Tipping Point --At The Beginning The Contestants Have To Answer 12 Questions

[gollob]

What is the point of answering a question and then passing the go to another player.. So why bother answering the question in the first place then, plus you might get it wrong.

[elliemay1]

gollob,I was wondering exactly the same! Great minds...!

[bibblebub]

If you don't think that any of the counters will drop then you can get an opponent to use one of their three goes rather than waste one of your own.

[jeffa]

At the beginning of the show, the counters are pretty well evenly spaced in all four drop zones, with none hanging over the tipping point.

In the first round each contestant has a maximum of three counters. The idea of passing a question to a different contestant is to make them use one of their counters to nudge the counters further over the tipping point so that when you have forced the other contestants to waste their counters in this way, you have more chance of nudging counters into the drop zone. Of course, to do this you have to answer your questions correctly.

[slinky.kate]

why does everyone wear flat shoes on that programme,(I mean woman)

[elliemay1]

Thank you bibblebub and jeffa.

[bibblebub]

A reason why women wear flat shoes might be so that they don't tower over Ben Shepard (5'8") when he does the obligatory hug at the end of the show.

[Dodger666]

Your right in what you say jeffa.

The producers must place the counters so that, usually, non will fall until a few counters have been dropped into the same zone and gone over the top tipping point.

I am always amazed when in the second or even the third round a contestant will choose to drop a counter in a zone that has had no counters in it previously. You can almost guarantee nothing will go over the tipping point. Makes me wonder if some of the contestants have ever watched the game before going on it.

[Dodger666]

In Tipping Point "celebrities" Shaun Williamson, Barry Evans from Eastenders, has just made the very mistakes mentioned above. He answered the first three questions and selected to play each time rather than passing. He won absolutely nothing. Not one counter went over the tipping point.

[Sipowicz]

He made the same mistake when it was first shown!