Brainbox Challenge
Revision as of 12:00, 22 December 2009
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Host
Co-hosts
Voiceover: Sarah Parnell
Broadcast
BBC Manchester for BBC2, 25th February to 4th April 2008
Synopsis
A brain training quiz in which contestants battle to prove themselves in games of memory, language, visual, numerical, and spatial skills. In each show, five different games are played, each one testing a different aspect of mental capacity. The champion is able to see their next potential opponent, and must decide whether to face them or walk away with their winnings, for failure will reduce them to their last safe level. The champion doesn't know their opponent's strengths, nor the topic of the next game.
The champion at the end of each show gets to play the Bonus Game, the Brainbox Challenge, which is a test of remembering the shape displayed two before the current one. There's £50 per shape correctly remembered, plus a bonus of £200 for a string of sixteen correct answers, but one wrong answer will stop the game. If a challenger makes it to a second Brainbox Challenge, then the game changes slighty as the contestant must remember both the shape and the number in the centre of it.
Combined with a string of wins in the regular game, the potential jackpot is £13,000.
The cash tree is:
| £100 - | |
| £250 | |
| £500 | Safe amount |
| £750 | |
| £1000 | |
| £1500 | Safe amount |
| £2000 | |
| £2500 | |
| £3000 | |
| £4000 | Safe amount |
| £5000 | |
| £6000 | |
| £7000 | |
| £8000 | |
| £10000 | Safe amount |
Catchphrases
"Will you take the cheque, or take the challenge?"
Web Links
Official site, where niftily, many of the games from the show can be played. No money though.
