The game starts as soon as the player(s) push the button - a round ball on top of a podium centre-stage.
In these time-based games, the longer the participants take to complete the task, the more money they lose, and their money does drain away quite rapidly - by our count by over £130 every second, or a whopping £8000 a minute. At the time of writing, both teams timing out hasn't occured so we don't know what the tie-break entails. This means they can no longer play, and must wait to see if their opponents complete their task and win, or whether their opponents also time-out at £25,000, at which point a tie-break is played. When one family's money drains down to £25,000, they are timed-out. In this final game, there is also a time-out. However, no doubt to add excitement, the fourth and deciding game, which is always a time-based game, is played head-to-head. When played as one of the first three games in the programme, the time-based games tend to be played by one family then the other. The specifics vary by game, but the general concept of completing a task as fast as you can remains in each game.
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These tasks have included posting a series of items through the correctly shaped hole, stacking an over-sized wedding cake, or ranking different singers and PJ & Duncan by the amount of Number 1 singles they’ve had. The first type of game is time-based, requiring one or two members of each family to complete a given task as fast as they can, as their money drains away. The games vary, however they usually fall into one of three types. It is this money with which they play the games, with each game being purposefully designed to drain their prize money away. One bench is red, the other blue, however each team is only ever referred to by their family name.īefore the four games begin, each family is given £100,000. Back in the studio, each family sits on a bench on each side of the studio. As each family member is introduced, we see a brief on-screen biography containing information we're really not interested in. Cue lots of excitable screaming, shouting, hugging, and general merriment that does little but mildly annoy the audience. The show begins with us being shown footage from earlier in the week when Ant and Dec went and knocked on the doors of the two families to let them know they would be competing. Messrs McPartlin and Donnelly return as two families of five play head-to-head to win thousands of pounds. Gallowgate Productions for ITV1, 27 February 2010 to 2 April 2011 (14 episodes in 2 series)