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And here's the video of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus
by btucker 16y ago
And here's the video of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_EjKKGSXus
- zacharycohn 16y agoMusical hacks. It sounds like he hit STOP every time a certain note played. Maybe he noticed a pattern that whenever someone hit "stop" on that note it landed on a "big bucks" icon. So account for reaction time/delay, and ta-daa. $100,000.
- AntiRush 16y agoHe realized that there were a set number of patterns. Once he figured that out it was easy to hit the button when the next square was going to be the one he wanted.
- joezydeco 16y agoI watched these episodes as a kid when they were shown on CBS the first time. After about 10 spins or so it became obvious (or so I thought at the time) that he was waiting for a certain corner-corner-this.square combination to come up and then it would always stop on the $+spin square. There was nothing musical in there at all.