The Colour of Money (Dryicor)

Litur Peninganna (English: The Colour of Money) is a Dryicoran game show broadcast on DLO 3 since 2019. Based on the on primetime, it was extremely unpopular, many deriding the show's format. However, the second series was aired in daytime, in which it was a little more successful in the 3pm slot.

Format
Twenty stylised "cash machines" stand on the stage, each with a screen displaying a different colour, ranging from the usual rainbow colours to more exotic ones such as khaki and bronze. Each machine is loaded with a different cash amount ranging from 1 000 Kr to 20 000 Kr in increments of 1 000 Kr; the amounts are kept secret from everyone. At the beginning of the game, the contestant selects one of three "cash cards", each of which has been credited with a value of 25 000 Kr to 35 000 Kr (daytime) or 50 000 to 80 000 Kr (primetime) in multiples of 500 Kr (daytime) or 1 000 Kr (primetime). The contestant runs the selected card through a reader to reveal its value, which becomes their target for the game.

On each turn, the contestant selects a machine and the host starts it. The screen displays a starting value of zero and begins to count up slowly in 500 Kr (daytime) or 1 000 Kr (primetime) steps. As long as the machine has not exceeded its limit, the contestant may shut it off any time by calling "Stop!", at which point the displayed amount is added to their total. However, if the machine reaches its limit and continues to run without being stopped, it shuts itself off and the contestant banks no money for that turn. After the contestant stops a machine, the amount it contains is revealed by allowing it to keep running until shutoff occurs.

The contestant may select up to 10 machines, and must bank enough money to reach the target in order to win that total. Failure to do so forfeits all the money. In addition, if it becomes mathematically impossible to reach the target with the remaining machines, the game ends immediately and the contestant leaves with nothing.

Now and again, Howard will provide contestants with a statistical rundown between the machines being played, informing them of their running total, how much money they still needed to take, how many machines they could still select and how much money they needed to take, on average, from each of these remaining machines to reach their target.

Each episode of the show features two games.

Reception
Lindisfarne Standard TV critic Timo Rysdale called the primetime version "a tragedy of television" and that "DTV will be celebrating", echoing the reception on the DLO internet forum. The move to daytime led to more positive reviews, however it still only received 30,000 viewers.