We have already completed over 1,300 episodes of the “” program and only five people managed to win the main prize during this time. Most participants are eliminated at a fairly early stage of the show – most often they cross the threshold of PLN 1,000, only to be eliminated on the PLN 40,000 question. And there is also Mr. Waldemar Jabłoński, who in one of the first seasons of the program, in 2000, after leaving the studio, went to court. The man was convinced that he had answered the question about kaiserka correctly, but the computer marked his answer as incorrect. Thus, he was eliminated from the show before the guaranteed thousand.
“Millionaires”. How many cuts does a Kaiser roll have? The court decided
I reached PLN 500 when I received the question “how many cuts does the Kaiser roll have?” I replied four. According to the computer – five. I did not agree with this answer, but I was forced to stop the game – said Waldemar Jabłoński years ago in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Dissatisfied with the result of the game, he returned home and began leafing through the source materials. Although opinions were rather divided, he decided to fight for himself. “I made sure that I was right, not the computer,” he explained.
He filed a complaint. He referred to many different sources, trying to prove that only the German Kaiser has more than four cuts. When the complaint was not accepted, he did not give up. Together with a lawyer, he even wrote to the TVN management board, but when that did not bring any results, he decided to ask the court for help.
I am requesting a judgment that the plaintiff Waldemar Jabłoński has the right to play in the Millionaire Competition and to continue playing from question no. 5 for the amount of PLN 1,000,” it was written in the lawsuit quoted in 2001 by “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
What happened next in the Kaiser case?
“Millionaires”. The court’s ruling regarding the question about the Kaiser roll
Although the case seems simple and the participant was right, the court admitted the production was correct. Waldemar Jabłoński lost the trial, but he was allowed to return to the game. It turns out that at that time the “Millionaires” rules assumed that a participant who gave an incorrect answer but found support for it in the sources (even if they were wrong, as was later proven in court), could return to the interrupted game.
It didn’t help much. The “Kaiser” player was eliminated from the game again and returned home without the guaranteed PLN 1,000.
Source: Gazeta
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