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¡Boom! is the Spanish adaptation of the homonym Israeli show of the Channel 2.The programme, presented by Juanra Bonet and broadcast from Monday to Friday at 8pm on Antena 3 (apart from some occasions such as the UEFA Champions League transmission or festive days), premiered on the 9th of September 2014. On the 8th of June 2016 it presented the greatest prize in the history of Spanish television, an amount of more than 2,485,486€ and, besides, it surpassed Pasapalabra with 2,300,000 spectators for the first time.

Gameplay
Two teams (the red team and the blue team), each one with four players, must defuse ten bombs (five bombs per team between the first, second and third round) answering questions whose answers are represented by each coloured wire. This way, contestants must cut the bombs' wires of those answers they think are wrong. If the player answers correctly, the prize money will remain intact. But, if on the contrary, the player cuts the wrong wire or if they run out of time (something that has happened just a few times), the bomb will explode and the team will lose one of its players and the amount of money allocated to that bomb.

The programme is carried out in three rounds:

First Round
In this first round, one team keeps on playing until it fails to answer a question. Four questions represented as bombs are set out, with cash amounts of 200, 400, 600 and 800 euros (if the team answers all the questions correctly, it gets 2,000 euros, which is the quantity in play), respectively. The team has to defuse the first two bombs in 45 seconds and the last two in 1 minute. If any of the bombs exploded, one of the contestants of the team playing is eliminated and the opposing team starts playing. This round of the game ends when each team has answered the four questions. Most of the teams get the first two questions right, while they usually miss the last two. This is because the first questions tend to be easier and they have fewer options to choose from; whereas the last two questions are more difficult and they have more options.

Second Round
The active contestants of each team play in this round. The team which has accumulated more money during the first round starts. It has to defuse a silver bomb with a LED fuse whose lights are turned off within two minutes of the stopwatch once initiated.

In the event of a draw in the first round, the blue team (which is considered veteran) starts the second round first. However, if the red team (the last team to join the quiz show) got more money than the blue team, it would be the first one to start, and vice versa.

The active team has to answer as many questions as possible. Each question has two possible answers. Each correct answer adds 200 euros to their scoreboard. On the other hand, each mistake deducts 100 euros from the total amount obtained in the first round. The current record is held by the team Extremis (7,400 euros).

In this round, all active contestants of the team who are playing have to answer the questions. For example, if there are three active contestants, one of them keeps on playing until a question is incorrectly answered. Thereafter, it is the turn of contestant number two until another answer is wrong. It is then the turn of contestant number three. When contestant number three misses a question, contestant number one has to answer again. This process is successively repeated for two minutes.

Once the active team has run out of time, the money which they have accumulated during these rounds is re-counted. It is the turn of the opposing team to play, following the same rules.

At the end of this round the team that accumulates more money, will qualify for the final bomb. The team with less money goes home with nothing. In case of a tie, each team chooses a representative and they will do the quiz round. If team 1 fails to answer correctly and team 2 correctly answers in the same round, team 2 would win; if team 1 correctly answers and team 2 fails to answer correctly, team 1 would win; and if team 1 and team 2 correctly answer or fail to answer correctly, a new round would be held. This is unlikely to happen, but it could occur one day.

Third Round
Then we have the golden bomb with the accumulated jackpot connected to 15 little bombs, numbered from 1 to 15. Each little bomb is a question with a direct answer. Contestants have two minutes to answer them. The bomb goes green when the answer is correct and they pass to the next bomb. If they don't know it, Boom must be said. If the answer is wrong, the bomb continues to flash and remains available for a second turn. In other words, this round has a first turn where contestants get the jackpot if they correctly answer the 15 questions, and a second turn to answer all the questions that remain unanswered. The remaining ones keep flashing and contestants must choose which one they want to answer by saying its number. When a question is answered incorrectly, the little bomb goes red and the golden bomb explodes. However, the team will come back the next day and the jackpot will be increased by 5,000 euros. The number of questions makes the final bomb quite complicated and might require more knowledge.

First Round
Originally, this round was played by just one contestant of the active team, who had to answer each of the four questions, each one represented with a bomb. The first two bombs were four-choice questions with a time limit of 45 seconds, whereas the last two were five-choice questions and the contestant was required to answer them within a set time limit of one minute. These bombs exploded if the contestant cut the wire that corresponded to the correct answer. When that happened, the previously chosen contestant was eliminated and was replaced by a new contestant in the same team. The value of the four correctly answered questions added up to a total of 3,000 euros, respectively, with each question being worth 300, 600, 900 and 1,200 euros. When the team failed to answer the four questions correctly, there were no active contestants to keep on playing. Then, the other team would play the second round.

Since 3 October 2014, all of the team members play the first round together. If the team answers any question incorrectly, the opposing team decides which rival cannot participate in the following bombs.

Second Round
The second round was played by one member of each team, previously chosen by each one of them. It was a qualifying stage in which one of the two teams was eliminated. The representatives of each team were faced with a silver bomb with seven wires (seven choices), that they had to cut in turns with a time limit of 15 seconds per wire. When a first mistake was made, the team that answered the question incorrectly was immediately eliminated. If both teams answered the questions correctly, they kept on coping with other devices until one of them fails to answer the question correctly. In this round there was a lifeline that enabled the contestant to choose one of their active playmates to resolve one of the wires before the time started.

Final Round
The active participants of the winning team faced together the last bomb, the golden one. This one consisted of 10 wires that had to be resolved in 2 minutes. If the team nailed it, they got the jackpot, which started with 55,000 euros in the first programme and grew 5,000 euros every day (now it starts with 50,000 euros every time a team wins the jackpot in the previous programme). However, if they failed, they did not get the jackpot but they did get the money from the bombs that they had managed to defuse in the first and second round and they would take part in the next programme.

Continuity
(*) Voluntary leaving

Total money
(*) 391,500€ accumulated + 1,935,000€ -jackpot- + 31,100€ -Champion's week-

Failing the last question in the Final Bomb
1. RockCampers 9 + 1 special programme

2. Extremis 5 + 2 celebrities help

3. Uep!! 3

4. Boda Boom, Beatlelillas 1

Magnificent Saga
1.   Extremis (most powerful team of four women and most veteran one), whose members were in the television game show of Saber y ganar

2.   Uep!! (most powerful team of two men and two women)

3.   Rockcampers (most powerful team of four men and winner of the jackpot)

4.   Beatlelillas (second most powerful team, integrated of four women)

5.   Boda Boom (most powerful team of three men and one woman)

Winners of the jackpot
1.   Rockcampers (winners 8 June 2016)

Champions’ week
Six of the most long-standing teams take part in the programme (Boda Boom RockCampers, Comanches, Uep!, Agri-Cultura and Comeflores),where the team Beatlelillas was the great missing one (third team in the ranking with regard to the number of programmes broadcast at the time of the transmission). The weekly programme consists of the contest between two teams, the winner of which keeps on playing the next day. The team RockCampers turned out to be the winner at the end of the programme.

Best champions
1     Rockcampers (champion of champions and first place in the ranking)

4    Uep!! (fourth place in the ranking accumulating 1,000€ in the first round and 3,700€ in the last rounds)

5    Boda boom (fifth place in the ranking accumulating 600€ in the first round and 3,700€ in the last rounds)

Special programmes
·      Special Children’s Programme First Edition (29 December 2014)

·      End of Year Special Edition (31 December 2014)

·      End of Year Special Edition (31 December 2015)

·      Special Children’s Programme Second Edition (4 January 2016)

·      Special Champions’ Programme (29 February 2016)

·      Special Champions’ Week Programme (from 19 September 2016 until 23 September 2016)

·      Special Celebrities’ Week Programme (from 28 November 2016 until 2 December 2016)

·      Special Children’s Programme Third Edition (5 January 2017)