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Millionaire-a-thon today 1/11
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 08:37 PM\'] Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant (The LATTER contestant hailing from my home state of Texas) were both on the Mega-Jackpot version of Millionaire.
When the show started up again in 2001, after going maybe a thousand shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.
Kevin won $2.18 million, and Ed won $1.86 million. [/quote]
They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point)
gameshowguy2000:
Thanks for correcting my mistake on the "# of shows" thing, Zach!
(See edited post.)
clemon79:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 06:55 PM\'] They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point) [/quote]
Yeah! What he said! That'll teach you to dare to use hyperbole around here! Hah!
(good lord....)
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 10:35 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 06:55 PM\'] They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point) [/quote]
Yeah! What he said! That'll teach you to dare to use hyperbole around here! Hah!
(good lord....) [/quote]
As an atheist would say, the Lord is not Good sometimes.
Don Howard:
[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 08:37 PM\'] When the show started up again in 2001, after going 71 shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.
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Yes, the Mega-Millionaire era. I liked that. Too bad they discontinued it after Kevin broke the jackpot. Ah, well. That's show biz. I still enjoy the show very much.
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