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Moment of truth is a game show that puts contestants through a lie detector test. Then retests them with 21 questions to see if their answers match the lie detector.
Some game shows are fun to watch, Wheel of Fortune for example, where contestants solve word puzzles for money. No reality here, just a game show. With the reality tv craze in full swing there have been Survivor, the Apprentice, and Big Brother just to name a few. These are shows where contestants take on life challenges for prize money. Fox has unearthed a new show. This one puts a little reality into a game show to produce television like nothing shown before. The idea is simple. Contestants are strapped into a lie detector and asked forty five to fifty five questions about their lives. Some of the questions are easy, “what color are your shoes?” and other questions are very uncomfortable, “If you knew you would not get caught, would you cheat on your spouse?”. The responses are recorded and then the game show part begins. When on the show, the contestant has to correctly answer twenty one of the questions they had answered previously while hooked up to the lie detector. They do not know which questions will come up, nor do they know what the lie detector recorded for each response. As the game begins, the contestant answers six questions to win 10,000 dollars. Each time the prize money increases, the number of questions decreases, but the difficulty of the questions goes up. The next level of questions is five questions for 25,000 dollars then four questions for 100,000 dollars and so on, all the way up to 500,000 dollars. In the audience during the show are the contestant’s friends and family, who hear the questions as they are asked, and learn the truthfulness of the responses given with the television viewers at home. The questions get more personal and harder to answer as the night goes along, making anything possible for the contestant and those who are with them. During the contest, the climb to the top can stop at any level. If the contestant chooses to stop, they can walk away with the money they have amassed to that point. Continuing on for more money can cost a player all of the money they have collected, one incorrect answer and the game is over. Also, during the show, the contestant’s friends and family can have a question changed if they do not want to hear the answer. This will get another question selected and asked, but it could be better or worse than the question they wanted to skip and is only available once per show. The show seems to point out the fact that there are quite a few people out there with something to hide. So far, the response to the show seems to be that of most reality shows, absolutely huge. Only time will tell if the truth is what television audiences want to hear. Source
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