Million Dollar Password: 2009 Edition is an adaptation of the TV game show
of the same name. The objective remains the same, to guess a series of words
within a time limit to win money, based on clues provided by a celebrity. The
game’s celebrities are cartoon parodies of real life actors, musicians and
other personalities. The words can be input with the keyboard or by clicking
on the alphabet at the bottom of the screen with the mouse.

The game starts with a elimination stage, where the player competes against a
human or CPU-controlled contestant in four rounds, switching celebrities
halfway through. The celebrity clues are listed at the top-right, and the
player has to make a guess after receiving each one. The hidden words, or
passwords as the game calls them, can be skipped to be solved later, if
there’s enough time left. The objective is to guess five words, with a
unlimited amount of clues allowed. The contestant with the highest score moves
to the next stage.

In the million dollar stage, the player has to guess five words on each of the
six rounds, and words can only have three clues. Players can’t try again the
skipped words. The passwords get more complex with each round, but players
have the option of walking away at the start with all the accumulated prize
money. If they lose, the money is lost as well.

Mini-games appear between the rounds, giving extra time when successfully
completed. The crossword puzzle works like its newspaper counterpart, where
the player has to complete the grid based on a list of clues at the left side.
In the word search, the player has to click and drag over words corresponding
to the clues, on a grid filled with letters. In the word association game, the
goal is link two related words, by selecting them from two columns with the
mouse.

Million Dollar Password: 2009 Edition