About In It To Win It

In It To Win It, hosted by Dale Winton is a BBC National Lottery game show which is all about being in the right place at the right time.

Five contestants wait on the right side of the studio, hoping to be randomly picked to play by joining 'winners row' by way of a lottery machine filled with balls of various colours. When in 'winners row' players are given multiple choice questions to answer. £5,000 is added to the prize fund if a question is answered correctly. However in the event of the player getting the question wrong they are sent to the 'red area', situated in the middle of the studio.

At this point, another player is randomly selected to join 'winners row'. However before they are asked a question, the player in the red area is given one more chance to be on 'winners row' by answering a non-multiple choice question correctly. If they fail to answer correctly they go back to the beginning row of contestants.

After 20 questions a klaxon sounds, signalling the end for anyone not on 'winners row'. At this point each player on 'winners row' has to answer one multiple choice question to gain an equal share of the prize fund. Players who get their question wrong push up the winnings of those who have answered correctly. In the event of no-one getting their final questions right, no-one goes home with the money.

The maximum prize fund is £100,000 (twenty £5,000 questions answered correctly), although every time a player gets their question wrong, they effectively decrease the maximum possible total by £5,000.

The top prize was finally won single-handedly by Eleri Owen, on 29 July 2006, who answered all twenty questions and her final question correctly, to walk away with the top prize of £100,000. The £100,000 top prize was won for a second time by Toni Cox on 24 January 2009.

The £100,000 top prize was in sight for Olly Lewin on 15 May 2010, who had got to the end single-handedly, however, his last question was to name the year that Richard Pryor, Bruce Lee and John Lennon were born. The options were 1935, 1940, 1945. After much deliberation, he wrongly answered 1945, losing everything.

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