The Chase star Mark Labbett has shared a little-known fact about the hit ITV quiz show by revealing that certain answers don’t make the final cut.
On Twitter, The Beast was responding to statistics shared by a fan when he explained that producers “routinely” edit out moments where both a contestant and a chaser give a wrong answer.
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One of Mark’s followers on Twitter wrote: “Looking at the first head-to-head question in each show, there is a little variance.
“The chaser is least likely to win when they both get the first question right. The chaser is most likely to win when they both get it wrong, although this has only happened 32 times.”
We routinely cut ‘double wrong answers’ from the show.
The Twitter user shared a handy table to summarise the statistics, but Mark pointed out that it was “bad data” and explained why.
He told them: “Bad data, I am afraid. We routinely cut ‘double wrong answers’ from the show for time purposes, so this distorts the stats.”
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