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Limitless prizes in Ant & Dec’s game
ANT and Dec’s first new game show in over a decade will take some getting used to when it starts tomorrow night – so here are the basics on how it works.
A pair of contestants first answer questions in 60 seconds to win “lives”, with five lives for each correct answer.
Then the main game with the limitless money ladder begins.
Ant says: “The answer to every question is a number. But only exact answers bank you cash. You can go under the exact answer and you lose lives.
“But go over the exact answer, even by one, and it is game over.”
Questions include “How many slices are there in a large Domino’s pizza?” and “How tall is an Oscar statue in cms?”
Every question is an opportunity to climb the endless money ladder and reach big money, but only a correct answer allows you to bank the cash and then hit a gold buzzer, to walk away with the money.
Many will choose to play it safe and stay in the game until they know they have an exact answer.
If someone wins over £1million it would be the biggest prize ever on
British TV. Dec said: “It’s filled with jeopardy and every journey is different.”
JOURNEY
“So there’s a lot of kind of quiz show traditions that we tried to change when we were developing it and we were going, ‘We want to play along with the contestants.
“‘We want to go on the journey.’ “We tried to play with all those quiz show traditions like having a jackpot, like the question masters knowing the questions and all that and we just said, ‘How do we change it? How do we do it differently?’ So it’s kind of unlike anything else.”
Contestants can move up the ladder to win more money once they have “banked” it with a correct answer. They can get some questions wrong but have limited lives.
Ant told how the opening episode gets the winning off to a good start.
The 46-year-old added: “There are big winners yeah. I mean, we give away quite a bit of money.
“There’s one in episode one which is great and a really lovely win. There are some life-changing amounts of money and some crashes and burns from people coming in confidently thinking they will do well and don’t.” Ant and Dec are synonymous with hit shows and big audiences on ITV. But this is their first new project in over a decade. Their last quiz Red Or Black was no big hit.
However, the pair are pleased with the new game show, joking they feared it could make ITV “bankrupt” if players did too well.
Dec said: “We’re really happy with how the show turned out.
“We’re really excited about it. Very proud of it. We think it’s a really fun, exciting dramatic watch.”
Ant added: “It looks really good. We delivered what we set out to deliver.”
The Geordies both revealed what they would do if they won a limitless jackpot. Ant said: “I would like to buy my own island.” Dec added: “Yeah, an island. I don’t think we would be able to afford Newcastle United any more.” ■ Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win starts on ITV on Saturday
night at 8.30pm.
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