Parker Brothers published “Make-a-Million” in 1934. The rules take up 8 pages of small type; once you’ve mastered them, though, you’ll enjoy “simplicity, novelty, and excitement!”
The Tiger is a wild card in the game. It may be a holdover from the once popular game of faro, which, for some reason, was always associated with tigers: to play faro was to “buck the tiger.”
(Posted by Doug Skinner)