[Jon]

Noticed an episode of The Chase the other day which (spoiler alert) had a jackpot of £120k.  It was won.  Only the 2nd time a six figure jackpot has been won on the regular daytime show since 2018, though this was split three ways and still a distance off the "per player" win record.

Damn, when did daytime gameshows start offering/giving away serious amounts of money?  I know The Chase quite often ends up with offering five or (for crap teams) four or even three figure jackpots, but six is something else.

Well in 2005 when Deal or No Deal started. It such a rarity for daytime Chase to give out that kind of money though and at guess the per episode prize money budget probably works out at something like 10 grand.*

*According to that One Question Shootout page, it’s about half of that.