Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

[wrayperson]

Just watched old programme on Challenge. contestant said "final answer " after saying answer was rose to question " damask " why did Chris Tarrant not take this & he walked away with £150000 instead of getting £250000

[tonymclark]

Watch the clip in the link above wrayperson, the contestant answers "Rose" and Chris asks him is that is his final answer. The contestant says yes, but then very quickly says "no", it is too much of a gamble. So then Chris asks him for his "final, final, final answer?", the contestant doesn't want to take the risk and says he will take the money he already has.

[wrayperson]

I think cloverjo that he did say the words "final answer" & anyone who watches this show knows as soon as contestants say that,it is it. .. as far as weecalfs thoughts on the programme .. these people can win lots of money for goodness sake, how is that exploiting them? anyway I think that is enough for now.. thanks to all who gave serious answers & for those who just like to put stupid posts on..well!!

[boxtops]

If what tony says is correct ^ then the contestant didn't win the money. Does it really matter, anyway?

[wrayperson]

Maybe you dont't know the rules of the game boxtops. As to does it matter. I was interested enough in this to ask a question . I thought I might get some serious replies from AB.. Ah well!!!

[Canary42]

It's a difficult one to call, technically IMO you are quite correct but the guy rescinded it BEFORE the answer was lit up, so Chris let him rethink it (and rethink himself out of the prize). It would have been fascinating if the guy had later taken the same stance as you, and perhaps tried to legally grab the larger sum (but I expect the appearance contract small print would thwart him).

Allegedly, Chris doesn't see the correct answer on his screen until after the final answer is lit up, so presumably he didn't necessarily realise the guy had got it right.

[boxtops]

I do know the rules of the game, I used to watch it regularly - but it the contestant said "no, I'll take the money" - even though he had mooted the right answer before he said that - the game rules are correct, he didn't want to put in forward as his final answer. CT can't jump in and say "yep, that's correct, is that your final?".

[viv38]

Chris Tarrant does stuff like this all the time. He frequently questions a contestant's final answer and says not "............." and then goes on to mention the other answers, or says something like 'are you sure' when they give the final answer or makes stupid comments like 'but you have no idea' when a contestant accepts what the audience says!! Quite frankly he gets on my wick and should just accept what the contestant says in the first place!

[gingejbee]

Good grief! The programme was how old? It doesn't exist anymore and people are seriously concerning themselves with it? Too much time on your hands and not enough to fill it....comes to mind.

[maggiebee]

I'm black affronted - why was my answer removed?? Am I not allowed an opinion?

[viv38]

Sane as you posting on this thread then gingejbee !!!

[viv38]

^ 'Same'

[gingejbee]

viv : I'm not the one asking pointless, vacuous questions to the wrong people though! (correct people would be the television production company, of course).

[viv38]

Plenty of people ask 'pointless', 'vacuous' questions on AB, though not in their opinion, and I can't see anything wrong in that.

[gingejbee]

OK...

[wrayperson]

viv38 puts it well. especially answering gingejbee. Hey all I did was ask a simple question . didn't realise there were so many people glued on site !!!! I do wonder why people bother to view site just to put stupid posts on. Maybe they have nothing better to do,eh gingejbee.

[viv38]

You're welcome wrayperson.

[gingejbee]

Yawn.

[Postdog]

Reading this post the words life, get, and one springs to mind.

[viv38]

Same applies to you Postdog, couldn't resist posting could you ??

[wrayperson]

Thanks to people who bothered to treat my question as a serious one.. that after all is what AB is about.. to those inane individuals who can only think to post childish replies, why bother!!!