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This is a list of American game show winnings records. American game shows through the years have had their fair share of big winners. This article looks at some of the records, as well as some people who have held them over the years.

Contents

Daytime game shows

Cumulative records

The daytime all-time winnings record (for a cumulative run on a show) is held by Tom O'Brien, a contestant on Sale of the Century in 1987. A contestant during the Winners' Board era of the show, O'Brien won all 11 games he played in, winning 10 prizes off the board plus a $50,000 bonus for winning an 11th consecutive game. That plus over $20,000 in winnings in Tournament of Champions play gave O'Brien a grand total of over $173,000 in cash and prizes.

The record for most winnings by a woman in a cumulative run is held by another Sale contestant, Stephanie Holmquist, whose $150,000+ record run (actual total, see Sale page) was the all-time daytime record as well until it was topped by O'Brien.

(It should be noted that O'Brien's total is not the highest total in Sale history. That belongs to contestant Tim Holleran, who won over $180,000 in cash and prizes. However, Holleran's winnings were from two different shows, with the majority coming from the 1985-86 syndicated show and a little over $20,000 from tournament play on the NBC network show.)[citation needed]

Single-day record

The single day record, for many years, was held by Michael Larson, who won $110,237 on Press Your Luck in 1984. Larson achieved his record by memorizing the show's board patterns. He repeatedly hit the board's money-and-a-spin squares, and his game had to be split into two episodes (which aired Friday, June 8 and Monday, June 11, 1984 after being taped on May 19) because his turn caused the game to go well over the show's half-hour allotted time. In 2003, Game Show Network produced a documentary about the event.[1]

In 2006, Larson's record was broken by Vickyann Chrobak-Sadowski on The Price Is Right, who also set a regular show record in the process on the show's 35th season premiere. She won $147,517 in cash and prizes, including both Showcases.

Overall winnings record

1950s-1999: Big money quizzers, Teddy Nadler, Thom McKee

Quiz show 21 host Jack Barry turns toward contestant Charles Van Doren as fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing looks on

The record for overall winnings on American game shows has changed hands quite a few times over the years. Although the fifties had their share of big winners (Herb Stempel and Charles Van Doren of Twenty One infamy being two of the most notable),[2][3] the biggest winner of them all was Teddy Nadler in the 1956-57 television season, who set a record that would stand for the next two decades by winning $264,000 on The $64,000 Challenge.[4]

It wasn't until 1980 that Nadler's record fell. During the summer of that year, a US Naval officer named Thom McKee began a run on Tic-Tac-Dough that carried over into the following season. Since champions on Tic Tac Dough played until they were defeated, and games on the show could end in ties with the pot carrying over, McKee was able to keep building his total as long as he kept playing and winning (which wasn't true of many other shows). McKee won $312,700 in cash and prizes in 43 games, which included eight cars (on Tic Tac Dough and its sister show, The Joker's Wild, a contestant automatically won a car after every fifth game they won).[5]

In 1999, McKee was passed by Michael Shutterly, who was the biggest winner in the first airing of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in the United States. Shutterly was the first contestant on the show to get to the 15th and final question, but elected to walk instead with $500,000, which made him the highest winner in game show history.[6]

While McKee was the biggest solo winner until 1999, nine couples on The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime won the show's top prize of $1,000,000 (in a combination of prizes and a long-term annuity) during the show's run in syndication from January 1986 to September 1987. However, this program had no solo players.

1999-present: seven figure wins become almost the norm

It was during the second season of Millionaire in the United States that the show crowned its first million-dollar winner. On November 19, 1999, John Carpenter climbed to the top without using any lifelines, save for a phone call on the final question to tell his father he was going to win the million dollars. After Carpenter answered the final question, which concerned Richard Nixon's appearance on Laugh-In in 1968,[7] host Regis Philbin called the answer "the final answer heard 'round the world," then proclaimed Carpenter the show's (and worldwide format's) first millionaire.

Carpenter's record stayed until the following year. In early 2000, Rahim Oberholtzer, a contestant on the revival of Twenty One, won four games in his appearances on the show, along with $120,000 in the show's "Perfect 21" bonus round, for a total of $1.12 million.[8] (Maury Povich proclaimed him "the TV Game Show king" for surpassing Carpenter's mark.)

Oberholtzer's record did not last long. Late in its run, the Fox show Greed began bringing back some of its previous winners to try for an extra $1 million. Curtis Warren, who was part of the first team to win $1,000,000 on the show (of which his share was $410,000), was one of the contestants brought back to do so on February 12, 2000. After answering an elimination question, Warren was given a question about TV shows that had been made into movies, with 8 choices (of which he had to identify the four correct answers). He successfully did so, giving himself $1,410,000[9] and the record for the time being (although his record was actually higher than what was reported, based on his winnings on Sale of the Century and Win Ben Stein's Money prior to his win on Greed).

Warren's record was even shorter lived than Oberholtzer's had been, lasting only four days.

Three days before Warren's big win, a contestant named David Legler on Twenty One began a run to the top. Four days after Warren's win, the run continued, with Legler earning a grand total of $1,765,000 in six wins to surpass Warren's total and become the third contestant in a span of two months to top $1,000,000 on a game show.[10] (It should be noted that shortly after Rahim Oberholtzer's win, Twenty One changed its payoff structure, which is part of the reason why it took Legler 5 wins to reach $1 million in winnings and 6 to top the record instead of the four it took Oberholtzer to top Carpenter's record.)

Legler held the record for well over a year. As 2000 ended and 2001 began, the producers of Millionaire decided that it had been too long (five months) since their top prize had been won, and instituted an accumulating jackpot which would add $10,000 to the grand prize amount for each game it was not won. By the time Kevin Olmstead took the hot seat on April 10, 2001, the jackpot stood at $2,180,000.

After answering all 15 questions, including the final one about Igor Sikorsky's invention of the helicopter, Olmstead became the first contestant to top $2 million in total winnings on a game show and supplanted Legler as the all time leader.[11] Within a year of the win, however, the primetime Millionaire was gone. No other show outside of the syndicated Millionaire that premiered in September 2002 was offering a seven figure prize (which, for the syndicated Millionaire, was permanently fixed at $1,000,000), which instantly made Olmstead's record that much harder to top. Nevertheless, the show's producers launched an ultra high-stakes version of Millionaire entitled Super Millionaire in 2004, with a $10 million (US) top prize. Two separate Super Millionaire series were aired, one in February 2004 and one in May 2004. However, despite the higher stakes and the potential for someone to top the all-time record for winnings, by the time the show went off the air for the last time on May 26, 2004, the largest prize the show had awarded was the $1,000,000 Robert "Bob-O" Essig won in the February series.

Ken Jennings has held the all-time game show winnings record twice.

Exactly one week after Super Millionaire came to an end, Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah, became the new champion on Jeopardy! This June 2, 2004 episode was the first in a long winning streak for the software engineer, made possible due to the fact that at the beginning of the current season (the show's twentieth on air), Jeopardy! eliminated the longstanding rule that limited the amount of consecutive appearances for a champion of five. With Jeopardy! now employing a play-'til-you-lose match limit, it became possible for any contestant to accumulate millions of dollars in winnings, as long as they kept defeating opponents. Jennings took advantage of the rule change, breaking many game show records along the way. As his streak continued deeper into the 21st season, Jennings was inching closer and closer to Olmstead's record. He joined Olmstead as the only two game show contestants at the time to win over $2,000,000 on a quiz show with his 59th consecutive win on October 25, 2004[12]. It took Jennings six more wins to top Olmstead's record, which he accomplished in his 65th consecutive win. Jennings finished the day with $45,099 and a new record total of $2,197,000.[13][14]

Jennings won nine more games before his streak came to an end on November 30, 2004. He had extended his record total to $2,520,700 at the time of his defeat, after which he was awarded an additional $2,000 for finishing in second place per Jeopardy! rules.[15] Shortly after Jennings' defeat, Jeopardy! decided to see how he would fare in tournament play. On February 9, 2005, the show launched its Ultimate Tournament of Champions, inviting back 144 other past champions to compete over the next three months in a five-round single-elimination tournament with a $2 million grand prize. The field included the highest-winning five-time champions and winners of some previous tournaments, though not all invitees were able to participate. Jennings received a bye into the finals of the tournament, where he faced semi-final winners Jerome Vered and Brad Rutter in a three-game, cumulative total match. Vered had set a single-day scoring record during his appearance on the show in the early 1990s, while Rutter had won the 2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament and had held the show's winnings record before Jennings broke it. Rutter was also one of two contestants in the tournament who could surpass Jennings' lifetime total by winning the top prize (Bernie Cullen, who was eliminated in the prior rounds of the tournament, was the other on the basis of his being a top prize winner on Millionaire in 2001).

In the tournament's three-day final, Rutter handily defeated Jennings and Vered to win the tournament and $2,000,000, and in the process he supplanted Jennings as the winningest all time American game show contestant. Including the $1.18 million he had won in his previous Jeopardy! appearances (five regular season games, a Tournament of Champions win, the Masters win, and three matches in the earlier rounds of the UToC), Rutter's total stood at $3,255,102 in cash,[16] while Jennings was now second with $3,022,700 having gained an additional $500,000 for his second place finish in the tournament. To date, this is the last time Brad Rutter has won any money on a game show, as he has failed to win in subsequent appearances on 1 vs. 100 and Grand Slam, the latter of which was a $100,000 winner-take-all quiz tournament featuring 16 quiz show winners (which included both Rutter and Jennings).

Jennings slowly began to chip away at Rutter's record, first by winning $714.29 in 2006 as part of the Mob on 1 vs. 100. A year later Jennings won the Grand Slam tournament and the $100,000 top prize by defeating Ogi Ogas in the final. Finally, on October 10, 2008, Jennings passed Rutter by winning $500,000 on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. The record total now stands at $3,623,414.29.

All Time Winnings List

This list includes only quiz show and game show winners. Winners' totals (set at a minimum of US $500,000) includes totals won on all shows they have appeared on and include all cash and prizes, if applicable, won on those shows.

  1. Ken Jennings, Jeopardy!, 1 vs. 100, Grand Slam, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $3,623,414.29. Jennings won $2,520,700 in his original run on Jeopardy! (plus $2,000 for his final second place finish)[15], $500,000 for his second place finish in the Ultimate Tournament of Champions[17], $714.29 on 1 vs. 100[18], $100,000 for winning the Grand Slam tournament and $500,000 on Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.
  2. Brad Rutter, Jeopardy!: $3,270,102.00 [19] Rutter's total includes $55,102 during his initial appearance on Jeopardy! in 2001, $100,000 in 2002's Tournament of Champions, $1,000,000 for winning the Million Dollar Masters tournament in 2002, and $2,115,000 for winning the Ultimate Tournament of Champions in 2005.
  3. Kevin Olmstead, Jeopardy!, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: $2,207,000.00.[11][20] Olmstead's win occurred during the progressive jackpot shows on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001, and was the record for over three years. He also won $27,000 during a three-day appearance on Jeopardy! in 1994.
  4. Ed Toutant, Jeopardy!, Millionaire: $1,871,000.00.[21] Toutant was another contestant during the progressive jackpot shows on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001. However, after missing a question, which was later reversed, his run was allowed to continue (at the stakes he was playing for at the time), and he was able to complete the 15 questions for the progressive jackpot he was playing for at the time.
  5. Ashlee Register, Duel: $1,795,000.00.[22] Register won the week-long Duel competition, airing on ABC in December 2007. Highest winning female of all time.
  6. David Legler, Twenty One: $1,765,000.00.[10] Twenty-One's biggest winner.
  7. Curtis Warren, Greed, Sale of the Century: $1,546,288.00.[9] Includes $136,288 won on Sale of the Century, $410,000 won during an initial run on Greed: The Multi-Million Dollar Challenge in 1999, and a $1,000,000 "Moment" win during a Greed sweeps stunt in 2000. Warren, at that time, became the all-time money-winner in game-show history. .
  8. John Carpenter, Millionaire: $1,125,000.00.[7][9] First top-prize winner on US Millionaire, won $250,000 in the Champions of Millionaire tournament, half of which was split with a charity.
  9. Adam Rose, The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular: $1,153,908.00. First millionaire on the prime time version of The Price Is Right, winning the total on the February 22, 2008 edition of the show. Winnings included $20,000 in Grand Game, and coming within the $1,000 (primetime rule) of his $84,000 showcase to win both showcases, and the $1,000,000.
  10. Michael Haynes, The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular: $1,127,062.00. Second millionaire on the prime time version of The Price Is Right, coming on the March 7, 2008 prime time special. (he also won $10,435 on Press Your Luck in December 1983).
  11. Rahim Oberholtzer, Twenty One: $1,120,000.00.[8] Second $1,000,000 winner in television quiz history.
  12. Dr. Tim Hsieh, It's Your Chance of a Lifetime: $1,106,309.00.[23] Biggest winner in It's Your Chance of a Lifetime's brief history. Won $64,000 on Millionaire.
  13. Cynthia Azevedo, The Price Is Right $1,000,000 Spectacular: $1,089,017.00. Third millionaire on The Price Is Right's prime time spinoff; won her game, aired on April 8, 2008 by playing Clock Game under special "Million Dollar Game" criteria, guessing both prices correctly in less than 10 seconds. She also became CBS's highest all-time female winner.
  14. Bernie Cullen, Jeopardy! and Millionaire: $1,069,102.00.[24] Won $63,102 on Jeopardy! as a five time champ in 1996 and $6,000 additional in ToC and Ultimate ToC play in 2005. Won top prize on Millionaire several days after Kevin Olmstead.
  15. Michelle Loewenstein, Wheel of Fortune, $1,026,080.00.[23] First millionaire on Wheel of Fortune.[25]
  16. Joe Trela, Millionaire: $1,000,500.00.[23]. Third top prize winner on Millionaire and won $1,000 in the Champions of Millionaire tournament, half of which was split with a charity.
  17. Dan Blonsky, Millionaire: $1,000,500.00 [23]Second top prize winner on Millionaire and won $1,000 in Champions of Millionaire, half of which was split with a charity.
  18. George Smoot, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $1,000,000.00 Became the program's second millionaire on September 18, 2009.
  19. Kathy Cox, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $1,000,000.00. Became the program's first millionaire on September 5, 2008.
  20. Jessica Robinson, Deal or No Deal: $1,000,000.00. Became the program's first millionaire on September 1, 2008.
  21. Tomorrow Rodriguez, Deal or No Deal: $1,000,000.00. Became the program's second millionaire on October 29, 2008.
  22. Jamie Sadler, Power of 10: $1,000,000.00.[26] First contestant and only millionaire on the program. He is also the youngest to win a million on a US quiz show.
  23. Robert "Bob-O" Essig, Who Wants to Be a Super Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[27] Highest winner on the Super Millionaire shows.
  24. Kevin Smith, Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[28] First contestant on Meredith Viera's syndicated Millionaire to win the top prize.
  25. David Goodman, Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[20]
  26. Kim Hunt, Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[29]
  27. Bob House, Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[29]
  28. Nancy Christy, Millionaire: $1,000,000.00.[30] The second top prize winner on syndicated program. First female seven-figure winner.
  29. Sam Murray, Millionaire: $1,000,000. First millionaire on the program since 2004.
  30. Jason Luna, 1 vs. 100: $1,000,000.00. First millionaire on the program, coming on January 4, 2008.
  31. Sheila Shagainy, Studio 7: $854,000.00.[31] Show's biggest winner
  32. David Juliano, Jeopardy!, Win Ben Stein's Money and Greed: $813,000.00.[citation needed] Teammate of Lauren Griswold's. Also won $8,000 on Jeopardy! in 1993
  33. Lauren Griswold, Greed: $810,000.00.[citation needed] Show's second biggest winner, behind Curtis Warren
  34. George Elias, Greed, Pyramid, The Singing Bee: $775,000.00. Won $600,000 on Greed, $125,000 on Pyramid in 2002, and $50,000 on The Singing Bee in 2007.
  35. Michele Falco, Deal or No Deal: $750,000.00.[32] Second highest win in the program's history.
  36. Paulara Hawkins, Show Me the Money: $740,000.00.[33] Biggest winner on short-lived show.
  37. Kimberly Chastang, Deal or No Deal: $701,000.00.[34] Third highest win in the program's history.
  38. Matthew Silina, Deal or No Deal: $675,000.00.[35] Fourth highest win in the program's history.
  39. Monique Jones, Greed: $610,000.00.[citation needed] Part of $1,000,000 win by team.
  40. Melissa Hall, Twenty One: $600,000.00.[36] Highest winning woman on Twenty One.
  41. Vic King, Hollywood Squares, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $563,000.00.[37] Won $63,000 on Hollywood Squares and $500,000 on 5th Grader.
  42. Lyn Payne, Jeopardy!, Millionaire: $560,002.00. Was four-time champion on Jeopardy!, semi-finalist in the Tournament of Champions, and later won $500,000 on Millionaire. [38]
  43. Michael Shutterly, Jeopardy!, Millionaire: $549,700.00.[36] Was four-time champion on Jeopardy!, won $500,000 on Millionaire and later won $1,000 in the Champions of Millionaire tournament, half of which was split with a charity.
  44. Tim Shields, Millionaire: $516,000.00.[36] Shields originally won $1,000 on his initial Millionaire appearance, but was brought back due to a faulty $16,000 question. His return appearance where he augmented his winnings to $500,000 went unaired until the Champions of Millionaire tournament, where he split $32,000 with a charity.
  45. Catherine Rahm, Winning Lines, Sale of the Century: $503,400.00.[36] Highest winner on Winning Lines with $500,000.[36]
  46. Jerome Vered, Jeopardy! and Win Ben Stein's Money: $501,602[39]
  47. Pat Headly, Super Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  48. Scott Hoff, Super Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  49. Jason Carter, Super Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  50. Todd Kim, Super Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  51. Mary Burke, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  52. Tom Hoobler, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  53. Moe Cain, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  54. Steve Perry, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  55. David Stewart, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  56. Gary Gambino, Millionaire, $500,000.00.[36]
  57. Jim Matthews, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  58. Justin Ray Castillo, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  59. Pat Thompson, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  60. Phil Gibbons, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  61. Joe Kelleher, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  62. Tom O'Brien, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36] (NOTE: Not the same Tom O'Brien that won $173,000+ on Sale of the Century in 1987-88.)
  63. Dr. Mike Menz, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  64. Stephanie Girardi, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36] Highest winning woman in show's history until record topped by Catherine Rahm.
  65. David Fite, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  66. Rob Coughlin, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[36]
  67. Armand Kachigian, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[40]
  68. Jeff Gross, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[40]
  69. Ogi Ogas, Millionaire: $500,000.00.[40]
  70. Robert Talon, Identity: $500,000.00.[41]Was the first winner in show's history.
  71. Christian Saulnier, Identity: $500,000.00.[42]
  72. Christina Howard, Identity: $500,000.00.[43]
  73. Alex Outhred, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.[44] Professional poker player, first contestant to have chance at $1,000,000 on the series.
  74. John Zole, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.[45]
  75. Stephanie Wambach, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.[46]
  76. Robert Rutter, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.[47]
  77. Jason Ramsey, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.[48]
  78. Kirk Conole, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.
  79. Rick Miles, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?: $500,000.00.
  80. Dottie Harris, Don't Forget the Lyrics!: $500,000.00.
  81. Asia Craft, Don't Forget the Lyrics!: $500,000.00.
  82. Cassandra Whitehead, 1 vs. 100: $500,000.00.
  83. Gabriel Reilich, Duel: $500,000.00.[49] Only contestant to win 5 duels in a row in the second season.

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