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Post by Pachirisu on Aug 8, 2017 11:11:25 GMT -5
As a study I am doing to contribute to the Who Wants to be a Millionaire community, I have decided to make a study on the average winnings of each version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. I will be studying the classic Millionaire winnings from its origins in the UK in the near future, and also in the US, syndicated and primetime. Lastly, I will be analyzing the Australian Hot Seat winnings.
US Primetime Average Winnings:
I found these contestants in Primetime Millionaire. I picked 10 contestants and found their average winning.
Bett Woods - $32,000. Not a bad run for the time.
Joe Kelleher - $500,000. He actually had a million dollar question which I will post below:
Rick Rosner - $1,000. I actually feel kind of bad for him. He got all the way up to the $32,000 question, and he missed it. I really thought he could do better, but hopefully other experiences go better for him in his life.
We will now be getting into the Armed Forces special. A great thank you to everyone who served in the US Army. Here are the runs:
Lt. Shannon Martin - $32,000. A good run for Shannon.
Chief Scott Hastings - $32,000. He used some of his lifelines in the 2nd level, but he managed to endure the remaining questions and went all the way up to the 3rd level, where he answered a question wrong and dropped to $32,000. It was a good run.
Sgt. Jim Laverty - $64,000. Great run.
Captain Travis Sumner - $125,000. Also a great run. He had a reliable phone a friend indeed.
Now we go to the original Primetime Millionaire.
Lt. Charles Gramania - $32,000. On the episodes that I have stored, it just so happened that the next contestant was a US Army member.
He did great, guessing at the $64,000 question which is, by the way, the best thing to do in Millionaire strategy.
Mitch Brown - $125,000. He looked a lot like the person who won Syndicated Millionaire, but he walked away on a question about the atmosphere.
David Koroskin - $1,000. He missed on a 2nd Level question.
That is it for our contestants. Let's see their average winnings...
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$94,400 is not a bad average at all. I have a theory that the Syndicated/Clock questions are harder than the Primetime questions. We will study this next.
Syndicated Millionaire: Clock Edition
Sally V. Veer - $16,000. She failed to answer a question about poetry under the pressure of the wicked, ticking clock, but it was a fantastic first run for Millionaire Clocked.
Melissa Wegner - $50,000. One of the exceptionally well-performing contestants on Millionaire Syndicated.
Andy Ross - $1,000. Not a bad run, considering these questions can be hard at times.
Syndicated Millionaire: Shuffle
Allison O'Neal - $11,300. She jumped $10,000, which was a turn of bad luck for her, but she did a good run anyway.
Bryant Michel - $1,000. I personally think that he would have gone much farther, but he knew that the answer to the first question was wrong. He said the wrong answer while he was thinking the right one.
Ashley Graber - $17,000. She also jumped over $10,000, unfortunately. She did a great run, though.
And now we go onto the current version: the classic millionaire, updated with shuffle music and one new lifeline.
Issac Hirsch - $5,000. He answers a question about Canada wrong, leaving him with only $5,000 to spare. He did well though, and the, "I hate to use a lifeline so soon" joke to fool his mother made me chuckle.
Daniel Kells - $20,000. His best moment was when his +1 came out and helped him with a question about balloons.
Raj Jain - $5,000. He came really close to that $50,000 mark, but answered his question incorrectly leaving him with $5,000. Good run.
Jill Smith - $30,000. A great run at the time.
Now, let's total up the average!
As you can see, the Syndicated format's average winnings per contestant is much lower than that of the Primetime format's average winnings. I think they changed the formats and the questions' difficulty because they were on a lower budget.
Lastly, we will see how many US dollars is the average winnings for Hot Seat.
I will write the episode number, the contestant who won, the amount in US dollars that they won and further comments. I will do 7 of these.
I will write AUS$<Money> if I have to refer in AUS Dollars to a question.
2017: Episode 1: Heather Pettersson won about US$800. Rowan, another contestant, failed to answer the AU$250,000 question correctly. Heather, being in the next seat, swooped in and tried, but was also incorrect, leaving her with US$800.
2017: Episode 5: Matt Benbow won about US$200,000. He correctly answered the last question worth AU$250,000.
2017: Episode 9: Locky Todd won about US$800. He was the only one left in the Hot Seat and failed the last question. He was really determined, though.
2017: Episode 16: Jordan Burgess won about US$16,000.
2017: Episode 32: Thanh Nguyen won about US$8,000. Was the only one left in the Hot Seat and got the question right.
2017: Episode 36: Simon Stegley won about US$40,000. He was a great contestant.
2017: Episode 39: Caroline Conliffe won about US$800. She was the only one in the Hot Seat.
Average Winnings per contestant?
Considering that Syndicated has about 3 or 4 contestants on an episode, the average winnings per episode get to about $53,500. This shows that the Hot Seat format isn't really designed to give away money as it was marketed. Winners happen less often; only once per episode, but the money per contestant on average seems to be higher than in the Syndicated versions.
Well, that wraps it up for my studies for now. I will make edits including some UK database in the near future.
US Primetime Average Winnings:
I found these contestants in Primetime Millionaire. I picked 10 contestants and found their average winning.
Bett Woods - $32,000. Not a bad run for the time.
Joe Kelleher - $500,000. He actually had a million dollar question which I will post below:
Rick Rosner - $1,000. I actually feel kind of bad for him. He got all the way up to the $32,000 question, and he missed it. I really thought he could do better, but hopefully other experiences go better for him in his life.
We will now be getting into the Armed Forces special. A great thank you to everyone who served in the US Army. Here are the runs:
Lt. Shannon Martin - $32,000. A good run for Shannon.
Chief Scott Hastings - $32,000. He used some of his lifelines in the 2nd level, but he managed to endure the remaining questions and went all the way up to the 3rd level, where he answered a question wrong and dropped to $32,000. It was a good run.
Sgt. Jim Laverty - $64,000. Great run.
Captain Travis Sumner - $125,000. Also a great run. He had a reliable phone a friend indeed.
Now we go to the original Primetime Millionaire.
Lt. Charles Gramania - $32,000. On the episodes that I have stored, it just so happened that the next contestant was a US Army member.
He did great, guessing at the $64,000 question which is, by the way, the best thing to do in Millionaire strategy.
Mitch Brown - $125,000. He looked a lot like the person who won Syndicated Millionaire, but he walked away on a question about the atmosphere.
David Koroskin - $1,000. He missed on a 2nd Level question.
That is it for our contestants. Let's see their average winnings...
:$94,400 is not a bad average at all. I have a theory that the Syndicated/Clock questions are harder than the Primetime questions. We will study this next.
Syndicated Millionaire: Clock Edition
Sally V. Veer - $16,000. She failed to answer a question about poetry under the pressure of the wicked, ticking clock, but it was a fantastic first run for Millionaire Clocked.
Melissa Wegner - $50,000. One of the exceptionally well-performing contestants on Millionaire Syndicated.
Andy Ross - $1,000. Not a bad run, considering these questions can be hard at times.
Syndicated Millionaire: Shuffle
Allison O'Neal - $11,300. She jumped $10,000, which was a turn of bad luck for her, but she did a good run anyway.
Bryant Michel - $1,000. I personally think that he would have gone much farther, but he knew that the answer to the first question was wrong. He said the wrong answer while he was thinking the right one.
Ashley Graber - $17,000. She also jumped over $10,000, unfortunately. She did a great run, though.
And now we go onto the current version: the classic millionaire, updated with shuffle music and one new lifeline.
Issac Hirsch - $5,000. He answers a question about Canada wrong, leaving him with only $5,000 to spare. He did well though, and the, "I hate to use a lifeline so soon" joke to fool his mother made me chuckle.
Daniel Kells - $20,000. His best moment was when his +1 came out and helped him with a question about balloons.
Raj Jain - $5,000. He came really close to that $50,000 mark, but answered his question incorrectly leaving him with $5,000. Good run.
Jill Smith - $30,000. A great run at the time.
Now, let's total up the average!
As you can see, the Syndicated format's average winnings per contestant is much lower than that of the Primetime format's average winnings. I think they changed the formats and the questions' difficulty because they were on a lower budget.
Lastly, we will see how many US dollars is the average winnings for Hot Seat.
I will write the episode number, the contestant who won, the amount in US dollars that they won and further comments. I will do 7 of these.
I will write AUS$<Money> if I have to refer in AUS Dollars to a question.
2017: Episode 1: Heather Pettersson won about US$800. Rowan, another contestant, failed to answer the AU$250,000 question correctly. Heather, being in the next seat, swooped in and tried, but was also incorrect, leaving her with US$800.
2017: Episode 5: Matt Benbow won about US$200,000. He correctly answered the last question worth AU$250,000.
2017: Episode 9: Locky Todd won about US$800. He was the only one left in the Hot Seat and failed the last question. He was really determined, though.
2017: Episode 16: Jordan Burgess won about US$16,000.
2017: Episode 32: Thanh Nguyen won about US$8,000. Was the only one left in the Hot Seat and got the question right.
2017: Episode 36: Simon Stegley won about US$40,000. He was a great contestant.
2017: Episode 39: Caroline Conliffe won about US$800. She was the only one in the Hot Seat.
Average Winnings per contestant?
Considering that Syndicated has about 3 or 4 contestants on an episode, the average winnings per episode get to about $53,500. This shows that the Hot Seat format isn't really designed to give away money as it was marketed. Winners happen less often; only once per episode, but the money per contestant on average seems to be higher than in the Syndicated versions.
Well, that wraps it up for my studies for now. I will make edits including some UK database in the near future.