If the contestants give a wrong answer or run out of time, then the bars lose any value they had and are removed from the possible jackpot.

Bank Balance received negative reviews, with critics considering its format to be confusing and too difficult to win (leading some viewers to compare it to Bamboozled, a fictitious game show pitch from an episode of the U.S. sitcom Friends).

[6][7] In a review satirizing Ramsay's persona, Joel Golby concluded for The Guardian "if you want a quizshow, yeah, watch Tipping Point.

If you want to watch people balancing things in a prison of mild peril, OK, there are Jenga fail compilations on YouTube.

"[5] The series won a Broadcast Tech Innovation Award for Technical Achivement (Entertainment) for its illuminated bars.