[James2001]

That's what made the endgame exciting. Turn it into a long, drawn out serious quiz round and it wouldn't have worked. Contestants still won money for every move they made across and kept their prizes from earlier in the show so didn't lose everything.

Not in the first few series of Strike It Lucky, they did have to get all the way across to get the money (which led to most contestants opting for the lowest jackpot), it wasn't until a few series in they started giving 10% of the money for every space they didn't hit a hotspot.