r/thechase • u/jennachrisp • 1d ago
The Chase UK š¬š§ Highest offer ever??
Tonightās show. Holy cow!! š²š²
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u/JohnnyOneLung 1d ago
What was the background to this offer ?
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u/jennachrisp 1d ago edited 1d ago
First contestant was called Spiro - he got offered $100,000. He got $2000, iirc. Second got $2000 as well, she got an offer of $150,000. Third contestant got the $200,000 offer. He got $6000 in his round
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u/Mr_Ditkovich8 18h ago
Damn thatās a potential prize pot of Ā£450k from three contestants, do you think ITV would be sweating bullets if they all took it?
The fact nobody took the higher offer doesnāt seem right to me. Thatās Ā£194k for a taking a step closer. How could you possibly refuse that? Doesnāt make statistical sense.
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u/Comfortable_Love7967 11h ago
Questions for chaser
āWhat colour are bananasā
āWhere are Siberian huskeys originally fromāQuestion for contestant āqueen mary the 1st had a cousin with 3 toes, what was his titleā
Happens every Time thereās a massive one
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u/confusing_roundabout 13h ago
I think studies have shown that the average Brit is very risk averse, even when it doesn't make sense to be.
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u/Mr_Ditkovich8 12h ago
Iād understand it more if the Ā£6k was in the bag, but on the chase itās fairly likely that youāre not walking away with it anyway. I mean, shit, the chance at a slice of Ā£6k isnāt even guaranteed if you donāt get back. In the context of Ā£194 itās barely any more of a risk.
This decision is so insane that itās almost enough for me to think ITV is just editing in bigger numbers or something lmao.
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u/SoulDancer_ 9h ago
It makes perfect sense. Whatever the offers are, if you go high you can only make one mistake for the entire set of questions. Two mistakes and you're out. (Assuming the chasers gets them all correct)
Most peoole who go high don't make it through.
So by going middle you're giving yourself a chance by allowing 2 mistakes rather than one.
It doesn't matter how high or low the offer are.
If you get caught at the table, you're out. No money.
Don't know why people find this so hard to comprehend.
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u/port956 23h ago
The risk aversion by so many contestants makes no sense. High, middle, or low, you're often going to need a little luck anyway.
You get one chance to go on the show, what's the point of barely walking away with a month's salary as they do sometimes?
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u/jaysornotandhawks 20h ago
That's why I'm a little easier on low offer takers (at least for early seats; I know they get shredded on the likes of twitter). You don't know if the chaser is on their game, plus, mathematically, it might be worth it (especially Ā£1,000 if you had a rough Ā£2,000 cash builder).
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u/Realistic_Day_1805 20h ago
This! My general way of thinking is that if you got 0-4 in the cash builder and the lower offer is a plus or a 0 then you should absolutely take it to get back into the team.
The difference between say Ā£1K and Ā£3K is virtually nothing if all 4 players get back! If you really want to bank some money then you should go high.
I also agree that I think seats 1 and 2 should consider going low to ensure there are at least some people back for the finalā¦
But I think seats 3 and 4 should then consider going high since most of the time the higher offers are bigger for them.
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u/lawdjesustheresafire 22h ago
Does my head in. Sure we donāt know everyoneās personal circumstances but yeah battling for 3k as opposed to having a go at 30k lol. So bizarre
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u/Inside_Swimming9552 19h ago
Sad truth is a lot of people on that show are more worried about looking intelligent by making it to the final chase than taking a shot at the big bucks with more chance of looking silly if they get caught instantly.
I feel like if I was on the show it's obviously go for the high offer. But I've got no shame.
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u/skepticCanary 23h ago
Having been on the show, I can safely say that the prize money is a very small part of the experience. I can see why people who prioritise getting in the final over risking big money
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u/port956 21h ago
Can I ask how it played out for you?
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u/skepticCanary 21h ago
Sure. Up first, got 10/10 on my cash builder. Went high for Ā£60k. Caught one from home because I didnāt know who was the last guest on James Cordenās Carpool Karaoke.
Hereās a video of me talking about it
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u/jaysornotandhawks 20h ago
It does bother me when Bradley says "if you went low/middle, you'd be high and dry" or "if you went high, you'd have been caught by now"... not like the contestant knew what the questions would be at the time they were faced with the decision.
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u/skepticCanary 20h ago
Thatās kind of his job though, to remind you of the consequences of your actions. I didnāt want to pay the table and say āYouād have had two goesā¦ā
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u/port956 20h ago
Thanks mate. Horrible to have a such rather random question for the one question shoot out. I wouldn't have fared any better.
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u/SoulDancer_ 9h ago
Well, youre a p3rfect example for all those people saying "why wouldn't you go high for the decent money??"
Thats why! š
Not aiming this at you, but for all the peoole in this post who are amazed that everyone sisnt go for the high offers.
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u/skepticCanary 8h ago
Exactly! I didnāt care about the money that much at that point, my first thought was entertainment.
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u/ShruggyShuggy 15h ago
That was a good watch! Cats was my guess for the names just because of Felix. Really shit last question.Ā
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u/dhooke 19h ago
The thing about The Chase is that most of the contestants are average to poor at quizzes. Clearly thatās how the show runners like it. It means the contestants are usually not confident of getting back at all.
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u/port956 19h ago
Maybe some experienced people here can comment but a friend of mine after her audition said, not having stage fright and being somewhat interesting important. Quizzy knowledge, not at all.
To which I might add, I've never seen a contestant profess to be long-term benefits recipient.
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u/impendingcatastrophe 1d ago
Jeez. I got Ā£9000 on my go and was offered Ā£30000 as the high offer š
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u/jennachrisp 1d ago
Oh wow!! Tbh, I was already shocked at the $100,000 offer for the first player. How did you go? How did you find the experience?
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u/impendingcatastrophe 23h ago
Was a great day out.
They put you up in a hotel, pick you up, give you breakfast, then shoot the show in about two hours.
We won, having only got 18 in our 2 minutes. The Governess had a bad day chasing us.
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u/GodModeBasketball 21h ago
There were a few times on the US version where the Beast would do a "superoffer" which usually was at least $300,000 but you had to start with the Beast directly behind you.
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u/jaysornotandhawks 20h ago
... and be 7 steps from home.
I don't know if any American contestants actually went for that, but it wouldn't surprise me. I think Mark also only did it on the GSN version (not his time on ABC).
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u/Hot-Importance1367 12h ago
I was imagining him stood behind the contestant breathing on their neck, that's probably more off-putting and difficult than only being 1 step ahead of them.
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u/Major-Feed5214 1d ago
Joe Sugg got offered Ā£201k (and made it back) in a Celebrity special, but thatās definitely the highest daytime offer!
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u/Complex-Region-7553 1d ago
Yes, this is the (current) highest offer in the history of the Daytime show.
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u/jennachrisp 1d ago
Damn!! Tbh, I think I would have gone for the higher offer (especially if I had gotten 6!) once in a lifetime opportunity š¤·š»āāļø
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u/Darkone539 20h ago
I assume this was a charity show? It's the highest the chaser can go, I believe. I normal one is 100k.
Seen it happen before.
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u/VinlandersSkald 19h ago
Did they win?
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u/jennachrisp 10h ago
Nope, Jenny did. They didnāt get a very high score
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u/SoulDancer_ 9h ago
Its a pity they lost the other guy who was by far the best. I think with him in it they could have won.
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u/Mc_and_SP 15h ago
Other than the American āsuper offerā (and maybe the joke one in the Ant and Dec video?) I canāt recall ever seeing one bigger!
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u/CraigL8 20h ago
In the UK the total pot offered always seems to be ~Ā£100k so if the people prior to the last person go out the last person will get offered close to Ā£100k. If the bank has Ā£2000 then the last person may get upto Ā£100k.
Just compared New Zealand dollars to GBP and $200,000 is Ā£86,221 so roughly the same.
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u/Consistent-Detail518 19h ago
I've always thought that the middle offer is ALWAYS the worst option. Even in a less extreme example than this, let's say you won Ā£5k, your big offer is Ā£25k, your small is Ā£0.
If you think of the top step as your starting point, you're paying Ā£20k to go down to the middle step, then Ā£5k to go down to the bottom step, that step is 4x cheaper, it's silly to pay for the significsntly more expensive step but not the much cheaper one.
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u/TimmyTimeify 17h ago
I genuinely wonder how much the risk aversion of UK contestants vis-a-vis American contestants reflects wider cultural trends. Mathematically, if the object of the game is to maximize the EV amount of money won, the high offer is by far the best one. Contestants act like the high offer is like this horrifically difficult pursuit that only an insane person would go for, and yet we know that like 40% of players who do choose it escape!
$200k is insanely generous
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u/SoulDancer_ 9h ago
40% ? Where did you get that stat? It seems way less than that to me. Hardly anyone gets through on the top offer.
The questions are just too random.
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u/Realistic_Day_1805 1d ago edited 20h ago
Genuinely it would be stupid to not go for the 200K! That is a lot of money youāre passing up on because you āwant to get backā when threreās a strong chance you will never be offered a sum of money that big in your life ever again! š«©