The Triberus Lottery: WWTBAM

The Triberus Lottery are proud to bring you their latest venture, a tie between classic Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, their Ladbrokes Bingo games, and California's Make Me A Millionaire:



Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is the newest television game show of the Triberus Lottery, based on the quiz show of the same name. The game has been designed to reflect all aspects of Millionaire, and combines traditional lottery game-play with elements of the show's format and mechanism to create a truly unique and compelling experience. The voice of the Primetime version's host, Regis Philbin, stars as the announcer, and the final game's jackpot structure mirrors the Millionaire money tree, allowing rewards for a greater number of players than the usual jackpot structure.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? also features three games based upon the original three Lifelines, 50:50, Phone-A-Friend and Ask The Audience, reinforcing the experience.
Contestants receive a guaranteed minimum prize of $50, while the grand prize is a jackpot of $1,000,000 – plus, an accumulating jackpot that increases by $10,000 for each show where the top prize is not won!

The show has four random-play games. These are described here in the order of their appearance in the show. The games are mostly based on the format of the Lifelines.


'50:50' gives to each of three players a chance to win $5,000 in cash.
Using their Call Board, each player chooses a number between 1 and 49. When their number and 50 are called. The first to shout 50 and their chosen number wins the $5,000 and goes on to the endgame. The rest get $1,000. It’s as simple as that!


In 'Phone a Friend', two players compete for up to $64,000 in cash.
Each player begins with $1,000 and gets up to five turns to add to it. The first player enters the Hot Seat. That person will call on the other player, who will attempt to answer a classic question with four options (A, B, C or D) correctly, within 30 seconds. If they do so then they win money for both themselves and their 'friend'. The value of each question can range from $2,000, all the way up to $25,000!
The players alternate in this way, accumulating values, until one of the players gives an incorrect answer. That means both players leaves with half of their accumulated amount. But the player in the Hot Seat at that time does get to go to the endgame!
Regardless of the outcome, each player receives 500 Who Wants to Be a Millionaire scratchcards.


'Ask the Audience' is a five-player game with up to five rounds and cash prizes ranging from $25,000 to $500,000. In each round, the host will provide all players with a classic question with four options (A, B, C or D) followed by a countdown. The fifth person to answer (whether they be correct or incorrect) will be in the Hot Seat. After 30 seconds, the host will then ask that player to give their final answer. Will they stick with what they answered or will they take notice of the answers from the Audience? The player gains money only with each correct answer.
For the first question, a player wins $25,000 for a correct answer. This question would be worth $32,000 in the original Primetime show. The game is reset with a $64,000 question, and so on. If a player answers a question incorrectly, whether from the Audience poll or his own decision, he is eliminated from play, but is given his accumulated earnings, otherwise he'll have $1,000.
For the remaining questions, the payoff is levelled to each on the Money Tree (e.g. $100,000/$125,000, $250,000, and then $500,000, with each question getting progressively harder. A single player who wins all the questions (lucky!) will have total accumulated winnings of $875,000!


All five contestants who have not been in a game yet appear on stage with the three winners of the previous games, and the host provides them with a Fastest Finger First question. After a countdown, the first player to give the four options (A, B, C & D) in the correct order will be declared the winner and gets to play the last game. The remaining seven each receive $1,000 and 500 Millionaire scratchcards. 'Classic Millionaire' is named such because it features the original Primetime Money Tree, and pays a minimum of $1,000 with the jackpot of at least $1,000,000.
The game starts with the player at the bottom of the Millionaire Money Tree. The $1,000,000 prize is at the very top. The player’s goal is to climb the ladder one rung at a time. To climb, he must press the 'HIT' button whilst the level he is aiming for is highlighted. Several 'Free Climbs' are also scattered along the Tree; these are indicated by the 'Jump the Question' symbol, and as soon as the player reaches the level under it, he gets a leg up. Winning all fifteen levels augments the earnings to the jackpot. After one wrong guess, the player must choose before each turn whether to leave with the accumulated earnings or continue to play. A second wrong guess ends the game and the player's earnings are halved. Regardless of the outcome, the winner receives 1,000 Millionaire scratchcards (or a bonus prize).
It should also be noted that, if the player fails to hit the $100 level on their first two hits, the contestant is still awarded $50 and the game is over.

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So, how about that, eh?! If only I had some players to try it out on..