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''Tipping Point'' is a British television game show which began airing on ITV on 2 July 2012, and is presented by Ben Shephard. The show sees contestants answering general knowledge questions to win counters which they use on a large coin pusher arcade-style machine which releases the counters worth £50 each; this is doubled to £100 for the ''Lucky Stars'' version. In the games featuring contestants from the public, only the winner at the end takes home their accumulated money. The rest go home with nothing, unless they have won one of the special prizes which they get to keep no matter what. On 18 June 2015, it was announced that a deal had been signed to keep ''Tipping Point'' on air until 2017. ==Format== Contestants must answer questions to win counters worth £50 each (£100 each in the "''Lucky Stars''" version) to drop into the coin pusher machine, dropping them into their choice of four drop zones and hoping to push piles of them off a pair of shelves; the upper one moving back and forth over the lower one; and onto a lower red zone (referred to by Shephard as the "win zone"); the more they collect, the greater the eventual prize fund. The player who has accumulated the least amount of money in each round is eliminated until only one player remains to play for the jackpot of £10,000 (£20,000 in the "Lucky Stars" version). If any counters enter the win zone when not in play (excluding the final round), they are declared null and void and are removed from the machine: they are called an 'ambient drop'. However, mystery counters, as well as the double counters, will be put back into the machine if they drop in this manner. In series 2, a new element was added: three "mystery" counters, coloured black and bearing a question mark (?) logo are present in the machine (two on the upper shelf, one on the lower) at the start of the game. If one of these counters enters the win zone, the player in control of the machine wins the mystery prize. Such prizes have included cases of wine, short holiday breaks, etc. In series 5, two counters marked "x2" were added: when they enter the win zone, the value of all the tokens from that turn will be doubled. For instance, if six counters dropped in one turn, including a "x2" counter, the player would earn £600. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tipping Point (game show)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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