Format
The show starts off with the introduction of the show's two new presenters. They descend the new staircase, to background music of "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, and welcome the viewers at home. The game begins.
In the old show the presenters interviewed the contestants on the show. However, now the contestants are filmed in their homes before the show, introducing themselves and their family. Once a contestant has done so they then step out from the rotating doors of the set and are met with cheers from the in-studio audience. Once all contestants are introduced the first game begins. "Pin Ball Wizard" is where a ball falls through an automated pinball machine, landing on a prize amount, which the player wins. The game is introduced by the song of the same name by The Who.
Once all contestants have played this game, the next game, "Cash Cubes" is introduced. The cash cubes are contained within a giant cube full of prize amounts, with five rows, each with five segments, each colour-coded, containing cash prizes. The player selects a coloured row, and then the largest prize amount for that row is revealed by the presenter. The player selects a number from 1-5 to win a prize amount. They can continue to select numbers from 1-5 as long as the they continue to win more than their previous prize amount, in the hope of winning the top amount in their row. This is called, "Open the door and try for more", which is fast becoming a popular slogan. However, the new amount is not added to the previous amount selected. The player wins the amount last selected and cannot continue to select numbers from their row if the amount they receive is less than the amount previously won from the last door of the cube.
After "Cash Cubes", attention focuses on the audience, as the new feature "Audience Challenge" is introduced to the background music of Bowling For Soup. This involves one of the presenters briefly interviewing audience members, and asking one to take on that week's audience challenge. The challenge involves the selected audience member competing in a game. One of these games is playing on a large Ring Buzzer - this involves the audience member taking the hand held ring through the metal hoops, in the hope of not touching the hoop with the ring. If he/she does, the buzzer sounds. Every few segments of the hoops are coloured, symbolizing prize amounts. In order to obtain these prize amounts the audience member most reach this coloured part, the more the member progresses, the more amount is obtained. Another game would be the memorisising of a number of items which would then be spouted out by the audience member against a clock. This amount raised is the prize fund that the five contestants play against each other for in "Lucky Stars", introduced to the music of "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet. The contestants each select a coloured stars from a drum. Each star symbolises a player's colour. Then the audience member, selects a coloured star from a separate drum, the colour he/she pulls out, decides who wins the amount from the challenge, as the player with that colour is the winner of that prize. It is at this point that the show pauses for a commercial break.
After the break, the "Dream Maker" is interviewed. This is a player who has been selected from a separate scratchcard draw, (the player collects stubs containing the letters D.R,E,A and M) which players from all over the country enter to appear on the show. This player is not one of the five studio players, but a separate contestant. S/he wins cash by spinning the "Dream Maker Wheel" a small rotating wheel, and wins the amount shown on the wheel. Then next week's player is selected from the scratchcards sent in from players all over the country.
After this a game called "Dream Ticket" is played, in which players select prizes containing balls, from #1-#10. Inside each ball are cash prizes, which players win and "dream busters", which eliminate players from that game. The players can select a ball when his/her number comes out of an automated drum. The player can open their selected ball to win cash or be eliminated, alternatively they can take €5,000 which is offered with the clause of leaving the game. The maximum prize is €25,000; the player who wins this is called "The Dream Player".
Then its time for the final game, "3rd Time Lucky". All five players represented by a number from 1-5, and their numbers are entered into an automated drum. Players are also given a play-stand, which has three luminous colour-coded lights. Once a player's number comes out of the drum, they must switch off one of their luminous lights. A player is eliminated once all three lights have been extinguished. The last player standing goes on to play "Reveal the Wheel", introduced by "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive. This player is the show's winner and is granted permission to spin a large rotating wheel, and win the prize indicated by the wheel. The show ends as the credits roll to "Celebration", the presenters wave goodbye and the players are congratulated by family members.
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