who wants to be a zillionaire

Players choose a category on which to answer questions. Questions are of a multiple-choice nature with the answer being one of four possibilities. If the player answers the question correctly an amount of 憁oney?is credited to that player.Questions have a difficulty level according to the amount of 憁oney?players are awarded for answering that question correctly.The questions are asked in ascending order of difficulty and, value. Players take turns to answer questions. If a player cannot answer a question, help is available as follows:

?Ask the Public. This involves a simulation of each possible answer being given a rating according to the likelihood that it is the correct answer. Ratings for all four possible answers must add up to 100% in total.

?Half-and-half. Two of the possible answers are removed leaving only the right answer and one wrong answer.

Players are only allowed to use each help facility once per game. If a wrong answer is given that player is out of the game. The winner is the player with the most money credited at the end of the game.

yvonne_fasha at 2007-7-9 22:53:48 >