HOW TO PLAY GOLDEN BALLS
Golden Ball is a British daytime game show on the ITV network, presented by Jasper Carrott, first aired on 18th June 2007.SHOW DESCRIPTION
4 players battle it out in a high stakes game for a possibly life-changing cash prize. In our GOLDEN BANK there is 100 GOLDEN BALLS. Each is worth a different cash amount. Some as little as £10, others hundreds of pounds, some thousands of pounds– there’s even a £75,000 ball in there somewhere. The contestants aim is to win five GOLDEN BALLS at the end of the show. That could mean serious cash – because the five biggest balls in the GOLDEN BANK could add up to a staggering £200,000.ROUND ONE
The contestants know for certain that there are four KILLER BALLS in the mix and twelve Cash GOLDEN BALLS, but they don’t know who has the Killers or which cash values are in play. The aim for the contestants is to get rid of the player with the worst balls. Each player in turn reveals two of the balls in front of them for everyone to see. Their other two balls, however, are for their eyes only. A player is then eliminated with all the balls revealed. As a reward to our three remaining, two more GOLDEN BALLS are randomly drawn from the GOLDEN BANK and added to the mix in the BALL MACHINE.
ROUND TWO
15 balls are distributed to the remaining players, so this time they have five balls each. As always two are revealed for all to see. But this time of course three balls remain hidden. There’s all to play for now. After debate, it’s time to go for a vote. Who will finally make it through? BIN OR WIN
Eleven balls are reshuffled in the BALL MACHINE and laid out in front of our final two contestants. They must now work as a team to select 5 of the 11 balls in play, remembering the balls they bin are gone forever. Any KILLER BALL chosen for the GOLDEN FIVE by one of the players will take off the last digit of the total cash prize they’ve built up so far. So £100,000 becomes a hugely diminished £10,000. SPLIT OR STEAL
So we finally have our big jackpot prize which could be as much as a million pounds. The two players remaining secretly choose a split or steal ball. If both of the players choose the SPLIT BALL, they share the money accumulated in the end game between them. If one player chooses a SPLIT BALL and one chooses a STEAL BALL, the player who steals takes away absolutely everything. If BOTH players opt for the STEAL BALL, they’ll both walk away from the show with absolutely nothing.
