The finale of the show took place on Thursday, and the winner, Andrew Kravis, received a grand total of $2.6 million, the largest cash prize ever awarded all at once. This record surpasses the record that Ken Jennings set on Jeopardy ($2.5 million), but it took him 75 days to accomplish that. It took Kravis only about 12 days to accomplish his record, but the record for the most money won in the least amount of time is still by Kevin Olmstead, who won $2,180,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001.