Barney wins £20 on Monday. He beats Wilma and Betty and banks £20. The ladies get sod all.
Barney wins £20 on Tuesday. He beats Fred and George Slate (who get £10) and banks another £20. His take-home balance is £40. They get sod all.
Barney wins £20 on Wednesday. He beats two people from the quarry and banks another £20. His take home balance is £60. Quarry folk gets sod all.
Barney wins £20 on Thursday. He beats Fred's cat and Dino . His take home balance is £80. Dino gets sod all.
Barney loses on Friday with a bank balance of £20 that day and loses to Pebbles. Fred takes home £80 (not £100 as he only banked £80 up to the start of that day and didn't win). Pebbles is the new champion and has a take home balance of £20.
Pebbles loses to Bamm-Bamm with a day balance of £10, but she only takes home £20 from last time.
etc.
So even if you are jammy enough to accumulate a £10,000 but the bloke next to you gets to £10,001 - sucks to be you.
I can't believe what happened today - when you're done with these (the buzzers) can I have them, said the departing five day champion. A contestant expects the show to be cancelled that quickly? He can surely afford some with the £30k he won anyway!
I wonder if Jeopardy! became a fixture in this country, and we had an enormous winning streak along the lines of Ken Jennings, would the producers want to carry on or would it be 100% all over again?