Monopoly Millionaires' Club

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Monopoly Millionaires' Club (MMC) was a series of 16 scratchcard games that differed by its participating lotteries; its players could become eligible to be flown to Las Vegas to take part in an episode of the Monopoly Millionaires′ Club game show (see below)

It was initially a U.S. multistate lottery drawing game coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), using the Monopoly board game brand under license from Hasbro.

Each $5 ticket for the draw game contained five numbers from 1 through 52, and a randomly generated sixth number from 1 through 28 that represented a property from the Monopoly board game. (Multiple plays from one bet slip were printed on separate tickets.) The jackpot began at $15 million (annuity value) and was capped at $25 million; if the jackpot was won, additional prizes of $1 million (each paid in lump sum) would be awarded. Tickets also contained a code to "collect" the corresponding property on the MMC website; collecting specific sets of properties made a player eligible for a chance to appear as a contestant (or an audience member) on the Monopoly Millionaires' Club game show, in which contestants could compete to win up to $1 million.

Ticket sales for the draw game began on October 19, 2014, in 22 states and the District of Columbia, with the first drawing held on October 24.^{[citation needed]} In December, after the Texas Lottery pulled out of the game, the remaining participants voted to suspend Monopoly Millionaires' Club after the December 26 draw. The draw game was plagued by low ticket sales, along with concerns that the game was, with its multiple components, too complicated for players to understand.^[1]

The Monopoly Millionaires' Club game show was unaffected by the suspension of the draw premiered in syndication on March 28, 2015; that month, it was announced that the MMC lottery game would be revived as a series of [[]] games (prizes varied by lottery jurisdiction); 16 lotteries offered a scratch-off game with the same $5 price point as the draw game. (The game show's first season featured hour-long episodes; the second season's shows were 30 minutes each. The final episode was shown on April 30, 2016.)