Fastest Finger First failures are situations in Fastest Finger First in which none of the contestants playing arrange the four choices into the right order or, if it is a multiple choice question, choose the correct answer. In such situations, the contestants are all asked a new Fastest Finger First question. Such situations are generally cut from broadcast.
Number of aired instances by country or version[]
- Czechia (42) (2 doubles) (1 triple)
- Austria (15) (1 triple)
- Germany (14) (1 double)
- Russia (6) (1 computer error)
- United States (5)
- United Kingdom (5)
- Australia (3)
- Croatia (3)
- India Kannada (3)
- India Tamil (3)
- Israel (2)
- Slovenia (2)
- Hungary (2)
- Finland (3)
- Vietnam (2)
- Netherlands (2)
- Italy (2)
- Albania (2)
- India Hindi (5)
- India Malayalam (1)
- India Marathi (1)
- Nepal (1)
- France (2)
Failure dates[]
- February 24, 2002 (Finland)
March 12, 2002 (Czech Republic)
- November 8, 2007 (Slovenia)
- December 20, 2007 (Slovenia)
- February 8, 2010 (Albania)
- November 19, 2012 (Hungary)
- January 24, 2013 (Hungary)
- July 5, 2013 (India Tamil - Junior Special)
- October 28, 2014 (Vietnam - never aired)
- November 3, 2014 (India Hindi)
- July 18, 2016 (India Tamil)
- July 25, 2016 (India Tamil - Celebrity Special)
- March 11, 2017 (Finland)
- September 17, 2018 (India Kannada)
- September 20, 2018 (India Kannada)
- January 1, 2019 (UK)
- August 4, 2019 (India Kannada)
- September 30, 2019 (Austria)
- October 28, 2019 (Austria)
- November 18, 2019, thrice in a row (Austria)
- November 21, 2019 (Germany - Celebrity special)
- November 25, 2019 (Austria)
- January 13, 2020 (Germany)
- February 10, 2020 (Austria)
- March 10, 2020 (Germany - Gamblers Special)
- April 11, 2020 (Finland)
- May 11, 2020 (Austria)
- May 14, 2020 (Croatia)
- September 14, 2020 (Austria)
- October 10, 2020 (Netherlands)
- October 19, 2020 (Austria - Celebrity special)
- October 22, 2020 (Croatia)
- November 19, 2020 (Croatia)
- December 28, 2020 (Germany)
- January 15, 2021 (Germany - Gamblers Special)
- February 5, 2021 (Germany - Gamblers Second chance Special)
- October 18, 2021 (Austria)
- October 25, 2021 (Austria - Celebrity special)
- January 10, 2022 (Austria)
- February 28, 2022 (Germany)
- August 8, 2022 (India Marathi)
- August 11, 2022 (India Hindi)
- September 2, 2022 (India Hindi)
- September 16, 2022 (India Hindi)
- November 10, 2022 (India Hindi)
- March 4, 2024 (Germany)
- March 18, 2024 (Austria)
- January 13, 2025 (Germany)
- February 24, 2025 (Austria)
- March 3, 2025 (Germany)
- March 24, 2025 (Germany)
- April 28, 2025 (Austria)
Unknown Dates[]
- twice in a row, Germany
- Vietnam (possibly around 2005 - 2006 - never aired)
Trivia[]
- Czechia's version of Millionaire has produced the most Fastest Finger First failures in Millionaire history.
- Also, two episodes of it had a double fastest finger first failure.
- In Russia's O, Schastlivchik!, the December 9, 2000 episode had a Fastest Finger Failure. This moment was cut from the air, but was included in the "Is this your final answer? "O, Lucky Man!"s Seсrets"" documentary. The question was:
| Fastest Finger First Question | |
| Put these dictionaries and encyclopedias for their publications, starting with the earliest. | |
| ⬥ A: Granat | ⬥ B: Brockhaus |
| ⬥ C: Ozhegov | ⬥ D: Dal |
| The right order was B-D-A-C. |
- Also in Russia, a computer error occurred when the green light on Anna Korsakova read 15.94 instead of 5.94 seconds.
- In Czech Republic, on February 15, 2002 (134th episode) and on May 18, 2016, had double FFF fails.
- In Germany, also had a double FFF fail.
- In German Celebrity Special on November 23, 2006 FFF between Maria Furtwängler and Ralf Schumacher ended without revival of correct order.
- In Albania, in 1st episode of season 2, very first FFF failed.
- In India (Hindi), in Season 8, on November 3, 2014, featured the very first FFF fail.
- In Australia on June 12, 2000, and April 4, 2005, had both the FFF fails and FFF tiebreakers.
- There was a FFF fail one point in Vietnam:
| Fastest Finger First Question | |
| Arranges these leaves as they get gradually smaller. | |
| ⬥ A: Bamboo leaves | ⬥ B: Banana leaves |
| ⬥ C: Cane leaves | ⬥ D: Rice leaves |
Nobody got the question correctly.
- Also in Vietnam, a FFF fail happened after a FFF tiebreakers between Dương Quốc Phương and Nguyễn Tiến Trường, forcing them to answer another FFF question.
- In Austria in November 11, 2019, a triple FFF fail between Josef Rohringer and Leo Schnitzhofer. Also, after those 3 FFF fails, klaxon plays.
- In Croatia, on May 14, 2020, had the first ever FFF fail in the show history. On this day, 4 contestants instead of 6 due to COVID-19.
Sources[]
- 2000-2005 Season list (for the dates of Czech Republic)
- 2016 Season list (for the dates of Czech Republic)
- YouTube channel of Czech version (for finding fastest finger failures)