No Chris Tarrant and an entire quiz app based on your obscure knowledge of Leeds United’s FA Cup history – it’ll never work, right?
It’s been many, many years since Chris Tarrant teased out a long “I’m afraid……. ……. *ad break* ……. it’s the RIGHT answer!†response on the former ITV ratings behemoth Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, whose legacy lives on in UK pub machines and the humble iPhone app store.
Recently dropped in price to just €0.79 before the impending release of its 2011 and iPad editions, we at JOE decided to put our football knowledge to the test with Who Wants To Be A Football Millionaire? Considering most footballers are millionaires but tend to blow their not-so-hard earned cash on horserace betting and trying to make incredibly expensive cars look as cheap as possible, we quite fancied being football millionaires ourselves.
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Much like the game show itself, the Millionaire app begins with the ‘fastest fingers first’ round, in which players must arrange the correct answers in order, which is usually alphabetically or chronologically. Even if you completely mess up the question, you’ll be allowed through, though four correct answers grants you 400 points, which adds towards your all-important place on the games’ leaderboard.
As for the game itself, just like the TV show, players have three ‘lifelines’ if they find themselves stumped – asking ‘the audience’, which in the app’s case is never 100% foolproof, removing two answers with the 50:50 option or phoning a ‘friend’, as pictured above. Luckily enough, you happen to have an extremely multicultural base of friends to help you through the most obscure questions about the World Cup 1978 Argentinean subs bench.
As anyone who has wasted far too much cash in a Millionaire booth in your local pub can attest, this is one quiz show that is ably transferrable to handheld entertainment, purely because of the ease-of-use afforded by it’s touch screen controls.
We may not have managed to win ourselves over €64,000 in digital ‘cash’ just yet, but it’s not for lack of trying – Football Millionaire is fiendishly addictive, and at 79c as of this writing, an absolute steal.
Who Wants To Be A Football Millionaire is available to download from the App Store for €0.79.
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