| 1 | * 1980: Thom [=McKee=]'s 46-day run, where he won $312,700. For more than 20 years this was the longest time that a contestant had been on a game show, until [[Series/{{Jeopardy}} some guy named Ken Jennings]] blew it out of the water. |
| 2 | * Fall 1980: Erik Kraepelien, who unseated Thom, went on a reign of his own. He won $66,100, including a $24,300 pot on one of his games (which took ''four'' episodes to complete!). |
| 3 | * 1980-1981: Tom O'Connor and his challenger Pete picked the Secret Category ''four times in a row'', with the pot being doubled '''three times''' from $4,100 to $8,200 to $16,400 to $32,800. Tom ultimately won the match and $38,100, the second highest pot in TTD history; highest was $46,900. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdF4iKeA5X4&t=1m15s Here's the clip.]] |
| 4 | * November 1983: Mark Leinwand, who previously won $127,600, winning the Tournament of Champions and an additional $50,000. |
| 5 | * June 1984: Last game of the 1983-84 season - champ Kit Salisbury picks the "Auction" category, and Wink tells the players to bid on how many of the 14 UsefulNotes/UnitedStates bordering the Atlantic Ocean they think they can name. Kit, going first since he picked the category, ''immediately bids 14'', then '''runs the table''' to tie the game, earning a standing ovation from the audience! Kit would go on to win $199,750, becoming the second-biggest winner of the Martindale version. |
| 6 | * Other contestants with six-figure totals in the Martindale era: Pieter [=DeVries=] ($121,400), Brian Donovan ($148,850), Gary Meyers ($143,700), Doc Fass ($115,750), John Welsh ($116,200; incidentally, he beat Mark Leinwand to start his own reign as champion), Allan Lichtman ($104,000) and Wilbur Hicks ($159,600). |
| 7 | * The biggest winner on the Patrick Wayne version was Joel Lewin, who amassed close to $70,000 in winnings over 12 games (and came closest to retiring undefeated, under that version's 15-game limit for champions). |
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