Kim Milyoner Olmak İster? is the fourth Turkish version based of British Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show aired from August 2, 2011 on aTV, hosted by Kenan Işık, Selçuk Yöntem, Murat Yıldırım, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Oktay Kaynarca. The top prize is 5.000.000 new Turkish liras.
The show uses 13-question format (earlier - 12-question format) and Clock Format (with the 4th lifeline after passing the second guaranteed sum). Each contestant has 15 seconds to answer the first 2 questions, 45 seconds to answer next 5 questions. Running out of time is treated as if the contestant gave a wrong answer to the question. Starting from the 8th question, the clock disappears, and the contestant can think about the question as long as they want.
Lifelines[]
Current lifelines[]
- Ask the Audience (Seyirciye Sorma) (August 2, 2011 - April 4, 2020; August 15, 2020 – present) - Replaced by Ask the Expert due to coronavirus until August 8, 2020.
- Phone-a-Friend (Telefon)
- 50:50 (Yarı yarıya)
- Double Dip (Çift Yanıt) (after 7th question)
Former lifelines[]
- Ask the Expert (Uzmana Sor) (April 6 - August 8, 2020) (the only expert is Arda Ayten) - Replacing Ask the Audience due to coronavirus until August 8, 2020. Unlike the U.S. version, the contestant has only 60 seconds to ask the expert.
Seasons[]
- Season 1 (143 episodes, August 2, 2011 - August 23, 2012)
- Season 2 (114 episodes, September 27, 2012 - August 6, 2013)
- Season 3 (113 episodes, September 11, 2013 - July 27, 2014)
- Season 4 (110 episodes, September 15, 2014 - July 24, 2015)
- Season 5 (120 episodes, August 19, 2015 - July 14, 2016)
- Season 6 (86 episodes, August 22, 2016 - June 21, 2017)
- Season 7 (82 episodes, September 23, 2017 - August 13, 2018)
- Season 8 (66 episodes, August 25, 2018 - June 29, 2019)
- Season 9 (78 episodes, October 5, 2019 - August 15, 2020)
- Season 10 (39 episodes, September 26, 2020 - September 14, 2021)
- Season 11 (63 episodes, September 24, 2021 - September 16, 2022)
- Season 12 (44 episodes, October 23, 2022 - September 10, 2023)
- Season 13 (46 episodes, September 17, 2023 - September 6, 2024)
- Season 14 (? episodes, September 8, 2024 - 2025)
Money Tree[]
02.08.2011 - 14.09.2021[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 000 000 TL | 250 000 TL | 15 000 TL | 235 000 TL |
| 11 | 250 000 TL | 125 000 TL | 110 000 TL | |
| 10 | 125 000 TL | 60 000 TL | 45 000 TL | |
| 9 | 60 000 TL | 30 000 TL | 15 000 TL | |
| 8 | 30 000 TL | 15 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 7 | 15 000 TL | 7 500 TL | 1 000 TL | 6 500 TL |
| 6 | 7 500 TL | 5 000 TL | 4 000 TL | |
| 5 | 5 000 TL | 3 000 TL | 2 000 TL | |
| 4 | 3 000 TL | 2 000 TL | 1 000 TL | |
| 3 | 2 000 TL | 1 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 2 | 1 000 TL | 500 TL | 0 TL | 500 TL |
| 1 | 500 TL | 0 TL | 0 TL |
24.09.2021 - 10.09.2023[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 000 000 TL | 400 000 TL | 30 000 TL | 370 000 TL |
| 11 | 400 000 TL | 200 000 TL | 170 000 TL | |
| 10 | 200 000 TL | 100 000 TL | 70 000 TL | |
| 9 | 100 000 TL | 50 000 TL | 20 000 TL | |
| 8 | 50 000 TL | 30 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 7 | 30 000 TL | 10 000 TL | 2 000 TL | 8 000 TL |
| 6 | 10 000 TL | 7 500 TL | 5 500 TL | |
| 5 | 7 500 TL | 5 000 TL | 3 000 TL | |
| 4 | 5 000 TL | 3 000 TL | 1 000 TL | |
| 3 | 3 000 TL | 2 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 2 | 2 000 TL | 1 000 TL | 0 TL | 1 000 TL |
| 1 | 1 000 TL | 0 TL | 0 TL |
17.09.2023 - present[]
| Question No. |
Correct Answer Value |
Walk Away Value |
Miss Answer Value |
Amount Lost for a Wrong Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 5 000 000 TL | 1 000 000 TL | 50 000 TL | 950 000 TL |
| 12 | 1 000 000 TL | 500 000 TL | 450 000 TL | |
| 11 | 500 000 TL | 300 000 TL | 250 000 TL | |
| 10 | 300 000 TL | 200 000 TL | 150 000 TL | |
| 9 | 200 000 TL | 100 000 TL | 50 000 TL | |
| 8 | 100 000 TL | 50 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 7 | 50 000 TL | 30 000 TL | 5 000 TL | 25 000 TL |
| 6 | 30 000 TL | 20 000 TL | 15 000 TL | |
| 5 | 20 000 TL | 10 000 TL | 5 000 TL | |
| 4 | 10 000 TL | 7 500 TL | 2 500 TL | |
| 3 | 7 500 TL | 5 000 TL | 0 TL | |
| 2 | 5 000 TL | 2 000 TL | 2 000 TL | 2 000 TL |
| 1 | 2 000 TL | 0 TL | 0 TL |
500th episode specials[]
In three parts, five celebrity couples appeared:
On November 9, 2015 (500th episode), first part of special episode after 500th show aired. Celebrities Oktay Kaynarca and Birce Akalay (won 125,000 TL) and Sera Tokdemir and Mehmet Aykaç (won 30,000 TL) appeared.
On November 11, 2015 (501st episode), second part of 500th show aired. Special guests Esra Erol and Cem Öğretir (won 60,000 TL), Müge Anlı and Engin Hepileri (continued) appeared.
On November 13, 2015 (502nd episode), in third part Müge Anlı and Engin Hepileri (won 125,000 TL), as well as Tarık Ünlüoğlu and Biran Damla Yılmaz (won 60,000 TL) appeared.
Total winnings is 400,000 TL. In the competition, where the surprise phone joker connections were made, the famous guests donated the winnings to T.C. Prime Ministry Social Services and Child Protection Agency.
Winners[]
For all winners see: Kim Milyoner Olmak İster?/List of Winners
Trivia[]
- On April 16, 2012, 100th episode aired.
- Oğuzcan Yüksek, Mustafa Atılgan Güç, Sılay Coşar and İlkyaz Sağuş are 100th, 500th and 1,000th and 2,000th contestants, but Suzan Ünsal is 4,500th contestant.
- From August 2, 2011 to August 23, 2012, in total 505 contestants in hot seat appeared and more than 5,000,000 TL won. Eight contestants took biggest money - 125,000 TL. Only Merih Can Şamlı answered the 10th question wrong and lost the biggest money - 45,000 TL. In total 25 contestants walked away with nothing (12 and 13 contestants answered the 1st and 2nd questions respectively).
- Tolga Garipler used the Ask the Audience on the 1st question, 64% voted for an wrong answer, but, 21% were right, unfortunately the contestant trusted the audience and left with nothing.
- ^On July 1, 2013 episode, a unique incident occurred in the show. Contestant Mustafa Soydaş used the lifeline "Ask the Audience" on his 5th question, where 91% voted for the correct answer (option A), but the participant did not believe the audience, used another lifeline "50:50" (options A and D remained), gave the wrong answer (option D) and left from 1.000 TL.
- Same for this contestant who used the Ask the Audience on the 5th question, 88% voted for an right answer, but, the contestant did not trust them, gave a wrong answer and left with 1.000 TL.
- In 823rd episode, other contestant Mahmut Ziya Yılmaz did not trust 43% of audience, gave a wrong answer and left with 1.000 TL.
- Damla Ceylan is a contestant who walked away with the smallest amount of money in the Turkish version's history (she, on her 2nd and 3rd questions, used all three lifelines and walked away with 2.000 TL).
- In 2014, due to the illness of Kenan Işık (he 1st-343rd episodes hosted), several episodes (87-113) until the end of this season were conducted by guest hosts (from 88th to 113th): Zafer Ergin (344th), Halil Ergün (345th), Selçuk Yöntem (346th, later as regular host), Ayhan Sicimoğlu (347th), Murat Bardakçı (348th), Engin Altan Düzyatan (349th), Sinan Çetin (350th), Mazhar Alanson (351st), Ali Taran (352nd), Erdal Özyağcılar (353rd), Yılmaz Erdoğan (354th), İlber Ortaylı (355th), Haluk Bilginer (356th), Kenan İmirzalıoğlu (357th, later as regular host), Acun Ilıcalı (358th), Halit Kıvanç (359th), Berna Laçin (360th), Özkan Uğur (361st), Fuat Güner (362nd), Behzat Uygur (363rd), Erhan Yazıcıoğlu (364th), Eser Yenenler (365th), Ali Sunal (366th), Tamer Karadağlı (367th), Cem Davran (368th), Meltem Cumbul (369th) and Ozan Güven (370th).
- On November 9, 2015, 500th episode in three parts aired - on November 11 and 13 (501st and 502nd) respectively. Celebrities appeared, but winnings for charity won.
- In 6 seasons (686 episodes), in total 2,742 contestants appeared (49 answered the 1st question wrong), 38.549.500 TL won.
- On October 14, 2017 (694th episode), Indian celebrity Aamir Khan appeared. He spoke in English during his run, but Turkish subtitles were shown on his Phone-a-Friend lifeline moment. This episode is fully narrated in Turkish.
- In 878th episode, the record 13 contestants appeared, but 10 contestants walked away with 1.000 TL.
- A contestant reached to 30,000 TL without using a lifeline.
- This contestant also reached to 30,000 TL without using a lifeline, but answered the 9th question wrong without still using any lifelines.
- In 1-931 episodes (2011-2021), in total 4,476 contestants appeared, 32,106 questions asked and is 57.549.000 TL won.
Gallery[]
First studio (02.08.2011 - 21.07.2017)
Second studio (23.09.2017 - 15.08.2020)
Third studio (26.09.2020–present)
Logo in studio (2020–present)
Sources[]
- Official website
- Official Instagram page
- Official Facebook page
- About 100th episode
- Results of season 1
- About 500th episode (1)
- About 500th episode (2)
- About 500th episode (3)
- Top Prize Questions
- First winner (05.10.2019)
- Database (626 episodes, seasons, contestants, questions and options, winnings (in Turkish)
- Article about return after break in 2021 + results for 931 episodes
- About season 13 changes (in Turkish)