According to Official Guinness Records,
Television networks in the USA were required to cap game-show winnings after a series of scandals in the 1950s, but NBC limited their contestants' earnings by capping the number of games that could be played by a champion. On the 1980s version of Sale of the Century (USA), contestant Barbara Phillips (USA) retired with winnings of over $150,000.
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