Ik weet er alles van! is a seemingly Dutch-exclusive quiz show where contestants get a chance to let their hobbies shine. It started in 2019 on RTL 4 and has always run as a summer series, as a replacement for the famous soap Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. It is hosted by everyman Ruben Nicolai, who has hosted a huge variety of game shows at this point, though of those, only a handful are actual quizzes.
So far, the show has ran for 6 seasons, with a 7th and 8th season already in the pipelines. After the cancellation of the short-lived 'Wat een Dag!' in late 2024, we are currently in a period where this is the only daily quiz show on a commercial network- though a new Dutch adaptation of The Price is Right is coming in the fall.
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Season 6
Season 7
Now, if you're unfamiliar with the game and would like to learn more, here is a rundown of the rules.
Each of the 6 contestants has their specialty played once via multiple choice (3 choices in this case) trivia questions. Each correct answer is worth €50, or €100 on Fridays that are played for double money. The contestant who answers the most questions correctly and in case of a tie, the quickest, gets to become the star player for the day and is called up to stand besides Ruben.
The star player gets to select one of 4 photo catagories, which is usually clued at by an image with a title and a pun included. Every contestant then has a chance to look at all 10 images for 10 seconds, before the star player tells Ruben an estimate of how many they can get right. They then show what the other contestants think, and the star player gets to make the call whether or not they will play for the highest estimate, or pass it to the one giving said high estimate. In the case of a tie, the star player makes the call on who plays out of those giving the highest estimate instead. The money values per photo are once again €50, or €100 on Fridays. Guessing the appropiate amount of photos correctly nets the player the money, otherwise, the money goes to the star player/highest estimator(s) instead. This gets done 3 times before the round is over.
7 more questions get asked. The star player gets a slight advantage by having one additional question based around their subject. The remainder of the contestants have to stay completely silent and their answers are not shown. No money gets won in this part of the round. Once all questions are asked, the star player is required to select one player of whom they think they performed equally or worse than they did. If they succeed, they steal that player's money, and vice versa. Then, the winning player always gets the option to walk with the money earned. On every day of the week except for Friday, they additionally get the option to stay for another day to try and get even more money. Finally, if the star player wins, they can additionally press their luck and point at another contestant to steal money from. Contestants remain for a full week unless they decide to walk out with their winnings early.
I really do wonder what is holding other countries back from giving this show a spin. It's delightful in it's simplicity, and the statistics of both the money in play and how (not) good the contestants are only get rivalled by a handful of shows with budgets far greater than it. The only things that could be better are, 1. the addition of a real audience, even if Ruben using a tablet to make stock noises with is certainly better than pretending fake audiences are real, and 2. They started using AI during photo rounds in some episodes starting in 2023, and that unfortunately makes things feel a bit more sleazy and tacky. Even Ruben appears to get slightly uncomfortable whenever the AI makes some weird stylistic choices. Otherwise, this is unquestionably one of the Dutch formats that has the most chances to succeed elsewhere. This ain't Deal or No Deal or 1 vs 100, but it's impressively close.