You may be able to locate the desired page by searching for its name (with the interwiki prefix, if any) in the search box. It may be empty, contain unsupported characters, or include a non-local or incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. Pay particular attention to his focus, and how he often appears to celebrate a victory at the moment he strikes the button, rather than the moment the prize is explained to him-indicating that he knows the pattern, and is happy when he successfully hits the button at the right time.The requested page title is invalid. Watch in amazement as the humble Larson goes on a winning streak. But they are on YouTube, along with a documentary about Larson's experience (the documentary also shows the great majority of the show video, along with extensive followup from everyone involved). The original Larson shows were aired in June of 1984, then were not seen again in their entirety for almost two decades. Furthermore, in order to get spins on the board, Larson had to answer trivia questions, which relied on his trivia skills. Indeed, producers later revealed in a documentary that they knew there was a weakness to the game (only having five board patterns without any randomness), but the weakness was ignored until Larson's famous performance. Eventually, the producers relented, after determining that the official game rules did not prevent a player from reverse-engineering the game patterns. Producers initially tried to avoid paying him, since his pattern-memorization might be considered cheating. Larson's original appearance was aired as two episodes due to the length of his winning streak.
By the time the show's taping was completed, everyone from the host to the contestants were mystified by Larson's amazing ability to avoid the Whammy (the squares on the board which would end the player's turn) and consistently win prizes. He had noticed that the Press Your Luck board did not rely on luck at all, but was actually running in five predictable patterns, which he memorized over the course of six weeks (with the help of a VCR). In 1984, ice cream truck driver Michael Larson set a record by winning $110,237 (a combined total of cash and non-cash prizes) in one appearance on the game show Press Your Luck-and he did it by gaming the system.
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