Make Me a Millionaire
| Make Me a Millionaire | |
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| Created by |
J.D. Roth Gary Dawson Todd Nelson |
| Directed by | Rich DiPirro |
| Presented by |
Mark L. Walberg with Liz Hernandez |
| Country of origin |
 United States
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| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | Season One: 52 Season Two: 25 (+5 unaired) TOTAL: 82 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 Minutes |
| Production company(s) |
3Ball Productions Milestone Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated (California only) |
| Original release | January 17, 2009 – July 3, 2010 |
Make Me a Millionaire is the second television game show of the California Lottery, having replaced The Big Spin on January 17, 2009. Originally contracted for a four-year run, the Lottery cancelled the show after eighteen months, with its last episode telecast on July 3, 2010. On July 9, five unaired episodes were uploaded to the California Lottery's official YouTube page.
Contestants received a guaranteed minimum prize of $2,000, while the grand prize was a progressive jackpot of at least $1,000,000.
The show had four random-play games, and did not retain the Big Wheel or Dream Machine from the show's predecessor. The games are described here in the order of their appearance in the show. Some other merchandise was also given away in addition to the stated prizes.
The following games were mostly based on the second format of the Florida Lottery's Flamingo Fortune.
Lucky Penny gives to each of three players a prize of either $2,000 in cash or a car. Each player begins with ten "penny" tokens and gets four turns to generate a random number from 1 to 9 that matches or comes close to a target number; the target number in each turn is a different digit in the price of the car. At each turn, the difference between a player's random number and the target number is the number of pennies that the player loses; matching the target number exactly wins back two of the previously lost pennies (a player cannot have more than ten pennies). At the end of the game, each player with at least one penny left wins the car. With no pennies, a player gets $2,000.
The game appears similar to The Price Is Right's pricing game Lucky Seven, but with the fundamental difference that Lucky Penny is purely a game of chance.
In Safe Cracker, two players compete for up to $92,000 in cash. The game offers two rounds, but only the first-round winner gets the option of continuing to the second round.
In the first round, each player begins with $2,000 and gets up to five turns to add to it. The players alternate in choosing from a set of ten safes. When chosen, a safe is opened to reveal its contents and remove it from further play. Seven of the safes have amounts ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. The other three are empty. Players accumulate values until one of the players has chosen two empty safes. That player leaves with half of his or her accumulated amount. The other player receives a $5,000 bonus and the option to leave with the accumulated winnings or go to the second round. In the second round, the player chooses one safe out of five. Three of those safes will double the player's winnings, but the other two will halve the winnings. Regardless of the outcome, each player receives 500 Make Me a Millionaire scratchers.
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