This is a quiz game based on a German TV show where (if successful) a competitor could win up to a million Deutsch Mark (the currency before Euro).

A spinner decides who is Captain of the team. Then every player spins to see on which "Action field" to put his pawn to.
Those fields may be questions but also the beginning of a Terminator round. With the latter one players can exchange their Captain. Furthermore there are actions like "spin again" or "go directly to next round" (with higher cash reward).
The money is usually distributed to equal parts amongst the players, only the Captain is getting more.

The difficulty of the trivia questions rises every round.