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[tatajess]

Hi Everyone!

I just have a few questions about the Millionaire game in MGM.

1. What types of questions do they ask you? Are they about Disney or are they like the TV show?

2. Are the audience participation questions like "put these 4 in order" or are they questions with only one answer?

3. When is the best time to go to get into the hot seat? I REALLY want to get on there, since I tried out for Super Millionaire and missed a chance to be on the show by only 1 question

Thanks for any help in answering my questions!

 

[Amirah95]

The show is just like the one on TV.

1. The questions can be about anything. Just like the TV show.

2. One answer in audience participation.
The order question is done when you're trying to get into the "hot" seat.

3. We got there around 10am on a Wednesday in May, although we just walked right in and grabbed a seat the place filled up pretty quick. I don't know how to answer this question.

 

[georgina]

When we were there in June, none of the shows seemed particularly crowded. You could walk in at the last minute without waiting in line. I have heard that the first and last shows of the day are least crowded.

 

[JamesD]

The questions are general trivia, and questions seem to fall into 3 groups. The first 5 questions are usually very easy, nursery rhyme and slang types of questions. There is usually a single Disney-related question in this bunch. (Oh, how I wish they would ask 15 Disney trivia questions!) The next five are a little harder, and usually have to do with word definitions and pop culture. The last five are the killers, where you wish you had all of your lifelines, and you either know the answer, or you don't. If you haven't played Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Play It! before, the biggest difference between this game and the TV version is the clock. You don't realize it unless you're in the hotseat, but that clock is the biggest obstacle to thinking straight! You're allowed 15 seconds to answer the first 5 questions, 30 seconds for the next 5, 45 seconds for the next 4 questions, and if you're lucky enough to get to the last question, you get 60 seconds.
The fastest finger question, which usually starts the show, has to do with putting four items in some sort of order, just like on the TV show, but everyone in the audience has a chance to play. Unless you know the order immediately, and can press the buttons fast enough, you're probably better off just randomly pressing the buttons, because with 600+ plus people playing the odds are somebody's just going to guess the answers in under 2 seconds, and you can't realistically beat that by analyzing the question and inputting the answers. That's when you see a lot of young kids get into the hotseat. If they are under 10, they are allowed to have an adult assist them.
The best shows crowdwise are first thing in the morning, and the later shows. The first time I played, which was the first time I'd even seen the show, was the first show of the day, in which there was only a couple of hundred people in the audience. It was a Disney movie fastest finger question, and only 3 people got it right, me, somebody else, and my wife! I was petrified, since I'd never seen the show, and I didn't do very well. Let's just say I've done a lot better since then!

 

[Daxx]

Good luck getting into the hot seat! I hope you're successful!

Anyway, as for a best time to get into the hot seat -- it's called luck! There are no better times of day than others to get into the hot seat. You're only as good as your speed and accuracy! You won't have time to analyze the "put in order" question too much. Ours was a tough one about baseball teams in geographical order. You had to think what state the team was in (ie: Atlanta Braves, Grand Rapids Whatevers, Kansas City Whatevers, Denver Whatevers) and then decide which was first from E. Coast to W. Coast. I mean, people were slapping in answers so fast!!! Once the game gets under way and you can start playing and answering questions, it depends on your speed and accuracy. I remember answering all the questions right and entering my answers before the guy in the seat next to mine ... yet he came up in the top 10 and I didn't. Perhaps my machine was more finicky than his?! But, I am telling you ... I put my answers in before he got his in, yet he was in the top 10. You explain it!!! lol!

At any rate, go in w/o getting your hopes up. There are sooo many people in the audience! The guy next to me said he comes a few times a week and has been coming for over 6 mos. and has yet to make it in the hot seat. He said he usually makes it into the top 10. He made it into the #1 position during our game, but we ran out of time. Had the person in the hot seat finished earlier, that guy would have gotten on. Go figure.

Good luck ... I hope you make it to the hot seat!

 

[QuickGold]

This page ought to be helpful: http://www.mgmstudios.org/millionairefaq.html

 

[Dopey Sharon]

My DH got into the hot seat by luck. He decided, beforehand, what order letters he was going to push, on the first question. He got lucky and picked the right order!

The next time we went, I tried his theory and got lucky and picked the correct order, but took the time to think about it...took too long and didn't make it.

After the first hot seat question, you play along with whoever is in the hot seat. When they lose, the next player is taken from the audience.

As soon as you know the answer, start pushing the corresponding letter, repeatedly.