2001—2014

Stani bogat premiered on May 12, 2001 on Nova TV with host Niki Kanchev. Initially, the show's studio in Romania was used,^[6] but subsequently a set was built in a studio complex in Sofia. Over the years, changes have been made to the amounts the contestants win, but for the first time in 2008 the grand prize amount was increased. With the start of the season in 2008, a correct answer to the 15th question would earn the player 200,000 leva.^[7] Over a period of about a year, with the start of the same season, a fourth wildcard was introduced into the rules.

In the final years of its broadcast on the Nova TV channel, only celebrities who play for charity have participated in the show. The last edition of the show with host Niki Kanchev was on May 30, 2014.

2018–2020

After a 4-year hiatus, the show returned in 2018 on the air of BNT 1, airing from 1 April at 19:00 every weekday with host Mihail Bilalov. In this version of the show, the Fastest Finger First was removed and all participants go directly to the main game. The grand prize is again 100 000 leva and the levels of the amounts have been lowered.

After a short break, the last filmed episodes of the show are broadcast every Saturday and Sunday at 19:00. The show is broadcast on public television until 26 January 2020. At the hearing during the competition for the position of Director General of BNT, the subsequently elected Emil Koshlukov announced that Stani bogat was "too expensive and BNT cannot afford it".^[8]

2021–present

On 20 December 2021 the show returned on the air of bTV. The host is again Mihail Bilalov,^[9] and the show is broadcast every weekday at 18:00. The season is announced as an "anniversary season" – under the motto "20 years in Bulgaria" (Bulgarian: 20 години в България). After the initial 70 episodes, the broadcast of new episodes began immediately. With their launch, the show became available on the SVOD platform of the media group "Voyo".

On 27 January 2022, the broadcaster launched the online game "Stani bogat." In it, the player has 60 seconds to answer each of the questions using the classic form with 15 questions and 2 safe amounts. Instead of cash amounts, participants in the online game earn "titles".

A year after the show's launch, bTV television announced on air that interest in Stani bogat was extremely high. The game attracts an average of 39% of all TV viewers, according to data from peoplemetric agency GARB.

In 2022, the book of the same name "Stani bogat", which features questions, trivia and answers, part of the classic game, was released commercially. A year later, a second book with the motto "The World is in Your Hands" was released - with questions about different countries around the world.

On September 5, 2022 the second season starts, on February 13, 2023 the third season starts, and on September 4, 2023 the fourth season starts for bTV. With reruns airing in the months between the premiere episodes.

On April 7, 2023, journalist Lyubomir Lazarov managed to open the 15th question of the game, but gave up his game and left with the sum of 50,000 leva. The opening of the last question happened for the third time in the history of Stani bogat and for the first time since Mihail Bilalov was the host.

In the summer of 2023 every Sunday at 20:00, bTV broadcast 8 charity episodes of the show under the name "Stani bogat — A Question of the Future" (Bulgarian: Стани богат – Въпрос на бъдеще). In the different episodes, participants are celebrities in tandem with a representative of the noble cause they are playing for. In the first and last episode the host is the titular Mihail Bilalov, and in the other guest hosts are Daniel Tsochev, Georgi Milkov, Peter Stoyanovich, Maria Sylvester, Ivo Ivanov and Zlatimir Yochev.

On January 14, 2024, Mihail Bilalov announced on the 120 Minuti program that he was leaving as host of the game show due to many other projects he was involved with.^[10] Since then, he has been replaced by former host Niki Kanchev.

Asen Angelov

On 13 June 2002, Asen Angelov answered the 15th question correctly and won 100 000 leva. Two weeks later he was forced to return the money after the production company found out that his daughter, Iskra, works at Nova Television.^[11] Angelov stated that ''his daughter is not a member of the family, since she is 27 years old''^[4] but later said that he will not argue over the money, and returned it voluntarily.

Lyubomir Lazarov

On 7 April 2023, journalist Lyubomir Lazarov opened the 15th question for 100 000 leva. He eventually gave up and walked away with the runner-up prize of 50 000 leva. This is the 3rd time the last question has been opened overall and the first time with host Mihail Bilalov.^[12]