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Stani Bogat

Stani bogat[1] (Bulgarian: Кой иска да стане богат?, romanized: Koy iska da stane bogat?, lit. 'Who wants to become rich?', shortened to Стани богат, 'Become rich') is a Bulgarian game show based on the original British format of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show is hosted by Niki Kanchev,[1] previously by Mihail Bilalov.[2] The top winning prize is 100,000 Bulgarian lev[3] and may be reached by answering 15 questions correctly. There are three "lifelines," which offer help to the player during the game. They are 50/50, phone a friend, and ask the audience. As of 2023, no person has won 100,000 leva (although Asen Angelov won, he was stripped of his prize).[4] There is one milestone at 500 leva and a floating one, a change from 2021.[5]

Stani Bogat
Also known asКой иска да стане богат?
BulgarianСтани богат
GenreGame show
Created byDavid Briggs
Steve Knight
Mike Whitehill
Based onWho wants to be a millionaire?
Presented byNiki Kanchev (2001-2014,2024-)
Mihail Bilalov [bg] (2018-2023)
Production
Camera setupMulti-Camera
Original release
NetworkNova (2001-2014)
BNT 1 (2018-2020)
bTV (2021-present)

History

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2001—2014

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Stani bogat premiered on May 12, 2001 on Nova TV with host Niki Kanchev. Initially, the show's studio in Romania was used,[6] but subsequently a set was built in a studio complex in Sofia. Over the years, changes have been made to the amounts the contestants win, but for the first time in 2008 the grand prize amount was increased. With the start of the season in 2008, a correct answer to the 15th question would earn the player 200,000 leva.[7] Over a period of about a year, with the start of the same season, a fourth wildcard was introduced into the rules.

In the final years of its broadcast on the Nova TV channel, only celebrities who play for charity have participated in the show. The last edition of the show with host Niki Kanchev was on May 30, 2014.

2018–2020

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After a 4-year hiatus, the show returned in 2018 on the air of BNT 1, airing from 1 April at 19:00 every weekday with host Mihail Bilalov. In this version of the show, the Fastest Finger First was removed and all participants go directly to the main game. The grand prize is again 100 000 leva and the levels of the amounts have been lowered.

After a short break, the last filmed episodes of the show are broadcast every Saturday and Sunday at 19:00. The show is broadcast on public television until 26 January 2020. At the hearing during the competition for the position of Director General of BNT, the subsequently elected Emil Koshlukov announced that Stani bogat was "too expensive and BNT cannot afford it".[8]

2021–present

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On 20 December 2021 the show returned on the air of bTV. The host is again Mihail Bilalov,[9] and the show is broadcast every weekday at 18:00. The season is announced as an "anniversary season" – under the motto "20 years in Bulgaria" (Bulgarian: 20 години в България). After the initial 70 episodes, the broadcast of new episodes began immediately. With their launch, the show became available on the SVOD platform of the media group "Voyo".[10]

On 27 January 2022, the broadcaster launched the online game "Stani bogat."[11] In it, the player has 60 seconds to answer each of the questions using the classic form with 15 questions and 2 safe amounts. Instead of cash amounts, participants in the online game earn "titles".

A year after the show's launch, bTV television announced on air that interest in Stani bogat was extremely high. The game attracts an average of 39% of all TV viewers, according to data from peoplemetric agency GARB.[12]

In 2022, the book of the same name "Stani bogat", which features questions, trivia and answers, part of the classic game, was released commercially. A year later, a second book with the motto "The World is in Your Hands" was released - with questions about different countries around the world.

On September 5, 2022 the second season starts, on February 13, 2023 the third season starts, and on September 4, 2023 the fourth season starts for bTV. With reruns airing in the months between the premiere episodes.

On April 7, 2023, journalist Lyubomir Lazarov managed to open the 15th question of the game, but gave up his game and left with the sum of 50,000 leva. The opening of the last question happened for the third time in the history of Stani bogat and for the first time since Mihail Bilalov was the host.[13]

In the summer of 2023 every Sunday at 20:00, bTV broadcast 8 charity episodes of the show under the name "Stani bogat — A Question of the Future" (Bulgarian: Стани богат – Въпрос на бъдеще). In the different episodes, participants are celebrities in tandem with a representative of the noble cause they are playing for. In the first and last episode the host is the titular Mihail Bilalov, and in the other guest hosts are Daniel Tsochev, Georgi Milkov, Peter Stoyanovich, Maria Sylvester, Ivo Ivanov and Zlatimir Yochev.

On January 14, 2024, Mihail Bilalov announced on the 120 Minuti program that he was leaving as host of the game show due to many other projects he was involved with.[14] Since then, he has been replaced by former host Niki Kanchev.[15][16]

Broadcast

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TV channel Period Episodes Start Final Host Winner(s)
Nova TV 2001 – 2014 – May 12, 2001 May 30, 2014 Niki Kanchev None
BNT 1 2018 54 April 1, 2018 June 13, 2018 Mihail Bilalov [bg]
2018 – 2019 192 September 10, 2018 June 14, 2019
2019 – 2020 35 14 September 2019 January 26, 2020
bTV 2021 – 2022 (winter-spring) 110 December 20, 2021 May 20, 2022
2022 (autumn) 75 September 5, 2022 December 16, 2022
2023 (spring-summer) 78 February 13, 2023 July 23, 2023
2023 (autumn) 70 September 4, 2023 December 8, 2023
2024 (spring) 71 February 17, 2024 May 24, 2024 Niki Kanchev
2024 (autumn) September 2, 2024

Game Rules

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  • The participant answers questions, each with a choice of four answer options - A, B, C, or D. One is the correct answer, the other three are wrong. The classic format of the game is with the so-called "Money tree" of 15 questions, but there is a format in which only 12 are asked. In Bulgaria, this format was used in the period 2009 - 2014.
  • The first certain amount, which cannot be lost by the player even if the answer is wrong, is BGN 500 on the 5th question. The classic 15-question game format determines a second sure amount on the 10th question. From 2021, however, a "Floating second certain amount" has been introduced. Its value is determined by the participant before asking the relevant question between the 6th and the 14th - from BGN 1,000 to BGN 50,000.
  • With a correct answer to a previous question, the participant can abandon the game of the current question in order not to risk his winnings.
  • During the game, the participant has the right to use jokers. The classic format has three jokers: "Audience Help", "50 on 50" (two wrong answers are eliminated) and "Call a friend". As of September 11, 2023, the Audience Help wildcard has been replaced by Studio Friend Help. For a short time in Bulgaria, a fourth was introduced to the classic jokers - "Change the question", which can be used after the first certain amount and the question is replaced by another one, but of the same level of difficulty. As of September 30, 2024, a new fourth joker has been introduced in the Ask the Host game with Niki Kanchev.[17] The participant may choose to use only three of his four possible jokers in his game.
  • With correct answers to all 15 questions, the participant becomes the winner of "Get Rich" and wins the prize of BGN 100,000. For a short period of time, the big prize in the Bulgarian edition was BGN 200,000 for correct answers to 12 questions.
  • Before the actual game, 10 selected participants compete in the Fastest Wins round. In it, the players arrange in the correct order the answers to the question asked by the presenter. The player with the fastest answer wins the right to compete for the grand prize. Currently, the round is not part of the Bulgarian version of "Get Rich"

Money Tree

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Payout structure[18]
Question
number 		Question value (in Bulgarian lev)
2001–
2002 		2002–
2007 		2008–
2009 		2009–
2010 		2010–
2014 		2018–
2020 		2021–
present
15 (12) 100,000 200,000 100,000
14 (11) 50,000 100,000 20,000 50,000
13 (10) 25,000 50,000 15,000 30,000
12 (9) 10,000 20,000 10,000 20,000
11 (8) 5,000 10,000 5,000 10,000
10 (7) 2,500 3,000 5,000 3,000 2,500 5,000
9 (6) 2,000 2,500 2,000 3,000
8 (5) 1,500 2,000 1,500 2,000
7 (4) 1,000 1,500 1,000 1,500
6 (3) 500 1,000 700 1,000
5 (2) 250 500
4 (1) 200 400 250 300 400
3 150 300 — 200 300
2 100 200 100 200
1 50 100 50 100
  Milestone
  Custom milestone
  Top prize

Notable participants

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Asen Angelov

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On 13 June 2002, Asen Angelov answered the 15th question correctly and won 100 000 leva. Two weeks later he was forced to return the money after the production company found out that his daughter, Iskra, works at Nova Television.[19] Angelov stated that ''his daughter is not a member of the family, since she is 27 years old''[4] but later said that he will not argue over the money, and returned it voluntarily.

Lyubomir Lazarov

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On 7 April 2023, journalist Lyubomir Lazarov opened the 15th question for 100 000 leva. He eventually gave up and walked away with the runner-up prize of 50 000 leva. This is the 3rd time the last question has been opened overall and the first time with host Mihail Bilalov.[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Стани богат - bTV Media Group - bTV". www.btv.bg. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  2. ^ "Билалов обясни защо напуска "Стани богат" | Dnes.bg Новини". www.dnes.bg (in Bulgarian). 2024-01-14. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  3. ^ "За предаването - bTV Media Group - bTV". www.btv.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  4. ^ a b news.bg (2002-06-28). ""Стани богат" си взе стоте хиляди лева обратно". News.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  5. ^ "Историческа промяна в правилата на Стани богат". Fakti.bg - Да извадим фактите наяве (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  6. ^ ""Стани богат" раздаде 7 млн". www.24chasa.bg (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  7. ^ "Ще дават 200 бона в Стани богат". botevgrad.com (in Bulgarian). 2008-01-05. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  8. ^ "Кошлуков: Спирам "Стани богат" по БНТ". Plovdiv24.bg (in Bulgarian). 2019-07-05. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  9. ^ ""Стани богат" превзема ефира на bTV от 20-и декември". bTV Media Group - bTV (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  10. ^ ""Стани богат" вече и във VOYO". bTV.
  11. ^ "Феновете на "Стани богат" вече могат да тестват знанията си онлайн на btv.bg". bTV.
  12. ^ "328 участници спечелиха близо 1 милион лева в първата година на "Стани богат" в ефира на bTV". bTV.
  13. ^ "Любомир Лазаров отвори въпроса за 100 000 лв. в "Стани богат"". Boulevard Bulgaria.
  14. ^ "Михаил Билалов потвърди в "120 минути", че няма да е водещ на "Стани богат" през новия сезон". bTV Новините (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2024-01-19.
  15. ^ "Ники Кънчев се завръща в играта тази пролет по bTV". bTV.
  16. ^ "Емблематичният "Мистър Стани богат" Ники Кънчев се завръща в играта тази пролет по bTV". bTV Новините.
  17. ^ "Историческа промяна в "Стани богат" – нов жокер "Попитай водещия"". bTV.
  18. ^ "Стани богат". GameSHOWS.ru.
  19. ^ "Играчът, който спечели 100 000 от "Стани богат", но трябваше да върне парите". www.actualno.com (in Bulgarian). 31 January 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  20. ^ "Исторически момент в "Стани богат" участник отвори въпрос за 100 000 лева". bTV Новините (in Bulgarian). Retrieved 2023-04-08.


 

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