10-01-2023, 08:34 PM
(10-01-2023, 05:23 PM)XIII Wrote: Something I've always wondered with Tipping Point is if you get a mystery prize, do you get it straight away or do you have to wait until the programme has aired?
This suggests for Alan Carr's Epic Gameshow (Bullseye) in 2020:
www.stokesentinel.co.uk Wrote:They let us take some of the prizes home on the night, like the TV and the hostess trolley. We divided stuff between us as best we could. We won deliveries of flowers, and I had the last one of those this month.
“Because we are mother and son, not a couple, we couldn’t share the car. They put us in touch with Mini in London and they offered to give us the cash equivalent instead of the car, which was £12,000
Of course some shows we now know they said you'd win this that and the other and you got the cash instead. Savvy contestants would often get a prize and flog it (as happened with a couple who won a car on 80s Bullseye, flogged it and split the cash) and be better off for it.