03 / SELECTED WORK · Flagship Format
The Time Game
Five seconds, one clock, and a $100k payout.
One clock. Five seconds. A listener has to stop it dead on 5.00 — not a millisecond either side — and the jackpot climbs $100 every week nobody does. Simple enough to explain in a sentence, impossible to stop playing along with.
Over about five years it went off four times. Carrie once threw $20,000 of her own money onto a $10,000 pot, dead certain it was safe — and watched Nick from Victoria stop the clock on the money. Rachael from NSW won $50,000 in one of the most emotional moments we ever put to air. Nick from Queensland walked away with $100,000. And Andy Lee once strolled in off the street, played on a stranger's behalf, and nailed it — nobody could believe it, least of all him.
A weekly reason to tune in, a machine for real moments, and a format built to travel far past the radio.