Duel

Two contestants. Four possible answers. Ten chips. One mistake can end everything.

Duel turns the traditional multiple-choice quiz into a tense game of strategy. Two contestants face the same question and four possible answers. They can cover as many answers as they want with their chips – but every extra answer costs them.

Cover the correct answer and you survive. Cover the wrong ones and those chips are gone. Fail to cover the correct answer and the Duel is over.

Suddenly, knowing the answer is only half the game. Contestants must constantly decide how confident they really are, and how much of their limited ammunition they are prepared to risk.

The beautifully simple mechanic creates instant play-along, visible jeopardy and dramatic head-to-head television, with fortunes capable of changing on a single question.

A proven international format, Duel has been produced across Europe and the United States.

• Classic gameshow.

• Exceptionally simple four-answer / ten-chip central mechanic.

• Strategy means contestants don’t have to know every answer.

• Physical chips make risk immediately visible to the viewer.

• Genuine head-to-head competition rather than isolated quiz play.

• Questions can be locally produced from standard general-knowledge material.

• Strong play-along: viewers make exactly the same risk decision.

• Scalable from stripped access to larger weekly primetime.

• Proven across multiple production cultures and territories.

• Daytime / access / primetime

• Daily / weekly.

•  ITV ran it as a 60 minute Saturday evening show, while France 2 used Le Quatrième Duel both at weekends around 19:00 and as a weekday access-prime strip.