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Paula Rhodes: All taped up from Periscope Plaza, 2 blocks from the Busker Building, 7 blocks from the flea market, 10 miles from the university and 23 miles from where PolkaCon is....it's @ The Buzzr. Now here he is, the master of everything buzz, and a man who would never cheat on tests....Pierre....KELLY!
Me: This is @ The Buzzr. It's a program where you know everything about Buzzr. This week.....
Fighting the System. 2 weeks ago we told you about Press Your Luck, but one man in 1984 came in and took on the board the way he could. I'll tell you about it after I give you the results of the poll.
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We told you of Whammy! or PYL, which is better? PYL, of course. We'll have another one after we tell you the legend of this man.
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When PYL premiered, Michael started recording the episodes at the time he was an ice cream truck driver. While watching, he had noticed that the randomizer that moved the light indicator around the eighteen square "Big Board" had five patterns it followed. Larson began trying to memorize these patterns, as he believed he could predict when and where the randomizer would land. Furthermore, he discovered that the fourth and eighth squares (when numbered beginning at #1 in the top left hand corner and then moving clockwise along the board) always contained cash and never had a Whammy in them. In addition, square #4 always had the top dollar values in it and in the second round, both squares rewarded contestants with an additional spin if they were hit ($500, $750, or $1,000 in square #8 and $3,000, $4,000, or $5,000 in square #4). This proved crucial to Larson's theory, as he could retain control of the board in the second round for as long as he saw fit if he kept true to following the patterns.
In May 1984, Larson used most of his savings to buy a plane ticket and flew to California to audition for Press Your Luck. Contestant supervisor Bobby Edwards was suspicious of Larson's motives when he interviewed him on May 19 and was unwilling to allow him to be on the show, but executive producer Bill Carruthers overruled him (a move he said he later regretted from that day on).
As far as the game play was concerned, On his first spin, he hit a Whammy; however, on his next two, he hit square #4 for $1,250 and finished the round with $2,500. Long and Litras finished the round without a Whammy and won $4,080 and $4,608, respectively, putting Larson in last place.
As the second round began, He took a sailboat and a trip to Kauai. But he hit target spaces as his cash piled up. Peter Tomarken told the audience to stop....and he finally did at $102,851. Janie Litras, who was a dental assistant, passed to Michael. With the last spin he stopped the board early and won a trip to The Bahamas worth $2,636. Now at $110,237, Larson passed his two spins to Litras, who failed to earn any additional spins with them.
But let's figure out why he did. The program's producers and Brockman met to review the videotape. They noticed that Larson would immediately celebrate after many of his spins instead of waiting the fraction of a second it would take for a contestant to see and respond to the space he or she had stopped on, effectively showing he knew he was going to get something good. It was also noticed that Larson had an unusual reaction to his early prize of a Kauai trip, which was out of his pattern – he initially looked puzzled and upset, but then recovered and celebrated after a pause. At first, CBS refused to pay Larson, considering him a cheater. However, Brockman and the producers could not find a clause in the game's rules with which to disqualify him (largely because the board had been constructed with these patterns from the beginning of the series), and the network complied.
after Michael Larson's $110K+ run on "Press Your Luck", the board patterns were replaced for the rest of June 1984, which were themselves replaced in July, then August saw the introduction of a program which could generate 32 random patterns.
That changed the show and game show history. So I have a question for you: Was Michael Larson a cheater? We'll give you 2 weeks to do it.
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That should do it. Any questions about today's show will be reached or suggest something will be at Facebook at : Pierre Jason Kelly, or @Johnny_Arcade on Twitter and we'll explain. Until then, it's PK signing off and we'll see you.....@ The.....
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