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 1 000 000 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 250 000 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 Lindisfarne to appear on a series. For those who cannot go to Lindisfarne (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 Lindisfarne.

Once they are at Lindisfarne, 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".
 * Double Dip (2021-) allows the contestant the opportunity to answer the question again if they answer incorrectly. However, they cannot walk away if they do so (which is why Mäkkinen must ask for a confirmation if the contestant wants to use it). Also, if 50:50 is used before Double Dip, the contestant has a guaranteed correct answer.
 * Ask the Host (2021-) gives the contestant to debate the question and answers with Mäkkinen for an unlimited amount of time. It was brought to Dryicor originally intended as a replacement for Ask the Audience (see below) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was then decided that asking Ercole would become a permanent fourth lifeline.

Former lifelines

 * Ask the Audience (1999-2019) allows the contestant to survey the studio audience to see what they think the answer is; the audience will input their choice into a keypad and Mäkkinen will reveal what the audience said.
 * 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 and Ask the Host.

The show's first series used a money tree based on the Australian version, where only eleven questions were required to win the 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 1 000 Kr and 32 000 Kr (or only 32 000 Kr in 1999, and 1 000 Kr and 50 000 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: 250 000 Kr ($324,675.32) by:
 * Lasse Laluaghat (8 November 2005)


 * Petra Jorgensen (11 September 2020)


 * Highest loss: 218 000 Kr (loss on 500 000 Kr question):
 * Magnus Thorgeirsson (17 April 2017)


 * Most inaccurate Ask the Audience:
 * Rob Borrar's 125 000 Kr question (18 September 1999)