Million Dollar Mission

The Million Dollar Mission is a twist that a contestant will win the million easier than the normal games.

History

The Million Dollar Mission was first announced on "The NFL Episode" that the announcer Joe Cipriano explained the twist. The Million Dollar Mission is a special addition to Deal or No Deal. Each time a player is picked to start the game, there is a 1 in 300 chance the mission will commence. When the game starts during the mission, another million is added to the board for the player to potentially win. If the player does not win the million, even if it is revealed to be inside their case, yet another million is added for the next game. The millions pop up one at a time. Starting in the Katie Henson’s game until Tomorrow Rodriguez’s game, the millions pop up all at once, same as the multi-million dollar madness occurs later in last five episodes in the third season.

There can be at most 13 millions on the board; the whole right side of the board. There is also a possibility of eliminating all values but the millions. When this happens, the player automatically wins the million. As soon as a player wins a million, the mission ends and the value board resets to only one million on it. They ended the first installment of million dollar mission with eight cases, but then the twist returned on January 2, 2008 and supposed to end with nine cases but the banker said that he wanted to continue his mission until February 25, 2008. The twist returned for the final time on August 25, 2008, started with four cases instead of standard two cases and it ended on October 29, 2008 after Tomorrow Rodriguez won the million.

People who won the million is colored in green.

Summary

Date	Contestant(s)	How Many $1,000,000 Cases?	Note
September 26, 2007	Halie Swan	2	This is never aired because the producers did not start the Million Dollar Mission that way.
	Tim Krajewski		Tim Krajewski was the first male contestant to play the M$M.
	Charlene Miranda	3	Charlene Miranda was the first female contestant to play the M$M.
September 28, 2007	The Drew Family	4
October 3, 2007	Alecia Whitaker	5
October 5, 2007	Cecil Richardson	6
October 10, 2007	Carmen Gant	7
October 12, 2007	Wynetta Williams	8
January 2, 2008	Will Jimeno	2
January 3, 2008	Heather McKee	3
January 7, 2008	Guy Goudeau	4
	Brad Falcon	5
January 14, 2008	Margarita Montijo	6
January 16, 2008	Shequila Farrelly	7
January 21, 2008	John Buonviaggio	8
January 23, 2008	Britney Lewzader	9	After Lewzader's game concluded, the Banker called to say that the Million Dollar Mission will continue after all, with the next show having 10 shots at the grand prize.
February 4, 2008	Becky Matheny	10
February 11, 2008	Tamika Kendall	11	She waves her wand to the board to reveal the million dollar cases.
	Ryan Cleghorn	12	Before choosing a case, he looked at the board and saw ten contestants who were in the mission.
February 13, 2008	Katie Henslin	13	The Million Dollar Mission will continue, once again with 13 cases concealing the grand prize. The reason for the MDM peaking at 13 is still unclear.
February 25, 2008	Nate & Sarah Harrison		This was the first and only time two contestants play for the Million Dollar Mission.
August 25, 2008	Koshka Blackburn	4
September 1, 2008	Jessica Robinson	5	First million dollar winner.
September 8, 2008	Gary Cote	2
September 15, 2008	Chris Williams	3
	Maryann Vazquez	4
October 3, 2008	Tommy Knowlton	5	Since he had the million dollars in his case, this would’ve been the last MDM. But, the MDM continued until Tomorrow wins the million.
October 10, 2008	Layna Dugan	6
October 22, 2008	Richie Bell	7
October 24, 2008	Coleen Fowler	8
October 29, 2008	Tomorrow Rodriguez	9	This was the last Million Dollar Mission. Second million dollar winner.

Trivia

• No male contestant won the million. Tommy would’ve broke the jinx.
• This was similar than Progressive Prize.
• This was Howie’s idea to make someone give away one million dollars. He usually wears an tie.