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433:"Treasure Ireland" remained the opening round of the programme, which now featured the contestants picking Irish locations and landmarks to be visited by Streak—the programme's new animated robot mascot—for a chance to win cash and holidays, as well as collect "bonus wheels". At certain stages, contestants could use a "Lo" option to remove the selection with the smallest prize, or "No" to reject their selection and pick again. Contestants received one bonus wheel for free, and can collect up to three additional bonus wheels during Treasure Ireland. They are redeemed in the second round—"Cash 'Em or Keep 'Em"—to play a minigame awarding cash prizes, choosing from either the Diamond Dilemma (one wheel; worth up to €12,000), the "Ball Drum" (two wheels; contestants launched seven
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round were turned into additional winning spaces. As this was seen as providing an unfair advantage in a game of chance, the bonus wheels were replaced later in the series by "Golden Euros", which could instead add bonus spaces to Win & Spin that awarded €10,000 cash when revealed. With the switch to the
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