My idea was to play who wants to be a millionare with questions on figurative language. I had no acess to the internet so I could not use a pre made template and so I just made my own slightly less impressive one than some I have since found on the net. Mine is still perfectly serviceable though and it worked well.
To make it easier to play in the class setting I seperated the students into two teams and they raced to get to 1,000,000.
First I explained the rules of the game such as the point system.
The point system was the same as in the game show: