Why Winning $1,000,000 on Minute to Win It Is Almost Impossible
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Despite being on the air for two seasons and giving contestants plenty of chances to play Supercoin, Minute to Win It never saw its top prize of a million dollars claimed. Let's revisit why completing the show's Supercoin challenge (and therefore winning the million) is almost impossible.
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OUTRO MUSIC: Eve Nelson - Get Up (Minute to Win It Theme)
THUMBNAIL IMAGE: Screenshot from Supercoin blueprint, via NBC
Apologies for the awkward cut at 4:42. Had to trim out part of the video due to a copyright claim.
What was that part of the video that got trimmed out by what copyright owner, Ben?
@@paramountkid413 I showed the Supercoin blueprint and admittedly didn’t modify it in any way, so rather than trying to claim fair use I just trimmed it out myself
@@bcschneider53 For some reason the blueprints always get claimed. Makes no sense but that's just how it is. Also, GSN tried Caroline & Friends and that was the worst thing ever lol. I'd like to see why winning a million dollars on the weakest link is obviously ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.
@@guyfierimtwi Problem with this claim was that it blocked the video in several countries so I had to remove it entirely
@@bcschneider53 Makes total sense why you had to.
Also in the Turkish version, the host managed to bounce a coin into the gallon bottle!
And in Venezuela a contestant actually beat it to win the grand prize.
@@OtakuLogan2017 wow!
Despite the fact no one won the million, I still think Minute to Win It is a great show to watch. It was overall fun to watch contestants do crazy physical challenges to win big money.
There was one episode with a contestant named Mark; it was his second appearance after he previously left with nothing. In that second episode, the Level 8 blueprint was shown BEFORE he opted to leave with $125,000; he was down to his last life before making the decision to leave the show.
Also from my understanding, Supercoin was successful in Venezuela and the contestant in that country was a Top Prize Winner.
Now I myself wanted to be a contestant on this show, as using household items makes some of the games very fun and challenging to play, but sadly I never applied.
Correct. I think they only showed Mark the blueprint because they wanted drama or they just wanted him to make his decision already. Probably the former.
If the NBC version of Minute to Win It had a 3rd season, they should've made the Supercoin jug hole a little bigger.
I actually didn't expect you to upload videos on the game show Minute to Win It.
To be fair however, this is one of Game Bouncer's favorite shows.
Thanks for making this, Ben! This was a great show that should've lasted longer.
So basically, that super coin game asks the contestant to do a trickshot like the ones we see on Tik Tok that take hours to pull off, in one minute.
This has to be the closest a gameshow has been to the actual impossible.
My next video suggestion:
Why winning $1,000,000 on Press Your Luck is almost impossible and/or why winning $1,000,000 on Lucky 13 is impossible
1:52 Is she a bodybuilder? She's jacked! 😁
Dude Perfect would find this very easy
I wouldn’t be surprised if dude perfect just one shot all 10 games with no help lol
there was a few episodes that had more then a million dollar prize, the contestants did not even get close the million dollar game(which was probably supercoin), but one wonders what they would of considered to be even harder then that game
Seriously, I'd have watched The Cube, which M2WI ripped off from for any time. I'd rather have the the intensity by doing the challenge itself alone, rather a clock to be included
Also, can your next top prize video be Legends of the Hidden Temple? They made that intentionally difficult.
I'll be honest, I know virtually nothing about Legends of the Hidden Temple, it was a bit before my time and I never got around to watching the reboot. So I'd definitely need to do a deep dive before making a video on it.
@@bcschneider53 I love the show, personally. I do know that it was hard to win. Also if you do a deep dive, you can make fun of Quibi🤣 (they were supposed to stream the revival but they shut down)
An Afghan guy has beaten the top prize as well and he had Supercoin too. His name is unknown and footage is maybe so hardcore to find, that he got in Wikipedia top prize winners but with a citation needed mark. I have a video that has his rare image which is also with the same date of claimed top prize win in Afghanistan: June 20, 2014!
Also there was 5 Star, a Myanmar comedian group. They won the top prize but on Bottle Necking not Supercoin. They were on winners list in Wikipedia before but got deleted from it maybe because footage is gone...
The Cube is basically the same thing, isn't it?
It's definitely very similar, yes
M2WI was designed as a ripoff of Cube, and then transformed to a combo of Millionaire and Beat the Clock
Or as Leclerc calls it: Stupidcoin.
That’s a good one! Lol
What the heck didn’t expect this
i wonder what the GSN version's L10 game(s) would be, because Supercoin is too cumbersome for $250k there
also the NBC money tree doesn't really make sense, $10k jumps to $50k?
Because level 5 harder than a lot and more game than level 4, so level 5 is big jump money with $50k
A video on me! wait jk lol. I could make probably voiceover videos on this show, but I'm not confident enough in my speaking to do so.
TL;DR Later/bottom of the post(click read more)
But to be real with you(as the mega-superfan that I am):
Supercoin is hard. It is insanely hard on a stage, beating 9 other difficult challenges beforehand which get exponentially more difficult & maybe even having to risk something knowing it's going to be level 10. You can practice all you want & get good, but even with 190 seconds, you still need a little luck & hope on your side.
While game shows should be about increasing difficulty at higher prize levels, it needs to be said that it's better to have LINEAR difficulty, not EXPONENTIAL, unless it's a safety net level or something... but there's a point to it(a few of the really high-level challenges have this problem) of having this
LUCK problem because to NBC(or the game designers), UNPREDICTABLITY = difficulty. Game shows like MTWI, it's all about muscle memory. Also, the games list always kept growing and you only at most had 1 week of PROFESSIONAL practice. Apolo Ohno even confirmed that some of the games have LUCK in an interview.
Millionare had the "You know it or you don't problem, reasoning it out might help, but it probably won't" problem later down the line as you mentioned.
Minute to Win It was advertised as "Who has the nerves of steel to conquer all 10 games?" when in reality it's more like...
"You can do most/all of these games, but LUCK screwed you over." problem. "Also, you broke this rule, and that rule, and you're up to play next?"
There are also top prize winners in other countries, but I doubt any of them faced supercoin. Oh yeah also they had a host nail supercoin and never got a dime(he lost a quarter lol)
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Also great point at 2:24. 250K bank was necessary. "Risking $25K to win $50K at the level after that, I could even see. But risking $75K to win $125K was a pretty blatant "are you farking insane?" point, and nobody in their right MIND was going to risk $200K to win $250K."
Level 8 was the farthest anyone made it in the first 8 episodes(DARK smoke machines era) and the person who made it to level 8 would've seen level 9 if LUCK didn't screw her over.
I won't ramble on GSN's version, but it's so downright BORING after you watch one episode. The farthest anyone made it was level 9 and even then it was only played a total of 4 times total.
Finally, the audience members just sucked cause they didn't how to play the game really. In the credits it says they practiced the game once or twice beforehand but they just sucked still.
TL;DR
This Facebook comment from a long time ago sums it all up quite well.
When the show first aired, people were ecstatic because you didn't need to know obscure facts to win a ton of money, you just needed "skill." While many of the games do a great job of requiring skill to complete, a few, still require dumb luck to win. Supercoin is a level all on its own and Get Forked is a good idea, it's almost as egregious a game as Supercoin, and I think it makes a good substitute for Supercoin as the million dollar game, should someone beat it. Go back to "skill" for the high-tier games, but make the skill more demanding. Try Extreme Nutstaker(stack metal nuts on each other while holding a plate). Uphill Battle was a great half million game, do that in the future. Get Forked=Supercoin. NIGH IMPOSSIBLE.
I have to say, you got quite a treat from Ben.
Can you do Press Your Luck? (the 2019 version)
It's on the list but it's going to be one of the later ones I think, still holding out hope we actually get a winner at some point...
@@bcschneider53 We nearly had one...but then the largest Whammy loss happened. ☹️
I was just thinking how hard it would be to win $1 million there! Has there been one yet?
@@glsweeney721 nope. Not yet
i guess the most important skill in that game is reflex
I can see myself being able to complete the super coin challenge, but i'd require more than 60 seconds to do it. So can i complete the challenge? Sure, can i complete it on the game show? No the 60 second time limit wouldnt be enough time for me
The only one who could win Super Coin is Commander Data.
Guy Fieri needs to stay in his lane, hosting cooking shows, not hosting game shows
I honestly thought he was fine. Kept the game moving and brought some positive energy that seemed to provide good chemistry with the contestants. Would I want him hosting Jeopardy! or Millionaire? Probably not. But for a fun, stunt-based game show like this, I think he did a solid job.
@@bcschneider53 I agree. I personally think he is more exciting and awesome than Apollo
@@shariyfcurry2207 I agree but I liked Apolo too to be honest. Wasn't sure what to expect since he was a former athlete and not really a TV host but I thought he did pretty well too.
can you do Why Winning $1,000,000 on are you smarter than a 5th grader Is Almost Impossible
I think it's similar to Jeopardy!: your knowledge has to be excellent, specifically the knowledge from when you're in elementary school