The Rich List (New Zealand game show)
The Rich List | |
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Genre | Game show |
Created by | 12 Yard |
Presented by | Jason Gunn |
Country of origin | New Zealand |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
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Original network | TVNZ |
Picture format | 576i 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 23 June 2007 2008 | –
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The Rich List was a New Zealand television game show, which debuted on 23 June 2007 and aired on TV One. The show was hosted by Jason Gunn and produced by Imagination Television. Three seasons aired before it was cancelled in 2008.
How the game works[]
Two teams containing two players, who are unknown to each other, play from inside sound proof pods. Then they can discuss and deliberate over answers and tactics with their teammate, without their opponents hearing what their game strategy may be, or how many answers they actually know.
The two teams bid upwards against each other while predicting how many examples of a particular subject they will be able to list. If a team fails to list as many answers as they predicted, the other team wins the round.
The winners of the best of three lists move on to play The Rich List, a new game of list-making where increasing amounts of money are up for grabs, like this:
Right Answers | Winnings |
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3 | $5,000 |
6 | $10,000 |
9 | $15,000 |
12 | $25,000 |
15 | $50,000 |
However a wrong answer at any stage means all money for that rich-list is lost. Regardless of whether they win any prize money, as the reigning champions they will return to face new opponents.
Episodes[]
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Episode # | Air Date | Lists |
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1 | 12 June 2007 |
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2 | 19 June 2007 |
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3 | 26 June 2007 |
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4 | 3 July 2007 |
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5 | 10 July 2007 |
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6 | 17 July 2007 |
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7 | 24 July 2007 |
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8 | 31 July 2007 |
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9 | 7 August 2007 |
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10 | 14 August 2007 |
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11 | 21 August 2007 |
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12 | 28 August 2007 |
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13 | 4 September 2007 |
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Controversy[]
The episode which aired on Tuesday 8 July 2008 and repeated on Boxing Day 2012 contained an error in the final Rich List which caused the winners to lose the list. The list was "Polygons with up to 20 sides". The list as approved by the show excluded all quadrilaterals except quadrilaterals itself, so triangles and quadrilaterals were the only 18 acceptable polygons that did not end in 'gon'. The vagueness of the list as aired on TV1 should have included trapeziums, squares, and other specific polygons.[citation needed]
External links[]
- 2007 New Zealand television series debuts
- 2008 New Zealand television series endings
- New Zealand game shows
- TVNZ 1 original programming
- Television series by ITV Studios