Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that this entertaining game show offers family-friendly content that begs to be shared by those at home. Both parents and kids will love testing their smarts on a wide range of topics -- against the contestants and against each other (though younger grade-schoolers may not have the knowledge base to participate in a lot of the categories). The show's contagious energy and absence of questionable content make it a great choice for families to enjoy together. The odd-couple contestant pairs (a Harvard grad and a waitress, for example) are strangers, but they must strategize together and trust each other's judgment to move ahead in the game.
Families can talk about competition and teamwork. Why do people compete? What can you gain by taking on a challenge and doing your best? What does it mean to be a sore loser or a boastful winner? Why is good sportsmanship important? What traits are important in a good teammate? How do teammates learn to work together? How well do you think you'd do on this show?
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Emily Ashby
Can you name 10 movies that have won the Oscar for Best Picture? How about 15 of Stephen King's novels? Twenty Tom Cruise movies? What if a huge amount of money depended on your confidence in your answers?
If you think you're the king of fun facts or the queen of did-you-knows, then THE RICH LIST is for you. The trivia-based game show starts by matching up total strangers to form unlikely contestant pairs whose combined fact reserves might just be the key to a treasure. On this show, the next dream team could very well be a Harvard grad and a young waitress or a science geek and a perky pop-culture know-it-all.
Once the two teams are matched up, they move to separate sound-proof "pods." Host Eamonn Holmes then reveals the list each team needs to complete (like animated Disney movies or the 50 most popular U.S. newspapers), and the teams alternate bidding on how many answers they can fill in. Eventually one team challenges the other's bid, forcing them to make good on their claim and list the promised number of answers. If they complete it, they win that list; if not, the other team does.
The first team to win two lists in a round moves on to a money round. This time, as they fill in a list, they win cash in increments of up to $250,000. They can stop at any point, keeping the money they've earned. Then they face a new team of challengers for the right to play a rich list again and add to their stash. But if they answer incorrectly at any point, they return to their pod with no earnings from that round. There's no cap on the contestants' winnings, so a team can stick around as long as their knowledge holds out and they keep eliminating the competition.
If you're looking for family-friendly entertainment that's heavy on fun, The Rich List fits the bill. Although younger viewers won't have enough background on most of the list topics to guess many answers, tweens and teens will enjoy the series as much as their parents do, and the whole family can get in on the action by tossing around their own random knowledge.
Fans may also enjoy Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Jeopardy, and (for slightly older kids), 1 vs 100.
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