The Mouse Trap
Introduced in Series 8. The Mouse Trap is a maze which one lucky viewer goes in and tries to retrieve as much cheese as possible before making their way out. There are ten compartments hanging from above certain areas and they must be pulled to release whatever is in it. Each cheese is worth £1000, and there are five cheeses to be collected in total. The viewer must collect as much cheese as they can and get out of the maze within the time limit of 1 minute or else they will be locked in by Tiddles the Takeaway Cat (played by TV's Mike Wilkinson) and their cheese will count for nothing.
For series 9, the rules are changed that there are now 14 compartments, 7 of which with cheeses worth various amounts of money, which if they all collected, add up to the top prize of £5,000.
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