Hosted by stand-up comedian/actor Billy Gardell, best known for his role as Chicago police officer Mike Biggs on the sitcom Mike & Molly, it was initially based on an unsuccessful drawing game of the same name that was coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), using the Monopoly board game brand under license from Hasbro.
The show originated as an hour-long program in its first season, which aired from March 28 to June 13, 2015, consisting of five games per episode.
For the second and final season, which aired from September 12, 2015, to April 30, 2016, the show was reduced to a 30-minute format incorporating only three games.
[1] Each episode featured winners of a second chance drawing (through an online website), who were flown to Las Vegas to participate in the show.
The audience was split into five sections (battleship, boot, cat, dog, and wheelbarrow—all named after tokens in the classic U.S. version of Monopoly).
Residents of states that did not sell lottery tickets during the period of the show's production were not eligible to participate in the program.
Landing on GO exactly, either by dice roll or flipping an "Advance to GO" card from Chance or Community Chest, augmented the contestant's cash total to $1,000,000 and split the Audience Jackpot among the section.