More than 30,000 Kiwi football fans signed up for a shot at $5 million - and just 14 remain.
While the Fifa World Cup is only eight games old, the TAB Challenge is almost over after a series of surprising results eliminated a vast majority of the 33,360 entries.
The TAB offered $5m for any punter who could correctly pick all 64 results in Brazil, but that looks like a pretty safe bet from the bookies with 99.96 per cent of people ruled out after the opening weekend of the tournament.
Saturday morning (NZT) was disastrous for many of the entries, with more than 25,000 fans fooled by Mexico edging Cameroon 1-0 and the Netherlands thumping defending champions Spain 5-1.
The challenge did not require supporters to pick exact scores - just the results - but that task has already proven too challenging for most. Less than 10 per cent of people picked the first three winners, while Costa Rica's upset victory over Uruguay this morning reduced to double figures the number of live entries.
Thirty survived the cull after Italy beat England today and that number halved following Ivory Coast's come-from-behind win over Japan this afternoon.
