#The almost impossible quiz series#

The maximum daily prize pot is £1,500, accumulated by eliminating all five impossible answers in every playing of the grid. If any impossible answers remain on the board and the high scorer chooses one, they are eliminated and the runner-up gets a turn if they fail to choose the correct answer, the host begins working down through the next-highest scorers until one of them does so.Ĭategories are removed from the list of four as they are chosen, leaving three options in the second playing and two in the third.

However, if this contestant chooses a wrong or impossible answer, the high scorer moves ahead. Choosing a wrong answer gives the runner-up/last player who was eliminated from the first half a chance to find the right answer and advance. The host then reads the second half of the question, with all chosen non-impossible answers returned to play, and the contestant must choose the correct answer in order to advance to the final. After hearing the first half of a question, they choose five answers they believe to be impossible each successful choice adds £100 to the daily prize pot and is removed from the board. After the fifth question, the high scorer advances to the second half in the event of a tie, the contestant who locked in their answers in the shortest total time advances to play a grid.įor the grid, the high scorer chooses one of four categories and is shown nine answers – one correct, three wrong, five impossible. However, if all remaining contestants are eliminated on a single question, the entire pool is brought back into play. Wrong answers leave the score unaffected, but an impossible answer or a failure to lock in a response eliminates the contestant from the game. Contestants secretly lock in their guesses, and earn one point for each correct answer. In the qualifier, the host asks five multiple-choice questions, each with three answer options. The scores are set to zero at the beginning of each qualifier. This round is played three times, with each playing split into two halves, a qualifier and the grid, to choose a contestant for the final.

Starting with the fourth series, though, the departing contestant is not replaced, leaving their seat empty.

#The almost impossible quiz series#

Also, in the first series contestants left the game after they had reached the final twice, rather than once as in all subsequent series, the eighth series had 12 contestants instead of 21 due the coronavirus pandemic social distancing guidelines.ĭuring the first three series, contestants who left the show were replaced by new ones to keep the pool at a constant size. The pool was 24 contestants in the second through fourth series, and 21 in the fifth. The entire pool was replaced after every ten episodes in the second and third series, and after every five from the fourth series onward. In the first series, 30 contestants competed across all 15 episodes. The size of the pool and the contestants' time on the show have occasionally changed. With the exception of the last episode of each series, players who fail to reach the final for any reason return on the next episode as long as they have not reached the end of their eligibility. Contestants leave the show after playing the final once, whether they win or not.

On each episode, a pool of contestants competes through two rounds until one is left to play for either the £10,000 jackpot or a smaller daily prize pot built up during the course of the game.

West Korea – impossible (this country does not exist).

North Korea – wrong (its capital is Pyongyang).

For example, if the question were ' Seoul is the capital of which Asian country?', the choices could be: The impossible answers are distinguished by being inconsistent with the premise of the question. With the exception of Round 2 (see below), all questions used on the show are multiple-choice, with at least one answer each of three different types – correct, wrong, and 'impossible'. Episodes of Impossible are also seen in the United States on the over-the-top internet television services Plex, Xumo and The Roku Channel, with each looping episodes 24 hours a day on its own dedicated streaming channel. Hosted by Rick Edwards, the show has a maximum prize of £10,000, and features questions in which some answer choices are 'impossible', or inconsistent with the given category. Impossible (stylised as !mpossible) is a British television quiz show created by Hugh Rycroft and produced by Mighty Productions for BBC One.