Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Celebrity Edition

Who Wants to be a Millionaire has always been a bit of a challenge, particularly for those, like myself, who discover that general knowledge isn’t so general at all.

So thinking I was pretty clued up with the showbiz scene I actually started to believe that I would have a better chance to achieve the dream of scoring the top prize of £1,000,000. Honestly however it’s been several hours of continual play and I’m still as far from scoring this coveted prize – but that’s enough about me…

Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Celebrity Edition’s packed with loads of celeb trivia (as if you couldn’t imagine), you’ll be tested on not just the who’s who in the highest echelon of Hollywood society but also the glitzy designer names and many more besides which only the boffins and showbiz stalkers out there will know the answers to.

The rules of the game are as per usual, i.e. you have the ticking clock counting down as you try to answer the multiple choice question correctly. To assist you in this task you have three lifelines which will help or possibly be the cause of your undoing. The 50:50 eliminates two of the four answers leaving you with one correct and one wrong answer to guess from. Asking the audience will give you a poll response from the AI ‘audience’, which will hopefully lead you to picking the right answer. Lastly you can ‘phone a friend’ and you’ll have an artificial ‘friend’ suggest the answer.

As touched upon, these answers aren’t infallible and indeed sometimes they do get it wrong. However, you can either use one or even up to all three lifelines in one go to try and confirm your suspicions.

Most importantly though is the option to take the money and run. For myself, I found this almost too tempting to ignore as the big cash prize alternative seems too much to refuse, but I did learn my lesson and became far less gung-ho in my approach.

I’d say for anyone who follows the showbiz circuit and knows a thing or two about music, film, fashion and TV, you’ll be scoring a decent amount each time you play. Having said this though, it’s not going to be a walkover, and actually you’ll find yourself getting stuck on some very tough questions – which always seem to come whenever you’ve run out of lifelines!

I’ve played nearly all the editions of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and found myself gravitating towards this title by far the most. Perhaps this is because I know more about the movie scenes and a thing or two about the stars, but alternatively, I found the answers pretty fascinating too – particularly when I got them wrong!

Overall then, if you like questions and challenges this is definitely a game for you and will keep you playing for hours.

Rating 94%

Positives

Great number of questions – not a single one repeated

Good graphics

Good sounds

Great fun and highly addictive

Negatives

A tad repetitive in terms of how its played

Frustrating at times