The secret of Catch a million: how do you protect 40 wads of 25,000 real euros in a television program?

Only

has a reality that no other contest on television has.

The million euros that is played in each of the programs

.

Yes, just like that, all those little bills that the contestants put on the answers they think are correct is legal tender.

They are not wads of papers with a photocopied bill on the front and back, nor is it money like Monopoly, it is money that arrives on the set, which is guarded and which means presenting the contest and the recordings of it in a very different way than like other TV shows do where there are such high jackpots.

.

Why risk so much?

The executive producer of the program,

, explains it : "The creators of the format advised all countries in production to use a million legal tender. For a television program,

. Let's not forget that the format gives a million to the starting contestants and the goal is for them to keep it as much as possible."

However, it is not a real million euros for each contestant who participates, as it would be impossible to control and very risky.

It is the same million for each contestant, but what is exceptional and different from any other contest is that they can touch it, feel its weight, see

"A the contestants get goosebumps when they hug, touch, smell a million legal tender. It really is a unique situation that will not be repeated in a lifetime, that they make a million available to you, "says Claros.

Contestants get goosebumps when they hug, touch, smell a million legal tender

Catch a million

premiered on Antena 3 in February 2011. It started as a Friday format in

, but due to its great success it also became a daily afternoon program on the network.

Throughout its three and a half years of broadcasting,

.

His highest prize awarded was 300,000 euros and he came to put up to 2 million euros on the table in one of his specials.

Now, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the arrival of the format in Spain, it will be Manel Fuentes who distributes money, real money.

What few knew until now is that the money that was played then and that is going to be played for its tenth anniversary was legal tender.

That is, the contestants are playing real money.

If it already hurts to lose virtual money, imagine if what escapes through the trap door of

are bills like the ones you carry in your wallet.

How do you protect a million euros in a television program with contestants, with the public, with dozens of people around you?

Can you imagine that there was an oversight and the million euros disappeared?

Protection and preparation is not easy.

As they explain from the production of the program, the availability of the necessary cash is requested from the bank well in advance and "it is specified what the bundles of bills should be like and what unit of bills is required."

Once the availability of such a quantity is confirmed, the entire protection protocol is activated.

"The security company prepares the bundles according to the production indications and from there

", they affirm from

.

Obviously, the money is always highly guarded and monitored: "The security measures are extreme and they are brought to the attention of the State security forces."

The security measures are extreme and are brought to the attention of the State security forces

Maintaining the mechanics that made the format famous 10 years ago,

puts a million euros of real money on the table

.

The object of the game is to keep as much money as possible until the last question.

Contestants will have to answer

.

The first four questions have four answer options, but only one is the right one.

In the next

you will have three answer options.

In the eighth and final question, the contestants play it

:

.

Throughout the game,

, but they must always leave an answer with no money.

Once the time is up, the money that has not been placed in any of the trapdoors will be lost.

The wads that do not fall through the trapdoor will be the ones that the contestants take home.

"The losses or gains are much more real; it is money, a lot of money and not paper tickets from a board game," they say from the contest.

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