Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Party Edition is a quiz game based on the
successful TV show and varies it to be more suited for multiplayer. The basic
rules are still the same: The player takes the role of a candidate and has to
answer 15 questions by choosing the correct answer out of four given
possibilities. For every right answer he receives money but he also loses
money when choosing poorly (there are two “guarantee points” where he falls
back to so he doesn’t lose all). There are also three jokers: eliminating two
false answers, asking the viewers in the studio per poll and phoning a friend.
In the game the latter is a prerecorded conversation.

The game has a more comical look as in the former game versions because the
player has to choose between different characters which are present during the
game and give humorous statements. New are also the three difficulty levels:
while “normal” represents the regular rules described above the “easy” mode
add three lives which are basically second chances when answering a question
wrong and in “hard” mode the player has no access to jokers. In the “quick
fire” mode the player needs to answer as much questions as possible.

Multiplayer mode has even less to do with the original rules. Here every
player can buzz in after the game states the question. The fastest player has
to answer within one second or another player can steal it from him. He has
also the possibility to force another player to answer the question – but of
course he gets punished when the other player gets it right (who also gets an
extra reward). Every player gets three lives. The goal is to answer 15
questions correctly. There are also four additional multiplayer variations:
quick fire, play-or-pass (a player can choose to answer a question himself or
pass it away), millionaire remix (collecting lives and guarantee points) and
multimillionaire (team-based).

Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Party Edition