The boys are back (Picture: ITV)
Ant and Dec are back for the second series of their ITV show Limitless Win tonight.
The show is sure to liven up Saturday nights again, with its lure of a jackpot potentially worth more money than you can imagine. Last year, in the show’s first series, an NHS couple won a whopping half a million pounds, and promptly donated 10% – £50,000 – to charity.
The hosts have also admitted to losing £1.2million when they tried out the show themselves, after ‘a rush of blood to the head’ made them answer too quickly.
The legendary presenting duo will also play a bigger part in series two of the show, thanks to a new twist that they initially rejected as it was ‘too much pressure.’
But how does the show actually work – is the jackpot really limitless?
How does Ant and Dec’s Limitless win work?
There’s a lot at stake in this show (Picture: ITV)
The format offers contestants an endless (really!) money ladder, which they must climb by answering questions correctly.
However, if they push their luck too far they risk crashing out of the game and losing everything – so no pressure.
The game sees contestants compete in pairs to answer numerical questions and are able to bank the cash with each correct answer.
In order to remain in the game they are not allowed to answer with a number over the correct answer, or run out of lives.
Contestants lose lives if they submit a number lower than the correct answer, with the amount of lives taken off being the difference between their answer and the correct one.
Is the jackpot on Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win actually limitless?
The money ladder keeps going, if contestants can hold their nerve (Picture: ITV)
Yes! The jackpot truly is limitless, in a world first.
If contestants choose to keep playing instead of cashing out, and keep guessing correctly, technically the jackpot could go on forever.
One couple missed out on a £1 million jackpot in crushing scenes from the first series.
You’d need a serious bit of luck not to make a mistake at any point though.
Explaining some of the key differences in the programme, Ant noted: ‘What makes [our show] different is, it’s the world’s first limitless jackpot, that’s the selling point for us and that’s what hooked us in, the fact that there’s no top prize.’
‘You could – if you play this game right – win millions upon millions of pounds.’
Dec jumped in: ‘And [you could] create world television firsts with this!’
Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win returns tonight at 8.30pm on ITV.
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