Overview
- The episode, which aired Monday on RTL and was available on RTL+, featured two contestants from Leipzig who knew each other before taping.
- Carsten Muschalle, 46, locked in the alliterative answer “Gehässiger Gelbmaulgibbon” for the €1,000 question, was wrong and fell back to the €500 safety level.
- Host Günther Jauch warned that one option might be a deliberate gag but the contestant ignored the caution and did not use any of his lifelines before locking in the answer.
- Earlier in the show Tom Krause chose to walk away with €8,000, and Jauch briefly failed to resolve a separate €16,000 question on air, which was later clarified as Germany not reaching the 1996 ESC final.
- The episode underlines a known format dynamic of Wer wird Millionär?: lower‑value questions often use wordplay or joke answers, contestants’ risk choices shape outcomes, and the moment prompted personal fallout for Muschalle, who voiced regret after the broadcast.