Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Russian game show)

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Logo of Кто хочет стать миллионером?

Кто хочет стать миллионером? (Transliteration: Kto hochyet stat millionyerom?, English translation: Who wants to become a millionaire?) is a Russian game show on the original format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. In this game show, each player can win 3 million rubles by answering 15 questions from different areas of knowledge.

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[edit] History of the game

Premiere of the game was on 1 October 1999 on NTV channel. The game was called О, счастливчик! (transliteration: Oh, Schastlivchi!, translation: Oh, lucky man!), and game's host was Dmitry Dibrov. The program became very popular and it was awarded by Russian Prize TEFI.

In 2001, program moved to the channel ORT and changed the name and the host. Now the game is called Кто хочет стать миллионером and the game's host became Maksim Galkin.

[edit] Rules of the game

In order to earn 3 million rubles, it is needed to correctly answer 15 questions from various fields of knowledge. Each question has 4 answers, of whom only one is correct. Game have a specific prize value:

Question Prize before 17 September 2005 Prize after 17 September 2005
15 1,000,000 rubles 3,000,000 rubles
14 500,000 rubles 1,500,000 rubles
13 250,000 rubles 800,000 rubles
12 125,000 rubles 400,000 rubles
11 64,000 rubles 200,000 rubles
10 32,000 rubles 100,000 rubles
9 16,000 rubles 50,000 rubles
8 8,000 rubles 25,000 rubles
7 4,000 rubles 15,000 rubles
6 2,000 rubles 10,000 rubles
5 1,000 rubles 5,000 rubles
4 500 rubles 3,000 rubles
3 300 rubles 2,000 rubles
2 200 rubles 1,000 rubles
1 100 rubles 500 rubles

The prize isn't added to prize won before (eg. someone won 500 rubles, and then he won 1000 rubles, so he win 1000 rubles, not 1500 (500+1000). Fifth and tenth questions are guaranteed sums (called "несгораемыми"), so if someone would lose at question for 200,000 rubles, he would win 100,000 rubles.

Player can use 4 lifelines:

  • "50:50" (Fifty Fifty)
  • "Звонок другу" (Phone a Friend)
  • "Помощь зала" (Ask the Audience)
  • "Три мудреца" (Three Wise Men)

[edit] Changes in the game

1. In September 2001, players' qualifying round monitors changed - now they can be deployed at 180°.

2. In 2002 the studio has completely changed.

3. In 17 September 2005 main prize increased and added SMS game for viewers.

4. In 21 October 2006 the "Три мудреца" (Three Wise Men) lifeline was added.

[edit] Winners of the game

1. Igor Sazeev from St. Petersburg won 1 million rubles on 21 March 2001

2. Irina and Yuri Chudinovskih, from Kirov won 1 million rubles on 18 March 2003

3. Svetlana Yaroslavtseva, from Troitsk won 3 million rubles on 19 February 2006

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