
A contestant must choose from 26 sealed briefcases containing a marker for various amounts of cash from one penny to $1 million. The player then eliminates the remaining 25 cases one by one. The chosen ones are opened and the amount of money inside revealed. After several cases are opened, the player is tempted by the Banker to accept an offer of cash in exchange for not continuing the game and possibly winning a larger sum of money.

Actors Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey and Oscar Nuñez ("The Office") offer their support to a contestant as he tries for $1 million.

A Los Angeles woman and a mother of sextuplets each play special 25-case games as they play for the $1 million top prize, while trying to avoid cases filled with coal, eggnog and fruitcake.

A single mother from the Bronx, N.Y., and a woman from DeFuniak Springs, Fla., compete for up to $1 million.

A Southern woman tries to win money to start her own business; a teacher tries to win cash to enable him to move out of his parents' house.