* Contestants may not skip any tribal councils, nor can they refuse to participate in any immunity or reward challenge, unless the game offers them the opportunity to do so.

( The now celebrity ) Contestants can win £ 10, 000 for getting over 200 points in " Big Money ", increased to £ 30, 000 for getting all five top answers.

Contestants can either send their videos in via mail on DVD or VHS, or, since 2008, upload them onto ABC's official website.

Contestants can work alone or in groups of up to four people.

Contestants can choose to play a " Surpresinha " entry, which will generate their numbers randomly much like the " Lucky Dip " option offered by other lotteries.

Contestants cannot be required to start a run from an off-center alleyway, but contestants are not allowed to enter the arena and " set " the horse.

Contestants who became champions of the Tyne would often challenge the corresponding champions of the River Thames, and the race would be arranged to take place on one of the two rivers.

Contestants strive to arrive first at " pit stops " at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg.

Contestants often had to balance something with some part of their body, or race back and forth on the stage ( for example, releasing a balloon, running across the stage to do some task, and running back in time to catch the balloon before it floated too high ).

Contestants are required to evict one of their own on a regular basis ; in the earlier series of Big Brother, contestants were evicted every two weeks, however, as introduced in the UK version, evictions occurred once a week, all of the current series of Big Brother follow this format.

Contestants are often sent to Exile Island for one or both of these strategic reasons.

Contestants launch themselves from the end of the pier ; a prize being awarded to the one who glides the furthest distance.

Contestants were originally allowed to change cards at will ( even three times on one card ), but the rules were changed to one card per line in early 1986.

MTV could only afford one square instead of nine, but otherwise the rules were unchanged: Contestants still had to get the X across, down, or diagonally.

Contestants who do complete a challenge earn one or two points for their team ( maybe even more ).

Contestants were required to select at least one answer before passing control.

Contestants kept any money banked during a game, regardless of the outcome, making Bullseye one of the few Barry & Enright shows to allow losing contestants to keep winnings from the game.

" Contestants on the show lose upwards of 10 pounds per week ( in the very first week, some contestants have lost 20-30 + pounds in that one week alone ), whereas the established medical guidelines for safe weight loss are between 1 and 2 pounds per week.

Contestants continued to alternate turns until one player either gave an answer that did not fit the category and / or begin with the set letter, repeated a word ( including different forms of a word ), or ran out of time.

Contestants again took turns revealing a chosen blank and guessing the puzzle until one guessed correctly, won the extra $ 250 and the game.

Contestants were placed in twin isolation booths and asked questions ranging in value from one to 11 points — the higher the point value, the more difficult the question.

Contestants are asked to choose, in turn, one subject on which to receive a question.

Contestants were presented with a headline and three related facts, one of which was incorrect.

Contestants were presented with ten headlines as in season one.

Contestants buzzed in to answer questions ; each right answer moved the contestant up one step while a wrong answer eliminated that contestant from the next question.

Contestants who won three times earned cash prizes, scholarships, or participation in a traveling stage show associated with the program.

Contestants won this jackpot if they won three ( originally four ) consecutive games.

Contestants received marks out of ten from the four judges in three categories such as " presentation ", " content " and " star quality "-The " star quality " category was later replaced by " entertainment value ".

Contestants on the winning team took turns entering the Fun House and tried to grab a series of red and green tags ( three tags per player per turn ) in each room in the Fun House.

Contestants on horseback run a cloverleaf pattern around three barrels set in a triangle in the arena.

Contestants come in teams of up to five persons, and have two or three teams quizzing in a round.

Contestants ( two in the Serling era, three in the Ludden era, and four in the Armstrong and Boardman eras ) would guess which star was telling the true story.

Contestants are judged on the following categories: panel interview, one-on-one interview competition, Mississippi speech competition, commercial / black dress competition, and evening gown competition.

Contestants compete in several categories including interview, evening wear, and swimsuit competition.

Contestants faced questions fired at them by a panel of four sports and entertainment celebrities for two minutes ; like Mastermind, there were two rounds of questions, however slightly different: The 1st round had each panelist's questions representing a different sports category pertaining to their area of expertise, and the 2nd round had no categories and the contestant couldn't control who asked the questions ; they were fired at random.

Contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine.

Contestants alternated choosing categories to answer.

Contestants answer questions in various categories to put up their respective symbol, X or O, on the board.

Contestants now called a third number in the first game if the first two picks did not match ( later changed to having a third pick in both games ).

Contestants drew numbers to determine who spun the wheels first — and, in the $ 1, 000, 000 tournament, also which game of each round the contestant would play ( odd numbers spin first, even second ).

Contestants who receive spins passed to them must play those spins, unless they land on a Whammy, at which point the remaining passed spins are combined with that contestant's total of earned spins ( if any remain ).

Contestants in the tournament won a grand total of $ 5, 604, 413 ( US ).

Contestants for the first season included Maya Gilbert, Brianna Konefall, Alisia Geanopulos, Robyn Hyden, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Kent Winfrey, Nick Steele, Steve ( last name unknown ), Jeremy ( last name unknown ), Michael ( last name unknown ), Kimberly ( last name unknown ) and Kelly ( last name unknown ).

Contestants for the second season included Toussaint Waterman, Prudence Zdravkovic, Alec Musser, Isaak James, Christina Fandano, Alia Urbanski, Farley Jackson, Nicole ( last name unknown ), Cathy ( last name unknown ), Maiesha ( last name unknown ), Sean ( last name unknown ) and Joe ( last name unknown ).

Contestants wore the dashio shari ( national dress of women in Bangladesh ). Miss Bangladesh pageant was held for the time being, after the divisional result came out. And in 1998 amid protests by Islamic groups over the attire of the contestants.

Contestants buzzed-in to answer and were required to phrase their response as " You are ..." to receive credit ( although the contraction " You're " also was accepted ).