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On January 10, 2009, Pat Finn and Maquiel Alejo walked out on the stage of ''[[The Big Spin]]'' and told their audience that the Big Wheel would spin no more. On January 17, the California Lottery aired its replacement, ''Make Me A Millionaire''.

Four games were played every show:
* '''Lucky Penny''', an expy of ''[[The Price Is Right]]'''s "Lucky Seven";
* '''Safe Cracker''', a two-player [[Mystery Box]] game with a one-shot [[Bonus Round]];
* '''California Cool''', another [[Mystery Box]] game with a trivia theme; and
* '''The Millionaire Game''', where one person out of a pool of six were selected to play a "higher/lower" game somewhat like ''[[Card Sharks]]'' to win the show's progressive jackpot which began at $1,000,000 and increased by $200,000 for each show not won; the smallest and largest wins ($1,400,000 and $5,200,000) occurred within a month of one another.
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=== [[Game Show]] Tropes in use: ===
* [[Bonus Round]]: In Safe Cracker, the winning player chooses whether to stay with his money or play a "half or double" round.
* [[Consolation Prize]]: Nobody left with less than $2,000. Small prizes like phones, calculators, or even ''MMaM'' scratchers were given to players before the game began.
* Personnel:
** [[Game Show Host]]: Mark L. Walberg.
** [[Lovely Assistant]]: Liz Hernandez.
** [[Studio Audience]]
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*  [[Cut Short]]: Unlike ''[[The Big Spin]]'', ''MMaM'' ended abruptly with no chance to record a proper [[Grand Finale]] and with five episodes left unaired on TV. Also a [[Downer Ending]] to fans of ''The Big Spin'' and game shows in general when the Lottery announced that there would be no replacement whatsoever.
*  [[Missing Episode]]: The last five episodes were uploaded to the Lottery's official [[YouTube]] page. Oddly, the first of these unaired shows would've provided good closure on-air, as it ended with a $2,600,000 win. (The final unaired episode had a jackpot of $1,600,000 which wasn't awarded.)

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