The team that was leading after the first five rounds now selects two of its players to play their big points round with a new set of five questions. The points scored are then added to their score. Winning: And if you duplicate any of the answers, you'll hear this sound ('oomp') and I'll ask you for another answer..."

One player from each team is selected. These two players prepare themselves for the first question and sit by their team's buzzer (A or B) on the sound unit, the respective LED will flash for 5 seconds. The host takes out the top card from the question box and tells the players how many answers are on the card (3, 4 or 5) then reads out the first question. The two players by the buzzers rush to press first and give an answer. If this answer appears amongst those on the host's card, the host writes this in the matching position on the front side of the dry wipe board along with the score. If this is the top answer, the successful player consults their team to decide if they want to play or pass on the rest of this round.

Hamming it up!

a b "Weekly Top 30 Programmes". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board . Retrieved 27 December 2014. The game involves two families providing answers to 'everyday questions' that were surveyed by 100 members of the British public before the show (e.g., 'Name something usually done in the dark.') to win cash prizes (and sometimes mystery prizes for giving a correct answer). The top answers to the surveys are displayed on a large electronic board, christened by Bob Monkhouse as "Mr. Babbage". Central in association with Talbot Television and Goodson-Todman Productions for ITV, 31 December 1982 to 25 June 1999 (329 episodes in 15 series) In the big points round, if one team hits all five top answers and the other doesn't, then that team wins the game. Otherwise, the team with the highest overall score wins. Rules for 3 or 4 players The host asks the player giving the highest answer if their team would like to play or pass. If they pass, the other team will play. The team that plays chooses another player from their team to give a different answer to the same question. If it is also a scoring answer, the host writes it in the relevant position on the board with its score as before. If the answer is not a scoring answer, the host has the pleasure of pressing the wrong answer button in the middle of the sound unit and writes a cross on that team's side of the scoreboard.

When playing a big points round as a single player, that player is given two different sets of five questions. Scoring seven top answers (from the ten questions) acts as the equivalent of two players scoring the five top answers. The single player is given 45 seconds on both sets of five questions. Hamming it up! The total scores from the two players is added to that team's total to give their final overall score. In the closing moments of one end-of-series episode from the late 1990s, Les and the winning family were waving at the camera when Mr. Babbage repeatedly sounded the wrong answer noise whilst flashing the words 'Les Dennis Tonight…'. An understandably confused Les looked round (whilst continuing to wave!) only for Michael Aspel to emerge from the side of the set to explain that the full, uncut sentence was 'Les Dennis, tonight This Is Your Life'. Under the sound of the applause, Les could be just about heard to say 'I'd better not open that, had I?' to which Aspel laughed, 'That's the empty one!' You're giving away trade secrets, man! Les Dennis): "If that answer's there, I'll give you the money meself" (On a few rare occasions, when the answers were particularly daft, Les would take it one step further and say "If it's up there, I'll give you the car meself!") One player is selected to be the host. Divide the remaining players into two teams of equal numbers. If this is an odd number one team will have an extra player. Set up the board with the front side facing the two teams. Remove battery tab from electronic unit. Play:In an interview some years after he'd finished hosting the show, Les Dennis said that he used to fear for his life when a family won the Big Money game, because they'd be going so wild with delight that they'd almost strangle him when trying to hug him - and the fact that he was often doing his final piece to camera at the time can't have helped much. One would imagine that one of Les's former fellow-gameshow hosts, the late Leslie Crowther, would have sympathised, because some of the latter's contestants on The Price is Right tended to do the same. Oh, and during one of the shows, Les revealed that people used to react to seeing him in the street by calling out, "Uh-uhh!" - very similar to the late Richard Whiteley having the Countdown catch-tune, "Da da da da, da-da-da-da, BOOM!" shouted at him in public places. Some answers throughout the five rounds will be worth bonus points. Any player achieving these gains the extra points for their team. When a bonus answer is given, the host indicates this by pressing the bonus button in the middle of the unit which emits the 'Bonus Point' sound. These bonus points are indicated on the question cards and are added directly onto the team's score in the top corner of the board (they are not added to the points for that game since they cannot be stolen). Bonus points are not doubled if won during a double points round. Big points: