Channel 4 Launches “The Bank Job” Online Game; Play This Weekend and Be On the Show
Channel 4 is launching their newest multi-platform game show The Bank Job in January. In this unique show, you can be in the bank vault trying to win hundreds of thousands of pounds by just playing the online game. Channel 4 launched The Bank Job‘s online game today. You play against another opponent live in a head-to-head quiz competition. Win two games and you get to become an elite player, you have a chance to win £10,000, and you have a chance to appear on the actual TV show live this January to play for real cash. You can start this opportunity today by playing in one of several multi-hour tournaments.
This weekend, twice a day for two hours at a time, log on to the Channel 4 The Bank Job website and play the game. Click here to play the game. To qualify for the chance to be on television you need to play during the designated times, but you can play the game at any time for fun. If you win two games you get a chance to appear on the show where you’ll be in the show’s vault live this January playing for life changing money. Here are the tournament times to qualify for the TV show. The first chance is today and very soon so get set.
Friday (TODAY, December 2nd) : 3pm – 5pm
Friday (TODAY, December 2nd) : 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Saturday (December 3rd) : 12noon – 2pm
Saturday (December 3rd) : 4pm – 6pm
Sunday (December 3rd) : 12noon – 2pm
Sunday (December 3rd) : 4pm – 6pm
I’ve played the game. It’s easy to learn, very tense, and very fun. Each player has a clock of 45 seconds. On the board are 25 safes. Some are filled with cash (£200,000 total), some have £0, and some have a STEAL. When you get a question your clock starts ticking down. Answer right and your clock stops and you get to pick a safe and take what’s inside. Pick a STEAL and you take your opponent’s largest cash bundle. If you miss a question the clock ticks down until you answer right. If you run out of time you are locked in and out of the game. You can leave the vault after any right answer to protect your cash, but the player that leaves with the most cash wins.
The TV version works largely the same, just with four players each night. The champion leaves with the vault with the money in their briefcase and returns on night six. All five champion’s bank amounts are pooled together and the champion will leave with the whole thing. Up to £1,000,000 can be won. Given how the online game went I’d guess you’ll be seeing a win of over £200,000. It’s just about guaranteed that someone is leaving with huge money regardless.
The online game completely sold me. I enjoyed it a lot and it was even stressful just watching my opponent play. We’ll have more information on the show close to debut, but for now enjoy playing the game and let us know what you think.
Absolutely brilliant game. This, in my opinion, is how you should fit luck into a quiz show.
Most game shows now can trace their format to various other shows. This makes a great use of the clock from “Grand Slam” and the board from “Take It Or Leave It”, and does indeed work tremendously well.
Even when you’re getting beaten by Alex after he gets a £28,000 bundle. ;)
I just obtained elite status and i am not even from England. I love this game and I can not wait for more on this!
What fun!!
Ok i am sold this show could easily be international hit. Such an easy game to play and learn, if NBC does drop WSS? then they need to pick this one up (one rule NBC DONT CHANGE A DAMN THING!). I had fun with this game and i think i will be playing it a lot more!
I havent found a 28,000 pound box only the 22,000 but i will be playing later
Could be a possibly. NBC is always looking for new game shows. This year we had Minute to Win It and It’s Worth What. I don’t think either one pulled in amazing ratings; probably why Minute is potentially not returning to the schedule. Next year, aside from Who’s Still Standing (since it’s continuing on through January 2012), NBC might look at getting another game show to air as well.
Just don’t get Guy Fieri to host, please.
I think the £200k is differently distributed each game.
By the way, I’m sure most of the Buzzer crowd are already aware of this, but whenever you see a prize value mentioned on a UK show, it’s always bigger than it sounds, because: a) £1 = >$1.50 ($1.56 right now), b) our prizes are tax-free.
So a £200,000 win here equates to $312,000 tax-free. Which equates to about $500,000 pre-tax, I think, although I forget how the taxation works with game show prizes in the US. And £200,000 seems about plausible to me – I won about twenty games yesterday and averaged a shade over £40,000 in each of them. Of course, this game might play differently as a four-player game – assuming they’re not going to do two head-to-head eliminations and then a final head-to-head for a place in the final – and the money may work out differently as a result.
But I’d set the over/under for the eventual win, right now, at about £205k.
My understanding is that three games are played in every episode with the person getting out with the least amount of money each time being eliminated. Don’t quote me if I’m wrong, though.
This makes intuitive sense for the heats, but how is a five-way final going to work?
It’s the final! So four rounds.
you mean for the overall winner? come on, it’s definitely gonna be way more than that!
Just played The Banker’s Nephew, there. Curse those Steal boxes and the game being very British-centric.
The problem is that this game show will be a week-only show. But I wait that it have very good results and gets weekly.
i’m sold as well, although i don’t see how this could work as a weekly show
My only complaint is tht the clock starts before the options are shown so once you get down to four-five seconds you dont even hav a chance at answering the last question
New biggest box I’ve seen: £33,000
Wow, a game that rewards unintelligent people yet again, no thanks will stick to games where you win for having a brain, i.e. Weakest Link, Million Pound Drop etc. Can’t wait to see the show though and feel sorry for the contestant that loses due to bad luck and watches a moron take his/her cash.
I agree with Dale not enough time left to even read the question let alone answer it when you get down to the last I would say 6 or 7 seconds. Do something about the clock please