wipeout hax

[epbowlingdude03]

Poor Peter Tomarken, always getting hacked....At least this time it was not by an unemployed Ice cream truck driver

[lionking300]

Freakin brilliant! I'm surprised they did not make the bonus round more challenging after this.

[SaIadXD]

Where is the flying monitor?

[chrisking69]

the prize is a Beretta GT? noice :D

[jakamneziak]

clever strategy, i am impressed

[DarraghJay]

the hax!!!!!!!!!!

[spongygames]

Dr Hax: HAAAAAX! *flying moniter comes into his face*

[milkbon3]

That was brilliant

[kdeviljay]

This guy was the smartest player on Wipeout ever. I am surprised that every contestant that followed him didn't try the same stunt.

[TaKaLQc]

Hax

[Kartmannnnn]

He was flipping out.

That is a good tactic though.

[Visonu]

Its so funny how Rick celebrates when he finds all six answers

[MrBennetzen]

I kinda wonder what is the record on this game for the shortest time in the bonas round?

[lobstertexas]

well, on occasion there'd be someone that knew the answers right away on one of the "Definitive questions" (meaning not one of those dumb "according to Good Housekeeping Magazine.., but actual real trivia questions), and would nail all 6 on the first run...

[cstring420]

I don't understand the concept of this game. This video is my first impression.

[atticus2u]

what the fuck is going on

[lobstertexas]

hahaha

[jeprice08]

I fondly remember this show (to prove it, I did a homemade version of it once) and I remember the contestant. That striptease is why.

[viddykiddy18]

It seems that Ben Stein & Jimmy Kimmel aren't the only ones to striptease due to a bonus round win.

[cyanoftyr]

The reason he was able to do it so fast was because he never had an instance where he changed a WRONG to a WRONG or a RIGHT to a RIGHT. In either case the "number correct" would not have changed, so he would have eaten up time trying to figure out ehich one happened.

[auburn4wins]

I remember this show fondly! It deserved a longer life than just one season, ESPECIALLY with a superb host like Peter Tomarken! RIP, Peter! God Bless you.

[Hoddersrevenge]

It lasted a good 6 in the UK at least. The first 5 were good but the Monkhouse era was its downfall.

[ArmadilloAl]

While MountainHawk has a point, I'm sure the contestant had an idea of what he would do if this board was one of the other 93%. It's not like he wouldn't figure it out as soon as the number didn't change...

[DoubleEdgedSword1]

There's the second Peter Tomarken hosted game show where someone figured out a pattern to win.

[MountainHawkPYL]

He got lucky with that distribution of correct answers. Had the distribution been like this:

NNNN

NNYY

YYYY

Where N=Wrong answer

and Y=Correct answer,

and if he continued the pattern that he was using, he would be stuck with three correct and three wrong answers for the entire game.

[MountainHawkPYL]

The probability of getting a distribution of squares where his pattern will work is 6.93%

[namk19]

should've been 30 sec.

[trent100100]

There is no excuse to lose this bonus round. People stop to think. If you dont and just use a reasonable speed you can win

[lobstertexas]

not true, as a lot of times they would load the board with crap like "ACCORDING TO PEOPLE MAGAZINE...." so, just like in this video, any time you have "According to..." some random periodical, it's all a guess. Greed was notorious for this on their higher-dollar questions.. You can be the best trivia nerd in the country and not know those.

[trent100100]

true but on greed you have one chance, on this you have many guesses. Just guess and don't think

[Wheeloffortunefan999]

they did that with the $2.2 million question also. (i think that was a yale university study

[mpontheair]

I seems that every game show Peter Tomarken was on (except Hit Man obviously) the playing board got HAXORed!

[lobstertexas]

haha good point...

maybe one day it will be revealed that someone playing hitman was using some sort of third eye on the back of their head :D

[megamanj2004]

FOLIED AGAAAAAAIN!!!

[alyssaaa07]

I remember watching this show in first-run syndicaton and repeats on USA. I would love to see it again!!! I only have one ep on tape from a trade.

[qwAirGear]

Clever hax indeed. I love when people break games like this.

[SuperGamer7]

There are at least one or two instances where a contestant got it in one try!

[Jnelson09]

Hey, this is pretty cool.

[Yugi40]

YEE-HAA!!!! HE DID IT!!! HAHAAA!!!!

[gameshowluvr86]

He kicked ass!!!

[Bu8956]

This Was A Great Show. You Should Post A Whole Episode On Youtube.

[agentcak]

I use to love this game! I made my own home verison of this game years ago.

[ryntreat]

I Hope It Will Be On GSN Soon!

[ryntreat]

I Miss Wipeout

[gameshow2500]

I think you want to see Wipeout on GSN in the future

[mtiller2006]

I don't know why this show only lasted a year, but I'll tell you this. It had a fun layout, as I saw.

[a1cjlock]

RIP Peter!

[lobstertexas]

sorry.. i only cared about bonus rounds back then.. i was 14 :p

[JaShields]

we need the whole show plus the bonus round.

[tomarkenfan]

Gerd your loins??? That is one of the dumbest phraises Pete has ever said. Whenever Peter removed his coat, I had flashbacks of the striptease episode on PYL...

[mtiller2006]

I never understood that quote, "Gerd your loins". But, you got something right. I recently saw that striptease, and those coats sure did remind me of it as well.

[smashwhammy]

In one game show, past pyl, he accidently called a point a "spin" and in another, he slipped up and said "Whammy"

[JPPT1974]

Yeah! Peter's hair was so very grown out. He looked very handsome IMHO!

[crazdgamer]

His method breaks if there are 2 correct answers side-by-side or two incorrect answers side-by-side. In that case, when he switches answers, he won't know whether they're both correct or incorrect. He'd have to either switch both on, or switch both off to see, and that could throw off his system.

[lobstertexas]

Yeah, I thought about how coincidental it was that the winning answers were in that checkerboard pattern which matched his system.. but he seemed to have it pre-planned, so I'm sure he had some sort of way to work adjacent correct or incorrect answers as well..

[vanni9283]

I think his method had to do more with there being 2 correct answers on each row. If the answers were distributed in a manner other than 2-2-2 (of which there are 4 possible distributions: 3-2-1, 4-1-1, 4-2-0, and 3-3-0), then his strategy would have failed.

[jthweatt]

ArmadilloAl makes a good point about why it's not so bleak as to say his strategy would fail with another distribution.

Label the Wipeout board like this.

A B C D

E F G H

I J K L

Now suppose that the answers are G, H, I, J, K, and L.

Let's say that he chooses the middle six in the above board. When he chooses B, C, F, G, J, and K, he has 3 right.

[jthweatt]

Now, when he switches from C to D, he still has three right. The important thing to note is that he isn't totally without information. When the number doesn't change, he knows that both answers have the same truth value; either they're both right, or both wrong.

The contestant can use that information along with single switches increasing or decreasing the number of correct answers on the board to eventually find the correct six.

[Tekkin58]

Actually, he was FAST! God, he really owned the bonus round of that classic.

[TVLubber]

He only got it in half the time!