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Haluatko miljonääriksi? (Norwegian: Vil du bli millionær?, "Do you want to become a millionaire?") is a Dryicoran TV game show based on the British version Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. 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. It is presented by Ercole Mäkkinen.
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.
In 2024 it was announced that the show would be given a transformation into Super Millionaire for its twenty-fifth anniversary, with a slightly modified format and a new top prize of 25 000 000 Kr, the highest prize ever offered on a Dryicoran quiz show. The show was given a seven-episode commission, from 4 to 10 May 2024, 25 years to the day after the show premiered.
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 six 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.
On Super-miljonääriksi, the show gave two extra lifelines to contestants who answered the tenth question correctly.
- Three Wise Men allows the contestants to ask a panel of three quiz experts, who will have 30 seconds to discuss the question.
- Double Dip (2021, SM) was the next Ask the Audience replacement during COVID-19, and brought back for Super-miljonääri. 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.
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).
| 1999 | 1999-2007, 2008-
(Hot Seat also) |
2007-08 |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | 10 000 000 Kr | N/A |
| 5 000 000 Kr | ||
| 2 500 000 Kr | ||
| 1 250 000 Kr | 10 000 000 Kr | |
| 10 000 000 Kr | 640 000 Kr | 5 000 000 Kr |
| 5 000 000 Kr | 320 000 Kr | 2 500 000 Kr |
| 2 500 000 Kr | 160 000 Kr | 1 500 000 Kr |
| 1 250 000 Kr | 80 000 Kr | 750 000 Kr |
| 640 000 Kr | 40 000 Kr | 500 000 Kr |
| 320 000 Kr | 20 000 Kr | 200 000 Kr |
| 160 000 Kr | 10 000 Kr | 100 000 Kr |
| 80 000 Kr | 5 000 Kr | 50 000 Kr |
| 40 000 Kr | 3 000 Kr | 20 000 Kr |
| 20 000 Kr | 2 000 Kr | 10 000 Kr |
| 10 000 Kr | 1 000 Kr | 5 000 Kr |
Graphics[]
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.
| 2 500 000 Kr (13 of 15) - Not Timed | |
| Which team was the first to win the FA Cup? | |
| • A: Wanderers | • B: Oxford University |
| • C: Royal Engineers | • D: Old Etonians |
- 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:
| 2 500 000 Kr (13 of 15) - Not Timed | |
| Who was the first Duke of Ferrara? 'Phone-a-Friend' lifeline used | |
| • A: Adalbert | • B: Oberto I |
| • C: Ugo I | • D: Folco I |
- 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.
| 5 000 000 Kr (14 of 15) - Not Timed | |
| What was the first manned bathyscaphe to descend to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? | |
| • A: RV Kilo Moana | • B: Vityaz |
| • C: Trieste | • D: Nereus |
| Voittosumma: 320 000 Kr |
- Most inaccurate Ask the Audience:
- Juhani Kinnunen's infamous 1 250 000 Kr question on Series 1 of the Finnish version on 18 September 1999.
| 1 250 000 Kr (12 of 15) - Not Timed | |
| In the UK, who was the first Plaid Cymru MP elected to Westminster? 'Ask the Audience' lifeline used | |
| • A: Saunders Lewis | • B: Gwynfor Evans |
| • C: Iorwerth Thomas | • D: Dafydd Elis-Thomas |
| Ask the Audience Results: A: 1% • B: 20% • C: 78% • D: 1% | |
| Voittosumma: 320 000 Kr |
- 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).
| 1 250 000 Kr (12 of 15) - Not Timed | |
| What was the name of the political party that brought President Lula da Silva to power in Brazil? 'Ask the Host' lifeline used | |
| • A: Socialist Party | • B: The Workers' Party |
| • C: The Trade Union Party of Brazil | • D: The Brazilian Democratic Party |
Versions[]
| Finnish (original) | Haluatko miljonääriksi? | Original format, 11 questions | 4 May, 1999 | 5 June, 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original format, 15 questions | 6 September, 1999 | 5 May, 2007 | ||
| 28 September, 2008 | Present | |||
| Original format, 12 questions | 27 October, 2007 | 3 January, 2008 | ||
| Haluatko milljonääriksi? Sähkötuoli | Hot Seat format | 3 March, 2010 | 9 November, 2019 | |
| Norwegian | Vil du bli millionær? | Original format, 15 questions | 2 August, 1999 | Present |
| Original format, 12 questions | 1 October, 2007 | 4 February, 2008 | ||
| Vil du bli millionær? Varmt sete | Hot Seat format | 3 January, 2011 | 4 March, 2014 |
Lifeline names according to different versions[]
| Language | 50:50 | Phone a Friend | Ask the Audience | Double Dip | Ask the Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FIN | 50:50 | Kilauta kaverille | Kysy yleisöltä | Toinen mahdollisuus
("Second Chance") |
Kysy isännältä
("Ask Host") |
| NOR | Femti-Femti | Ringe en venn | Spør publikum | Annen sjansen | Spør verten |
International Airings[]
Finland
Nelonen aired the Finnish-language version from 1999 until 2005, along with the Icelandic version with subtitles. When MTV3 picked up the Finnish version 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
Stöð 2 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.
Norway
The Norwegian-language version was aired on TV 2 until 2011.