Mastermind UK Scoring Question

[Jeremy Nelson]

I know that the tiebreaker for final scores goes to the contestant who had the fewest passes, but I don't recall there being a penalty for wrong answers. If that's right, is there any benefit to passing on a question when you can just throw out a guess and avoid the pass?

[TLEberle]

Wrong answers just expend time as John reads off the correct answer. Ostensibly each of the stacks is compiled to be as equal as possible in terms of total verbiage so that a contestant who plays confidently at speed will get nine questions per minute.