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Michael Larsonwas a contestant on the American television game show Press Your Luck in June 1984. Larson's claim to fame was his winning $110,237 in cash and prizes, which he was able to do by memorizing the patterns used on the Press Your Luck game board.
Through a careful study of the movement of the light used for the 18-square "Big Board" on the CBS game show Press Your Luck, Larson was able to determine that there were only five patterns used to determine the movements of the spinner used to award money on the show. He was able to discover this by using a VCR to pause a recorded episode of the game, and proceed frame by frame to learn the patterns. Armed with this knowledge, he found that it would be theoretically possible to go on the game show, watch the patterns carefully, and hit squares containing money consistently. The board even goes out of sync since it ha never been active for so long.
Below is some footage from the historic event. This footage was only aired once, then banned by CBS and Game Show Network until a few years ago.
First one, skip to 2:49.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCK8CStpLU[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLEdG52kOE[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdYDLX03ws[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokSq8Rb0c4[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcYIP11zRM[/ame]
Through a careful study of the movement of the light used for the 18-square "Big Board" on the CBS game show Press Your Luck, Larson was able to determine that there were only five patterns used to determine the movements of the spinner used to award money on the show. He was able to discover this by using a VCR to pause a recorded episode of the game, and proceed frame by frame to learn the patterns. Armed with this knowledge, he found that it would be theoretically possible to go on the game show, watch the patterns carefully, and hit squares containing money consistently. The board even goes out of sync since it ha never been active for so long.
Below is some footage from the historic event. This footage was only aired once, then banned by CBS and Game Show Network until a few years ago.
First one, skip to 2:49.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCK8CStpLU[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXLEdG52kOE[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdYDLX03ws[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokSq8Rb0c4[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcYIP11zRM[/ame]
