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 Tipping Point is ITV's contribution to the genre of game shows based on arcade games you've played all your life, but never quite like this. In this case, it's a quiz show whose centrepiece is a giant coin pusher; but instead of giving out pocket change, trinkets, or tickets, this machine is capable of giving out upwards of £20,000 or more if a winning contestant is lucky enough.In the first round, the contestants (initially four, but three since series 12 in 2022) each receive three "counters", and answer toss-up questions for a chance to drop one into the machine (choosing one of the four "drop zones" it will be released from). In the Press Your Luck tradition, the contestant can either play one of their own counters, or force an opponent to play one of their own if they think the machine isn't going to be that hot; the contestant earns £50 for each counter that falls into the "win zone". Once a contestant runs out of counters, they are ineligible to answer the remaining questions. If the contestant answers incorrectly, the counter is placed into a "penalty pot", and one final question is asked at the end of the round for the right to play all of the counters in the pot. Prior to Series 12, the lowest-scoring contestant is also eliminated at this point, but since the switch to a three-player format there is no longer an elimination here.The second round is a Speed Round where each contestant answers as many questions as they can in 45 seconds (or 30 prior to series 12) to earn more counters. The lowest-scoring contestant is eliminated, leaving two for the final round: here, each contestant is asked three questions each, once again earning a counter if they answer correctly. This time, they also have the option to pass a question to their opponent in the hope that they get it wrong; if the opponent answers a passed question correctly, they get the counter instead. Whoever has the most money after this round advances to the final for a chance at the top prize.Tipping Point premiered in July 2012, as a summer replacement for The Chase in its 5 p.m. timeslot; proving popular, ITV began giving the show a full run in 2013 in a 4 p.m. timeslot. It has since become one of the long-running mainstays of ITV's daytime game show lineup, and has also received a run of primetime Celebrity Edition specials. This series provides examples of
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