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In the second round, whichever contestant has the most points (or, in the case of a tie, how quickly they've locked their answers in) after five questions is left after the opening skirmish picks one category out of four is faced with a 3x3 grid consisting of one right answer, three wrong answers and five impossible answers. The contestant is then given the first half of the question and must eliminate the five impossible answers, each elimination putting £100 in their prize pot. After five of these, the contestant is shown the rest of it and must pick the right answer to secure their place in the final; a wrong answer sees their final chance offered to the next place player and an impossible answer sees them coming back for the next show. This process repeats itself twice, so is played three times in all, with the second finalist picking from three categories and the third picking from two. | In the second round, whichever contestant has the most points (or, in the case of a tie, how quickly they've locked their answers in) after five questions is left after the opening skirmish picks one category out of four is faced with a 3x3 grid consisting of one right answer, three wrong answers and five impossible answers. The contestant is then given the first half of the question and must eliminate the five impossible answers, each elimination putting £100 in their prize pot. After five of these, the contestant is shown the rest of it and must pick the right answer to secure their place in the final; a wrong answer sees their final chance offered to the next place player and an impossible answer sees them coming back for the next show. This process repeats itself twice, so is played three times in all, with the second finalist picking from three categories and the third picking from two. | ||
| - | The final is played as follows. Each contestant has ten lives. Questions on the buzzer, right answers knock a life off their opponents, wrong answers cause the contestant to lose a life. Some of the questions are Impossible; if the contestant says "Impossible" to one of these, then the other contestants lose two lives, but if the contestant says Impossible to an answer that is not Impossible, or gives any other answer to an Impossible question, then it is the contestant who loses two lives. Whoever is left after the other two have lost all their lives plays the final. Players who have made it to the final are replaced whether successful or not. | + | The final is played as follows. Each contestant has ten lives. Questions on the buzzer, right answers knock a life off their opponents, wrong answers cause the contestant to lose a life. Some of the questions are Impossible; if the contestant says "Impossible" to one of these, then the other contestants lose two lives, but if the contestant says Impossible to an answer that is not Impossible, or gives any other answer to an Impossible question, then it is the contestant who loses two lives. Whoever is left after the other two have lost all their lives plays the final. Players who have made it to the final twice are replaced whether successful or not. |
In the final, the surviving contestant faces another 3x3 grid containing three of each kind and must speak their three answers within ten seconds. To win the show's jackpot of £10,000, the contestant must pick all three right answers, but if (s)he picks an impossible answer, (s)he returns to the next show with nothing. | In the final, the surviving contestant faces another 3x3 grid containing three of each kind and must speak their three answers within ten seconds. To win the show's jackpot of £10,000, the contestant must pick all three right answers, but if (s)he picks an impossible answer, (s)he returns to the next show with nothing. | ||
Revision as of 19:16, 3 January 2017
Synopsis
Thirty players answer multiple choice questions to avoid elimination; basically an updated Whittle.
The opening round asks five multiple choice questions, each with a right answer, a wrong answer and an impossible answer. Wrong answers aren't right, impossible answers can't be right; for example, if the question was “who was monarch at the turn of the 20th century”, George VI might be a wrong answer, since he was king between 1936 and 1952, but Albert I would be impossible, because there were no British monarchs with that name. (You can't say you don't learn things from this site…) Right answers score a point, wrong answers score nothing and impossible answers see the contestant eliminated.
In the second round, whichever contestant has the most points (or, in the case of a tie, how quickly they've locked their answers in) after five questions is left after the opening skirmish picks one category out of four is faced with a 3x3 grid consisting of one right answer, three wrong answers and five impossible answers. The contestant is then given the first half of the question and must eliminate the five impossible answers, each elimination putting £100 in their prize pot. After five of these, the contestant is shown the rest of it and must pick the right answer to secure their place in the final; a wrong answer sees their final chance offered to the next place player and an impossible answer sees them coming back for the next show. This process repeats itself twice, so is played three times in all, with the second finalist picking from three categories and the third picking from two.
The final is played as follows. Each contestant has ten lives. Questions on the buzzer, right answers knock a life off their opponents, wrong answers cause the contestant to lose a life. Some of the questions are Impossible; if the contestant says "Impossible" to one of these, then the other contestants lose two lives, but if the contestant says Impossible to an answer that is not Impossible, or gives any other answer to an Impossible question, then it is the contestant who loses two lives. Whoever is left after the other two have lost all their lives plays the final. Players who have made it to the final twice are replaced whether successful or not.
In the final, the surviving contestant faces another 3x3 grid containing three of each kind and must speak their three answers within ten seconds. To win the show's jackpot of £10,000, the contestant must pick all three right answers, but if (s)he picks an impossible answer, (s)he returns to the next show with nothing.
Inventor
A Mighty Productions format devised by Hugh Rycroft.
Theme music
David Roper and Nick Norton-Smith.
