Spin Your Luck cheat?
The show is in 5 parts but I've started at part 2 as the first part is largely boring. Basically, the contestant Michael Larson, in the middle, memorized the not-so-random patterns of the board to win a then enormous sum of money. They wouldn't hand over the money initially, but eventually gave him his prize.
Wiki is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson
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mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:00,
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i have yet to watch the clip
but the wiki page was very interesting. its a shame ithings didnt work out for him after wards, and what a terrible way to die.
thanks for the link!
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Captain Pilchard The king of B-movies!, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:21,
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He wasn't a cheat
he hacked, learned and used a flawed system to his advantage. I remember reading about this a few years ago, but have never actually seen the show. Will bookmark and watch this evening. Ta!
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masakatsu best of all the burger meats, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:26,
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Yeah, fair play I say.
The boy done did his homework.
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mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:30,
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It was an inspired plan.
Much niftier than Major Charles Ingram :D
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:36,
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hahaha yes, that was truly shit.
Larson's method was astoundingly elegant. Most importantly it requires for the system to be flawed in order for it to work, he figured that out, and spent time discovering pattern of the flaw. It also takes practice to be able to get your timing down so that the hack works. So it's skill in action.
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masakatsu best of all the burger meats, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 18:11,
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Great story!
click
cheats never prosper eh"
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Hummel Who died and made you....oh wait...., Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:33,
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as masakatsu said
he didnt cheat, he just learned the patterns. i say well done to him!
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Captain Pilchard The king of B-movies!, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 17:38,
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i do too
sad end for him, the poor chap.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Sun 5 Oct 2008, 1:39,
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The same used to be true of Deal Or No Deal in the UK...
...they used to use MS Excel to randomly put the cash values in the boxes- until someone realised that they too were just on a loop, and you could easily predict what value would be in each box.
Until some knob wrote in and mentioned it, instead of going on and fleecing Edmonds for quarter of a million pounds.
They use balls in a bag, now.
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"They use balls in a bag, now."
Yes, he still is presenting it.
How did they find it? I presume they must have collated shedloads of data from back episodes.
/Edited for semantics
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masakatsu best of all the burger meats, Sat 4 Oct 2008, 18:30,
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Never a cheat... just like counting cards in a Casino.
But he WAS an annoying bastard!
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Flash_Bastard, Sun 5 Oct 2008, 2:54,
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