Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Big Spin is the California Lottery's first television game show.. It ended with a fixed top prize of $3 million and a minimum guaranteed cash prize of $1,750. The total cash and prizes given in 2007 came out to $17,872,500, the most money given away in a game show that year, therefore being "the biggest money game show on Earth" as its introduction stated.
The Big Spin, the California Lottery's first game show, broadcast its final episode on January 10, 2009, ending its run as the longest-running lottery game show in the US. [39] The Lottery had several methods for choosing contestants, including prizes in Scratchers games and "second-chance" drawings from other games.
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 show was cancelled after eighteen months, with its final episode telecast on August 7, 2010. [1]
A US Army vet and retired police detective who said that the California lottery was taking too long to pay out his jaw-dropping $44.3 million jackpot has finally claimed his winnings after months ...
The jackpot was last won on Oct. 11 when a lottery player in California won the $1.765 billion jackpot. Meanwhile, the Mega Millions jackpot is at $335 million with a cash option of $153.1 million ...
Powerball ticket. After a nearly three-month stretch with no one matching all six numbers, we finally have a winner of the record-setting $1.73 billion Powerball jackpot.
These are all game shows that were produced by or for various government-sanctioned lotteries. Participation in these games often require purchases of special lottery tickets (often scratchcards ) for the show, along with winning the right to be eligible for the show.
The possible winning tickets and their cash prizes are as follows: Powerball only — $4. Match 1 white number + Powerball — $4. Match 2 white numbers + Powerball — $7. Match 3 white numbers ...