Weakest Link

***Weakest Link*** is a television game show in Jewel City on Spectrum TV Games. It is an adaptation of the British television series of the same name.

The show is hosted by Alex Walden.

## Rules

The game was conducted in the same way as the British version, with a team of contestants trying to reach and bank a set target within the time limit by completing a chain of correct answers that would be broken with an incorrect answer or if a contestant decided to bank the money that was already in the chain by saying "bank" and pressing a button on their podium.

At the end of a round, regardless of the outcome, each contestant secretly votes for the person they want to eliminate from the game; they are forbidden from voting for themselves. After votes are revealed one at a time, the contestant who received the most votes is eliminated from the game and leaves with a curt dismissal from the host: "You are the weakest link. Goodbye!" In the event of a tie, a tiebreaking vote is cast by the contestant who was named as its "strongest link". If the strongest link is involved in the tie, then he/she is automatically safe and decides between the other players involved.

The game starts with the winner of a backstage draw before the show began (who takes the first podium from left to right). The first round is played for 2 minutes 30 seconds, and any money banked during the round is added to the team's overall prize total. If the team banked enough money to reach or exceed the target, the round ended immediately and any excess was forfeited. When time ran out, any unbanked money was lost. Any question in progress when time ran out was discarded, with the host revealing the correct answer only if it had been fully read.

The time limit decreased in each round after the first (10 seconds per round). Play would begin with the strongest link from the previous round, or the second-strongest if the former had been eliminated.

Six timed rounds are played with question values and target totals increasing from one to the next, no rounds are played for double value. The target begins at 250,000 Emerald Coins in the first round and increases to 5,000,000 Emerald Coins in the sixth, allowing for a potential maximum bank of 10,000,000 Emerald Coins.

### Money chain

Question and target values of the series are displayed in the table below.

### Final round

The final round was a head-to-head showdown between the two surviving team members. It is allowed five turns per contestant. Before the round, the strongest link from the previous round was given the choice of whether to play first or second.

The host would then ask one question at a time to each contestant, alternating back and forth. If one contestant missed a question, the opponent was not permitted to answer. The round ended when all questions had been asked or when one contestant attained an insurmountable lead over the other, whichever came first. The winner of this round was named the day's strongest link and won all the money in the bank, while the runner-up received nothing.

In the event of a tie, the host continued asking pairs of questions until only one contestant answered correctly, winning the bank.