Well, apply to go on the show and we'll all be able to see you come away with £100k then.

I thought she was going to get the 3 x 8 = 24 answer wrong

... with a minute to spare.

Credit to him for getting to the end but he was no genius.

When a team which is wiped out individually (what I expected today but was wrong this time) and comes back with a second chance hoping to take £1k each, they must have trouble nominating their least hopeless member to maximise their chances. Though sometimes one is unlucky or takes a misjudged high offer and may have a decent chance if the Chaser presses the wrong button

And another final chase of less than 10 that Jenny has to catch.

She gets the worst teams. Gutted for Mick though.

As the last one standing, he may as well have had a go and he got a few lucky guesses. The £100 was pathetic and if he hadn't done the £100k, he'd still have had a chance of his original £1000 in the final.

As somebody else pointed out, he must go for the hundred thousand. There is no point in going only for the thousand, if he got through he would be playing for no more than he would be if he goes for the £100K and gets knocked out. Also it is likely to be a stronger player than him that they nominate to play if they all get knocked out.

And going for the £100 would just be plain daft.

If you're the last player, and the first three have all been knocked out, you should nearly always be going for the high offer, no matter what you score in the Cashbuilder. It's just too much money to pass up, bearing in mind you'll get the whole lot to yourself if you win.

I use the time the show starts at a hint as to whether they'll win or not. If it starts late (like 17:48-17:50) they're likely not to win. An earlier start suggests a longer chase and more likely to suggest a win.

Poor guy, he just wasn't very good.

Thought Jenny was going to stretch that out longer than she did. Knew he had no chance though.

I have to say that Jenny had by far the easier question set. 8x3? Not fair at all.

As soon as I heard that question I thought, "Incoming angry tomato face from GCT, if he's watching."

To be fair, as Jenny herself has pointed out on Twitter, Mick got "What's half of 38?", so the math questions cancel themselves out as they're both pretty easy.

I agree but she's a professional quizzer who is more likely to answer more questions compared to the contestants, and they could've given her more tricky questions to make it a tighter contest, especially considering it was the biggest prize pot ever.

Oooooh I'll watch out for that in future.

I though her set was possibly slightly easier, but then, axolotyl? I'd heard of it ( a friend of mine at school had a pet one) but I'd never have got it.

At the end of the day it's fifty-fifty which set they get. He could have got her set. I doubt it would have affected the result.

They could do with possibly ditching questions like 8 x 3, though. I mean if you're going to do arithmetic questions make them a little bit harder, like 12 x 9 or something. See if people can still remember their 12 times table from school (if they still teach the 12 times table, that is).

Yeah I agree she did get a few tricky ones too, however it would've been a more interesting show if she didn't get asked questions like 8x3. I just thought the producers would have tried to make it as exciting as possible seeing how huge the prize pot was.

And yeah I totally agree.. Arithmetic questions aren't great, they should think about getting rid of them. Either they're way too easy or the players/chasers are wasting a lot of time with people trying to do the calculations in their minds. They work in normal quiz shows but not ones like The Chase where you can't waste any time.

They cannot give her more tricky questions. It simply wouldn't be allowed.

There are two question sets, A and B. These are prepared in advance. Then the team (or in this case, sole player) decides which question set they want. The Chaser gets the other set. There can be no altering of questions after they've been chosen to make the players' set easier or the Chaser's set more difficult. The independent Adjudicator would be all over it. It all has to be fair and above board.

it would be unfair on others who have played on The Chase if they decided to make it easier for today's player to win just because he was on his own and it was a record prize fund.

You're right and I completely see what you're coming from, of course they have to be fair to the players. What I meant by 'more tricky' didn't mean necessarily that all of her questions should have been difficult, it just meant that she shouldn't have been asked a question as easy as 8x3.

I guess it's the luck of the draw though and Jenny lucked out when she got that question. Still think they should consider removing the arithmetic questions however, then we wouldn't have this problem.

She certainly gave it a good bit of thought before giving the answer.

I seem to remember she got an arithmetic one wrong a while back, about how many eggs were in so many dozen or something.

If you've got plenty time to spare I suppose there's nothing wrong with it, but I would have thought the answer to "What's eight times three" was fairly automatic.

I thought she took the same amount of time as any normal person would to a calculation like that, unless you're some sort of mental maths genius I don't think you could have got it any faster, especially under time pressure.

Ive no doubt Jenny got a couple wrong on purpose to get Mick into the final chase, i also think she got a couple wrong there to drag out the final chase a bit too. Dont think she would have been that popular if it had backfired

Well, I don't have to calculate what eight times three is, I just know that it's twenty-four from my times tables, and I wouldn't call myself a mental maths genius. (Although I am quite good at doing square roots in my head. Cube roots are a lot harder though.)

if somebody asks me what six times nine is, I know it's fifty four, I don't have to calculate it. It's like looking at a pair of dice when you're playing a board game like Monopoly, if you throw a six and a five, you know instantly that it's eleven just by looking at it, you don't literally have to add the six and the five. It is much harder to "see" the total right away with three dice, although you could probably do it with practice.

I'm from a time when times tables were drummed into you from a young age, so things like 6 x 7 and 8 x 12 I just know automatically. It's not calculation, just recall. I don't know if the times tables are taught the same way today.

I'm not so sure. I've heard this theory before, that the Chasers purposely get a few wrong to make it interesting. Do they really do that, though?

After all, there's a hundred grand at stake here. I think she would be making absolutely sure that she wins it and wins it with plenty of time to spare, which she did in the end.

As you say I think she would have been less than popular if she had tried to drag it out a bit- and it had gone wrong, and she'd ended up losing to eight or whatever it was.

Nooooo but, he's a big cuddly bear!

I used to be the same but it can get hard when you don't practice it for years, sadly most people these days don't have good mental arithmetic skills, unless their job involves them having to use these skills.

We know Jenny isn't the best at arithmetic so I'd say she represents this group of people. She also didn't want to make herself look silly by getting it wrong which is why it might have took her a second or two longer.

Well, strictly speaking, the player doesn't "decide", as it's a random draw of one of two balls from a bag held by the independent adjudicator.

I'm a bit behind on watching this (on page 258, about Tuesday!)

This is in answer to people mentioning struggling to hear the spoken audio over the background music. It's worth checking the audio settings, most modern TVs have so-called enhancements including 'stereo widening' or 'virtual surround' etc. If these are on, anything panned in stereo can come out significantly louder than it would, and interfere with spoken audio, which is nearly always panned centre. In other words, the music drowns out the voices. Also, it's worth tweaking the EQ or bass/treble. If you have the higher and lower frequencies turned up and the mid turned down a little (if possible on your TV), you get a 'smile' effect which crisps up the voices, improves separation, and reduces the effect of music competing with the foreground.

If you have EQ presets, the 'voice' setting is nearly always useless- it's best to create a 'user' preset that you can adjust until you're happy.

I agree sometimes "background music" is too loud, though not experienced it so much on The Chase. Though, the "DING" sound for the contestant's answer coming up used to be really loud sometimes on older episodes.