Tipping Point

Throughout the show, a game is played by winning the chance to put counters into the Tipping Point machine, which resembles the ones you’ll find in seaside arcades full of 2p coins. In this one though, each counter that passes over the tipping point and falls into the tray at the bottom of the machine is worth a huge £50. Each time a player gets to insert a counter, they can choose from four drop zones, which represent quarters of the machine from left to right.

The game starts with four players, initially with a round where they can buzz in to answer a question. Each player can buzz in three times, and if they answer correctly can put a counter into the machine. If they’re wrong, the counter goes into the penalty pot instead, with a bonus question at the end of the round for the correct answer to win the penalty pot counters.

At the end of the round, the player with the least money is eliminated, leaving three players for round two.

In the second round, the players each get forty five seconds to answer as many questions correctly as possible. Each correct answer will get them a counter to put in the machine once the time is up. Once all three players have had their go, the player with the lowest winnings is out, leaving two in the game.

For the third round, both players are asked three questions alternately, with a correct answer getting them a counter to put into the machine. They can choose to answer the question themselves or pass it to their opponent to answer. If the player answers the question incorrectly, the counter is awarded to their opponent.

The player ending the third round with the highest money banked wins and goes on to the final round, with the other player knocked out of the running.

In the final round, the finalist puts the larger jackpot counter into the machine, with the objective of winning £10,000 if it goes all the way down and out the bottom (called over the tipping point) before the end of the round.

The player gets six categories to answer a question, with a choice of easy, medium or hard for each. They’ll receive 1,2 or 3 counters respectively to put into the machine for answering the question correctly.

If the jackpot counter falls into the tray at the bottom of the machine before they use up all the counters they win from their questions, the game is over and the player wins £10,000.

If not, Ben Shephard offers them a chance to win the jackpot with three further counters to put into the machine, but they’ll lose the money built up so far. Their choice boils down to taking the money in the bank, or gambling it to get the jackpot counter out within three more counters dropping in. A failed gamble means leaving with nothing.

Tipping Point Competition Prizes

The prizes for viewers are almost always cash amounts, and rarely less than £10,000. That means the winning viewer can win more than the contestant on the show, with the exception of the celebrity version where the prizes are doubled and the contestants playing on a series where dropping the jackpot counter and the double counter (marked x2) together wins £20,000.

Typically the prize will be in the range of £14,000 to £20,000 in cash, but occasionally ITV run a prize draw over multiple weeks, meaning that you might see a prize in up to £40,000 for a two week competition.

The Current Tipping Point Competition

The latest competition prize is £19,000 cash, and can be entered online, by phone or by text for £1.50.

Entry Routes To Win £19,000 cash

If you’d like to get involved, you can enter the draw in one of four ways, which are charged as follows:

Phone	£1.50
Text (SMS)	£1.50
Online	£1.50
Post	Free

Closing Dates For Entering To Win £19,000 cash

Generally speaking, the Tipping Point competitions are shown on TV from Monday to Friday, and are open to enter online, by phone and by text until the following Monday morning at 10am. Postal entries usually open until the following Thursday at 4pm, to allow time for them to be delivered.

Here’s the current closing dates for the entries into the draw to win £19,000 cash:

Phone	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
Text (SMS)	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
Online	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
Post	14th March 2024 at 4:00pm

How To Enter This Current Tipping Point Competition

If you’ve still got time to get your entry in based on the dates above, the details you need to enter via one of the four methods (online web entry via ITV Win, phone call, SMS text message or by post) are below.

Phone Number

Making your entry by phone is possible with either a landline or mobile phone. Just call 09041 61 30 30 before the competition closing date of 11th March 2024 at 10:00am. It costs you £1.50 plus the network access charge and will be added to your phone bill.

Text Number

Texting your entry works in the same way as messaging anyone else via SMS, but there’s a specific five digit premium rate shortcode and message format to make your entry.

The shortcode number to send the message to is 63339, and the message has to be in a set format, reading WINNER.

Text entries are priced at £1.50, in addition to your normal text messaging cost. Make your entry by texting before the closing date of 11th March 2024 at 10:00am.

There’s more on entering by text here.

Online Entry

The ITV Win entry page for the £19,000 cash comp is found here. You’ll also find terms and conditions link for the competition on that page as well.

Online entry for the draw closes on 11th March 2024 at 10:00am, so make sure you get the entry completed including payment ahead of that deadline.

Here’s more on online entry.

Postal Entry

Postal entries are the route ITV provides to get a free entry – other than paying for a stamp to post your entry into the draw.

To enter by post, simply send your name and phone number to:

TP 237
PO Box 7558
Derby
DE1 0NQ

It doesn’t matter whether you use a postcard or put your details into an envelope, or whether you post it first or second class. However, you do need to make sure it’s arrived by 14th March 2024 at 4:00pm.

Learn more about postal entry here.

How To Enter Summary

To pull all of that information together into one simple table, here’s all you need to know:

Entry Route	Cost	Number / Link?	Closes
Phone	£1.50 (+ access charge)	09041 61 30 30	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
SMS	£1.50 (+ message rate)	Send WINNER to 63339	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
Online	£1.50	Click here.	11th March 2024 at 10:00am
Postal	£0.00 (+ stamp/envelope etc)	Name and number to: TP 237 PO Box 7558 Derby DE1 0NQ	14th March 2024 at 4:00pm

Previous Tipping Point Competition

It’s not common that two Tipping Point competitions are available at the same time, but sometimes it does happen where you can still get a postal entry into the draw in time.

Here’s the details of the last draw (the prize was £18,000 cash), but please check closing dates carefully:

Entry Route	Cost	Number / Link?	Closes
Phone	£1.50 (+ access charge)	09041 61 30 30	4th March 2024 at 10:00am
SMS	£1.50 (+ message rate)	Send WINNER to 63339	4th March 2024 at 10:00am
Online	£1.50	Click here.	4th March 2024 at 10:00am
Postal	£0.00 (+ stamp/envelope etc)	Name and number to: TP 236 PO Box 7558 Derby DE1 0NQ	7th March 2024 at 4:00pm

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