The app is actually quite similar to the TV show. “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.” It has the same music and very similar graphics. To get started, you touch start game. After your greeting by Meredith, you get a list of categories your questions are going to be in, with the $100 question on the bottom and the $1 million question on the top. Touch the screen again to get your first question. You have the option to pick an answer or use one of your lifelines to get a little help. Once you answer you can say it’s your final answer, change it or walk away entirely.

The first lifeline offered are phone a friend, which brings up three names from your contacts list and asks you to choose one. At first I thought the app was actually going to call them (which worried me since I was using the app at 1:00 a.m., but it just provided simulated answers. The second is ask the audience, which creates a fake poll and presents it to you as a graph. I have to say both my friends and the audience have not let me down yet.

Third, there is double dip, which is different than the 50/50 lifeline on the show. If choose this option before you answer the question you get a second chance if you get it wrong. However, if you get it right on the first try you’re totally wasting your lifeline here. The last one is ask the expert. If you touch about the experts from the app’s home screen you can see their bios. Once you reach the $1,000 mark you can choose this option but you don’t get to pick the expert you get.

The options on the app are somewhat lacking, limited to turning the sound off and choosing whether or not to see the correct answer when you get a question wrong. But what I was really disappointed in was the lack of a high score board or multiplayer version. I won a million bucks and nobody noticed.

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