who won the most money on match game
Thom McKee
American game show winnings records
uccession of contestants on various quiz shows of the era each set records. Teddy Nadler of "The $64,000 Challenge", the highest-scoring contestant of the 1950s era, was not surpassed until 1980, when Thom McKee won $312,700 on "Tic-Tac-Dough." Between 1999 and 2001, during a brief boom in high-stakes game shows, the record was broken six times. Both the 1955–1958 and 1999–2001 eras of rapidly set and broken records were driven primarily by one-upmanship between the networks each trying to secure bragging rights and ratings
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American game show winnings records [SEP] Introduction
, the top three winners in American game show history all earned the majority of their winnings from the quiz show "Jeopardy!", which has aired since 1984 and has had no hard earnings limit since 2003. Ken Jennings is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, having accumulated a total of $5,223,414. He took the record back from Brad Rutter as the highest-earning contestant (a record Rutter had held since 2014) by virtue of his victory on January 14, 2020 in the "Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time" tournament.