[Amy]

From a post of LEE's on our Articles thread


The Big Brother prize fund currently stands at £71,500. This week’s challenge could cost the housemates up to £15,000, but one housemate could gamble and save the lot.

This afternoon (Saturday) the housemates will be set their Saturday challenge. The group will choose one housemate to be the ‘selector’. The remaining housemates will be grouped in three pairs. The pairs will be determined by the selector who must pick names out of a bowl of fish guts.

For each pairing, one housemate will take part in an intellectual task and the other housemate will take part in a physical task.

In pairs, the housemates taking part in the physical task will be required to stand on the first step of the stairs Big Brother has erected in the garden, while their partner (taking part in the intellectual task) will be required to go to the diary room.

Each step represents a cash amount, starting at £1,000 and increasing to £5,000. The ‘intelligent’ housemate will have two minutes in the diary room to answer as many general knowledge questions correctly as they can. If the intelligent housemate gets a question right the housemate on the stairs will take a step up. But if they get a question wrong then the steps will suddenly go flat, sliding the ‘physical’ into a pool of fish guts.

When the two-minute time limit is up, the value of the step that the housemate is standing on will be the amount they will save from the prize fund.

When all three pairs have had their turn, the selector will be called to the diary room. Big Brother will not reveal how much has been saved, but in an added twist will offer the selector the opportunity to win back all the money the group has lost in the challenge. If they choose to gamble they must answer one general knowledge question. If they answer incorrectly the full £15,000 will deducted from the prize fund, but if they answer correctly the prize fund will remain at £71,500.