Press Your Luck

[Jack Ryan]

Michael Larson's Streak

In the fall of 1983 an Ohio man, Michael Larsen, put together an astounding run on the television game show program Press Your Luck. He did so by memorizing the sequences by which the various prize squares lit up on the game board, allowing him to time his button presses to coincide with the lights' stopping on the most advantageous squares.

Wow.

 

[j00fek]

omfg this is classic, thank you sooo much

 

[FelixDeCat]

Cool. :thumbsup:

 

[fs5]

http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm

 

[SearchMaster]

LOL - I saw a whole documentary on this one day when I was laid up in bed.

 

[Finns14]

That was awsome couldn't have happened to a person who needed it more


Edit

Originally posted by: fs5
http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm

Or maybe not

 

[SaltBoy]

He seemed like the kind of guy that had nothing to do with his life except watch day-time game shows.

 

[Henrythewound]

Didn't yhis guy end up going bankrupt later? Something about buying thousands of $1 bills from the local bank in order to win some radio contest involving serial numbers on dollar bills. His home was burglarized and the stacks of bills were taken. I also think he is now dead.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster
LOL - I saw a whole documentary on this one day when I was laid up in bed.

It's a good documentary, I have a full copy of it in a 175MB Quicktime movie if anyone is interested.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Yeah, that's a pretty cool story, although the guy was kindof a dick, from what I understand.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: fs5
http://gscentral.net/larsen.htm

A somewhat sad postscript to the story is that Larson eventually wound up losing all his winnings in a bad housing investment deal.

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn.

 

[zanieladie]

Originally posted by: SearchMaster
LOL - I saw a whole documentary on this one day when I was laid up in bed.

I saw this too...well. I wan't laid up in bed...but I watched it anyway.