and eventually have a chance to win perhaps the largest game show jackpot in television history we have thousands of telephone players that are also competing from home for their share of the money these players have all called our telephone number during the week and qualified to play on the program on stage is a readout that shows the prize money building up even during the broadcast the phone players that remain in the game until the end of the show are patched in u201c live on tape u201d and have a shot at the money for this example let 39 s assume that 25 000 people have qualified to participate in this week 39 s show and the jackpot is up to 1 6 million the object of the studio game is to be the first player to reach 25 000 dollars that player will go on to the end game for a chance to win thousands more and perhaps hit the big jackpot the first round starts with the in studio players being asked an opinion question with 5 possible answers each of the 5 answers is displayed on a large video wall in a semi circle onstage which creates the backdrop of our set the first question is worth 1 000 dollars to the winner for example sandra bullock elizabeth hurley catherine zeta jones julia roberts nicole kidman the phone players vote for their favorite answer the in studio players take turns trying to eliminate the answers that they think are not the number 1 answer the game is quite.