How does the machine on Tipping Point work and what are the counters made of? 🤔

Ben here on the set at Tipping Point. with uh filming series 15 and uh Julia. sent in her question. I thought it would. timely place to record it would be as we. are refilling the machine. Uh you can. see here that's Will who's there. Wave. Will. >> Here's our counter counter. And there's. Julie who is a very important uh our. adjudicator. Uh what happens between. each show we have to empty the machine. then we refill the machine. There are 80. counters on the bottom shelf. There are. 80 counters on the top shelf. Every time.

there's a drop, Will comes flying in. I. say how many there are. He confirms that. by counting them. We do the pickups and. then they get taken out. And then Julie. confirms how many are out the back. So. everything has to be very carefully. counted and considered because of course. we want to make sure every drop is. carefully counted so everybody gets the. exact money. It's very competitive. And. also the question uh Julia about what. they're made of. Here you go. I'll show. you this. This is one of our counters. I. can assure you they are plastic. They.

aren't metal. We get a lot of people. suggesting we're using magnets in the. machine. I've never yet found a magnet. that can control plastic, but the. counters are plastic. And then in the. edit afterwards, we had lots of. brilliant sound effects which makes it. sound like it's shingling and jangling. down. So, there you go. A little insight. into the magic that goes on when we are. putting a tipping point together. And as. you can see the machine now as they are. putting them up is starting to take. shape as you see at the top of the show. And the machine is pneumatic as well. So. the shelf uh is propelled and was.

created by a guy called Webo who Richard. I'm sure you know Weber. He has created. all sorts of amazing things in the world. of television, including the uh the. crystal dome at the end of the Crystal.