Talk:Make Me a Millionaire

minimum prize
The lottery has provided conflicting information about the minimum prize, as shown by the two sources cited. We'll just have to wait for them to clarify whether it is $2,100 or $2,000. --LottsoLuck (talk) 12:18, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Name of the jackpot game
The lottery's official documents have used two different names for the TV show's jackpot game. At the State Lottery Commission Meeting of December 3, 2008, the game is called simply "Millionaire"; see about 12:05 on the video from the article's current Reference #2. On its website, the lottery calls the game "Make Me a Millionaire". Unfortunately, until the lottery does something more definitive, while also being official and consistent, we can't determine the "real" name of that game. So, for now, I suggest we just keep it as "Millionaire", or, if someone prefers, as "Make Me a Millionaire". User 129.210.97.244 changed the name in the article to "The Millionaire Game", without citing any source, so I reverted that edit. When Liz says, "let's play the Millionaire game" during the show, I take that as merely a descriptive statement, a way to add variety to her dialog, and not a re-naming of the game. Does anyone have another definitive, official source for the name of that game? --LottsoLuck (talk) 07:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Word usage - cash
I'm removing some instances of the word "cash". The primary meaning of "cash" is currency, and when that word is otherwise not needed its use may be inferred to signify an emphasis on that meaning. In the context of a game show, currency could well be used for its entertainment, motivational, or symbolic value, but the only use of currency in this show is in its animated logo. Since the article already clearly specifies the dollar value of each monetary prize, there is no need for the word cash to identify the prize as monetary, and its usage is a matter only of style. "Cash value", for example, adds variety to the language without creating any confusion, but a phrase such as "That player leaves with ... cash"--particularly given the show's animated logo--only raises a potential for a question that need never be asked. --LottsoLuck (talk) 02:31, 8 August 2009 (UTC)


 * My central points have been that the word "cash" is used here too colloquially and was inserted where there was no doubt that the described prizes were money, making it superfluous as well as imprecise. The reply that this article should be more "like other game shows" is vague at best, and possibly irrelevant. Even if that goal is valid, it would not justify decreasing the article's quality.


 * I welcome the opinions of other editors. For now, I'm reverting those last edits.
 * --LottsoLuck (talk) 11:22, 8 August 2009 (UTC)


 * P.S.: Regarding the issue of how other game-show articles are written, I would be happy to study those with featured-article or good-article status. Please name or link to them! Similarly, if there is a WikiProject working on standards that apply to this issue, or a substantial discussion of it elsewhere, I would like to have that link. --LottsoLuck (talk) 11:22, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Another relevant use of "cash" might be in describing the jackpot: Does anyone know whether the jackpot is a "cash value" (paid promptly in full) or an "annuitized value" (paid incrementally over a period of years, making its cash value much less). Do you have a source for this information? For its other games, the lottery's website tells us the cash value of each annuitized jackpot, so the absence of that value for this show's jackpot "should" mean that it's not annuitized. For that matter, does anyone know how any of the prizes are paid? Do contestants leave the studio with their prizes: the money, the merchandise? --LottsoLuck (talk) 04:52, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

I wanted it as "cash", because that is all the show gives away, except for the car for Lucky Penny and scratchers as consolation prizes in addition to the guaranteed $2,000 in cash and/or "prizes". Cash may count as prizes, but other game shows do not see it that way. Also, here are some examples: Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Price is Right, Supermarket Sweep, Pyramid (game show), Let's Make a Deal, and Family Feud, to name but a few. WikiLubber (talk) 14:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

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