I want to be a millionaire! (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?)

Member Name: aminfilou

Product:	Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Date:	24/02/01 (49 review reads)
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Advantages: Good bank of questions

Disadvantages: Can get boring, not brilliantly thought through

Oh well that will probably never happen but at least you can pretend with this game.
Who wants to be a millionaire is great fun to play with friends (especially after one or two drinks) but it is not perfectly thought out which detracts somewhat from its playability.
Basically you play the game as in the show, and everyone gets a turn to be Chris Tarrant and has a good old laugh saying "Is that your final answer..." and other choice catchphrases. Its the things like lifelines, and the presentation of money which haven't been thought out too well. For example you have three counters for your lifelines which always dissapear down the sofa and so a lot of time between rounds is spent searching for them. To ask the audience, everyone has to hand in cards with a letter A,B,C or D on it (depending on what they think the answer is) and then the person asking the audience picks one of the cards at random. This gets to be a real faf. You just get fed up of doing it when 3 people per go want to ask the audience; collect in the cards from everyone, add the correct answer, let them pick one, do it all over again....
The same thing goes for giving out the money. If you "take the money" you should be given a check but there's so many things to keep hold of, we can never be bothered.
On the plus side, there is a large bank of questions (although some seemed harder than on the TV) and it really is great fun pretending to be Chris Tarrant, but once you're out for the round it can be very boring waiting for the next round.
This IS a good game to play with friends but not for too long; it just doesn't quite come off as a "board" game like this. Far better is the playstation version which has the REAL Chris Tarrant and some hilarious people being your "phone-a-friends"!

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