Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Climb a ladder of increasingly hard questions, with three lifelines to fall back on.

Make it yours: Write questions at increasing difficulty for whatever unit you're on — the ladder and lifelines carry the format.

Time:

15–20 min

Group:

Individual or team, whole class via lifelines

Materials:

A list of questions sorted from easy to hard, A points ladder written on the board

• 10–20 min
• Primary
• Review / test knowledge
• Secondary
• Solo
• Stays in place

How to play

1. One student or team answers a series of questions that get progressively harder, climbing a points ladder — mark every third or fourth rung as a "safe" checkpoint.
2. Three lifelines are available once each: remove two wrong answers, ask the class to vote, or consult a teammate for thirty seconds.
3. A wrong answer drops the contestant back to their last safe checkpoint (or ends the run, if they have none yet) — rotate in a new contestant and start the ladder again.

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