A total of six episodes were produced and broadcast each year and featured one contestant competing with media personality Stefan Raab in a number of disciplines for a variable amount of money.

The games included sports contests such as biathlon, go-karting, badminton and ice hockey, puzzles, quizzes and various other challenges, each episode featuring different games than the ones before, except for one quiz called Blamieren oder Kassieren, which appeared in almost every episode.

Each contestant who managed to defeat Raab received €100,000 from the €1.5 million prize fund and moved on to a final game.

As the show was broadcast live and the games were of different duration, a single episode generally had no fixed time limit.

On 1 November 2014, the episode had to be postponed for the first time in the history of the show, as Raab was suffering from a severe cold.

[1][2] In June 2015, Raab announced his retirement from television, which ultimately led to the show's cancellation in the same year.

Schlag den Raab was one of the most successful Saturday evening shows in Germany in the late 2000s and early 2010s with audiences of up to four million people.

[8] Three other series have been created with the same format as Schlag den Raab: Several video game adaptations of the show have been released for the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows platforms in Germany since 10 September 2010, as numerous versions of a board game and a quiz.