Overview
- The special four‑night '3‑Million‑Euro‑Woche' concluded on Thursday with no one winning the €3 million top prize and key outcomes shaped by joker use and contestants’ decisions.
- Audience and telephone jokers steered high‑profile collapses, most notably Gabriele Schmickl following an audience joker to the wrong band answer and Franziska Burkhardt falling to €500 after a mistaken telephone and 50:50 sequence.
- A sport‑joker gave an uncertain tip on a €64,000 football question that prompted Hans‑Werner Kraul to walk away with €32,000 rather than risk a wrong answer.
- In the final, three contestants who had each won €32,000 initially declined a selection gamble, one saying “So billig sind wir nicht zu haben,” and other moments produced comic relief such as Marco Schwarz’s father giving a quick, correct telephone‑joker reply.
- The retirees’ episode delivered 2.75 million viewers and a 18.2% share among 14–49‑year‑olds according to AGF data reported by DWDL, showing the format’s unexpected cross‑generational pull and commercial value.