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128:. Each half of the show began with a round of multiple-choice questions, where contestants earned three spins of the Big Board for each correct answer. The Big Board was a ring of 18 light-up squares that rapidly illuminated in a seemingly random sequence until a contestant pressed their button to stop the lights. The sequence was actually limited to only five different patterns, a holdover from the
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A snappy documentary that charts a crafty little con job, Game Show
Network's 'Big Bucks' spotlights a creep named Michael Larson and how he stuck it to CBS in 1984 on the popular 'Press Your Luck.' Comprehensive and clever, the upstart cabler's first original longform program underscores the impact
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When Litras' turn came around, she passed her last three spins to Larson, who was obligated by the rules to use them. Larson stopped the first two spins in squares four and eight, but he stopped the third too early and it landed on square 17. Instead of the Whammy again, though, it was a trip to
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Each chosen square represented three results, including prizes such as vacations, cash, and extra spins on the board; each spin also had a one-in-six chance to hit a Whammy, an animated character who wiped out that contestant's accumulated winnings. Over the show's first few episodes, winners
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Whammies, earning cash and prizes of
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in 1967. By 1983 he was twice divorced and living at the home of his girlfriend, Teresa
Dinwitty; she would later say of her "boyfriend and common-law husband, 'He always thought he was smarter than everybody else,' and that he had a 'constant yearning for
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Elizabeth Banks as host — a 35-year-old Ohio man set a record for winnings after cracking the code to avoid the dreaded
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contracts. To prevent anyone from repeating Larson's success, the Big Board was programmed with 27 additional light patterns, and CBS set a
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Michael Larson had a lot of time and TVs on his hands, and he used them to hack one of his favorite game shows.
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1041:Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2026:"Bill Murray Presses His Luck"
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