{"id":1844,"date":"2010-08-16T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2010-08-16T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:26:54","slug":"new-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=1844","title":{"rendered":"NEW! Who Wants to be a Millionaire US"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edit: <\/strong>It’s the penultimate day of 3-2-1<\/a><\/strong>. Has Tom played a blinder, or has he just made a decision he may regret? Join us tomorrow for the final prize reveals!<\/p>\n

Alex Davis has posted up the new US Millionaire<\/strong> rules on Buzzerblog<\/a>, but he’s also put them in a comment here so I’ll repeat that\u00a0as it’s probably worth its own post:<\/p>\n

“<\/em>OK, new Millionaire rules. It\u2019s not as good as old Millionaire but it can\u2019t be much worse than what we had to endure last season with the completely useless Expert, no one using Double Dip, bad contestants, unbelievably tough material, everyone walking away on question 7 or 8 and about one person every week or two making it to $25,000, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

The game is played in two rounds. The first round each question is randomly given one of ten dollar values (between $100 and $25,000) and the categories are shuffled. You won\u2019t know what you\u2019re playing for until you answer. That first question could be for $100 or maybe $25K. Could be the easiest, or could be the hardest. If you\u2019re right the value of the question is added to your bank. You can walk away at any time during the first 10 questions with half your bank.<\/em><\/p>\n

You\u2019re given three Lifelines. Ask the Audience survives. The other two are called \u201cJump the Question\u201d. If you use Jump you bypass the question but you don\u2019t get the dollar value for it, like an Escape from 1 VS 100.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you survive the first 10 questions you are guaranteed $25,000 and you play \u201cClassic Millionaire\u201d with four questions, valued at $100K, $250K, $500K, and $1M. You can walk away with your bank (or whatever dollar value you are on), but if you miss you leave with $25,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s not as good as old Millionaire but it sounds interesting (I\u2019ll be doing a set visit Thursday) and it really can\u2019t be any worse than last season. The show got too predictable and stale, and it\u2019s hard to change that on a daytime TV budget. They reached a point of no return, and it was either this or switch to Hot Seat. I\u2019m glad we switched to this.<\/em><\/p>\n

The only weird thing is getting rid of the Hot Seat. I\u2019m not sure what that accomplishes, but there we go.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks Alex. Sounds as though it might be fun, although until I see it I’m not entirely sure how well it will all “fit”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edit: It’s the penultimate day of 3-2-1. Has Tom played a blinder, or has he just made a decision he may regret? Join us tomorrow for the final prize reveals! Alex Davis has posted up the new US Millionaire rules on Buzzerblog, but he’s also put them in a comment here so I’ll repeat that\u00a0as\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-tK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}