Trillion dollar question on game show of life

Straight talking...

- NEIL LESLIE

COULD it be that crazy Elon has been right all this time?

That maybe it’s all just been one big game? Played out on our little third rock from the sun for the amusement of a superior alien intelligence?

That is what the planet's richest man Elon Musk once admitted he believed was a possible answer to the meaning of life.

And if he's right, we think we may have figured out what this big game show of life must be billed as on that extraterrestrial channel in the stars - welcome to Who Wants To Be A Trillionaire.

The quizmasters pose a series of dilemmas and questions to eight billion unwitting contestants to see who can come up with the answers to succeed and bag the big cash prize.

A small few have been doing very well so far. The combined wealth of the billionaire class is around $15trillion.

Meanwhile, around four billion people share the same amount as the top 4,000 because they fail to come up with the right answers to the game.

But it is Elon who has emerged from the pack and is so close now to the final question.