SACRAMENTO - "Make Me a Millionaire," the California Lottery’s TV game show, awarded 12 lucky contestants a total of $194,000 in cash and prizes on this week’s show.
Surinder Kaur of Sacramento started the show off by successfully completing the Lucky Penny game, netting herself a new car – but that was just the beginning. The big winner of the day, Arthur Barron of Gilroy, finished the first stage of Safe Cracker with $32,000 and had to decide whether to press on and risk half his cash. “I wanted to go for it,” he said. And go for it he did – Barron found a doubler and walked away with an impressive $64,000. He 
plans to use his winnings to pay some bills and buy a new car for his wife.
In the Millionaire game, Carl Cardarelli took home $30,000. After getting an early strike, he gamely pressed on despite the discomfort associated with a severed Achilles that he suffered playing basketball. “I was going to go for it the whole way,” he said. Cardarelli plans to use his winnings to take a relaxing vacation.
With the progressive jackpot increasing $200,000 each week, next week’s Millionaire game contestant will have a chance to win $1.8 million.
This week’s winners:
| Arthur Barron |
Safe Cracker |
Gilroy |
$64,000 |
| Michael Vlardi |
California Cool |
Sacramento |
$50,000 |
| Carl Cardarelli |
Millionaire |
Laguna Hills |
$30,000 |
| Surinder Kaur |
Lucky Penny |
Sacramento |
Chevy Malibu |
The California Lottery believes in creating a better, more sustainable environment for future generations, which is why all cars given away on “Make Me a Millionaire” are fuel efficient and use clean innovative technologies. All new car winners on this week’s episode won a Chevy Malibu.
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More than 95 cents of every Lottery dollar is returned to the community in the form of contributions to education, prizes and retail commissions. The California Lottery contributes at least 34 cents of every dollar that players spend on Lottery products to public education and returns more than 50 percent of sales to players in the form of prizes. Since its inception in 1985, Lottery players have contributed more than $21 billion to California schools out of total sales of nearly $56 billion. Retailers benefit too, earning $3.6 billion in compensation since 1985.