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I watched a full episode of Moneyball last night and once you've seen one game you've seen them all really, by offering the contestants the chance to cash out so often they're always going to want to be off around £25,000 - £50,000

Oddly you also sort of get an idea of where the ball is going to end up before it even launches because Ian explains which part of the launcher power will make it land in which spot at several times throughout the episode! (Good old Ian seems to 'like it' for every roll though!)

I'm guessing that's the continuing fall out of the threat by OFCOM to investigate supposedly luck based formats a decade or so ago now. That investigation went no where but I guess the idea here is by having a target range it becomes a game of skill rather than luck.

The problem for The Hit List is it is a BBC show and BBC game shows tend to be stingy on prize money (angry anti licence fee rants from BBC haters) and so generally try to keep their prize fund to low amounts.

I remember there was a little bit of fuss with Michael McIntyre's The Wheel offering £100,000 or more as their big cash prize. In fact it is possible for the luckiest of contestants to pocket over £200,000 on The Wheel

That's the issue though - you have The Wheel with massive jackpots and then virtually everything else capped in the low thousands.

I think it's ridiculous the jackpot on Survivor is less than you can win in an hour on The Wheel. Yes, they were never going to go to £1m but over a 16 episode commission could probably have stretched further than just over £6k per episode. That said though better the money is invested in production than the prize.

And talking of tight Love Island is still only £50k. I suspect Big Brother will be too.