Overview
- On Monday, October 26, a Leipzig contestant, Carsten Muschalle, chose answer D, “Gehässiger Gelbmaulgibbon,” for the €1,000 question and was shown to be wrong, leaving the game at the €500 safety level.
- Host Günther Jauch had cautioned that the question could be a joke from the production but the contestant declined to use any jokers and accepted the risk of a lower payout.
- The correct answer was A, “Gemeines Weißohropossum,” a choice that hinges on the biological use of the adjective “gemein” to mean “common,” a wordplay many reports say the contestant missed in haste.
- Another Leipzig participant on the same episode, Tom Krause, left the show with €8,000 and is reported to have known Muschalle beforehand, a detail outlets used to frame the episode as a human-interest moment.
- Coverage across multiple outlets treated the segment as light entertainment, explained the wordplay behind the question, and noted that the show often uses playful options on lower-value questions to test quick thinking.