In series 1, a buzzer question about the location visited by the previous week's winner was asked to determine initial control.

Both the remaining studio contestant and the previous week's champion (playing via satellite from their latest vacation site) don blindfolds and headphones, so that they cannot see or hear the numbers drawn in the Lotto draw (or those drawn in the Dream Number draw in Jet Set 2012).

The studio contestant is then asked a question in that category, scoring one point for a correct answer or awarding one to the champion for a miss.

It was filmed at BBC Scotland's Queen Margaret Drive studio in Glasgow, and saw the show move to Wednesday nights in the process.

Each episode featured the National Lottery Dream Number taking place live from Lottery HQ, and its results formed part of the end game where the contestants made the high, low or same number guesses to gain control of choosing a subject.

On 20 May 2006, the programme was invaded by protestors from the campaign group Fathers 4 Justice, moments before the Lotto draw was due to take place.