Cash Trapped
| Cash Trapped | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Created by | Bradley Walsh |
| Presented by | Bradley Walsh |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 35 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
The London Studios (2016) Elstree Studios (2017–) |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Possessed |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 1 August 2016 – present |
Cash Trapped is a British game show that has aired on ITV since 1 August 2016. Created and presented by Bradley Walsh, the show pits contestants against one another in a contest to amass and win prize money by answering questions in various categories.
The idea for the show came to Walsh roughly 10 years earlier, while he was in his dressing room between filming scenes for a drama. He took the idea to Helen Warner, Director of Daytime for ITV, who commissioned the show and arranged for producer Glenn Hugill and his firm, Possessed, to handle production. It is one of two summer replacements for The Chase, which is also hosted by Walsh, the other one being Alphabetical.
Six contestants compete through four rounds on each episode. All six remain on the show until one of them successfully "escapes" in the final round.
The contestants answer a series of toss-up questions on the buzzer. Each correct response awards £100 and allows the contestant to temporarily freeze out one opponent; a miss freezes that contestant instead. The last remaining contestant chooses one category from a board of six and is asked a multiple-choice question with six answer options. A correct answer awards £1,000 and allows the contestant to "cash trap" one opponent, eliminating them from play for the rest of the round, but a miss results in the contestant being cash trapped instead.
Each category is removed from the board once it has been used, and the frozen contestants are then reinstated. The process continues until all six categories are gone; the last contestant standing plays the final category without the need for a toss-up.
All six contestants are reinstated. A toss-up question is asked, worth £200; the contestant who wins it also chooses one category from a new board of six and challenges one opponent. The two alternate selecting answers to a question from a group of six, starting with the winner of the toss-up. The contestant who selects the correct answer wins £2,000 and cash traps the opponent. If a contestant misses a toss-up, a new one is asked and they must sit it out.
As in Round 1, each category is removed from play after being used. The last contestant standing receives a question in the final category alone and has one chance to choose the correct answer for an additional £2,000.
All six contestants are reinstated again, and each has 45 seconds to answer as many quick-fire questions as possible, receiving £500 per correct answer. They play in ascending order of their scores at the end of Round 2.
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