£20K Play
Host
Harry Pinero
Broadcast
Wall of Entertainment for Channel 4.0 (webcast), 22 October 2024 to present
Synopsis
Five friends stand in a row of cubicles with headphones on so that they cannot see or hear each other. They are asked a series of questions, each with a portion of the £20K prize pot at stake, things like "Who is the ultimate ride or die?", "Who is the lengest?", "Who would accommodate a vole?", "Who will have the most clapped baby?" and "Who's been tampering with my question cards?". (It might be fun - if a bit cruel - to ask a question with made-up slang nobody knows, and see how the players respond...) All the people who have received votes on that question are told so, and then of those people, one and only one must step forward to save the prize money - it doesn't have to be the person with the most votes. If nobody steps forward, or more than one does, that portion of the prize money is lost.
After several rounds of this, the players sit around a table and are each given a briefcase with an electronic tablet in it. They are presented with a list of amounts (which are 10%, 20%, 30%, 50% and 60% of the remaining prize pot) and without conferring, each must select how much of the money to bank. If between them they bank more than the available pot, they go home with nothing. If all play safe and go for the 20% option, then they take half the pot. Any other result, they take the total. Of course they'd have to change this if it went to a second run, since if you know what's coming, you can simply agree who does what in advance. Which, now we come to think of it, applies to the rest of the game too. In view of which it will be interesting to see what if any changes are made in a second run, if there is one.
