The host selected a participant from a seemingly random group gathered around him or her on a street, at the beach, or on a college campus. The M.C. then presented the stunt and told the player how much money he or she would win if the dare was successfully completed. If the contestant rejected the amount of money, the host usually raised the bet. As soon as a bet was agreed upon, the player attempted the stunt. If successful, the contestant won the money. If unsuccessful, he or she won nothing except for what was collected in a "pity jar" by audience members watching. On several occasions, if a participant did not agree to a bet, the host would ask if someone else in the audience would do it for a "Stolen Bet" of the same amount of money offered to the original participant. Several segments were shown per episode, the end of which usually showed the contestant saying "I Bet You Will..." followed by the name of the stunt or the thing the contestant had to do.
Dares
Dares used on I Bet You Will included the following:
Eating or drinking a concoction of gross items or rotten fooda laFear Factor
Enduring public humiliation for a fixed period of time, usually involving being covered in a disgusting substance and/or being stripped to nearly naked
Having unusual things done to one's hair or body
Having a prized possession damaged, destroyed, or otherwise irreplaceably taken away - this was sometimes paired with a stunt which if lost meant that the player lost the possession and got nothing in return
Having one's money shredded, placed in a bowl, and mixed with a gross food, which the contestant then had to eat for a bigger payoff
Being blindfolded while receiving tattoos of someone else's choice anywhere on the body
Sitting totally nude in public and let random people pour anything they wanted on you
Letting random people on the street take super industrial permanent markers and color your feet including between your toes and soles completely with it up to your belly button and everything in between
Asking for wedgies and getting paid a fixed amount per wedgie
Rolling dice, spinning a wheel, or grabbing a rubber duckie andg the stunt on a fixed bet
Getting someone to stomp guacamole with their feet and having someone else lick it off
Occasionally, bonuses were offered if a player could complete or endure a second dare while performing the first one; failure to complete such a dare sometimes caused the player to fail the first one and lose everything. The host also occasionally offered to double the bet on the condition that the contestant ate two or three more things, performed a dare naked or allowed his or her best friend to aid in the humiliation. Now I bet you will is aired in Latin America on VH1.
