Miljoenenjacht (Netherlands) - Extreme Prizes (theoretically and Factual)

Extreme Prizes (theoretically and Factual)

Each show Miljoenenjacht can, theoretically, give away more than three times the jackpot of the case game, €5,000,000. This happens when:

• The in-studio player has the opportunity to win €5,000,000 in the case game.
• A random at-home viewer, who plays in the Postcode Loterij, and has selected the same "number" as the briefcase chosen by the end game player, is given an amount equal to what the in-studio player wins, which could also be €5,000,000.
• When a player selects their briefcase in the final round, that person states their postcode. The following week, whatever the in-studio player wins, that person's postcode dwellers win a portion of the top prize too. When all values are given away to each person in the postcode, it totals up to €5,000,000.
• If all the briefcase holders correctly guess the amounts in their briefcases (see Final Round section), a further €350,000 will be given away.
• In round four, if all of the four contestants chosen to be eliminated take the bribe, a further amount of money will be given away.

When all these amounts are summed, the total is €15,350,000 plus the money from the 'bribes', which is more than three times the top prize of €5,000,000.

Extreme winners:

• The show's biggest winner is Arno Woesthoff. He won ƒ10,000,000 (€4,537,802) in the episode of September 2, 2001. In a previous episode of Miljoenenjacht he had already won ƒ1,000,000 (€453,780), to a grand total of ƒ11,000,000 (€4,990,000). With that, he holds the record of Dutch quiz show winnings.
• The show's second to biggest winner is Helma. She won €1,495,000 (US$2,147,723 or £1,211,700) with the amounts of €1,000, €75,000, €2,500,000 and €5,000,000 remaining on the board. As per normal, she continued picking cases after she dealt, to see how much she would have won had she carried on. She removed the €5,000,000 on her next pick, thus ending up having a 'perfect' game. Her briefcase turned out to only have had €1,000. This was reportedly one of the biggest wins in worldwide traditional game show history.
• The show's smallest winner is a man from Venlo who won €10.
• The show's biggest loss of a deal occurred on November 21, 2010; the contestant accepted €460,000 for his case, which turned out to have the top prize in it. A male contestant on June 1, 2008 and a female contestant on April 4, 2010 accepted €1,050,000 and €1,000,000 respectively for their cases, which also had the top prize.