Contestants must be 18 and older to compete for the car.

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

Contestants in lighter weight classes could also compete in heavier classes.

Contestants came from all over Wales, England, Scotland and Ireland to compete for chairs in music and poetry.

# Reward Challenge: Contestants compete to win a prize, first as teams and then as individuals after the teams are dissolved.

Contestants who made it to the bonus round in season two later returned to compete in a tournament with a top prize of $ 250, 000.

* Race2Space. org-Advancing the Privatization of Space Travel 2006, Race2Space, in partnership with the X Prize foundation, is seeking sponsorship in order to support the privatization of space travel, research, and exploration for the upcoming Lunar Landing Challenge Contestants October 2006.

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

* Contestants deciding to quit the contest for any reason not health-or other-emergency-related may or may not be called back for the final jury, pending the producers ' decision.

Contestants present their cosplay, and often to be judged for an award, the cosplay must be self-made.

( 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.

* Ford – Contestants appear in the special Ford videos on the results shows, and winners Kelly Clarkson, Taylor Hicks, and Kris Allen have also appeared in commercials for Ford.

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 for the Prix were assigned a theme from the literature of Classical Antiquity ; their individual identities were kept secret to avoid any scandal of favoritism.

* Race2Space. org-Advancing the Privatization of Space Travel July 2006, Race2Space, in partnership with the X PRIZE foundation, is seeking sponsorship in order to support the privatization of space travel, research, and exploration for the upcoming Lunar Landing Challenge Contestants October 2006.

Contestants may use their currency to purchase needs for the house, such as food, rent items for personal use, such as hairdryer, or even purchase luxury items, like a helicopter ride.

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 stayed in their seats for the interviews.

Contestants were told the time for the Lightning Round, however, unless they measured it themselves, they could not tell how much time was left in the round.

Contestants from other reality shows, like The Amazing Race, Survivor, American Idol, The Apprentice, and The Real World, played for a grand prize and other bonus prizes such as cars and vacations.

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

Contestants ' combined stage 1 and stage 2 scores ( with stage 2 being worth exactly twice as much as stage 1 ) are used to determine final scores for the Canadian Computing Competition.

* Contestants competed for points, not dollars.

Contestants were given a base time of 35 seconds to play the round, with five seconds added for each time the round was not won.

Contestants must hang onto a bar suspended above a swimming pool for as long as possible.

# Temptation: Contestants prepare for the first day of the week only to find a situation that involves temptation.

Contestants accumulate a number of points over the course of the year ( often " season ") and their cumulative total after all meetings have been concluded determines the world champion.

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 would win a new car as a consolation prize if they had reached the $ 8, 000 question.

Contestants who " Whammy out " in this way cannot return on the next show, even if all other contestants end with a score of $ 0.

Contestants could win up to $ 32, 000 on the 1980s series ; the highest amount won was $ 29, 000.

Contestants on the 2001 edition could win up to $ 51, 800.

Contestants requiring a minimum risk compensation of less than $ 300 will choose a door instead of accepting the guaranteed $ 500.

Contestants continued on the show until defeated ; some repeat champions won more than $ 25, 000 in cash and prizes.

Contestants kept whatever they earned while still retiring after winning $ 25, 000.

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 were spotted $ 200 to start the round, and host Clark would read a series of rapid-fire questions.

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 awarded $ 100 for each number removed from the board.

Contestants won points by pressing the correct button quickly ; at the 1, 000 and 32, 000-point levels the game was paused briefly to show the top ten scores.