Check Out This Fully-Functional, YouTube-Based Edition Of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’

YouTube’s annotations, before they were phased out in favor of cards in 2017, were used to power a few cleverly-designed formats, including several choose-your-own-adventure games

Though cards are now the way of the YouTube world, creators are still finding innovative ways to gamify the world’s top video site. The latest example comes from a guy named Nigel, who used cards to create a YouTube-focused version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, titled Who Wants To Be A Youtuber.

The game, which Nigel shared on Reddit, works the same as the TV version of Millionaire, albeit with a few cosmetic tweaks that will protect Nigel should Millionaire rights holder Sony Pictures Television come knocking. Players must answer 15 increasingly-difficult questions in a row in order to win “1,000,000 subscribers.” Get a question wrong, and you’ll have to start over. Three lifelines — 50/50, ask the comments section, and ask a YouTuber — are available to help you with your quest.

Despite writing about YouTube for a living, I flamed out at the $64,000 tier thanks to a tough question about Cinema Sins. Still, even though I’m salty about my loss, I must say the amount of effort Nigel put into this is thoroughly impressive. Creating separate landing pages for different combinations of question tiers and available lifelines could not have been a quick task.

And, to put a cherry on top, this is the only series available on Nigel’s YouTube channel. If he was looking to establish himself as a creator to watch, he’s succeeded.