Minute to Win It

Minute to Win It
Created by	Mattias Olsson and Jock Millgårdh. Developed by Friday TV.
Original work	Minute to Win It (American game show)
Years	2010–present
Films and television
Television series	Minute to Win It (see international versions)
Miscellaneous
Genre	Game show
First aired	March 14, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-03-14)

Minute to Win It is an international game show franchise where contestants take part in a series of 60-second challenges that use objects that are commonly available around the house. The first version of Minute to Win It to air was the American primetime game show, which premiered on NBC on March 14, 2010, and ran till 2011 with host Guy Fieri. It was revived in 2013 on GSN with host Apolo Ohno. The second network to air a version of the concept was Brazil's SBT, on April 17, 2010. This series was called Nada Além de um Minuto (Portuguese for Nothing But a Minute) and was played as part of the pre-existing program Programa Silvio Santos, hosted by Silvio Santos. Then on April 30, 2010, Germany's Sat.1 aired Die perfekte Minute (The perfect Minute) and on June 22, 2010, Australia's Seven Network aired Minute to Win It. Currently over fifty countries worldwide have produced a version of Minute to Win It.

The first two episodes of the American version played back-to-back at 7:00 pm Eastern and Pacific. On October 6, 2010, Minute to Win It was awarded the C21/Frapa Award for Best studio based game show format at the MIPCOM Television Festival in France.^[1] A card game, board game, and video game versions for the Wii, Kinect and Nintendo DS have been made for this show. The U.S. season two finale aired on September 7, 2011. On May 13, 2012, NBC announced that the English version of the show would not be renewed for a third season.^[2]

Minute to Win It aired new episodes on GSN Tuesday nights at 8/7c. The first season of GSN shows began in June 2013 and ended in October 2013; the second season premiered in February 2014 and ended in April 2014.

An American, Spanish language, nightly version of the game show, titled Minuto para Ganar (Minute To Win), debuted on MundoFox on the network's formal launch date of August 13, 2012, hosted by Marco Antonio Regil.

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"10 games, each 60 seconds. Playing using household items could win you one million dollars."^[3]

The contestant is presented with the blueprint for the first game (level) and must complete the game within 60 seconds to win the first level (was $1,000 in all versions) and advance to the next level. After completing the first, fifth, eighth, and sometimes ninth level games, the contestant is guaranteed to leave with no less than the cash award for those levels. If the contestant can complete the final game, the contestant will earn $1,000,000 ($100,000 in the Spanish version and $250,000 in the GSN version).^[3]

The contestant is given three "lives" at the beginning of the game. The difficulty of the games progressively increases throughout the show. If time expires or the conditions of the game cannot be fulfilled (such as by the contestant exhausting any allotted attempts or committing a foul such as by dropping certain objects on the floor), the contestant loses a "life". If the contestant loses all three of their "lives", the game ends and the contestant's winnings drop to the previous milestone they passed.^[3]

Some games require that the contestant let objects stand still for 3 seconds. If there are 3 or fewer seconds on the clock, the clock will stop at 1, the count will continue backstage, and the contestant will have completed the game if the objects stand still for 3 seconds. Sometimes games require a "power cam" replay to make sure the contestant completed the game within the time limit. Sometimes, the rule states that an object has to be released before time expires (Layin' Track, Tuna Roll), other times, the objective must be met first. If the contestant releases an object to stand still as time expires, a replay will check to see if the object was released in time (the 3-second count still happens but is usually not important).

After completing a game, the contestant can leave with the amount of money already won before seeing the blueprint for the next game. However, once the contestant elects for the game, the contestant cannot leave the show until that game is complete or they have exhausted all three of their "lives".^[3]

In the first part of season one in the English version, $50,000 was the only milestone; players who were eliminated from the game before completing the level five game left with nothing. The milestones at $1,000 and $250,000 were added in the second part of that season. Then, partway through season two, a milestone at $500,000 was added. For the MundoFox version, $1,000, $5,000, $50,000 and $75,000 are the milestones. In the GSN edition, the milestones are $1,000, $10,000 and $25,000.

In episodes featuring celebrity contestants competing for charities, all levels are milestones, so they get all the money up to their last successful level.

In episodes featuring teams of two contestants, some games are played by both players, while others are played solo. A player can only make three consecutive attempts at solo games (including re-attempts following losing a life; an intervening team game does not reset this count). After a player makes three attempts, the other player is forced to attempt the next solo game.^[3]

In Christmas episodes, two extra games were added for "the 12 games of Minute to Win It": the 11th game is worth $2,000,000 and the 12th is worth $3,000,000. In the Spanish version, the 11th game would be worth $150,000 and the 12th would be worth $250,000. Both are milestones.

Also in Christmas episodes, some games contain a "Holiday Bonus," in which a contestant wins a gift if the level is passed. A visual representation of the gift is placed inside of a box, which is opened if and when the level is completed. The gifts include:

• An extra life: Contestants who received this "gift" can have one more life than they already have.
• Extra 10 seconds: Contestants who received this "gift" can add an extra 10 seconds to one attempt of a game (including re-attempts, and in the case of a survival game, subtract 10 seconds).
• Prize: Contestants who received this gift won a bonus prize.

Some season two episodes feature similar bonuses known as a "Blueprint Bonus." However, the bonus is shown on a large monitor, and it is shown before the blueprint and the game is played. So far, the only bonuses won by contestants have been the extra life and extra ten seconds. When a contestant decides to use the extra ten seconds, a special 70 second clock is used, or if the contestant is playing a survival game (like Keep it Up, Defying Gravity, High as a Kite, Uphill Battle, etc.) the clock is reduced to 50 seconds. Besides, the outer floor lights of the 60-second circle do not turn red for the first ten seconds. For the survival games, the first ten lights are already red.^{[citation needed]}

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Head to head: Two teams of two players compete against each other in a best-of-seven match. Winning a challenge wins a point and the first team to four points wins $50,000 (milestone) and a chance to play for the million starting from Level 6 with three lives remaining. The challenges are all around the same difficulty, although some may be harder than others.

Last Man Standing: 10 players play against each other and the one with the worst result at the end of the challenge is eliminated. This continues until there is one player left. The winner wins $100,000 and plays Supercoin for a chance to win the million. The challenges still get progressively harder.

Summer Million-Dollar Mission (six episodes): One player from the audience is selected to play the million-dollar game Supercoin. This contestant was given one life to beat the challenge. They were also not given the information that it requires an almost perfect shot to get it in the water jug, which is the normal blueprint.

The first top prize was reached in Denmark. Only one contestant won $500,000 on the Australian Version; Grant Nelson walked away with $500,000 on 3 August 2010. Two teams won $500,000 on the U.S. version; Kimberly Fox and Aaron Hendrick walked away with $500,000 on July 21, 2010. This was prior to the change in rule that allowed contestants to bank on level 9, allowing them to play subsequent levels at no risk. After this rule was established, the Bishop family completed their level 9 challenge to bank $500,000 on February 2, 2011. The Bishops then went on to fail the Supercoin challenge. A man in Venezuela completed Supercoin, supposedly without a table. The winnings of these contestants listed on this paragraph are the biggest prizes in Minute to Win It franchise worldwide.

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Successfully completing a challenge is worth a specific cash prize at each level. Contestants who successfully complete stunts on levels with bolded amounts in the table below are guaranteed to leave with no less than the cash award at that level should they fail any later challenges.

Levels 11 and 12 were only played during Christmas episodes of the NBC and MundoFox version.

The UK version of the series used a different format from the United States primetime version. Each team (consisting of a captain (either Joe Swash or Caroline Flack) and five contestants of the captain's gender) competed in six games – either head-to-head or solo-play against the clock – to win points. The highest-scoring team after 6 games goes through to two games which make up the cash prize round. The first of these games built up the prize fund for every point scored, and the second determined whether or not they won the money. The maximum winnings a team could earn was £30,000. The main reason for this different format was that the show's sponsor was Cadbury, and their famous Spots v. Stripes campaign was happening around the time of the premiere, which had the slogan: "Let's play our way to London 2012."

Host Darren McMullen emphasised that each player could only play once in the first six games except for the team captains, who appeared twice; once for a solo game and once for a two-player game. Although not said on camera, Swash's team were the Spots, and Flack's team were the Stripes.

In a pre-broadcast review, Cinema Blend's Kelly West praised Guy Fieri's "enthusiastic" performance and his ability to interact well with contestants. West also noted that the show could do well with families and viewers who have a preference to non-intellectual game shows, although the challenges were criticized for needing little to no skill to accomplish.^[4]

The show premiered on March 14, 2010, and continued with new episodes through May 25, 2010. NBC later announced Minute to Win It would air new episodes during the summer, from Wednesday July 7, 2010 to Tuesday September 14, 2010. The new episodes would be labeled "The Summer of Minute to Win It".^[5]

On November 1, 2010, NBC announced that season two of Minute to Win It, would begin with three new holiday themed episodes starting on December 7, December 14, and December 21.^[6] Then on November 15, 2010, NBC announced that the second season of Minute to Win It would resume airing on January 5.^[7]

Those three shows featured older games, such as Defying Gravity and High Roller, newer games, like Floatacious and Hoop de Loop, never-before-seen games like A Bit Dicey and Mad Dog, and new twists on old games like Don't Blow the Kings, and Mag-Nutstacker. Season two also featured a summer run that began on June 8, 2011. NBC did not renew the show for a third season.

The new MundoFox Spanish-language network announced the first season of a weekday Spanish-language version (entitled Minuto Para Ganar), which was chronologically the third season of the show, and debuted on August 13, 2012. Marco Antonio Regil, who has hosted Mexican versions of well-known game shows and made the short list for auditions of a well-known game show in English, hosted that version. Executive Producer Adam Zuvich returned to the same role on the Spanish version, and Rich Brown, who oversaw the games on the original English version, also returned to the same role, and was listed as Co-Executive Producer. In February 2013, the Spanish version moved production to New York.^[8] In 2020, Telemundo aired reruns of the Spanish version.

On July 24, 2012, reruns of Minute to Win It began airing on GSN, and on January 31, 2013, they announced a new series of the English-language version with Apolo Ohno as the host. The first season premiered on June 25, 2013 (a full episode sneak preview was shown on May 23) and ended on October 29, 2013. The second season premiered on February 25, 2014, and ended on April 29, 2014. 40 episodes were produced for the GSN version.

The first season featured individuals, teams, celebrities, last-man-standing competitions, individual head-to-head competitions (one or three games), and a million dollar mission. The second season features teams, families (Bishop family and Canter family), celebrities, individual and team head-to-head competitions (seven games), former contestants with a second chance (Mark Staniec and Heather Baker), and former contestant redemption head-to-head (Lynn and Bethany Gerber vs. Heidi Billington and Donna Speakman).

As of 2022, the GSN version is available to stream on Pluto TV, while the MundoFox version is available on Tubi.^[9][10]

The show first premiered on August 30, 2011, and aired on ITV2 for one eight-episode series.

The show first premiered on June 22, 2010, and aired on Seven Network for one ten-episode series, airing on a Tuesday Night timeslot.

Minute to Win It has been distributed in more than 50 countries.^{[citation needed]}

Country	Local name	Host	Network	Prize	Date premiered
Afghanistan	لحظه به لحظه Lahza ba lahza	Qasim Ibrahimi	Tolo TV	Afs.1,000,000	June 7, 2013
		Mukhtar Lashkari[citation needed]
		Pamir Kakar		Afs.100,000	May 1, 2022
	هیت لحظه به لحظه Hit Lahza ba lahza	Mustafa Azizi			May 29, 2022
		Arash Sadri
Albania	Kape Kohën	Gentian Hazizaj	Top Channel	?	October 7, 2012
Arab world[11]	للزمن ثمن Lezaman Thaman	Abdallah El Tuleihi	MBC 1	SR1,000,000	April 5, 2011
Argentina[12]	Minuto para Ganar	Marley	Telefe	AR$1,000,000	July 17, 2011
				AR$2,000,000	2022
Armenia[13]	Հաղթեք Րոպեում Haxteq Ropeum	Hovhannes Azoyan	Armenia TV	10,000,000֏	May 27, 2012
Australia[14]	Minute to Win It	Darren McMullen	Seven Network	A$1,000,000	June 22, 2010 – January 4, 2011
Belgium	Binnen De Minuut (in Dutch)[15]	Staf Coppens	vtm	€100,000	January 8, 2011 – January 4, 2012
	60 secondes chrono (in French)[16]	Jean-Michel Zecca	RTL-TVI	€100,000	September 5, 2011
Brazil[17]	Nada Além de um Minuto aired as a segment of Programa Silvio Santos	Silvio Santos	SBT	R$1,000,000	April 17, 2010
Cambodia	១នាទីដើម្បីឈ្នះ 1 Neati daembi chhneah	Neay Pekmey	CTN	40,000,000៛	January 19, 2014
Canada	60 secondes chrono (in French)	?	V	C$100,000	2010s
Chile[18]	Un minuto para ganar	Julián Elfenbein	TVN	CL$30,000,000	May 21, 2011
	Minuto para ganar	Jean Philippe Cretton	Chilevisión	CL$20,000,000	March 24, 2022
China[19]	争分夺秒 Zheng Fen Duo Miao	Chen Liqing and Yuan Chengjie	Dragon TV	¥100,000	September 18, 2013 (1st Season Finished)
Colombia[20]	Un minuto para ganar Minuto para ganar Kids (Children's version)	Silvestre Dangond	Caracol TV	COL$300,000,000	November 1, 2010
	Minuto para ganar[21]	Karoll Márquez	Citytv Bogotá	COL$20,000,000	September 15, 2014
Costa Rica[22]	Un minuto para ganar	Mauricio Astorga	Teletica	₡25,000,000	March 8, 2011
Czech Republic[23]	Máš minutu	Richard Genzer and Michal Suchánek	TV Prima	1,000,000Kč	April 10, 2011
Denmark[24]	Det perfekte minut	Robert Hansen	TV2	250,000 kr.	August 17, 2011
Ecuador[25]	Minuto Para Ganar	Yuly Maiocchi	Gama TV	US$50,000	August 7, 2011
Egypt Lebanon[26]	مينت تو وين إت - اتحدى الدقيقة Ethada El Daqiqa	Wissam Breidy	Al-Nahar TV MTV	US$150,000	May 1, 2014
Finland	Minuuttipeliä	Marko Keränen	MTV3	€30,000	March 21, 2011
France[27]	60 secondes chrono	Alex Goude	M6	€100,000	July 12, 2012
Germany[28]	Die perfekte Minute	Ulla Kock am Brink (Season 1-3)	Sat.1	€250,000	April 30, 2010
		Thore Schölermann (Season 4)		€200,000	September 5, 2014
Greece[29]	Minute to win it	Dimitris Hungarezos	Mega TV	€50,000	March 3, 2012
Hong Kong	決戰一分鐘 Minute to Win It	Hacken Lee	TVB Jade	HK$1,000,000	November 25, 2012 – May 19, 2013
Hungary[30]	1 perc és nyersz!	Balázs Sebestyén	RTL Klub	10,000,000 Ft.	February 27, 2012
Iceland[31]	Minute to win it Ísland	Ingó Þórarinsson	SkjárEinn	Prizes worth 8,000,000 ISK	September 18, 2014
India	India's Minute To Win It[32]	Gaurav Kapoor	AXN	₹1,00,00,000/-	January 12, 2011
	Home Sweet Home (in Tamil)[33]	Divyadarshini (D.D) and Deepak	Star Vijay	A home worth ₹20,00,000/-[34]	March 4, 2011[34]
	60 Nodi! Are You Ready? (in Tamil)[35]			₹1,00,00,000/-	September 29, 2013
	Super Minute (in Kannada)	Ganesh	ETV Kannada	₹10,00,000/-	August 30, 2014
			Colors Kannada		February, 2016
	Minute To Win It (in Malayalam)	Nyla Usha	Mazhavil Manorama	₹10,00,000/-	April 9, 2016
Indonesia[36]	Minute to Win It Indonesia	Andhika Pratama	MNCTV	Rp.100,000,000	July 17, 2017
Israel[37]	אליפות ישראל בדקה Alifut Israel be Dakah	Ido Rosenblum	Channel 2 (Keshet)	₪1,000,000	October 26, 2011
Italy[38]	Un Minuto per Vincere	Max Giusti (Season 1)	Rai Uno	€500,000	September 4, 2011
		Nicola Savino (Season 2)	Rai Due		November 22, 2012
Kazakhstan[39]	Минута на победу Minuta na pobedu	Rinat Safargulov	NTK	1,000,000₸	May 19, 2012
Malaysia	Anda Ada 60 Saat[40]	Ahmad Nabil	Astro Warna – New Episode Astro Ria – Repeat	RM500,000	December 25, 2010
	Oru nimiṭam (in Tamil)	Anandha	Astro Vaanavil		December 2010
Mexico[41]	Minuto para ganar VIP	Marco Antonio Regil	Canal de las Estrellas	MX$2,000,000	July 14, 2013
		Hector Sandarti			July 26, 2020
Mongolia	Бямба гарагийн саятан Byamba garageen sayatan	Shijir Baatar	MNB	₮1,000,000	2019
Myanmar[42]	Minute to Win It	Phyo Zaw Linn	MRTV-4	Ks.10,00,000/-	2013
		Hmu Thiha Thu
Netherlands[43]	Minute to Win It	Gordon Heuckeroth	RTL 4	€100,000	January 8, 2011
New Zealand	Minute to Win It	Mike Hosking	TV ONE	NZ$1,000,000	2013
Norway[44]	Vinn på minuttet	Carsten Skjelbreid	TV2	1,000,000 kr.	March 20, 2011
Paraguay	Minuto para ganar	Patty Orue and Carlitos Ortellado	Telefuturo	₲15,000,000	2020
Peru[45]	Minuto para ganar	Johanna San Miguel (Season 1)	América Televisión	S/.100,000	January 15, 2011
		Magdyel Ugaz (Season 2)
	Minuto para ganar VIP	Mathias Brivio			November 3, 2013
Philippines	Minute to Win It	Luis Manzano	ABS-CBN	₱1,000,000	January 14, 2013 – 2014 (Season 1)
	Junior Minute to Win It			₱500,000	April 29, 2013
	Minute to Win It: Last Man Standing			₱1,000,000	July 18, 2016 – May 5, 2017 (Season 2)
				₱2,000,000	January 7, 2019 (Season 3)
	Minute to Win It: Last Kid Standing			₱1,000,000	December 19, 2016
	Minute to Win It: Last Duo Standing			₱1,000,000	February 6, 2017
Poland[46]	Milion w minutę	Marcin Prokop	TVN	1,000,000 zł.	September 5, 2011
Portugal[47]	Ganha num Minuto	Marco Horácio	SIC	€20,000	January 8, 2012
Romania[48]	Câștigi în 60 de secunde	Dan Negru	Antena 1	50,000 lei	April 5, 2011
Serbia[49]	Savršen minut	Srđan Karanović	Prva	1,000,000 din.
					March 17, 2012
Singapore[50]	Minute To Win It: Singapore	Bryan Wong	MediaCorp Channel 5	S$250,000	August 9, 2014
Slovenia[51]	Minuta do zmage	Bojan Emeršič	POP TV	€100,000	March 18, 2011
South Korea[52]	사소한 도전 60초 Sasohan Dojeon 60-cho	Oh Sang-jin	MBC	₩20,000,000	June 12, 2011
Spain[53]	Uno para ganar	Jesús Vázquez	Cuatro	€500,000	July 4, 2011
Sri Lanka[54]	Home Game in 60 second	Niroshan Wijesinghe	Sirasa TV	Rs.10,00,000/-	October 26, 2010
Sweden[55]	Minuten	Peter Settman (Season 1)	SVT	250,000 kr.	December 26, 2010
		Malin Olsson (Season 2)			February 24, 2012
Thailand[56]	Junior Minute to Win It Thailand	PK Piyawat Khempetch	Channel 3	฿1,000,000	July 6, 2013
Turkey[57]	Kazanmak için 1 Dakika	Ertem Şener (Season 1)	Kanal D	₺500,000	January 6, 2012
		Zuhal Topal (Season 2)			November 20, 2012
Ukraine	Хвилина для перемоги Chvylyna dlya peremogy	Maksim Averin	Ukrayina	₴500,000	October 16, 2011
United Kingdom	Minute to Win It	Darren McMullen	ITV2	£30,000	August 30, 2011
United States (original version)	Minute to Win It	Guy Fieri (2010)	NBC	US$1,000,000	March 14, 2010
		Apolo Ohno (2013)	GSN	US$250,000	June 25, 2013 (Sneak Peek: May 23, 2013)
	Minuto para ganar (in Spanish)	Marco Antonio Regil	MundoFox	US$100,000	August 13, 2012 (Repeat: March 2020)
Uruguay[58]	Minuto para ganar	Álvaro Navia Eunice Castro Juanchi Hounie	Teledoce	UY$250,000	September 5, 2010
Venezuela[59]	Un Minuto para ganar	Nelson Bustamante	Televen	Bs.100,000	July 12, 2012
Vietnam[60]	Một phút để chiến thắng	Nguyên Vũ	HTV7	1,000,000,000₫	May 27, 2012

The old seasons of American version is also re-broadcasting in Indonesia by MNCTV and Indosiar, and Singapore by MediaCorp Channel 5.

Country	Local name	Host	Network	Prize	Date premiered
China	分秒必争 Fēn miǎo bì zhēng	Bo Zai	GuiZhou TV	¥100,000	July 2010
	挑战60秒 Tiǎo zhàn 60 miǎo			¥10,000	August 2, 2010
Mongolia	Нэг минут - нэг сая Neg minut - neg saya	Unknown	MNB	₮1,000,000	2014
Pakistan	Jeeto Ek Minute Mein	Faysal Quraishi	BOL Network	Rs2,000,000	2022
Russia[61]	Минутное дело Minutnoe delo	Timur Rodriguez	Russia 1	1,000,000₽	November 17, 2012

Across the show's versions, 14 known cases of completing the final level and walking away with the top prize exist.

Country	Contestants	Prize	Final challenge	Date
Afghanistan [citation needed]	Unknown	AF1,000,000	Supercoin	June 20, 2014
Argentina	Facundo[62][63][64]	AR$2,000,000	Ping Tac Toe	April 9, 2021
Denmark	Charlie[65]	250,000Kr	Double Trouble	2011
Ecuador	Eduardo Hurtado[66]	$10,000	Triple Pong Plop	December 27, 2011
France	Dumont family[67]	€100,000	Loner	July 26, 2012
Philippines	Tristan Encarnacion & Niño Logarta[68]	₱1,090,000	Glass Road Trucker (2 times per person)	February 4, 2014
	Gerry & JC Peñalosa[69]	₱1,050,000	On the Rebound (4 baskets, 3 balls per basket)	February 19, 2014
	Meg Imperial[70]	₱1,070,000	Office Fling (3 times)	July 22, 2016
	Jodi Santamaria[71]	₱1,070,000	Mouth to Mouth (7 times)	September 19, 2016
	Negi & Long Mejia[72]	₱1,070,000	Pong5 (1 time per person)	February 9, 2017
	Zeus Collins[73]	₱1,050,000	Wheel of a Deal (5 tables, 4 solitaire cards per table by group)	January 7, 2019
	Eric Nicolas[74]	₱1,050,000	Double Up (5 times)	February 19, 2019
	Enchong Dee[75]	₱1,145,000	Don't Blow The Joker (1 time)	April 12, 2019
Venezuela	Jesús Colón[76]	Bs. 100,000	Supercoin	2013

• The Cube, a similar show airing in the United Kingdom
• Beat the Clock

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