Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Dryicor)

Haluatko miljonääriksi? ("Do you want to become a millionaire?", Icelandic: Viltu verða miljónamæringur?, "Do you want to be a millionaire?") is a Dryicoran TV game show based on the British game show . In the game, contestants answer a maximum of fifteen questions correctly, with the assistance of three "lifelines", to win a maximum of 10 000 000 Kr.

Unlike in most versions of the programme, nobody has ever won the top prize or even seen the fifteenth question. The highest winners, Lesse Haluaghat and Petra Jorgensen walked away with 2 500 000 Kr in November 2005 and September 2020 respectively.

Gameplay
Contestants phone a premium-rate phone line to have a chance of getting on the show. If they are accepted, they are phoned back and told to go down to Honganiemi to appear on a series. For those who cannot go to Honganiemi (i.e. they don't have access to a car) then they can request to go on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? coach to the capital.

Once they are in Honganiemi, there are 10 contestants who will sit in "Fastest Finger First". The contestant who puts the four possible answers in the correct order fastest wins.

They then have a conversation with Ercole Mäkkinen about their lives. He will learn more about them as the game progresses.

They then have to answer fifteen multiple-choice questions correctly to move up the money tree. They can walk away at any time, and they have three "lifelines" to assist them:


 * 50:50 removes two incorrect answers to show the correct answer and one remaining wrong answer.
 * Phone-a-Friend gives the contestant 30 seconds to read the question and answer to one of three phone numbers they nominated before the show started. They then have the remaining time to discuss the question with the "friend".


 * Ask the Audience (1999–2019, 2022–) allows the contestant to survey the studio audience to see what they think the answer is; the audience will input what they think and their result is given as a percentage for each answer. Was temporarily replaced by Double Dip. as the audience did not attend during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 * Ask the Host (2020–) was originally introduced as a lifeline to help compensate for the loss of the audience due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The contestant asks Mäkkinen what he thinks, and they are given an unlimited amount of time to talk it over.

Former lifelines

 * Ask the Nation (2020) was a temporary replacement for Ask the Audience during the COVID-19 pandemic. If the contestant decided to Ask the Nation, a commercial break will be aired and Mäkkinen will ask Dryicorans to input their choice onto the DTV Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? page www.dtv.dr/millionaire-atn. When it returns, Mäkkinen will reveal the Ask the Nation vote to the contestant. Mäkkinen revealed the hugely successful new lifeline was dropped because "at home, people have a certain thing called Google." It was replaced by Double Dip for the 2021 series.
 * Double Dip (2021) was the next Ask the Audience replacement during COVID-19. The contestant is allowed a second guess at a question if their first guess is wrong. If the contestant's first guess is right, the lifeline is not refunded. Note that the presence of 50:50 means that if both 50:50 and Double Dip are used and 50:50 is used first, the contestant has a guaranteed correct answer. However, the order is important, as one contestant discovered at their peril during their 2 500 000 Kr question.

The show's first series used a money tree based on the Australian version, where only eleven questions were required to win the 10 million. From the second series the show followed the more familiar format of fifteen questions. In 2007 it switched to the UK new format of 12 questions, yet this was reverted in 2008.

Each question is worth a specific amount of money. It is not cumulative, and there are safety nets at 10 000 Kr and 320 000 Kr (or only 320 000 Kr in 1999, and 10 000 Kr and 500 000 Kr from 2007-08).

Music
A key part of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is the music. Unlike most game shows, the Millionaire music, created by Keith and Matthew Strachan, is designed to unnerve the contestant and make them feel uneasy in the Hot Seat. The Dryicoran version originally used the more bass-focused Australian cover of the theme from 1999 until 2000. The most famous music was used from late 2000 until 2007 and again from 2008 onwards.

In 2007, as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? versions are required to follow the British example exactly, the show switched to a new, more modern, theme tune composed by Ramon Covalo. However this was unpopular, and the older graphics and music were swiftly readopted in 2008.

Records

 * Highest winnings:
 * Lasse Laluaghat won 2 500 000 Kr on Series 7 of the Finnish version on 8 November 2005. He left without using his Ask the Audience lifeline.


 * Petra Jorgensen won the same amount on Series 22 of the Finnish version on 11 September 2020, a few hours before Donald Fear won the UK version's top prize:


 * Highest loss: 2 180 000 Kr (loss on 5 000 000 Kr question):
 * Magnus Thorgeirsson lost 2 180 000 Kr on Series 18 of the Icelandic version on 17 April 2017.


 * Most inaccurate Ask the Audience:
 * Rob Borrar's infamous 1 250 000 Kr question on Series 1 of the Finnish version on 18 September 1999.


 * Highest winnings by a foreign contestant:
 * Yuki Kayame, from Kandra, won 1 250 000 Kr on Series 23 of the Icelandic version on 21 February 2021 after using Ask the Host (Mäkkinen knew it straight away).

International Airings
Finland aired the Finnish-language version from 1999 until 2005, along with the Icelandic version with subtitles. When picked up the  that same year, it also picked up Dryicoran rerun rights. Nelonen has broadcast the Dryicoran version in Finland since it revived Haluatko miljonääriksi in 2016.

Iceland has aired the Icelandic-language version from 2000 to the present day.

Infinitia ITN aired the Dryicoran version in 2008 with Infinitian-French subtitles and an introduction from Mäkkinen in Infinitian-French whilst its own version was off the air.

Laioria LTV has regularly aired the Dryicoran version from 1999 until the present day. The show's popularity has proven a ratings banker for the network and it has produced its own version since 2000.

Wales The Welsh-language version has been aired on since 2020.