Cash Bonanza
| Cash Bonanza | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Larry Emdur |
| Voices of | Steve Andrews |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Warner Bros. Movie World, Gold Coast, Queensland |
| Running time | Approx 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Production company(s) | Grundy Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nine Network |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 3 March 2001 – 2001 |
Cash Bonanza is an Australian game show hosted by Larry Emdur, which was broadcast on the Nine Network in 2001. Associated with Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and the various lottery companies of the states and territories of Australia, the program featured contestants who were chosen from a draw of scratch-tickets sent in by the...More
At the start of each show, a shot of the contestants going down the famous splash drop at the end of the Wild West Falls Adventure Ride also at Movie World was shown.
Three contestants participated in each game.
If on any game when the contestant did not win the full $5000, the part of the $5000 that they did not win will be given to a lucky home viewer. For example, if the contestant won $3000, the home viewer will get the other $2000.
For the first round, the contestants took turns in picking cards from a board of 15. There are five cards of each colour for each contestant. The first contestant to get five cards of the colour won an amount up to $5,000. The runners up got $500 each.
In the second round, three new contestants played Rock, Paper, Scissors. This game is played over nine rounds. In the first round they play for $30 and this amount increases progressively for each round until the final round where it is $2000. If each contestant selected the same item as each other, the round is considered a draw and the cash up for grabs will be added onto the next round. In cases where all three items appear by one of three contestants, it is also a draw. Whenever two players select the item that beats the other player, the two winners will get the amounts up on offer each. If one player beats the other two, they will get double amount they were playing for. At the end of the last round, the player with the highest amount of cash will win that amount of cash up to $5000 and the runners get $500 each regardless of how high their score was.
For the third round, the contestants take turns of dropping giant coins into a giant Pachinko machine, which have movable, rotatable parts. Each contestant has three drops each and at the bottom of the Pachinko board there are five pockets, each with a different cash amount each. The amounts increase after each contestant has made a drop. After all contestants have dropped three coins into the machine, the contestant who got the highest cash amount will get to drop another coin. This time each pocket will be given either the word 'WIN' or 'LOSE' randomly. There is a 50-50 chance that the coin will land in a ‘WIN’ pocket. If the coin lands in a ‘WIN’ pocket, that player $5000 and the other two players will get $500 each regardless of their score. If however, the coin lands in a ‘LOSE’ pocket, the person who dropped it will only get $500 and the next highest scorer will win whatever their cash amount was. The lowest scoring player will also get $500 in this case.
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