Added Incentives To Play
- Bonus amount of cash for a limited time (e.g. extra £2000, sometimes the top answer increased to £15,000 and even £30,000)
- Turbo Round (Back-to-back calls taking only callers names and answers. The presenters occasionally played their own game of trying to take as many calls as possible in the allotted five minutes. The record stands at 54 callers)
- Chance at The Mint (Chance to guess The Mint's 4 digit combination, potentially winning over £100,000)
- Added money each time a wrong answer was received (prize money on offer grows)
- Double money, Triple Money, Quadruple Money, Quintuple Money or Sextuple Money
- Caller got two guesses at the puzzle
- Occasionally special prizes were offered instead of cash prizes, such as a brand-new Mini or a holidays.
Read more about this topic: The Mint (game Show)
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