Barande Bash (Persian: مسابقه بزرگ برنده باش, "Win a great race" or "Be a winner" in English) is the Iranian (Persian, Farsi) version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. Premiered on August 19, 2018 on Irani TV channel. Hosted by Mohammad Reza Golzar. Top prize is (in episodes 1-7 - 2,000,000,000 IRR and in episodes 8-41 - 200,000,000 points) 100,000,000 points. Even though it's an unlicensed version, it still uses the original Millionaire soundtrack, and it uses multiple elements from the UK 2018 revival.
It is one of few versions of Millionaire with no FFF. The host calls the name of the contestant, after which the hot seat with the player rises up from the floor. Four contestants appear in every episode (later raised to five contestants).
In April 2019, the show was axed due to contravening Iranian laws prohibiting the broadcast of game shows for money, along with its questionable entry method. At the end of the show, the top prize was the lowest in comparison to other licensed versions of Millionaire, worth less than US$2,500 due to volatile Iranian currency.
Lifelines[]
In this classic version, three lifelines are used:
Seasons[]
- Season 1 (70 episodes, August 19, 2018 - April 19, 2019)
Money Tree[]
Due to the volatility of the Iranian rial, the show's money tree is in points (except for the 2 billion rial money tree), which are converted to real Iranian rials after the player ends the game and gets the money.
19.08 - 07.09.2018[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | IRR 2,000,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000,000 | IRR 350,000,000 | IRR 650,000,000 |
| 14 | IRR 1,000,000,000 | IRR 800,000,000 | IRR 450,000,000 | |
| 13 | IRR 800,000,000 | IRR 600,000,000 | IRR 250,000,000 | |
| 12 | IRR 600,000,000 | IRR 400,000,000 | IRR 50,000,000 | |
| 11 | IRR 400,000,000 | IRR 350,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 10 | IRR 350,000,000 | IRR 300,000,000 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 200,000,000 |
| 9 | IRR 300,000,000 | IRR 250,000,000 | IRR 150,000,000 | |
| 8 | IRR 250,000,000 | IRR 200,000,000 | IRR 100,000,000 | |
| 7 | IRR 200,000,000 | IRR 150,000,000 | IRR 50,000,000 | |
| 6 | IRR 150,000,000 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 5 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 50,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 50,000,000 |
| 4 | IRR 50,000,000 | IRR 30,000,000 | IRR 30,000,000 | |
| 3 | IRR 30,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | |
| 2 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | |
| 1 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 0 |
27.09 - 12.10.2018[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | IRR 200,000,000 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 35,000,000 | IRR 65,000,000 |
| 14 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 45,000,000 | |
| 13 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 25,000,000 | |
| 12 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | |
| 11 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 35,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 10 | IRR 35,000,000 | IRR 30,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 |
| 9 | IRR 30,000,000 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 | |
| 8 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | |
| 7 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | |
| 6 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 5 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 5,000,000 |
| 4 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | |
| 3 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | |
| 2 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | |
| 1 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 0 |
18.10.2018 - 31.01.2019[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | IRR 200,000,000 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 75,000,000 |
| 14 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 55,000,000 | |
| 13 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 45,000,000 | |
| 12 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 | |
| 11 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 10 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 |
| 9 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | |
| 8 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | |
| 7 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 8,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | |
| 6 | IRR 8,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 5 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 4,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 4,000,000 |
| 4 | IRR 4,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | |
| 3 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | |
| 2 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | |
| 1 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 0 |
01.02 - 19.04.2019[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | IRR 100,000,000 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 60,000,000 |
| 14 | IRR 80,000,000 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 40,000,000 | |
| 13 | IRR 60,000,000 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | |
| 12 | IRR 40,000,000 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | |
| 11 | IRR 25,000,000 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 10 | IRR 20,000,000 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 |
| 9 | IRR 15,000,000 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | |
| 8 | IRR 10,000,000 | IRR 8,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | |
| 7 | IRR 8,000,000 | IRR 6,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | |
| 6 | IRR 6,000,000 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 0 | |
| 5 | IRR 5,000,000 | IRR 4,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 4,000,000 |
| 4 | IRR 4,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 3,000,000 | |
| 3 | IRR 3,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 2,000,000 | |
| 2 | IRR 2,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 1,000,000 | |
| 1 | IRR 1,000,000 | IRR 0 | IRR 0 |
Winners[]
Top Prize Winners[]
- Mohammad Kazem - IRR 100,000,000 (April 19, 2019)
Biggest Losers other than Top Prize Losers[]
- Farhad Ashrafi (November 10, 2018) (IRR 100,000,000 question wrong; lost IRR 55,000,000)
The biggest winners[]
- Gholam Reza Dawoody - IRR 1,000,000,000 (August 19, 2018)
- Manouchehr Hadi and Yekta Nasser - IRR 1,000,000,000 (August 22, 2018)
- Omid Sadri - IRR 100,000,000 (November 3, 2018)
- Ali Oosali - IRR 80,000,000 (February 22, 2019)
IRR 0 winners[]
- Bakhshi (aka Ahmad Hakimi) (August 22, 2018) (4th question wrong) (see trivia)
- Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim (August 30, 2018) (1st question wrong)
- Mohammad Reza Baraderi (August 31, 2018) (2nd question wrong)
- Nargess Nayorong (September 6, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Reza Pour Fakhraei (September 6, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Amir Noori (September 7, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Farzad Mohammadi (September 7, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Bismillah Al-Rahman al-Rahim Mohammad Ali Zarei (September 27, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Saeed Mounairi (September 27, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Salay Naderi (September 28, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Mr. Jafari (October 11, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Mrs. Nazanin (October 11, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Mostafa Mosa Farokhani (October 11, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Hamid Zahedi (October 11, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Mohammad Hosseini (October 12, 2018) (1st question wrong)
- Behzad Farahani (October 12, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Ahmad Reza Arabameri (October 19, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Ali Jafari Kia (October 19, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Majid Shemhi (October 19, 2018) (2nd question wrong)
- Ebrahim Jafarzadeh (October 20, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Farhad Vahedi Fard (October 26, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Mohammad Ataei (October 26, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Mehdi Hosseini (November 2, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Faisal Shahri (November 2, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Shahin Hatami (November 10, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Mohammad Reza Yousefzadeh (November 16, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Moslem Mirzapoor (November 16, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Ali Shafa (November 24, 2018) (5th question wrong)
- Seyed Ehsan Erfani (November 29, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Arash Sharifi (November 30, 2018) (2nd question wrong)
- Seyed Davood Mokhtarpour (December 6, 2018) (2nd question wrong)
- Parsa Bahmani (December 6, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Sarkar Nabordbari (December 6, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Zahra Khani (December 13, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Seyed Mehdi Mortazavi (December 13, 2018) (3rd question wrong)
- Seyed Ghobad (December 20, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Mohammad Lahouti (December 20, 2018) (2nd question wrong)
- Pouria Jamilpanah (December 21, 2018) (4th question wrong)
- Danesh Riazipour (January 4, 2019) (2nd question wrong)
- Rahman Zar Nousheh Farahani (January 10, 2019) (3rd question wrong)
- Alireza Azizi (January 11, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Hassan Safari (January 17, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Ali Gravandi (January 18, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Peyman Moradpour (January 24, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Mahmoudi (January 25, 2019) (3rd question wrong)
- Mohammad Reza (January 25, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Mohammad Alizadeh (January 25, 2019) (3rd question wrong)
- Samira Heidari (January 31, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Heydari (January 31, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Hosseini (February 1, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Hamed Vahidian (February 15, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Hamid Pour Hassan (March 1, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Morteza Taheri (March 8, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Ali Nazari Manesh (March 8, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Bahman Ghanavati (March 15, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Hassan Hashemi (March 21, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Yadollah Khasronejad (March 25, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Sasan Taghizadeh (March 25, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Aslam Karami (March 25, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Rasul Shokri (March 27, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Zohreh Mohammadi (March 28, 2019) (5th question wrong)
- Mahmoud Darabi (March 30, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Mohammadi Qarchak (April 3, 2019) (3rd question wrong)
- Peyman Saharai Babani (April 12, 2019) (4th question wrong)
- Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Hashemifar (April 18, 2019) (5th question wrong)
Trivia[]
- Ahmad Hakimi (aka Bakhshi) used Ask the Audience on his first question. He also answered the fourth question wrong, but, despite this, he was given a second chance to play. In the next episode, he started his game again.
- Fatemeh Afradi also used this lifeline on her first question, and so did Ali Jafari Kia.
- In 9th episode, a contestant used the Ask the Audience lifeline on their third question, where 76% voted for wrong answer, but 14% were right.
- In 26th episode, Sarkar Nabordbari also used Ask the Audience, where 87% voted for wrong answer, but 5% were right.
- The 10th episode set a record in which all four contestants in a row walked away from studio with nothing.
- Omid Sadri is first individual contestant, who reached the Top Prize question after change of money tree. Since she completed the game at the request of the host, she saved the Ask the Audience lifeline, she was shown the final out-of-game question to which she knew the answer. But she took the biggest winning.
- Ali Oosali also walked away with biggest winning without seeing the Top prize question. He answered the 14 questions correctly and went home.
- Farhad Ashrafi answered the penultimate question wrong.
- Ayoub Moradi reached the 10th question with three lifelines, answered wrong and walked away with first minimum amount without using of the lifelines.
- Parsa Bahmani is one of few contestants, who used three lifelines to 5th question.
Gallery[]
Studio with Ask the Audience in use (2018)
Sources[]
- Official website
- Official website (Irani TV)
- About appearance (in Persian)
- Biography Mohamdreza Golzar (in Persian)