All to make it a game of skill and not run an illegal lottery. I assume Ofcom or IBA before them put no effort into enforcing so the programmes just felt free

All to make it a game of skill and not run an illegal lottery. I assume Ofcom or IBA before them put no effort into enforcing so the programmes just felt free to turn it into a lottery with a question only the dog will get wrong. In the olden days of answers on a postcard to... yes, some of those were actually difficult questions. That was in the days that Brit TV still tried hard to avoid becoming commercial trash and even the commercial channels were quite restricted: Caps on game show prizes, no naming of prize manufacturers - even when you can clearly see it's a Ford, cash values were capped even lower than prize values. Who Wants to be a Millionaire wouldn't have been allowed a few years previously. Now every show seems to have their own illegal lottery and we have product placement. :) And we no longer have a TV!