For most people lucky enough to be chosen to play against the machine on Tipping Point, winning the £10,000 jackpot by winning the show and getting the Jackpot Counter out of the machine is the ultimate goal. However, by dropping the double counter into the Win Zone at the same time, players can double their maximum winnings to a whopping £20,000.
Two players have won £20,000 on Tipping Point by successfully dropping the Jackpot Counter and a Double Counter at the same time in live play, Clive in March 2020 and Tom in May 2021.
In addition, it’s been done on at least one further occasion, but not in live play. That can happen if the game is played out when the contestant has opted to take the money after running out of questions and categories.
As a measure of how rare a £20,000 jackpot win is, there have been approximately 1550 Tipping Point episodes (excluding the celebrity Lucky Stars version) at the time of writing in September 2023, giving a ratio of less than 1 in 750 shows producing a double jackpot winner.
It’s far more common that the standard jackpot is won by players, and that’s simply down to the way the game works.
Having to get a single, specific counter all the way through and out of the machine again is tough, so getting a second specific counter (or one of two or three doubles remaining at the end of the show) is much harder. Getting the Jackpot Counter and the double to fall in the same go is incredibly difficult to set up and achieve with one counter into the machine.
Let’s hope we see another big winner soon on the show!
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