Michael Larson was a contestant on a game show in 1984 called Press Your Luck.

When watching the game show, he realized he was seeing the same patterns over and over again on the board. He took the time to carefully determine the patterns, and then memorized all of the patterns. He then used his knowledge of the patterns to get on the game show and win over US$110,000! Keep in mind that this is long before the days of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", when even the top game show champions weren't taking home more than US$40,000.

This footage is mostly from a documentary by the Game Show Network, called “Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal”.

Update (5/20/06): The same footage of Michael Larson is now available on YouTube, as well.

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