Million Dollar Money Drop: Singapore Edition

Million Dollar Money Drop: Singapore Edition was a game show which aired on MediaCorp Channel 5 in the Singapore. It was based on the UK series The Million Pound Drop Live. However, unlike the original UK version, it was not broadcast live, and there were several changes to the format. The show premiered on 9 August 2011, after the nation's 46th National Day Parade segment, and is hosted by George Young. The show's set, theme song and question cues was followed based on the British edition. About 300,000 people watched the premiere of the show: approximately 6% of the total population of Singapore at that time.^[1]

Game format

A team of two people with a pre-existing relationship is presented with SGD$1,000,000 in denominations of $50 in bundles of $25,000 (40 bundles = $1,000,000). The team must risk the entire amount on each correctly of eight multiple-choice questions.

For each question, the contestants choose one of two categories, then indicate which answer(s) they wish to risk their money on by moving the bundles of cash onto a row of trap doors, termed "drops," each of which corresponds to one answer. However, they must always keep at least one drop "clear" with no money on it. In addition, all eight questions have a time limit; any money that is not placed on an answer when time runs out will be lost.

Once the money is in place, the trap doors for the incorrect answers are opened, and the cash on them falls out of sight and is lost. The contestants then continue the game using the cash they had placed on the correct answer. They get to keep whatever money is left after the eighth question; if they lose everything before reaching this point, the game ends immediately and they leave with nothing.

Contestants and their winnings

^1 These players played for charity. Bold denotes the winning pair

All statistics are accurate as of Season 1.

• Most money won: $75,000 (Justin & Vernon)
• Total winnings to date: $175,000
• Total amount of money dropped: $19,825,000
• Average amount of money dropped per contestant pair: $991,250.00
• Average amount of money dropped per question: $198,250.00
• Average amount of money dropped per episode: $1,525,000
• Total number of winners: 4
• Total number of contestants who lost everything: 16
• Total number of contestants who appeared on the show: 20
• Success rate: 20%
• Average winnings per winning contestant pair: $43,750
• Average winnings per episode to date: $13,461.54
• Average winnings per contestant pair to date: $8,750.00
• Longest $1 million remained in play: 3 questions (Sean & Shu Ming, Justin & Vernon, Li Qi & Xin)
• Most money lost in one question: $1 million (Eugene & Izam, Sean & Shu Ming)
• Most money lost in first question: $1 million (Eugene & Izam)
• Most money lost through one drop: $1 million (Sean & Shu Ming)
• Number of questions played so far: 100
• Number of questions answered correctly: 84
• Number of questions answered incorrectly: 16
• Average number of questions answered correctly: 4.20
• Most questions answered correctly: 8 (Justin & Vernon, Juliana & Willy, Shahlan & Shahreel, Li Qi & Xin)
• Least questions answered correctly: 0 (Eugene & Izam)

International versions

Country	Title	Host	Network	Top Prize	First Airdate
Albania	100 Milionë	Eno Popi	Top Channel	10,000,000 lek	11 January 2011
Argentina	Salven el Millón	Susana Giménez	Telefe	AR$1,000,000	9 June 2011
Australia [2]	The Million Dollar Drop	Eddie McGuire	Nine Network	A$1,000,000	21 March 2011
Brazil [3]	Um Milhão na Mesa	Silvio Santos	SBT	R$1,000,000	21 September-14 December 2011
Chile [4]	Atrapa los Millones	Don Francisco	Canal 13	CL$500.000.000	2012
Colombia	Millones por montones	María José Barraza	Canal Caracol	CO$1.000.000.000	25 July 2011
Egypt [5]	أنت والمليون Inta wal milyon	Nagla Badr	Mehwar TV	‏EGP1,000,000	February 2012
Estonia [6]	Rahaauk	Alari Kivisaar	TV3	€100,000	12 September 2011
France [7]	Money Drop	Laurence Boccolini	TF1	€250,000	1 August-23 September 2011
Germany	Rette die Million!	Jörg Pilawa	ZDF	€1,000,000	13 October 2010
Greece	Money Drop	Grigoris Arnaoutoglou	Mega TV	€300,000	16 October 2010
Hungary	A 40 Milliós Játszma	Rákóczi Ferenc	TV2	‏40,000,000 Ft	29 November 2010
India (Bengali) [8]	কোটি টাকার বাজি Koti Takar Baji	Jeet	Star Jalsha	Rs1,000,000	15 October 2011
Israel	אל תפיל את המיליון Al Tapil Et HaMilyon	Erez Tal	Channel 2 (Keshet)	‏₪1,000,000	13 October 2010
Italy [9]	The Money Drop	Gerry Scotti	Canale 5	€1,000,000	12 December 2011
Kazakhstan [10]	Шоу Сорок Миллионов Тенге‏ Shou Sorok Millionov Tenge	Abdel' Mukhtarov	tv7	40,000,000 ₸	22 January 2011
Latvia [11]	Paņem 100 000... ja vari	Edgars Ludāns	TV3	€100,000	1 October 2011 [12]
Lithuania [13]	100 000 eurų grynais	Marijonas Mikutavičius	TV3	€100,000	2 September 2011
Malaysia (Malay) [14]	RM 1,000,000 Money Drop	AC Mizal	Astro Ria	RM1,000,000	3 December 2011
Netherlands[15]	Show Me The Money	Beau van Erven Dorens	SBS 6	€1,000,000	11–22 April 2011
Philippines	Million Peso Money Drop	Vic Sotto	TV5	Php 1,000,000	14 October 2012
Poland	Postaw na milion	Łukasz Nowicki	TVP2	1,000,000 zł	5 March 2011
Russia	Шоу Десять миллионов Shou Desyat' Millionov	Maxim Galkin	Russia 1	10,000,000 руб.	4 September 2010
Serbia [16]	Multimilioner	Dragan Nikolić	RTV Pink	10,000,000RSD	13 September 2011
Singapore (English)[17]	Million Dollar Money Drop	George Young	MediaCorp TV Channel 5	S$1,000,000	9 August 2011
Spain [18]	Atrapa un Millón	Carlos Sobera	Antena 3	€1,000,000 (weekly)	4 February 2011
	Atrapa un Millón Diario			€ 200,000 (daily)	4 April 2011
	Atrapa dos Millones			€ 2,000,000 (special)	21 October 2011
Sweden[19]	Pengarna på bordet	Peter Jihde	TV4	2,000,000 Kr.	3 October 2011
Switzerland (German)[20]	Die Millionen-Falle	René Rindlisbacher	SF1	1,000,000SFr	4 July–15 August 2011
Turkey	Bir Milyon Canlı Para	Engin Altan Düzyatan	Show TV	1,000,000TL	25 October 2010
Ukraine	Шоу на два мiльйони Shou Na Dva Milyoni	Andriy Domanskyi	1+1	2,000,000 грн.	12 January–30 March 2011
United Kingdom	The Million Pound Drop Live	Davina McCall	Channel 4	£1,000,000	24 May 2010
United States	Million Dollar Money Drop	Kevin Pollak	Fox	US$1,000,000	20 December 2010

See also

• The Million Pound Drop Live
• Million Dollar Money Drop

References

External links

• Million Dollar Money Drop Singapore