There are several key elements that need to be utilised to make a successful quiz show. First and foremost is a unique selling point or Format, The second is a well known host or hostess that the viewers can associate with or have seen on television before, and finally a prize that will encourage excitement and tension as the show progresses.
Most television quiz shows award progressive prizes. Be that for answering questions of increasing difficulty as in “Who wants to be a Millionaire” for instance, or for undertaking tasks of equally progressive difficulty as in “The Cube”. One Television quiz show took a different approach to this idea and opted to give contestants the feature prize at the beginning of the show, and instead of asking them to win the prize, they instructed the contestants that they didn’t have to win it at all, they in fact had merely to keep it. A truly unique format. The game show is “The Million Pound Drop” and is one of channels fours most popular television shows. The format simply involved contestants wagering parts or in some cases all of the one million pound prize money on the answers to five questions of increasing difficulty. If the contestant placed a portion of the prize pool on a drawer that related to an answer that was not correct, the drawer opened and the money dropped from play. The idea was simple, put your money on the correct draw or it gets dropped. If after five rounds you still have any money left, then that is your prize.
The popularity of the show was so high that within months of the first showing, several software developers began work on an online version for the online gaming market. Bet365 saw the potential of such a game and were keen to market such a product.
Bet365 are the only online gaming company to offer The Money Drop. A unique variation of the hit television show. The layout and design of the game presents players with a true liking to the television show experience, and challenges players to take part in five rounds of increasing excitement as they attempt to select the correct drawers on which to wager there money. There are no general knowledge questions to answer which although is a major part of the television series, it does make for a much simpler game. Players simply have to make a wager, then test there nerves as they try and make it through all five rounds.
You can Play The Money Drop Game exclusively at Bet 365