Make Me a Millionaire

Make Me a Millionaire

Make Me a Millionaire is the California Lottery's second TV game show. It succeeded the previous show when it debuted for an initial four-year run on January 17, 2009, with host Mark L. Walberg and co-presenter Liz Hernandez.[6] Each of the twelve contestants wins at least $2,000; seven of the contestants are selected randomly to play games of chance with a top prize that begins at $1,000,000 and increases by $200,000 each week that it is not won. Winners from Big Spin Scratchers and Fantasy 5 second-chance drawings now qualify for the Make Me a Millionaire show, along with winners of Make Me a Millionaire Scratchers.[7]

The show's first game is Lucky Penny, which offers to each of three players a minimum prize of $2,000 and a maximum prize of a car. The second game is Safe Cracker, in which two players compete for prizes ranging from $2,000 to $92,000. Next is California Cool, with one player and prizes ranging from $5,000 to $200,000. The last game is Millionaire, also for one player; it guarantees a minimum of $10,000 with a potential jackpot of at least $1,000,000.[7]

The Big Spin was the California Lottery's first game show; the final episode, broadcast on January 10, 2009, ended its run as the longest-running lottery game show in the U S.[6] The lottery had several methods for choosing contestants, including prizes in Scratchers games, and "second-chance" drawings from other games. The top prize was fixed at $3 million; the minimum guaranteed prize was $1,750. While the Big Spin Scratchers game remains in circulation, its winners, who would previously have spun the wheel on The Big Spin, still have the option to spin the wheel--untelevised--as an alternative to going to the Make Me a Millionaire show.


Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Lottery