Record Game Show Payout on Aussie "Million Dollar Minute"

[pownster]

We have just witnessed game show history here in Australia with our very first $1,000,000+ game show cash win, claimed by Andrew Skarbek on the Australian devised game-show "Million Dollar Minute" (which has many similiarites in format to the old classic "Sale of the Century"). His total winnings equated to $1,016,000 (all tax-free).

Here is a newspaper article celebrating the win.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/confidential/million-dollar-minute-melbourne-man-wins-biggest-game-show-prize-in-history/story-fnn7ma1h-1227281715120

[Thunder]

Your $100 bills look even more ridiculous than ours do.

[TLEberle]

You would have been bowled over at the $1,000 bills that Seven's art department mocked up for the 2013 reboot of "The Mole."

/Protip: Minted money generally doesn't have a TV network's logo on it.
//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?

[Kevin Prather]

I like that Australian money is made out of polymer though. I wish we did that.

[Joe Mello]

//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?

Japan doesn't do the Power Ranger colors on money, either.

[trainman]

//Are we the last country/group on earth that doesn't differentiate the denominations by color?

Current U.S. bills are different colors, although it's really only an "accent" color, so it's not as obvious as many other countries' bills are.

[clemon79]

With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing, Canada does money *far* better than we do.

/fark looneys and twoneys

[trainman]

With the exception of the idiotic "smallest bill's a $5" thing...

Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing."  (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)

[TLEberle]

Having been in Euro and pound countries, I had no problem paying for stuff with coins. I wish I could find the Canadian paper money I have, the one and two have to be twenty-ish years old now.

[clemon79]

Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing."  (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)

You do that. Drives me farking nuts.

[PYLdude]

Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing."  (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)

You do that. Drives me farking nuts.

But what if you get two fives instead of a ten?

[clemon79]

But what if you get two fives instead of a ten?

I soil myself, of course.

[Joe Mello]

Personally, I would phrase that as "the wonderful 'smallest bill's a $5' thing."  (Yes, I've been to several countries where the smallest bill is $5/£5/5€.)

You do that. Drives me farking nuts.

Never go to Japan

[clemon79]

Never go to Japan

I suggest the effect isn't quite the same when dealing with a radical conversion like yen or pesos or Zimbabwe dollars.

Nice try, though.

[SamJ93]

Never go to Japan

I suggest the effect isn't quite the same when dealing with a radical conversion like yen or pesos or Zimbabwe dollars.

Nice try, though.

The Swiss franc is a better analogue anyway...roughly at par with the US dollar, and their smallest bill is a 10.

/And even a CHF$5 coin still barely covered the cost of a ride on the Zurich streetcar, at least when I was there last year...