"Here's how confident the producers were that we were not gonna give away a million dollars: we didn't even rehearse the bit that's coming up!" Probably the most real statement ever spoken by a game show host. Love it!
I remember this and the final question and I guessed 29% highly doubt I would have ever gambled a million to go for it, but it's incredible to think that back in the day if I was in his shoes I would've had it right.
Drew's more excited than the contestant. That's the best host you could ever have. Always brightens up the mood, always laughing or smiling, gotta love him.
What gets me is that moment at 2:31 where Drew looks really sad this kid might not get it... and then everyone's shocked look when he makes it! :) Hosts that care, I love it!
Drew really tried to convince the kid to take a shot at the $10M but the kid did the right thing walkin away with $1M. It's no wonder that the producers of the show had to pay the kid in ten annual instalments. Ten million dollars. Goddamn. That's set-for-life money right there. And at 19 years old. Amazing. I wish I was a ninteen year old millionaire training to be a doctor.
I was hoping Jamie would go for it but I was the same age Jamie was at the time and to me to go $10 million and still leave with $100,000 seemed like something great to do. My dad explained something called taxes and now at 31 I see how right Dad was.
lol I feel like Drew is desperately trying to make him gamble for the 10 million dollars, as if the producers told him ''I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO OR SAY, JUST MAKE HIM GO FOR THE 10 MILLION SO HE CAN LOSE, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY 1M FIRST SHOW FIRST CONTESTANT!!!'' LOLL
drew is a genuine good guy!! did you know that the 500 bucks he awards to players who bid exactly is a piece of drews real pay cheque, he gets paid to host price is right?? the producers said we can give out 500 dollar bonus money but drew was like naw i don't mind sharing my own money!!
This show is getting better with every night it's on, and so is Drew. Also, I think we now realize that winning the BIG money is not easy at all, the way it should be, you really have to EARN it. So, any time the million or even the ten million is won it will be exciting. It is a smart fun show that certainly makes you think.
i love how drew was so persuasive to the contestant to try the question so that they can still have a chance to just give him 100k rather than a million lmao
Yeah he's reading off the autocue saying that, they literally didn't rehearse this. But I wish he said fuck that and just told the kid not to risk it. Regis Philbin was often accused of being too pushy not to gamble on WWTBAM, but, would you rather have that than a guy telling everyone to gamble 900000 dollars? I can't tell if Drew is trying to save the show or think this kid's smart enough to win the 10m.
Why are you people judging the mom? She just wanted him to make a smart decision, which he did, to walk away. And she was proud of him, not only for winning the show, but because he is going to med school. Nothing wrong here.
3:54 Drew: This show's not gonna get through the first season if we keep up like this. Well, he wasn't wrong. That's WHY the show got canceled, the very first player won $1 million.
Jamie played the game well and I am glad he won $1 million on the first show. Power Of 10 comes back on January 2nd, 2008!!! Drew Carey rules thank you very much!!!
Drew's gotten better On TPIR & He'll get better as Years Go By He's good for this Show I hope it comes back soon I Love How He Says "YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS"
CBS please bring back The Power of 10, I know Drew's busy with Price is Right but either have him host this again or at have someone else host it please!!!
cutemimi25 I once imagined him as a contestant, and when Drew asks Rich what he needed the cash for, Rich responded "To get back at Fremantle for firing me from Price, and start my own show."
cutemimi25 In fact, it's still one of his big plans. Fields' most famous work was announcer of Price from 2004-10, a role which he repeatedly stated was his "dream job" after watching original announcer Johnny Olson (coincidentally, he and current Wheel announcer Jim Thornton both announced on Price just after Rod Roddy's death). Rich either had a fan following already or gained one very quickly after his first appearance, as the president of his fan club was called down about a month into Fields' tenure. Shortly after being hired, the podium his predecessors worked from was disposed of; rather than see it destroyed, he retrieved the podium and put it on display in his home. He also handled hosting duties on the first two Price video games for Wii and PC, taking over for Bob and Drew, and did most of the announcing. Rich became somewhat disliked by fans during the first half of Season 37, when he became the subject of many "Drewcases" (Showcases written by host Drew Carey) that made him look like either a jerk or a joke. Others criticized Rich for the tone of his voice. Following Season 38, he was fired due to unspecified reasons only described as "a mess of his own making and didn't have anything to do with The Price Is Right" (TMZ claimed he was a victim of identify theft, while someone claiming to be a close friend said that "he was getting tired, having too many personal problems"). Whatever the case, it is known that Fremantle extremely disliked him despite his immense fan popularity, wanting him gone when Bob Barker left in 2007, and that executive producer Mike Richards wanted an improv comedian to interact with Carey; George Gray, previously host of the daytime syndicated Weakest Link, ultimately got the job. As a result, he was not included as an announcer for the TPIR: Decades Wii video game produced by Ludia; in his place, however, is fellow Olson protege and announcer Randy West.Rich is the only announcer to have worked on both the Barker and Carey versions of Price, as well as the show's first announcer to be replaced while still living (Olson died in 1985, and Roddy in 2003). After Price, Fields' most recent work was announcer of Drew Carey's Improv-a-Ganza, which ran on GSN for a few months in 2011.
For those of you wondering... he was only RISKING $90,000 by going for the $1,000,000 question. He had $100,000 -- if he was wrong he would still win $10,000 $100,000 - $10,000 = $90,000 So he was only risking $90,000, not $990,000
Stiven Bonilla Jamie was one of my favorite contestants too. I saw this with my parents and I was very happy to see this dude win $1 million. I was hoping he'd go for $10 million but my dad who understood money better than me said Jamie did the right thing.
What a way to begin a game show, with a $1,000,000 win for the very first contestant! If more game shows of this sort started out this way, it would be awesome! And Drew's reaction throughout the clip is priceless! "It's my dream to give away money on this job."
This is simply one of the best game shows made for a long time, marred by one of the weakest final rounds ever made. Could there ever possibly be a $10,000,000 winner if they aired the show for a hundred years?
Yeah I agree The Power Of 10 was a great game show. This kid Jamie is my age and he played the game brillently. I'm glad he won $1 million and now his college is paid for and he can buy some other things on the side.
Congrats to Jamie !!! Seems like you did a geat job ! I enjoyed the excitement that Jamie brought to the show and very glad that he won ! He can enjoy life and school kowing that he will not have to struggle. I know that he is thankful ! Good luck to your family in the future ! You have a great son ! Keith in Valdosta Ga
Only $2000 was won on the second episode, proving that winning the big money is not really easy at all. Jamie just had a great gauge on the American public. More will, and winning $10M, though very difficult, is possible. This show is a winner in my book.
i was say no in a heartbeat.... but then again where else can you find the 1/11 odds to win 10M$.... its tempting certainly but you gotta know your limits.
No one would ever go for the 10M because there’s no logical reason to choose one percentage point over another. When you’re dealing with ranges, you can justify that it would be between 23-33 and not, for example, 53-63. But there’s no reason to choose 22 vs 23, or 25 vs 26. So here’s how you make it enticing to go for the 10M. You give them a 3% range - their exact answer and +/- 1%. If they hit it right on the exact answer, they win 10M. If the answer is outside that range, they lose and drop back to 100,000. But if the answer is 1% point off, they don’t win the 10M but they stay at the 1 million (they don’t drop down). That lessens the risk that to a point where some people might think about going for it.
It's not really that bad if you lose anyway, because even if you did happen to lose if you were crazy enough to take the massive risk, you still walk away with a tenth of your earnings which is still plenty to live on for a few years.
Devin - with respect to your point about everything being a "power of 10" - that's defeated in the final game anyway because the odds of winning the 10M are 1 in 11, not 10. And it is appealing to the producers to give a safety net simply because if no one ever goes for the grand prize, people won't watch - i.e. ratings. But you do raise good points.
+cicholdebannan in mathimatica (if 11 peple try to continious this game) 1/11 have taken 10.000.000$ and 10/11 100.000 in total 11.000.000 so no Ev. but in fact is no reason to try the exact nymber, just because is 1.000.000$ is super enought. The tv if he continuous the show and choose the number 29, he maybe tells that the correct answer is 28... MAYBE!
Here's another sign as to how no one would EVER go for the 10M. Once Drew explains the rules, i.e. the risk vs. the reward and the odds, listen to the audience SCREAM: "NO! NO! NO!" I would wager there wasn't a single person in the entire studio or watching at home saying "go for it".
Well actually Drew Pablo Puente got this job before he was hired for TPIR so after CBS cancelled this he was offered the Price job & the rest is history
Ever since the scandal that was NBC's original run of Twenty-One (the movie "Quiz Show" is a fictionalized account of this), there are laws in the US against rigging game shows like that. No game show producer would ever do that, because they would almost certainly get sued for way more than 10 million dollars.
Paul S Of course it's a better chance than the lottery, but it's also a greater risk (lottery tickets aren't $900k). So a 1/11 chance to get 10 times your money... So it's about the same (probably even a little worse) than playing the lottery. (Lottery is about 1/100000000 chance to win, but the reward is about 100000000 times the money you risk.)
how can you hate on drew carey, hes just doing his job. His job is to make it exciting to watch and the point of the show is for entertainment not to just give money away for the hell of it.
Good for him! As a college student myself, I know how much that money can help. No student loans, he can afford a car/insurance/gas, he can buy a house, groceries...haha that's awesome. I'm glad it was a 19 year old winning instead of a 45 year old. :)
2:36 Maybe this is why.... Because.... Maybe this is why Madison Chock and Evan Bates win the third world title gold for the home country in Boston Here at ISU Worlds 2025 and someone shout it out like.... You won the world gold medal!!!!! And the retired U.S Olympic skaters Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Marissa Castelli, Ashley Wagner, Gracie Gold, Jeremy Abbott, Simon Shapir, Maia Shibutani and her brother Alex Shibutani, Karen and Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, Mariah Bell, Mirai Nagasu, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, Alysa Liu, Vincent Zhou all rushed, pitch invade the kiss-and cry spot celebrate with their skating heroes Madison Chock and Evan Bates all jumped, dogpiled, happy clamoring, loud cheering and laughter like crazy!!!!
We need more with this stupid strike going on!!! Shows like this asks reallly good questions about America and how people live and think. Drew is a double hit with this and The Price Is Right, I'm really happy. Merry Christmas To You!!!!
so many people are going to watch this now... it sucks for the producers that they had a one million payout on the first night but ratings are goin to go way up
This is probably the lesser known of the game shows hosted by Drew Carey. He was definitely a lot more famous for hosting The Price Is Right. But *THIS* was Carey’s greatest instance of shouting “YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS!!!” Better than any TPiR Million Dollar Spectacular!
The game is not called Power of Ten for that. It's called like that because your winnings can either "increase to the Power of Ten" (add a zero) if you guess correctly, or either "decrease to the Power of Ten" (remove a zero) if your guess is incorrect.
I came up with the perfect way to improve the odds so that someone would actually consider risking the $900K. If the contestant makes it to this level, the odds are still 1 in 11, but instead of having to hit it right on the nose, they're given a 3% range. If they hit it exactly, they win the $10M. If they don't hit it but they're ONLY off by 1%, they don't win the 10 Million but they STAY at $1M. If they're MORE than 1% away, then they drop down to $100K. Wish they'd bring this show back!
Part of the reason that the UK DonD is so difficult is the round of 3 with 5 boxes left. Instead of a 25% increase 80% of the time and a 100% decrease 20% of the time, we have a 150% increase 40% of the time and a 100% decrease 60% of the time. It's still the same, but it's not as easy to play. Few people are going to risk losing $900,000 when they had a million, 10/11 of the time, on a blind chance. Even with the rare person that does, they have to make it here, then actually win the 10M!
"Here's how confident the producers were that we were not gonna give away a million dollars: we didn't even rehearse the bit that's coming up!"
Probably the most real statement ever spoken by a game show host. Love it!
Drew has always been real with his audience which I respect about him.
This is the line that made him host of The Price is Right.
6:43-- yo screams out from the audience "TAKE THE PRIZE BIIITCH"😂🤣🤣
Gee Zee 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gee Zee 😂😂
I did not even notice 😂
"You won a million dollars!! First show, first contestant."
And that is why the show is off the air
What a Good Way To Start Of Power Of 10 $1,000,000
Meanwhile...on The Wall...
I remember this and the final question and I guessed 29% highly doubt I would have ever gambled a million to go for it, but it's incredible to think that back in the day if I was in his shoes I would've had it right.
Drew's more excited than the contestant. That's the best host you could ever have. Always brightens up the mood, always laughing or smiling, gotta love him.
I love Drew's reaction when he screams "You won a million bucks!" :D He's great!
I love Drew's reaction to him winning the million. He really wants the contestants to win big.
What gets me is that moment at 2:31 where Drew looks really sad this kid might not get it... and then everyone's shocked look when he makes it! :) Hosts that care, I love it!
Man, I love Drew Carey's reaction to him winning. He gets so excited for contestants on that show, as well as on Price is Right.
And that's why he's hosting TPIR even today.
"you still have 100k and your college is paid for" lol, maybe half of it
Probably one of the coolest gameshows I've seen in a long time thanks to Drew Carey being so enthusiastic and an audience that isn't scripted.
Drew really tried to convince the kid to take a shot at the $10M but the kid did the right thing walkin away with $1M. It's no wonder that the producers of the show had to pay the kid in ten annual instalments.
Ten million dollars. Goddamn. That's set-for-life money right there. And at 19 years old. Amazing. I wish I was a ninteen year old millionaire training to be a doctor.
Yep, I'd take the million. You'd be pretty silly not to.
I was hoping Jamie would go for it but I was the same age Jamie was at the time and to me to go $10 million and still leave with $100,000 seemed like something great to do. My dad explained something called taxes and now at 31 I see how right Dad was.
Drew Carey: "U won the million bucks!!!!!" 2:36
Did I hear that right? First show, first contestant? How long did the show last?
Was cancelled before the fall.
5 months.
It certainly didn’t last long
Better than Australia's, ours was cancelled after 2 episodes after the second episode had LESS than one THOUSAND viewers over the 5 capital cities.
Didn't last long, but you could consider this Drew's audition tape for TPIR.
lol I feel like Drew is desperately trying to make him gamble for the 10 million dollars, as if the producers told him ''I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO OR SAY, JUST MAKE HIM GO FOR THE 10 MILLION SO HE CAN LOSE, WE CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY 1M FIRST SHOW FIRST CONTESTANT!!!'' LOLL
Only sad thing is Power of 10 only did this one season. It was a hit & Drew did a good job
Fat drew is funnier then skinny drew.
drew is a genuine good guy!! did you know that the 500 bucks he awards to players who bid exactly is a piece of drews real pay cheque, he gets paid to host price is right?? the producers said we can give out 500 dollar bonus money but drew was like naw i don't mind sharing my own money!!
This show is getting better with every night it's on, and so is Drew. Also, I think we now realize that winning the BIG money is not easy at all, the way it should be, you really have to EARN it. So, any time the million or even the ten million is won it will be exciting.
It is a smart fun show that certainly makes you think.
i love how drew was so persuasive to the contestant to try the question so that they can still have a chance to just give him 100k rather than a million lmao
Yeah he's reading off the autocue saying that, they literally didn't rehearse this. But I wish he said fuck that and just told the kid not to risk it. Regis Philbin was often accused of being too pushy not to gamble on WWTBAM, but, would you rather have that than a guy telling everyone to gamble 900000 dollars? I can't tell if Drew is trying to save the show or think this kid's smart enough to win the 10m.
Yes! The Power of 10 is one of the best new game shows in primetime today (up there with 1 vs. 100 and others, we hope).
i love Drew, he is so funny and you can tell he cares about the contestant and enjoys the moment as much as the contestant
Why are you people judging the mom? She just wanted him to make a smart decision, which he did, to walk away. And she was proud of him, not only for winning the show, but because he is going to med school. Nothing wrong here.
drew really likes when people win, genually gets excited for them. He really is a good host at this and price is right
Alright which one of yall yelled "TAKE THE PRIZE BITCH" in this super serious decision making moment? had me absolutely dying laughing over here🤣🤣
"This show is not even going to get through the first season..." -Drew Carey
little did he know he was right LOL!
And now he's 15 seasons in as host of The Price is Right.
I bet he knew very well he was right. He could tell the show was broken.
2:35
Executive Producer, Mike Davies: You're fired, you're fired, you're fired, ALL YOU FUCKERS ARE FIRED!!! x-( x-(
3:54 Drew: This show's not gonna get through the first season if we keep up like this.
Well, he wasn't wrong. That's WHY the show got canceled, the very first player won $1 million.
It was already a different time than from when it felt like WWTBAM was just giving hundreds of thousands away.
Jamie played the game well and I am glad he won $1 million on the first show. Power Of 10 comes back on January 2nd, 2008!!! Drew Carey rules thank you very much!!!
one HELL of a hangover. You could host a small concert!
It's time to play... 10 MILLION DOLLAR GUESS!
From the makers of Million Dollar Heads or Tails!
Haha
Drew's gotten better On TPIR & He'll get better as Years Go By He's good for this Show I hope it comes back soon I Love How He Says "YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS"
1st show 1st contestant hits a million!
I'm glad he won. He seems so sweet.
Love Drew's Reaction at 2:34
Absolutely fantastic. Congrats on your son's win Sue, I hope he does well with his money.
After taxes,
You've won $450,000!
But congrats to him anyway.
2:36 HE'S A MILLIONAIRE!!
CBS please bring back The Power of 10, I know Drew's busy with Price is Right but either have him host this again or at have someone else host it please!!!
cutemimi25 Rich Fields!
Angie2343 I like what you're thinking.
cutemimi25 I once imagined him as a contestant, and when Drew asks Rich what he needed the cash for, Rich responded "To get back at Fremantle for firing me from Price, and start my own show."
Angie2343 That would be awesome.
cutemimi25 In fact, it's still one of his big plans.
Fields' most famous work was announcer of Price from 2004-10, a role which he repeatedly stated was his "dream job" after watching original announcer Johnny Olson (coincidentally, he and current Wheel announcer Jim Thornton both announced on Price just after Rod Roddy's death). Rich either had a fan following already or gained one very quickly after his first appearance, as the president of his fan club was called down about a month into Fields' tenure. Shortly after being hired, the podium his predecessors worked from was disposed of; rather than see it destroyed, he retrieved the podium and put it on display in his home. He also handled hosting duties on the first two Price video games for Wii and PC, taking over for Bob and Drew, and did most of the announcing. Rich became somewhat disliked by fans during the first half of Season 37, when he became the subject of many "Drewcases" (Showcases written by host Drew Carey) that made him look like either a jerk or a joke. Others criticized Rich for the tone of his voice. Following Season 38, he was fired due to unspecified reasons only described as "a mess of his own making and didn't have anything to do with The Price Is Right" (TMZ claimed he was a victim of identify theft, while someone claiming to be a close friend said that "he was getting tired, having too many personal problems"). Whatever the case, it is known that Fremantle extremely disliked him despite his immense fan popularity, wanting him gone when Bob Barker left in 2007, and that executive producer Mike Richards wanted an improv comedian to interact with Carey; George Gray, previously host of the daytime syndicated Weakest Link, ultimately got the job. As a result, he was not included as an announcer for the TPIR: Decades Wii video game produced by Ludia; in his place, however, is fellow Olson protege and announcer Randy West.Rich is the only announcer to have worked on both the Barker and Carey versions of Price, as well as the show's first announcer to be replaced while still living (Olson died in 1985, and Roddy in 2003).
After Price, Fields' most recent work was announcer of Drew Carey's Improv-a-Ganza, which ran on GSN for a few months in 2011.
sent here from planet money.
For those of you wondering... he was only RISKING $90,000 by going for the $1,000,000 question.
He had $100,000 -- if he was wrong he would still win $10,000
$100,000 - $10,000 = $90,000
So he was only risking $90,000, not $990,000
he isn't going anywhere. but the IRS is cackling with glee and rubbing their hands together!
Best Contestant Ever on Power of 10 is Jamie Sadler wins a Million Dollars.
Stiven Bonilla Jamie was one of my favorite contestants too. I saw this with my parents and I was very happy to see this dude win $1 million. I was hoping he'd go for $10 million but my dad who understood money better than me said Jamie did the right thing.
Damn, I love Drew.... He's always so happy when people win! He's awesome!
Because he can relate to the folks on Price.
Anyone come here because of Planet Money?
yes!
Yes.
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Same! I wish there were actual episodes. This is basically the only clip I could find of the show.
Yes!
I wish they would bring this show back I liked this show
holy shit i guessed 29..........
still if i was in his place i would've done the same thing.
I saw it too... I couldn't believe it. That must have been a REAL heartbreaker for that guy.
7:47 that was so smart of you not to go for 10 million
What a way to begin a game show, with a $1,000,000 win for the very first contestant! If more game shows of this sort started out this way, it would be awesome! And Drew's reaction throughout the clip is priceless! "It's my dream to give away money on this job."
And that’s the reason why the show’s off the air.
This is simply one of the best game shows made for a long time, marred by one of the weakest final rounds ever made.
Could there ever possibly be a $10,000,000 winner if they aired the show for a hundred years?
Yeah I agree The Power Of 10 was a great game show. This kid Jamie is my age and he played the game brillently. I'm glad he won $1 million and now his college is paid for and he can buy some other things on the side.
Way to prove the producers wrong!
"This kid won't last a commercial break"...(later that evening) "You're all fired"
Congrats to Jamie !!! Seems like you did a geat job ! I enjoyed the excitement that Jamie brought to the show and very glad that he won ! He can enjoy life and school kowing that he will not have to struggle. I know that he is thankful ! Good luck to your family in the future ! You have a great son !
Keith in Valdosta Ga
Has anyone ever tried answering the 10M question? I think it'll be the dumbest thing to do to gamble 0.9M based on pure luck.
it is luck cause it's most likely their survey, and other surveys give other awnsers so I agree pure luck
Stephen Chan No other person won $1,000,000. Only Jamie Sadler won it. (Ergo, no one after him got to even ATTEMPT the $10,000,000 question.)
Oh I see. It's not too surprising though since this show involves a lot of guess work, unlike Who Wanna be a Millionaire.
Stephen Chan One person did on a foreign version of The Power of 10 they lost it.
cutemimi25 wow! I'll never understand what these kind of people was thinking haha.
I like how the audience is telling him to walk away. No fucking shit! No 19-year-old college student is gonna risk $1,000,000 on a 9% chance.
OMG the producer would have killed himself if this kid had won the $10m
Ummm... shit. How can we make the kid go for $100,000,000?
@@Novacaine_07 "Uhhmmm make him guess the exact decimal for the $100 million"
Very Obscure Show.
The producers of the show apparently weren’t very happy with this and that’s why the game show didn’t last long
CBS also gave out $500k on the first episode of Winning Lines too. I miss the crazy big money game show era
Only $2000 was won on the second episode, proving that winning the big money is not really easy at all. Jamie just had a great gauge on the American public. More will, and winning $10M, though very difficult, is possible. This show is a winner in my book.
i was say no in a heartbeat.... but then again where else can you find the 1/11 odds to win 10M$.... its tempting certainly but you gotta know your limits.
well said :-)
+Jdgaf unless you're Dan Avila
the hosts were SCREAMING in the hosts ear for him to persuade the kid to gamble and lose the money. These shows cant afford to lose this type of money
I'm happy he won $1,000,000. Happier if he'd won 10X more though.
John Falsarella ñ
Really? Well, GOOD LUCK TRYING TO GET THE EXACT % TO WIN IT. YOU WOULD BE STUPID TO RISK $900K TO GO FOR $10M.
$1,000,000 is enough for me...he did the right thing and I would've done the same thing even if I was right for $10,000,000. Bravo :)
3:20 It's clear, sadly that the mother only wants his money.
Growing up with him ur exactly correct
When I was a kid, we also had this show on TV, but with the main prize of like $ 300--400 thousand.
No one would ever go for the 10M because there’s no logical reason to choose one percentage point over another. When you’re dealing with ranges, you can justify that it would be between 23-33 and not, for example, 53-63. But there’s no reason to choose 22 vs 23, or 25 vs 26. So here’s how you make it enticing to go for the 10M. You give them a 3% range - their exact answer and +/- 1%. If they hit it right on the exact answer, they win 10M. If the answer is outside that range, they lose and drop back to 100,000. But if the answer is 1% point off, they don’t win the 10M but they stay at the 1 million (they don’t drop down). That lessens the risk that to a point where some people might think about going for it.
It's not really that bad if you lose anyway, because even if you did happen to lose if you were crazy enough to take the massive risk, you still walk away with a tenth of your earnings which is still plenty to live on for a few years.
Devin - with respect to your point about everything being a "power of 10" - that's defeated in the final game anyway because the odds of winning the 10M are 1 in 11, not 10. And it is appealing to the producers to give a safety net simply because if no one ever goes for the grand prize, people won't watch - i.e. ratings. But you do raise good points.
+cicholdebannan in mathimatica (if 11 peple try to continious this game) 1/11 have taken 10.000.000$ and 10/11 100.000 in total 11.000.000 so no Ev. but in fact is no reason to try the exact nymber, just because is 1.000.000$ is super enought. The tv if he continuous the show and choose the number 29, he maybe tells that the correct answer is 28... MAYBE!
Here's another sign as to how no one would EVER go for the 10M. Once Drew explains the rules, i.e. the risk vs. the reward and the odds, listen to the audience SCREAM: "NO! NO! NO!" I would wager there wasn't a single person in the entire studio or watching at home saying "go for it".
Bring all your favorite team of professionals, I am sure that you would have guessed it dude, your da bizzomb! 😭
lmao keep on replaying 2:37 "YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS!
IT'S THAT DREW CAREY?!
yes
Drew Carey was suppose to be in the price is right, not the power 10.
Well actually Drew Pablo Puente got this job before he was hired for TPIR so after CBS cancelled this he was offered the Price job & the rest is history
da Silva is the best way to get to the next few years ago but damn you SUCK! 👹
the mom so wants some of that money. I would of been like "yeah i love you too... and ill see you in twenty years after i've spent it all. "
Be smart, Even thought you got the right answer,
The TV show can just change it to another answer
So you'll never get 10 million lol
Ever since the scandal that was NBC's original run of Twenty-One (the movie "Quiz Show" is a fictionalized account of this), there are laws in the US against rigging game shows like that. No game show producer would ever do that, because they would almost certainly get sued for way more than 10 million dollars.
the presenter is amazing.... he was happier than the winner.... good for him
420, Bob.
These are so happy moments ^^
stupid game show. Would anybody risk 900,000 dollars on a 1 in 11 chance.
Better chance than the lottery. Besides, even if you were wrong, you still leave with $100,000, which is nothing to laugh at.
Paul S Of course it's a better chance than the lottery, but it's also a greater risk (lottery tickets aren't $900k).
So a 1/11 chance to get 10 times your money... So it's about the same (probably even a little worse) than playing the lottery.
(Lottery is about 1/100000000 chance to win, but the reward is about 100000000 times the money you risk.)
+zz0mfgz also with gameshows, you dont exactly have the money until a while later. your risking imaginary money until you get the taxed check
+James hui the thing is that the expected value of a random guess is more that $1 Million
Good for him...I've watched this show on GSN, and it's extremely hard, harder than you'd think.
how can you hate on drew carey, hes just doing his job. His job is to make it exciting to watch and the point of the show is for entertainment not to just give money away for the hell of it.
This show should make a return on CBS
He was gonna be grounded the rest of his life if he tried to gamble.
$100K would definitely cover it if you did 2 years at Community College and finishing the other 2 years at a 4 year.
Good for him! As a college student myself, I know how much that money can help. No student loans, he can afford a car/insurance/gas, he can buy a house, groceries...haha that's awesome. I'm glad it was a 19 year old winning instead of a 45 year old. :)
2:36 Maybe this is why.... Because.... Maybe this is why Madison Chock and Evan Bates win the third world title gold for the home country in Boston Here at ISU Worlds 2025 and someone shout it out like.... You won the world gold medal!!!!! And the retired U.S Olympic skaters Meryl Davis, Charlie White, Marissa Castelli, Ashley Wagner, Gracie Gold, Jeremy Abbott, Simon Shapir, Maia Shibutani and her brother Alex Shibutani, Karen and Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, Mariah Bell, Mirai Nagasu, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, Alysa Liu, Vincent Zhou all rushed, pitch invade the kiss-and cry spot celebrate with their skating heroes Madison Chock and Evan Bates all jumped, dogpiled, happy clamoring, loud cheering and laughter like crazy!!!!
I know one thing though, CBS recently have had bad luck with their game shows, and giving away big money early in the shows run
The first show, the only time it ever aired, and the guy wins a million dollars. No wonder I haven't heard of this show.
Best million dollar win ever!!
We need more with this stupid strike going on!!! Shows like this asks reallly good questions about America and how people live and think. Drew is a double hit with this and The Price Is Right, I'm really happy. Merry Christmas To You!!!!
If I had won a million bucks when I was 19 I would have blown it by now. I hope he doesn't, what a cool guy
Look at mom jumping her best jump
so many people are going to watch this now... it sucks for the producers that they had a one million payout on the first night but ratings are goin to go way up
4:13
“Buy yourself an iron! That’s what you gotta do.”
I miss Drew’s old hosting personality.
Mom "OMG I'm so proud of you! Now you can pay your OWN way through college!"
How does it feel?
It feels great to win all your money and see you laugh out of the disappointment!
why u all have to be so haters..... the kid won and lets just be happy about it..... besides..... rich and cute..... he has the whole package =)
This is probably the lesser known of the game shows hosted by Drew Carey. He was definitely a lot more famous for hosting The Price Is Right. But *THIS* was Carey’s greatest instance of shouting “YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS!!!” Better than any TPiR Million Dollar Spectacular!
Mmom is screaming out "NO", and dad is just sitting there laughing :)
The game is not called Power of Ten for that. It's called like that because your winnings can either "increase to the Power of Ten" (add a zero) if you guess correctly, or either "decrease to the Power of Ten" (remove a zero) if your guess is incorrect.
I came up with the perfect way to improve the odds so that someone would actually consider risking the $900K. If the contestant makes it to this level, the odds are still 1 in 11, but instead of having to hit it right on the nose, they're given a 3% range. If they hit it exactly, they win the $10M. If they don't hit it but they're ONLY off by 1%, they don't win the 10 Million but they STAY at $1M. If they're MORE than 1% away, then they drop down to $100K. Wish they'd bring this show back!
LOL at Drew Carry "YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS!!! YOU WON A MILLION BUCKS!!"
The kid has the most infectious smile.
I love the shot of the teleprompter at 7:55
just imagine if he won the 10 mil aswell...now that would be amazing
Part of the reason that the UK DonD is so difficult is the round of 3 with 5 boxes left. Instead of a 25% increase 80% of the time and a 100% decrease 20% of the time, we have a 150% increase 40% of the time and a 100% decrease 60% of the time. It's still the same, but it's not as easy to play.
Few people are going to risk losing $900,000 when they had a million, 10/11 of the time, on a blind chance. Even with the rare person that does, they have to make it here, then actually win the 10M!