One Night Genius

One Night Genius
Format	Reality quiz show
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	?
Original airing	March 1, 2003
External links
Website

One Night Genius is the reality quiz show. First broadcasting on March 1, 2003. In every week, 8 competitors from 8 branches of professions have competed in the contest for the $25,000 and the place where the contest is held have been changed every week.

Rules

Before the mission

• The 8 competitors who were called "genius" will come together and receive the "lifesaving" bag from the host. In the lifesaving bag, there will be 8 boxes which had
  • food and eating equipment
  • lighting equipment and Pliers
  • consumer goods
  • memo equipment
  • cutting, pasting and wrapping equipment
  • a mobile phone which can be used only once for 1 minute (2 minutes in Polish version)
  • special equipment (changed every week, like clay or rope)
  • a puzzle that will be used in the mission 3.
• Sometimes, some equipment is changed.
• A special expert from the place where the contest is held will take the genius to visit the place and told the information of the place which can be used for every mission.
• 8 geniuses will go to the place that the host allot for resting, memoring or decrypting the puzzle.

Mission 1

Usually in the first mission of One Night Genius, the 8 geniuses either perform the mission as individuals or in pairs. Missions that go by the individual rule includes answering 20 questions, setting up jenga towers..etc.

A more common way to the first mission is having the 8 geniuses spliting into 4 teams of 2. Only the 3 best teams from this point proceeds to the next mission. Missions that undertake this rule includes sending signals, knock down 100 birds in one shot of a toy gun, cushion an egg for a 40m drop, pop 100 balloons with one throw of dart..etc.

Mission 2

• Second mission change every week. It has 2 versions that is
  • The individual mission - 6 geniuses will do the mission alone such as answering 20 questions, set up a Jenga tower and don't make them fall etc. The 4 geniuses who can do the mission accomplished will pass to the next mission.
  • The team mission - 6 geniuses will take apart into the 3 teams. Each team must do the mission together. The 2 teams which can do the mission accomplished will pass to the next mission.
  • The randomly-grouped team mission (Malaysian version only) - 6 geniuses will take apart into the 2 teams: red and blue, grouped randomly, can be 1-5, 2-4 or 3-3, the team that can do the mission accomplished will pass to the next mission.

Mission 3

• The 4 remain geniuses must crack the puzzle in their lifesaving bag themselves and find the only 1 correct box in 100 plastic boxes. If geniuses find the correct box they will receive the "genius password" to crack into 4 digit numbers to open the safe. However, if geniuses choose the wrong box or answer the question in their safes incorrectly they will be eliminated.
• This "genius password" is considered as hi-light of game each week. Most passwords commonly use tricks in local language to crack them. Here are examples of passwords which are able to explained in English.
  • Singapore
    • Independence! - 1965 (It's an easy password of the independence from Malaysia)
  • Thailand
    • Tuk-Tuk in whole country with victory (ตุ๊กตุ๊กทั่วประเทศสู้ตาย) - 3762 (Tuk-Tuk has 3 wheels, Thailand has 76 provinces and victory is commonly with V-sign which has 2 fingers used)
    • Press over the star then turn right (กดเหนือดาราเลี้ยวขวาเมื่อสุด) - 7412 (Use Mobile phone's keypad to solve this password, start by press 7 which is above the star button, continue going up through 4 and 1 then turn right to 2)
    • 007 - 2017 (This password is needed to solve by simply reading as two zeroes, one seven. Geniuses in this episode were tricked with James Bond's related)
    • Ah-Un-Uh-Uh-Un (อ่างอึ่งอ๋องอ๋องอึ่ง) - 1221 (Ah means this password comes with Ah voice, then the sounds of this password is similar with One-Two-Two-One)
  • United States
    • A*****e Mirror - 37055 (the flipped version of the word a*****e is 370H55V, when there's no letters, it becomes 37055)
    • TV Internet - 2889 (TV has been launched in 1928 and internet in 1989)
    • FIFA - 6961 (F is 6th letter, I is 9th letter, A is 1st letter)
• The first 2 geniuses who answer the question in their safes correctly will proceed to the "Final Mission"

Final Mission

• The 2 remain geinuses will come to the studio for the final mission. Geniueses will face the host who was hosting the final mission.
• Geniuses must answer the 1 question that the host ask. Each geinus can answer only twice. If any genius can answer correctly, That genius will become the "One Night Genius" and win the prize. However, if genius answer incorrectly twice, the other genius will become the One Night Genius and win the prize.
• In Thai version, The One Night Genius will receive the 1 million baht prize in the variation of KTC's credit card from Krung Thai Card Public Co., Ltd. which can deposit from credit card or use it which amount 1 million baht. The variation of 1 million baht prize has 3 variations that is
  • KTC Titanium Master Card (Episode 1 - Episode 7)
  • KTC Visa Platinum (Episode 8 - Episode 27)
  • KTC Cash's Credit which gift 1 million baht cash. (Episode 28 - Episode 35)
  • KTC Millon's Credit which gift 1 million baht cash. (Episode 36 - Episode 44)
  • KTC I am Master Card (Episode 45 - Episode 48)
  • Honda which gift 1 million baht cash. (Episode 49 - 72)

International versions

Country	Name	Host	Channel	First aired
Australia				2003
Hungary			m2	October 9, 2004
Malaysia	ROV Generationally Developed		Malaysian TV	September 1, 2006
Poland			TV5 Poland	February 9, 2005
Singapore	One Night Genius Singapore		STV3	July 25, 2005
South Korea	하룻밤 영웅 (Overnight Hero)			December 23, 2004
Taiwan			Formosa TV	2006
Thailand	อัจฉริยะข้ามคืน (One Night Genius)	Thaenkhun Chititsara (Thai) (2006-07-03-2008-01-07) Panya Nirankun (Thai) (2006-07-03-2007-03-05)	BEC Channel 3	July 3, 2006-January 7, 2008
United Kingdom	Overnight Genius			April 6, 2004