50:50 is a television game show

Game show

A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...

 which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of randomized multiple-choice questions of varying difficulty. The format is first spin-off of the quiz Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers large cash prizes for correctly answering a series of multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty. The format is owned and licensed by Sony Pictures Television International. The maximum cash prize is one million pounds...

. The format created by 2waytraffic

2waytraffic

2waytraffic is a television production company based in Hilversum, Netherlands. It was established in 2004 by former Endemol executives Kees Abrahams, Unico Glorie, Taco Ketelaar and Henk Keilman....

 and aired in many countries around the world.

Rules

In Round 1, the playing couple must answer ten questions. Each question is worth a different random amount, and all the money they win goes into their jackpot. If at any point they get an answer wrong, the value of the jackpot is halved. The couple plays together but must answer each question separately and can therefore change each other's answers. After the tenth question, the playing couple take their jackpot amount into the final, where they have a chance to multiply that amount by ten.

Only one player of the couple sees the question and its two answers, and they have just ten seconds to pick one. The host turns to second player and shows them the question and the answer that first player chose. They do not know the answer that their partner turned down. Player 2 must now decide whether to agree with Player 1's answer, or to choose the other answer, whatever it may be.

The host plays all five questions in the final in exactly the same way. Player 1, then Player 2 has to decide, and Player 2 has only seen one of the two choices. There are now five locked-in answers. Now Player 2 has to look at all five answers and make a crucial decision. How many questions do they think they have got right between them? The more they have correct, the higher the amount they can win, but they have got to be exact, too high or too low and the couple win nothing.

International versions

Country	Name	Host	Channel	Year aired	Prize
Egypt	Fifty-Fifty	Ashraf Riyad	ERT 1 ERTU The Egyptian Radio and Television Union , Ittihād al-Idhā‘ah wal-Tilīfizyūn al-Miṣrī), is the public broadcaster of Egypt, operated by the Egyptian government...	5 November 2010 - present	ج.م Egyptian pound The Egyptian Pound is the currency of Egypt. It is divided into 100 Qirsh , or 1,000 Milliemes .... 250,000
Greece	Fifty-Fifty	George Liagkas	Mega TV Mega TV Mega TV was an analogue cable television broadcaster, which launched Malaysia's first ever subscription-based TV service in 1995. It was incorporated on 18 October 1994 and was operated by TV3...	2010	€30,000
Italy	Fifty-Fifty	Gerry Scotti Gerry Scotti Gerry Scotti is an Italian television presenter, actor and former member of the Italian Parliament.Scotti was born Virginio Scotti on August 7, 1956 in Miradolo Terme, Pavia. After giving up studying law Scotti began his career as a disc jockey at Radio Milano International...	Canale 5 Canale 5 Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....	21 April 2008 - 25 May 2008	€300,000
Japan	Quiz Fifty-Fifty (クイズ50:50)	Toshihiro Itō	BS Fuji	7 May 2008 - present	¥ ¥ ¥ is a currency sign used by the Japanese yen and the Chinese yuan currencies. The symbol resembles a Latin letter Y with a double stroke. The base unit of both currencies shared the same Chinese character pronounced yuán in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese... 3,000,000
Republic of Macedonia	Педесет-Педесет Pedeset-Pedeset	Predrag Pavlovski Zarko Dimitrioski	A1	30 June 2008 - present	300,000 ден Macedonian denar The denar is the currency of the Republic of Macedonia. It is subdivided into 100 deni . The name denar comes from the name of the ancient Roman monetary unit, the denarius...
Nepal	Fifty-Fifty	Madan Krishna Srestha	NTV NTV The name NTV is used by several television broadcasters throughout the world:* Nippon Television — Shiodome, Tokyo, Japan * NTV * CJON-TV, Canada: St...	unknown	unknown
Spain	Fifty-Fifty	Silvia Jato	Cuatro Cuatro Cuatro is Spanish for the number four. It may also refer to:* Cuatro , Name for two distinct Latin American instruments one from Puerto Rico and the other from Venezuela....	1 July 2008 - 6 September 2008	€50,000
Sweden	Postkodlotteriets 50-50	Sofia Rågenklint	TV4	22 September 2008 - 23 April 2009	55,000 kr
Thailand	50:50	Ṭhnạth tạn xnuchit ti kul	TV3 Channel 3 (Thailand) Thailand Colour Television Channel 3 is a Thailand television channel. The headquarters are located in Bangkok, Thailand. The channel was established in 1970.The owner of the channel is BEC-TERO.- Ident :-Broadcast times:...	2 November 2009 - 12 October 2010	5,000 THB
Turkey	Birimiz İkimiz İçin	İlker Aksum	TRT 1 TRT 1 TRT 1 is the first Turkish national television station. It launched on January 31 , 1968.-Introduction:TRT 1, the first television channel in Turkey, started their test transmissions on January 31, 1968, and commenced full national broadcasts in December 1971. It was the only channel in Turkey...	October 10, 2010 - present	100,000 TL Turkish lira The Turkish lira is the currency of Turkey and the de facto independent state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The lira is subdivided into 100 kuruş...