The $100,000 Fortune Hunt is an Illinois

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 Lottery

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 game show

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 which aired on Saturday evenings from 1989-1994 on WGN-TV

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 in Chicago

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 (except for 1 year in 1993 when it aired on WBBM-TV

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); it was also broadcast on WGN's national satellite feed. Jeff Coopwood

Jeff Coopwood

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 hosted the first season, with the rest of the run being hosted by Mike Jackson. Linda Kollmeyer served as the hostess during the entire run with Bill Barber as the announcer.

Gameplay

Potential contestants purchased a $100,000 Fortune Hunt scratch-off ticket from an Illinois Lottery

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 retailer. If they uncovered three TVs, then the ticket was sent in to the given address. At the end of each show, hostess Kollmeyer drew six tickets at random from a revolving drum. The players who purchased those tickets were selected as the contestants for the next show.

Each contestant in turn would select one of 36 squares from the board. Each space could add to or subtract from a player's money score.

Other spaces included:

• Bankrupt: The player who selected it lost his or her entire score; space was signified by a dollar sign
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   in a circle with a line crossing over it.
• Double: If the player uncovered a Double space, he or she immediately picked another number off the gameboard, winning double the amount revealed.
• Lose a Turn The player who selected it loses his or her turn in the next round.
• Free Turn: The player who selected it earned a Free Turn token which the player may redeem at any time for an additional selection from the board.
• Car: The player who selected it could accept a brand new car
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  and resign from the game or pass on the car and continue. Later in the show's run, the car symbol was split in half and hidden behind two numbers; players had to find both the front and back halves to claim the car (if desired).

At the end of the game, the player in the lead won $100,000. During the final season, the winner returned the following Saturday, up to five weeks.

Bonus Play

Each contestant would be designated with a letter. At the end of the show, home viewers would be given a chance to win $100 playing the at-home Bonus Play game. The winning contestant spun a wheel with 10 spaces numbered 0-9.

The winning number would consist of the $100,000 winner's letter followed by a 4-digit number which the studio contestant created with four spins of the Bonus Play wheel.

Any home viewer whose Bonus Play ticket number matched the contestant's letter and the 4 digits in the order they were spun would win $100.