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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Thai game show)

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Country of origin
  
Thailand

First episode date
  
4 March 2000

Network
  
iTV

Original network
  
Thai TV3, itv

Final episode date
  
14 January 2008

Genre
  
Game show

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Original release
  
March 4, 2000 – January 14, 2008

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เกมเศรษฐี (English translation: Millionaire Game, transliteration: Kemṣ̄ers̄ʹṭ̄hī) was a Thai game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The main goal of the game was to win 1 million Thai baht by answering 12 multiple-choice questions correctly (earlier 16 questions). There were three lifelines, all other than in the original version - Double Dip (contestant can choose the answer two times), Help of Audience Members (help of two members of the audience who believe that they know the correct answer) and Switch The Question (contestant can change the question). Earlier the lifelines were: Fifty Fifty, Ask The Audience and Switch The Question.

Contents

Studio/Question Sets

The Thai version has many changes compared to the other variants, below are the description:

  • Number 1: The question set is round, and not the size of a rhombus,
  • Number 2: The options are named "1, 2, 3, 4" opposed to the other variants "A, B, C, D".
  • Number 3: The question music is completely different from others
  • Number 4: Only 6 contestants compete for the Fastest Finger round
  • Number 5: The hot seat is designed like a throne.

    • The game's prizes

    These are the prizes of the new version of the game:

  • 1. question • ฿15,000
  • 2. question • ฿20,000
  • 3. question • ฿25,000
  • 4. question • ฿30,000
  • 5. question • ฿35,000
  • 6. question • ฿40,000
  • 7. question • ฿45,000
  • 8. question • ฿50,000
  • 9. question • ฿100,000
  • 10. question • ฿250,000
  • 11. question • ฿500,000
  • 12. question • ฿1,000,000
  • Failing to answer correctly, the contestant will walk away with 50% of its last question value.

    • These are the prizes of the old version of the game:

    First version

  • 1. question • ฿1,000
  • 2. question • ฿2,000
  • 3. question • ฿3,000
  • 4. question • ฿4,000
  • 5. question • ฿5,000 (Guaranteed Sum)
  • 6. question • ฿10,000
  • 7. question • ฿20,000
  • 8. question • ฿30,000
  • 9. question • ฿40,000
  • 10. question • ฿50,000 (Guaranteed Sum)
  • 11. question • ฿100,000
  • 12. question • ฿200,000
  • 13. question • ฿300,000
  • 14. question • ฿400,000
  • 15. question • ฿500,000
  • 16. question • ฿1,000,000

    • Second version

  • 1. question • ฿5,000
  • 2. question • ฿6,000
  • 3. question • ฿7,000
  • 4. question • ฿8,000
  • 5. question • ฿9,000 (guaranteed sum)
  • 6. question • ฿10,000
  • 7. question • ฿20,000
  • 8. question • ฿30,000
  • 9. question • ฿40,000
  • 10. question • ฿50,000 (guaranteed sum)
  • 11. question • ฿100,000
  • 12. question • ฿200,000
  • 13. question • ฿300,000
  • 14. question • ฿400,000
  • 15. question • ฿500,000
  • 16. question • ฿1,000,000

    • Third version

  • 1. question • ฿5,000
  • 2. question • ฿10,000
  • 3. question • ฿15,000
  • 4. question • ฿20,000
  • 5. question • ฿25,000
  • 6. question • ฿30,000
  • 7. question • ฿35,000
  • 8. question • ฿40,000
  • 9. question • ฿45,000
  • 10. question • ฿50,000
  • 11. question • ฿100,000
  • 12. question • ฿200,000
  • 13. question • ฿300,000
  • 14. question • ฿400,000
  • 15. question • ฿500,000
  • 16. question • ฿1,000,000
  • Failing to answer correctly, the contestant will walk away with 50% of its last question value.

    • The Lertlak Panchanawaporn affair

    In 2002, Lertlak Panchanawaporn, 44-year-old street vendor won the grand prize on the show. The show's producers were impressed with her, since she had only a fourth-grade education. Finally, the truth got alive - a computer error led the player to being fed all the right answers. The cable feeding the player the answers on the computer screen was supposed to be hooked up the presenter's computer. She had noticed that the right answers were constantly highlighted on her computer screen and won the million by this way. Show's producers took the million away from her. Later she was allowed to play again and she won 25,000 baht in her second play-through. Articles about it were written in many TV stations, newspapers and websites (e.g. BBC and Deutsche Welle). There was also a chapter about it in the book Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser: And Over 100 Other Embarrassing and Funny Stories of Technology Gone Mad by Rick Broadhead.

    References

    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Thai game show) Wikipedia
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