Have you ever been on a game show?

[InNeedOfAWin]

Purely random curiosity after watching some 90’s game shows. Would love to hear from anyone who appeared on one of these - more so if you won! How long before you received your prizes? Where did you moor your speedboat?

My mum was on 15 - 1 in the 90's.

My Dad and his mates from football won Eggheads but sadly not a lot of money as the team before had just won the huge rollover. He said how nice Jeremy Vine was.

I think they have me about half of their winnings in sponsorship for my marathon race 🩷.

This made me laugh!

My son's teacher won 250k on who wants to be a millionaire.. told no one he was on the show until the lockdown zoom call the day it was being aired 😮 he's still there as a teacher! The irony is the question he passed on and took the money was about the solar system and my son who's autistic is a professor of astronomy lol

This really struck a chord for me - purely because my 3 year old is autistic and totally obsessed with the solar system! I wonder if he will follow the path of your son! 😊

Not a quiz show, but I was on Flog It. I only went along to the valuation day because I was having issues with leaving my home due to depression and anxiety and I was trying to acclimatise myself to going out. The item I ended up selling was valued at between £80 to £120, but when it went to auction, it actually sold for £580. Not a life changing sum in itself, but it turned out to be a life changing experience, because I was watching the dealers in the auction room and thinking to myself "I could do that". So I did, and now I'm a full time antique dealer!

Wow! That's brilliant. Great that you've found something you love.

I went for an 'audition' for Tipping Point (don't watch it, but didn't say that 😁)
It was full of very confident, deliberately? quirky people with wacky hobbies.
One quieter chap I saw later on Dale's In It To Win It (but he didn't)
I miss the shy, unassuming and awkward contestants of Bullseye, Blockbusters etc.

I had a friend who was on Runaround with others from her school, and was really annoyed about it being a set-up, in that there were reshoots for various pointless reasons if the kids they wanted to win did not get the questions right.

I'd have thought she was maybe making it up/exaggerating, but she was 28 at the time she told me, and was still majorly upset at the injustice!

I was about to quote your post when I read it! I live in Barnstaple and I can tell you, I would be disappointed if I won that as a top prize even if I lived here or not 😂

Who was your chaser and what were they like?

Jenny, she was absolutely lovely

I was on University Challenge when it was Bamber Gascoigne - he was really lovely and charming!
My daughter was on it when it was Jeremy Paxman (less so). Neither of our teams got very far ☹️

Not quite a game show but I was on Bitsa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsa

Yeah, about 5.

Most you've probably never heard of!

Most I won was £100!

FIL was on Countdown but was put up against an octochamp.

I like Countdown because it's one of the few shows that doesn't aim to cast either sob stories or "I'm so random!!! 🤪" types. It's just normal people quietly solving puzzles.

So was mine!

I agree, I love Countdown. Tough to be against an octochamp!

My best friend was on deal or no deal. She was 18 at the time and walked away with 30 grand.

No but my ex was on Eggheads.

My Dad was on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He was quite entertaining, especially as he phoned my mum (his ex wife) as his phone-a-friend 😂

I won €7,000 on the Strawberry Alarm Clock radio show in Dublin. They read out a statement "The 'blanks' are blanks'" and people rang in to guess the missing words. The pot went up by €10 a day, with three callers a day guessing, so this one had been running for MONTHS! Once someone guessed the first word was 'marshmallows' I knew the second word was 'floaters' but it took ages to get through. The presenters were very relieved that it was finally over... 😂

Who was your chaser?

Did your mum answer the question correctly?

Yes she knew it.

Chris T made a big joke out of "do you think she'd give you the right answer? Does she like you enough...?"

But she'd already pre-agreed she'd get a cut if she helped 😜