Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old? (Dryicoran game show)

Oletko älykkäämpi kuin 10-vuotias?, also known by its English name Are You Smarter Than a 10-Year-Old?, was a Dryicoran quiz show broadcast on BOD 1 from 2008 until 2012.

It was the Dryicoran version of the American game show .

Gameplay
In each game, the contestant (an adult) was asked a series of up to eleven questions, spanning ten subjects (such as history, maths or science) taken from textbooks for 6- to 10-year-old students. Each question was associated with an age level; there were two questions per age group, from 6 to 10. The player could answer the questions in any order, and each correct answer raises their cumulative amount of winnings to the next level (see table). There is a safety net after five correct answers, guaranteeing the player the value of the fifth question, and after ten questions players could take a jackpot question for the top prize.

Along the way, the player could be assisted by a "classmate", one of five ten-year-old children, in answering the questions. The classmate, chosen for two questions at a time, attempts to answer the question at the same time as the contestant, writing their answer on a virtual blackboard hidden from the contestant's view. The player picked a child to come and stand on the podium beside them and they answer the question at the same time as the adult. They lock in their answer and the adult was given the option of copying the child's answer or peeking at it, and if they locked in their own answer and got the question wrong, they could be saved by the child's answer providing it was correct.

Prior to the show, the children were provided with workbooks which contain a variety of material, some of which could be used in the questions asked in the game. It can be argued that the questions were actually not representative of the general knowledge of the average 10-year-old, however: the children were not immune from getting the answer wrong as well, and did sometimes enter incorrect answers.

Contestants had three aids they could use during their game. Each of the following aids could only be used once in any game (up to, but not including, the final question):

Peek: The player was shown their classmate's answer and chose whether to use it or not. There was no obligation to actually take the classmate's answer and the player was free to lock in an alternative answer. Copy: The player used their classmate's answer, regardless of whether it was right or wrong. Save: If the player answered incorrectly but their classmate was correct, they were said to have been saved and the game continued. The player could only use this cheat after supplying an answer.

Once all three cheats are used, the children no longer played an active role in the game. There were no cheats available for the final question regardless of how many, if any, were still available by this point in the game.

Jackpot Question
The rules change slightly for the jackpot question. The player is only shown the subject of the question before deciding if they will continue or drop out. This question will always be for a ten year old regardless of the subject. If the player chooses to see the question, they are no longer eligible to drop out and must answer the question, with no assistance from the classmates. Answering the question incorrectly will cause the contestant to drop back down to the prize for 5 questions.

If the contestant got any answer wrong (and was not saved) in the first five questions lost all their winnings (if they passed the 5th question, they would instead drop down to that amount). For this reason, they could choose to walk away at any point during the game, which entitled them to leave the game with the winnings they had accumulated, if any.

If, at any point during the game, the player chose to walk away or dropped down, they had to face the camera and state, "I am not smarter than a 10 year old." However, if the final question was answered correctly, the contestant had the opportunity to claim, "I am smarter than a 10 year old."

Reception
The show was well-received by the viewing public, with one viewer saying "It showed me just how smarter my 10-year-old is than me!" After receiving 9 million viewers for the first series, it dropped to 6 million for the final series.