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Post by gameshowfan1995 on Apr 8, 2017 11:28:53 GMT -5
So on a website called CrazyFacts, I looked up "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and found some facts, several of which I already knew about (i.e., John Carpenter's Million-Dollar Moment), but one fact that popped up was this one:
"In the Russian version of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’, the audience intentionally gave out wrong answers to make the player lose."
Could someone tell me if this is true, and if so, does anyone have a different explanation for this, other than to make the player lose?
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Apr 8, 2017 12:59:54 GMT -5
Yeah, that rumor keeps cropping up. I don't buy it. If the audience really kept backstabbing the audience, the producers would have done away with Ask the Audience. And when I look at how often that "What goes around the earth?" question from the French version has been shared, I find it a little strange that there aren't any such videos from the Russian version. Then again, I don't watch the Russian version, so one of the guys who do will probably be able to give a more definitive answer.
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Post by Peachfanclub on Apr 8, 2017 16:05:27 GMT -5
This reminds me of several scenarios where the entire audience got it wrong. I don't know if this result from Ukranian Millionaire was intentional or not, but I suspect it had to do with the host warning the audience not to answer if they didn't know. |
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Post by anttit on Apr 8, 2017 17:19:21 GMT -5
Lasse Lehtinen (the host of the Finnish version in 1999-2005) has said that when he met the Russian host many years ago, the host said to him there is no reason using the audience lifeline, because the audience intentionally answers wrong.
I still doubt it. I would want to see the statistics.
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Post by Peachfanclub on Apr 8, 2017 23:08:27 GMT -5
It baffles my mind that this kind of thing can happen. I never hear the audience making so much as a peep during the show, so I have to think it's pretty hard for a whole audience to conspire to vote for the incorrect answer. What question is this happening on? If it's a higher level question, and the audience were told not to vote if they didn't know, I can see why the majority voted incorrectly, they might have thought they knew the answer but didn't, leaving a skewed result from only the ones who voted.
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Apr 9, 2017 11:26:00 GMT -5
Okay, so I looked around gameshows.ru and khsm.ru for some info. The combination of my pitiful Russian, a big dictionary, and Google Translate (*shudder*) did not deliver much. I did find one sentence on a page about the old version, "O, schastlivchik". It mentions the, and I quote, "very amusing" fact that the audience would purposely press the incorrect answer if the contestant used the Fifty-Fifty and Ask the Audience on the same question. I tried to find another source that confirms this, but i couldn't find anything.
I did learn that each audience member on the Russian version is paid up to 500 rubles for being there. That's a whopping $8!
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
