[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 08:37 PM\'] Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant (The LATTER contestant hailing from my home state of Texas) were both on the Mega-Jackpot version of Millionaire.
When the show started up again in 2001, after going maybe a thousand shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.
Kevin won $2.18 million, and Ed won $1.86 million. [/quote]
They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point)