I am very disappointed that it is not Bebo. I have been hounding ABC with e-mails as to the identity of the winner. Finally they have posted something.

Mark Nakamoto, 24, of West New York, New Jersey, is the lucky viewer who claimed the $1,045,000 prize!

Nakomoto solved the Push, Nevada puzzle after watching the Final Clue, broadcast live during ABC's Monday Night Football on October 28. The Final Clue led viewers to a series of letters taken from the episode clues that, together with a cipher, corresponded to a telephone number. Less than two minutes after the final piece of the puzzle was broadcast, Nakamoto, an assistant editor for a Manhattan publishing company, was the first contestant to call the winning number.

Nakamoto wasn't the only viewer to figure the puzzle out, just the quickest to respond. During the first 20 minutes after the Final Clue was broadcast, more than 500 people solved the puzzle and called the winning number. Within the first 24 hours, more than 10,000 viewers had called.

The Push, Nevada Game was the largest TV and online game of skill ever played in America (for a prize of over 1 million dollars). The TV portion of the game is in a class of its own, as it was the only nationwide game of skill that could be played and won by simply watching a TV show. An estimated number of players upwards of 600,000 participated in the game, based on a percentage of broadcast viewers and online numbers. Additionally, close to 200,000 of these players interacted with the online portion of the game, rivaling some of the largest online games in existence.

• RE: The Winner,Pushie, 08:33 PM, 11-12-02
• RE: The Winner,PepeLePew13, 10:07 PM, 11-12-02

It was fun when it lasted.

This is an outrage! I demand a recount! Beebs shoulda won it - guess she didn't know anybody who worked at ABC.