Jauch is amazed at “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”: This candidate is “the biggest gambler in a long time”

Risks everything and is rewarded for it: candidate Christoph Teickner.

Günter Jauch can hardly believe how often the assistant doctor gambles.

“I’m only here once,” the 32-year-old explains his credo.

Günther Jauch is astonished: “You’re a madman!”

“Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”: This candidate is “the biggest gambler in a long time”

Risks everything and is rewarded for it: candidate Christoph Teickner.

Günter Jauch can hardly believe how often the assistant doctor gambles.

“I’m only here once,” the 32-year-old explains his credo.

Günther Jauch is astonished: “You’re a madman!”

As an assistant doctor for radiation therapy, Christoph Teickner has a lot of responsibility in his job. When he appears in the “3 million euro week” he takes a complete risk – much to the horror of Günther Jauch.

Christoph Teickner plays the risky variant with four jokers on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” (RTL) on Thursday. In the worst case scenario, it can cost up to 500 euros. The Kiel native is already stumped by the 2,000 euro question: He doesn’t know which legendary New York district appears in the band name of a well-known hip-hop crew: Salt Peak, Pepper Mountain, Sugar Hill or Curry Top. Luckily, the audience knows better and gives them the correct solution (C).

At 4,000 euros the next joker goes. But even after the 50:50 joker, the assistant doctor doesn’t know what to do next. “I’m a gambler, but I think it’s pretty crazy to say anything when I have no idea,” he thinks out loud. But then he gambles anyway – and decides that you probably need a lot of rest to find the Holy Grail, not a needle in a haystack. He admitted afterwards that he had “never heard of the chivalry legend”.

Then Teickner just assumes that postal buses in the USA often have the steering wheel on the right side, but he isn’t sure. However, he doesn’t want to sacrifice a joker: “I’ll need that later,” he says. «Should I gamble again now? But my lady didn’t set any limits for me,” he grins and points to his girlfriend, who accompanies him. She breathes a sigh of relief when his gut feeling turns out to be right again.

Candidate: “It’s a bit hara-kiri now”

Teickner continues to take full risks – and also explains to Günther Jauch why: “You know, I said before the broadcast: You are only here once. Then I really want to take something with me here!” The doctor also gambles on the 32,000 euro question: “It’s a bit hara-kiri now,” he says and briefly stands up from the advice chair. But his courage is rewarded again. He says he heard somewhere that a famous animal documentary about lemmings had been faked.

Günther Jauch can hardly believe it: “I would have at least taken a joker. “You’re a madman!” the moderator marvels, “You’re one of the biggest gamblers we’ve had here on the show in a long time!”

Then the 68-year-old also finds out that his counterpart does play roulette in casinos, although much less successfully than when he appeared on television. “Things are looking good here at the moment, but pride occasionally comes before a fall,” warns Günther Jauch.

Last joker in the 125,000 euro question

Only with the 125,000 euro question does the candidate use his last joker because he doesn’t know which company was saved by Microsoft years ago: Apple, Google, Amazon or Netflix. An IT technician in the audience is “99 percent sure” that it is Apple. Teickner trusts the man and logs the solution – it is correct.

If he wins the main prize of three million euros, he would like to buy a sailing boat and cross the Atlantic with it, the doctor reveals. Before that, however, he has to answer the 500,000 euro question correctly: The number of 67-year-olds in Germany roughly corresponds to the number of… under 12-year-olds, under 21-year-olds, under 30-year-olds or under 44 -year-olds? The gambler candidate has a gut feeling here again, but stops at this point: “I’m out!”

A wise decision, because this time his guess would have been wrong: B is the correct answer. The doctor is now going into the final on Friday with an impressive 125,000 euros. It remains to be seen whether he will gamble again like there is no tomorrow.

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