Michael Larson's PYL romp Part 1

Michael Larson, the man that cracked the code of the Press Your Luck game board and racked up over $100,000 from them. This is the first half of the show. He hit a Whammy on the first round. It would be his last, and notice how he kept hitting the same squares. THE contestant in PYL history.

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Entertainment

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• press
• your
• luck
• michael
• larson

[streetcarjay]

R.I.P. Peter Tomarken

[Diskoboy1974]

I remember watching this when it originally aired, back in '84

Alot of people began to believe something was up... Especially when he kept landing on the big money + a spin square, over and over..

But still... what he did was 100% legal..

[pbrick6301]

i think i read somewhere that chuck barris was hired by cbs after the show to liquidate larson.

[sevenalive]

Hopefully you won't OD on money. The host didn't know how true that statement would become. Read the wikipedia article, he was obsessed and fell into get rich quick schemes and lost it all.

[FlyingGirl621]

@humanpower yeah! it was awesome

[FlyingGirl621]

@humanpower yeah! it was awesome

[HughWalenski]

'Maybe we should randomize the buzzer from now on.'

[humanpower]

Larson's story is told on This American Life episode 412: Million Dollar Idea.

[johnissoevil]

I read about it in TV Guide back in 94, around the time Quiz Show was released. TV Guide even said "You can catch Michaels reign of terror in reruns on the USA Network," when truth be told, these episodes would not air again for 19 years after the original CBS airing.