1,000,000 being the top prize on the money tree. Then, every time a show did not award it, another $10,000 was added on to it. By the time Kevin reached it, it ballooned up to $2,180,000 and he took the top prize. (Unless my Google and XE converters are wonky, 1,000,000 Euro is about $1075275) I will add a note that Ed Toutant was shorted out of his chance at an earlier show of the jackpot session, with a top prize of $1,860,000 available. But he did come back to play for it and eventually win. Ah yes, indeed. I did remember that the US version had a sort of jackpot for a while too, but I assumed that the sums had been lower. Thanks for pointing it out! |
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Post by kplewisvox on Nov 16, 2015 18:43:02 GMT -5
$2,180,000 in 2001 is equal to $2,930,622.03 today. ( Source) 1,538,450 EUR in 2015 is equal to $1,644,373.79 today. ( Source) |
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
