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The Cube

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 An ITV Game Show where players try to perform various physical and mental challenges. Completing a challenge allows the player to go on to the next level (and increases their potential winnings), or else they lose one of their nine lives. Completing all 7 challenges earns the player a grand prize of £250,000, while losing all nine lives ends the game. Players also have chances to simplify a task or practice it beforehand.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })There's one more thing, however: the contestant also has to do these challenges inside a giant four metre wide acrylic glass cube. Plus, unlike most game shows patterned off of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, every level is All or Nothing, there are in fact no safe points at all (unless you bail out before you commit yourself to the next game, which is the only time you're actually allowed to quit by the way).For what The Cube may or may not lack in originality (stunt game shows are not a new idea; see Beat the Clock), the show's production style more than makes up for it, with clever use of CGI and innovative camerawork. Plus, a lot of the challenges are quite ingenious in their own right.The show was quite a hit for ITV, running from 2009-2015. It has also spun off several international versions, all of which are filmed on set of the original in London. Over in America, CBS had greenlit a pilot for an American version not long after the first series wrapped in the UK, but Minute to Win It likely stole their thunder. A second try at a US version began airing in 2021, hosted by Dwyane Wade and featuring a $250,000 top prize. Meanwhile, Spain got their own version in 2012, which can be viewed on Mediaset España's official site here with no regional lockout.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Revived in 2020 with a bigger jackpot, as The Million Pound Cube. Pairs of contestants play in this version, with some games for a solo player and others for both. The 11th season reverted back to the original money tree.
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 All or Nothing: Every task is an all-or-nothing gamble, and once you decide to play, you can't back out. There are no safety nets if you lose all your lives.
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 Art Major Physics: One contestant, Nicky (series 6, episode 2), playing Pendulum for £2,000, had her boyfriend telling her to throw the ball hard. She did, and it went way over the target ball. Then both she and her boyfriend kept talking about whether to start the swing higher or lower, resulting in her sending the ball way over the top of the target ball repeatedly. Anyone who's taken an introductory-level physics course would know that the harder you throw the ball, the higher up it's going to go.
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 The Announcer: Colin McFarlane, personified as the voice of the Cube itself.
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