Cash Bonanza is an Australian game show hosted by Larry Emdur, which was broadcast on the Nine Network in 2001.
Filmed at Warner Bros. Movie World on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia,[1] Cash Bonanza was a joint initiative between all five Australian lottery agencies.
[2] At the start of each show, a shot of the contestants going down the famous splash drop at the end of the Wild West Falls Adventure Ride also at Movie World was shown.
The contestants, seated in mine carts,[3] competed in getting their minecart to the end of the track.
Each contestant has three drops each and at the bottom of the Pachinko board there are five pockets, each with a different cash amount each.
If however, the coin lands in a 'LOSE' pocket, the person who dropped it will only get $500 and the next highest scorer will win whatever their cash amount was.
The contestant who won the highest amount of money from the previous rounds will play for $100,000.
A lucky home viewer who entered the draw will be randomly selected to play for the $100,000 against the contestant.