Round 2 Rules

Round 2 Official Rules (from official web site)


Tournament Rules: Round Two

In the second round, the winners from the first round(*if they wish to participate) get together, and play for 100 million yen each, once again lent to them by LGT Office. Each nameplate handed to each participant contains jewels worth 100 million yen. Losers will have to put down their plate and leave. However, just like in the first round, they must return their 100 million yen to LGT Office.

* Players who do not wish to participate must return half of their prize money from the first round to the Office. Nao won the first round, but because she handed all of the money back to her opponent, Mr. Fujisawa,she couldn't return the money to the Office.

What is the "minority voting" in the second round about?

In this game, the winner is decided by simply using a method opposite to "majority voting"

1) One of the participants makes a question. Only questions which can be answered using YES or NO are allowed.

2) All of the participants (including the person who made the question) must vote either YES or NO within a time limit of 6 hours.

3) The side with less votes is declared winner.

4) This procedure is repeated until only one or two winners remain. Because it is not possible to make a minority vote with only two persons (it is impossible to decide win and loss), the game ends at this stage.

5) If there is only one winner, the prize money will be x 100 million yen - 100 million lent by LGT Office in the beginning.
If there are two winners, the prize money for each of the two will be x 100 million yen / 2 - 100 million

6) The losers will have to return the 100 million they were given for use in the game to LGT Office.