2/5 Michael Larson on Press your Luck

[CaIIOfTheWild]

3:35 Host: You haven't lost a spin Michael.  Michael: I aint never losin, let's go

Heh, little did they know how true that would be.

[theVuly]

He seems like a really likeable guy.

[malldental]

4:38 he thought he'd been busted

[TheAssassin999999999]

They really didn't know who they were fucking with

[ColdXClue]

8:14 Epic Face Palm!

[Kiyema]

Ed looks like Jeffrey Dahmer and sounds like Sonny Bono.

[CountArtha]

HE'S SO FREAKING HAPPY.

[BLACKIESBOY]

Lady: WHEN'S IT GONNA BE MY TURN?

[hellohellobyebyeful]

Thumbs up if Cracked brought you here.

[louiebasslouie]

I really think the highlight of this episode is Ed. That guy's freakin' nuts.

[MrCoffee3000]

He looks like Karl Marx

[skittlezer]

I don't care who won, Ed is a BAWS. 

[DaarthPingas]

3:55 for the Steve Balmer Scream XD

[Holagurrl25]

He died over 10 years ago.

[DarKnightofCydonia]

According to snopes he blew it all in 2 years and now/then works at Wal-Mart.

[supersonicklyx]

5:10 being kind...but he could have won the guy 5000...

[Aahlookoutbehindyou]

The crowd was going nuts!

[chineseboy3124]

at 3:00 the trolling begins

[Vire70]

It's amazing how badly this show is set up. It's actually quite easy to notice the pattern, and the screens dont change very quickly at all. It's slower than "stacker"

[usa02]

03:02, The moment you've all been waiting for!

[usa02]

03:02, The Moment you've all been waiting for!

[ccayco]

They didn't want to pay him for "cheating"... You mean someone took the time to learn something and then applied it!? Preposterous!

[rye61]

do you see what happens when michael larson fucks two strangers in the ass

[hawaiiguykailua]

I remember this show as a kid, I tried to convince my siblings that I new the board as well, it was a very simple pattern actually.

[jeffersontool]

At about 3:38 Michael says something I find quite hilarious.

[Cidantis]

HOW DID THE WOMAN GET THAT ONE ABOUT IRONING WRONG?

[Shadowkirby3000]

Michael Landry is probably pissed that he didn't go for one of the higher $ + spins haha

[TheBigDaddyMrB]

5:40 hehehe

[Hotdiggity11]

THE FALL!

*Fist Pump*

"Spring is the correct answer"

[Jac00b]

I love this man lol

[SouthPortlandKK]

HE STARTS HIS TURN AT 3:00

YOUR WELCOME

[lokester712]

this guy is now my idol

[wiithepeople2]

one of the staff members did not originally want Mr. Larson to play because "he looked kinda shady", but the producers didn't really care and let him on the set. The rest, as they say, is history.

[manbearpig900]

At what point did the Producers get wise?

[StandardsDT]

@manbearpig900

We actually went over this in class today. They caught on rather quickly, but they couldn't do a thing cause he wasn't breaking any rules. The only thing he did was memorize the pattern as it truly is not random. If you listen to the "big scam" episode of this American life they interviewed his brother, ex-wife and producers of the show.

[devante92]

@3:35 "i aint ever losing. lets go."

[SpoiledLogic]

@devante92 lol at least he's honest

[attentionviewers68]

4:32- The jig is UP! Hand over the cash!

[indianamerican10]

@RockinMan09 There was a weekend break before that moment happened on Monday.

Whatever that means.

[KanaCanaful]

LOL, the other contestants are like... "Damn"

[KingMacintosh]

6:33 opps

[bagleboy73]

look at ed at 8:30 he so depresed

[Mirzinho]

5:42 Troll laugh.

[CadrinHaverit]

Computers and randomness don't mix. At times.

[shadowzero7891x]

A wolf disguised as a sheep o.o

[00Yahiko]

I think he blew the first round so that people wouldn't get suspicious too quickly. Anyone else here from Cracked.com?

[SupaEthany]

@00Yahiko I sure am. This is incredible.

[Eyedunno]

@00Yahiko

Yep.

[Ascyltos]

@00Yahiko Either that or he was just testing out the "feel" of the buzzer.

[supersheep1985]

@00Yahiko No, he stopped it one cycle too early. If he does it the same way I did, using certain indicators on the board, anyway, 2-4 indicates it'll go 17-8 and then reset, the first one after 8 was 11, meaning that your safe choices are a fast 1-4 or relax, look for 17 and it'll bounce to 8 which is always safe. He stopped it ON 17 instead of right after. That's the same mistake he made on his last spin where he got the Bahamas trip and almost whammied.

[Proletariat12]

@00Yahiko He obviously did. Since the first round didn't have the key free spins with the money, he didn't need to win anything there. His strategy needed the free spins.

[bountyonmyhead]

@00Yahiko Yeah cracked lol you read the part where he lost his money in an investment scam.

[nocturnezero]

Ed belonged on To Catch a Predator.

[sharktamer]

Michael Landry must have been thinking, "If he can cheat like that, why couldn't he get me the $5,000?"

[wolfthing11]

lol at the dude on the left facepalming himself at the end

[almsfsdjgx]

3:00

Let the ownage commence :-)

[ff2paladin]

This guy is the Ken Jennings of Press Your Luck

[ihaveadesk1]

Lol 3:46, Ed is getting a kick out of Michael winning a trip to Kauai.

And, what's up with their answers on the first question?:

The iron is hot, so why would cold water speed it up? Has Ed never ironed? And Michael is obviously just copying him, but why on earth would Janie answer "warm"??? If warm speeds it up, hot would obviously be faster. And same with cold. It is highly unlikely something in between would be fastest.

[Gold13n13gg]

WAIT WAIT WAIT I DONT GET THE POINT OF IT - WHY WOULD YOU GIVE YOUR SPINS AWAY - in the one b4 the lady gave 2 spins away :S

[trlkly]

@Gold13n13gg If you were to accidentally get a whammy, you'd lose all your money. It's management of risk. You pass you spins so you won't lose your money, but then the person you pass them to may get a higher score, and leave you with nothing.

[mj4birdie]

They should have changed the name of this game to "Press Your Skillful Pattern Learning Luck" after he figured the pattern out!!! Go Michael!!!

[Keihzaru]

this guys is a freacking BADASS!!!!! my new hero, now I knwo what I should do, stay in my hoem all day taping gameshowsto look for patterns and memorize them.

[EVILASSPIRANHA]

What's so great is that he looks like such a dark horse at first, but you can tell he's just manipulating the first few minutes of the game to set up the payoff.

[charliegamer]

Moral of the story: Screw pseudo-randomness.

[Anonie324]

8:14

Bill: Oh God why is this happening?

[Dun204]

worlds greatest troll

[needabloodyname]

I hate America

[immaLAWLRUS]

@needabloodyname were not to fond of you either...

[bigchum94]

LMAO!

[lachlandevious]

he starts slapping and yelling before it even stops lol

[Harrisabd]

@lachlandevious yea i know recognised that too lol celebrating too early

[TheYTLiberator]

Could someone fill me in? He legally won all that money by memorizing the system of...what the flashing lights?

[tehSnark]

@TheYTLiberator Yes.

[metalhead492]

@TheYTLiberator Pretty much, yeah... Watched the show enough to where he memorized the "random" sequence of lights and such, and got off with 100K+ in the end. Kudos to him.

[MacTeen316]

@TheYTLiberator The lights were NOT random. There were at the time, 5 patterns of 18 spaces; after his episodes, they upped it to eventually 32 patterns so someone else couldn't pull the same.

One of the patterns he would nail (think of the upper-left as #1 and go clockwise, 4th is 3K 4K 5K + spin, 8th is 500 1000 1500 + spin) was 2, 12, 1, 9, 4.

[CainmosniMirrored]

@TheYTLiberator Part of it was flashing lights but the huge part which allowed him to exploit it was that square 4 and 8 never had a whammy and they almost always had big money with a free spin. That mixed with perfect timing allowed him to "Beat" Press Your Luck.

[MrLimsky83]

lol whoever made this game was an idiot notice the fourth box on the top always has a 3,000 4,000 5,000 and 2,000 on it plus a free spin from there its just a matter of timing

[Ututwhynot]

this dude is fuckin epic..he memorized all the the outcomes..he pwned the system

[IzzYandPalpro]

So micheal on the show got 300,000 i think so does that mean the michael on the card for the home player spin thing got 300,000 to

[Sashinator0]

@IzzYandPalpro Michael on the show won $110k, Michael Landry only won $500 for that home player spin.

[trlkly]

@Sashinator0 Shouldn't he have won $1000?

[Sashinator0]

@trlkly you're right, it is $1000.

[jwdogfst]

I bet Michael Landry was pissed that Larson didn't try to land on frame 4.

[Wher3Wuzi]

peter looks soooo fuckin pissed hahahaa

[ragglefraggle09]

6:49

LMFAO

"unbelievable!"

---translation---

"I'm so losing my job, fuck my life hahahaha!!!"

[a7xfan66611]

wow, that guy w/ that home game spin, is lucky. he won the same amount this guy did.

[Gustavo0929]

8:15, Ohhh Ed LOL!

[TheLoneN00b]

Ed's a faggot.

[Kinkoyaburi]

Rip 'em off clean, Michael!

[Threeballer97]

STOP! WOOO!!!

[StupedKid]

if they do a movie on this, John C Reilly should play him.

[a7xfan66611]

@StupedKid or jack nicholson

[BionicDance]

I wanna know what it's like to be one of the OTHER contestants...going, "WTF??? I wanna play too, dammit!" Heh. Poor fuckers.

[ultramincubed]

his laugh at 5:42 is priceless

[AngeloProduction]

Meanwhile, at the producers: "OH FUCK FUCK FUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"

[quadroon12]

larson is my hero!

[takeapieandrun]

LOL that guy sitting at home must be hella happy.

[Peepholecircus]

Awesome.

[BlissByIgnorance]

7:10 "This is why we call the show press your luck"

Oh wait... its not luck XD

[analyzingfunny]

One of the worlds greatest hackers.And this is NOT cheating.

[yankees2249]

What were the other contestants like do you think?

[phullofit]

this guy is badass!

[dannelchannel]

Not bad for an ice-cream man.

[EcHoFiiVe]

@RockinMan09 he won it in one day, but the network had to broadcast it over 5 days because the game went over the shows broadcasting limit

[KariHikariOokami]

As he goes on, you can hear the hatred building in the voice of the host. Muahahaha!

[Ac1dlicous]

i love the acting he pulls, but when he says stop he cheers automatically lol, a givaway but man this dude is genius HA!

[18shadowolf]

epic win!

[orionsvendetta]

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKED!!!!!!­!!!

[KrypticGuy666]

Never underestimate an icecream man, also CRACKED!!!!

[alabama2561990]

i think cbs should have known something within the first 5 spins i mean how many people keep hitting 4000 and 5000 plus a spin

[KytanoSkorpius]

XD at the look on the host's face around 7:00

[KytanoSkorpius]

Damn, this show just got PLAYED.

[TheEclipse9]

He made CBS his bitch 

[firefrostpeacemaker]

cracked, a clever man if i ever saw one.

[grecklin]

He memorized the light pattern

cracked.com/article_18753_the-­6-most-creative-abuses-loophol­es.html

read #4

[Shaniac1138]

ed looks about 50, but i bets he's 19

[jfang407]

lol this is why we call it press your LUCK.... or skillz

[somehobo606]

cracked.com

[FirstMetalHamster]

Why are they clapping so insane?

[josh2112]

Ed sucks

[BroyhillVideo]

He almost let his secret slip at 3:38

"I never loose a spin" that should have been a clue. lol

[0RecklessAbandon0]

At arounf 6:15, the producers prolly dropped dead.

[YayJike]

the home player round thing - does that mean, that the guy at home won the same amount that michael did? which is 110k?

[ScarcticCG]

@YayJike No, he only won $5000 (or whatever it landed on)

[jesusjuyce]

@YayJike

No he only got what he got on that spin, which was 1000

[Sashinator0]

@RockinMan09 he won it in 1 day.

[Vippi13]

@Sashinator0 Actually, they ran out of air time and had to shoot the rest of the show the following day.

[Loto346]

@Sashinator0 He had trouble with CBS, but he eventually got the money only to lose it all in a Ponzi Scheme

[brandaddy0]

@Sashinator0

i read they had to call him back to play. so it took 2 days.

[Lassannn]

Holy fucking wow.

[seige184]

I have herpes

[kimokanka]

Living Legend !!!!!!!!

[icutad2]

what a god

[jediskunk67]

Whoa $32,351 dollars this guy's on a roll.

[Zelrio28]

Why would a dog shed his coat in the mildly cold weather before the coldest season of the year?

[daedalx]

I would have turned the camera off and beat his a..

[walatonious]

notice how at 3:43 when he wins the Kauai trip, he initially looks disappointed for like a fraction of a second cause he knows he made a mistake... lol... I also heard is story on TAL and decided to check him out on you tube.

[kkknl]

of course it's cheating, if it wasn't casinos would be out of business by now :\

[Rimsa]

@kkknl

No, casinos cheat, this game show didn't.

[mannyvelo]

What was the secret. I just heard this story on NPR today. So I had to You Tube this. Anyone know?

[petrowskya]

@mannyvelo - It is incredibly difficult to create a truly random sequence, and in 1984 it WAS impossible to do this using any sort of mechanical means. There is always a pattern. He figured out the pattern and practiced enough to make it 2nd nature.

[armeny925]

Oh man, he started in last place. If the other two only knew how blind-sided they were about to be!

[TheDragonBoss]

6:57 and on he never lost a spin again til he gets spins passed to him by Janie

[JimmelHappyFunTime]

I bet with what we know about this episode today, the Michael who won the home spin is probably like "......That cheap bastard could have easily gotten me $5000!"

[TaKeAgUeSsS]

lol, the host goes WHATS HAPPENING? but he says it like he's happy but he's rly freaking out.

[blindambition]

You know ive tried to master the board by watching the eps its ALOT harder than people think, he did nothing wrong but if you watch his reaction he cheers before peter says what he gets so he knew Lol shame he died

[cherrypizza]

'Hot', 'cold' and 'warm' are NOT temperatures. We feel hot or cold because of the temperature. However, since temperatures are mere figures on a scale, they are not able to feel these sensations.

[dontbeapunk1]

4:33 Watch his face...."Am I Busted?"

[TheDragonBoss]

@dontbeapunk1 I know right!? The only missing is the police to make that busted look more priceless!

[JosephO75]

@dontbeapunk1 LOL!!!

[Vossome93]

The Man Is A Genius!

[animalcrossing4ev100]

Woah! This is crazy! Did he like memorize the board pattern or something?! I wish I was him!

[staphinfection]

He still has to answer the questions properly...

[jlist12]

Thank you for putting this up, one of the biggest game show moments ever, Peter Tomarken's call of this is classic. Too bad this guy lost it all, all those hours of watching this and its gone in a matter of weeks. Hope the Bahamas was good at least haha

[FanOfPopCulture]

Its all about perception, really. You have one second to hit the buzzer when the light is focused on a dollar amount.

[dave4248]

The gal on the right,...she looks like Marcy from "Married with Children" Also I noticed that he cheers way too soon. Before anyone has a chance to read what he's landed on, he's smiling and pumping his fists because he KNOWS he'll win. Also,.. almost all of his good squares are near the top right. Another suspicious sign the producers should have noticed. Maybe they did.

[Milkbonedave]

Watching this I had to stop and comment. Even though he's gotten around the system, it's still awesome to watch this happen. If I had seen this when it was on the air, it would have been truly epic.

[gnomebean]

3:19 is when all hell breaks loose...

[gtz1975]

The top 4th square NEVER had any whammys...

[TheDragonBoss]

@gtz1975 neither does squares 2 and 6 your point is?

[gtz1975]

@TheDragonBoss my point is between your mom's legs!

[ShaolinViolin]

yeah,. this money ruined his life pretty much. kinda sad really. money is evil.

[bitcheznhos]

did the whammies get a lot of poon tang ?

[pegasus316187619]

I've been wanting to see this show for some time, this guy kicked the Big Boards ass! R.I.P Mr. Larson, Gameshow Legend

[omjurmom96]

i think its really obvious tho cuz he just like focuses while the board is blinking around than rite away just claps like a retard lol. too obvious

[omjurmom96]

this guy has freak dna

[wiiguy145]

the whammies were probably crying at the end of the show

[juggalo9912]

R.I.P Mr Larson

[TheSamsaraEye]

Jesus. What a beast. I bet the Press your Luck exec's watching this guy were pissed the hell off. Larson stole from them with their eyes wide open, lol.

[kingkenney117]

This is probably the hardest this guy has had to work over the last 30 years of his life lol

[hakkayo]

doesnt matter what happens after the game show he goes down as an amazing man who was a icecream truck driver and owned a viewer audiance