Kaun Banega Crorepati

Kaun Banega Crorepati

Logo used beginning in Season 4 in 2010, incorporating the

new Indian Rupee Symbol unveiled in the same year.

Rules
The contestants must undergo an initial round of "Fastest Finger First", in which the host
introduces the ten contestants of the episode and asks them all the same question. The contestants
must then arrange the answers in the order described in the question. The contestant that places
the four options in the correct order in the fastest time gets the chance to go on the "hotseat".

All contestants must be over the age of 18 and a citizen of India in order to be eligible. The
person must not be a former "Kaun Banega Crorepati" contestant and, as defined in the Income
Tax Act, 1961, must also be a resident of India.

At the hotseat, the contestant is asked a series of general knowledge questions consistently rising
in difficulty with every question. Each question has four options with only one correct answer.
The contestant wins a certain amount of money with each correct answer, and may choose to
give up and retain the money they have already won if they decide not to answer the currently
shown question.

The money won after each question is roughly doubled from the previous amount won,
exponentially increasing the amount won after each correct answer until the contestant reaches
the final question, after which they win the maximum prize The current sequence of prize
amounts on KBC are as follows (Western digit grouping in parentheses):

KBC1
 Missed Answer Walk Away Wrong Answer
No. Right Answer Value
Value Value Loss
1 Rs. 1,000 Rs. 0 Rs. 0 Rs. 0
2 Rs. 2,000 Rs. 0 Rs. 1,000 Rs. 1,000
3 Rs. 3,000 Rs. 0 Rs. 2,000 Rs. 2,000
4 Rs. 5,000 Rs. 0 Rs. 3,000 Rs. 3,000
5 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 0 Rs. 5,000 Rs. 5,000
6 Rs. 20,000 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 0
7 Rs. 40,000 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 20,000 Rs. 10,000
8 Rs. 80,000 Rs. 10,000 Rs. 40,000 Rs. 30,000
9 Rs. 1,60,000 (160,000) Rs. 10,000 Rs. 80,000 Rs. 70,000
10 Rs. 3,20,000 (320,000) Rs. 10,000 Rs. 1,60,000 Rs. 1,50,000
11 Rs. 6,40,000 (640,000) Rs. 320,000 Rs. 320,000 Rs. 0
12 Rs. 12,50,000 (1,250,000) Rs. 320,000 Rs. 640,000 Rs. 320,000
13 Rs. 25,00,000 (2,500,000) Rs. 320,000 Rs. 1,250,000 Rs. 930,000
14 Rs. 50,00,000 (5,000,000) Rs. 320,000 Rs. 2,500,000 Rs. 2,180,000
Rs. 1,00,00,000
15 Rs. 320,000 Rs. 5,000,000 Rs. 4,680,000
(10,000,000)

Lifelines
A contestant can use a lifeline when he/she is undecided about which answer is correct. A
lifeline can only be used once.

 Audience Poll: If the contestant uses this lifeline, it will result in the host repeating the
question to the audience. The studio audience get 30 seconds to answer the question.
Audience members use touch pads to designate what they believe the correct answer to
be. After the audience have chosen their choices, the results are displayed to the
contestant in percentages in bar-graph format and also shown on the monitors screens of
the host and contestant, as well as the TV viewers.

 Phone a Friend: If the contestant uses this lifeline, the contestant is allowed to call one
of the three pre-arranged friends, who all have to provide their phone numbers in
advance. The host usually starts off by talking to the contestant's friend and introduces
him/her to the viewers. After the introduction, the host hands the phone call over to the
contestant who then immediately has 30 seconds to ask and hope for a reply from their
friend.

 Fifty-Fifty (50/50): If the contestant uses this lifeline, the host will ask the computer to
randomly remove and eliminate two of the "wrong" answers. This will leave one right
answer and one wrong answer, resulting in a situation of eliminating 50% of the choices
as well as having a 50% chance of getting the answer right if the contestant is in a
situation of making a guess. In 2010, 50/50 was replaced by Double Dip.
  Flip the Question: The contestant earned this lifeline upon answering the fifth question.
The computer replaced, at the contestant's request, one question with another of the same
monetary value. Any lifelines used on the original question prior to the switching were
not reinstated.

 The Indian version will adopt the clock format from the US version and is the fourth
country's version to do (the others being Japan and the UK; although the US version no
longer uses the clock), although the time limits will be more similar to the UK version.
There will be a 30 second time limit for questions 1-5, and a 45 second time limit for
questions 6-10, but questions 11-15 will not be timed.[5][6]

The clock stops whenever a lifeline is used. There are going to be four lifelines: