What about Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Obviously there was the cheater, but there have been a few genuine winners, one of whom went on to become an "Egghead" (for those who don't know, a team of big winners on TV quiz shows considered to be the top at their game, so to speak, against a team of family or friends). Or don't you consider game & quiz shows to be the same thing? Just curious, btw. IMHO they're much the same but I can see that there is a bit of a difference. Skill over knowledge for the former. Whatever, a very interesting story. I'm not sure if I feel bad for him or not - I reckon he deserved the win, that was plain skill, but the rest of his life made him sound like a right jerk.
Cards are relatively easy to predict once you know enough about the game. Casinos feature so many slot machines in their advertising because that’s what they want people to do, come in and dump thousands into a machine they completely control. You can’t do that with a card game, and they aren’t happy about it
@@andyn46 They'll get rid of them eventually. The slot machines are big. I'm surprised they haven't pushed pachinko here. They're far more dopamine producing than slots.
@@Krystalmyth I think card enthusiasts will always have a spot but I think high stakes professional card playing is coming to an end. The skill ceiling is too low. You do need tremendous skill to be great at cards, but you can learn that relatively easy compared to something like basketball
This man absolutely did not cheat. He simply played the game better than anyone else because he studied ahead of time. And it didn't even go perfect for him. He made mistakes, but just outplayed the game. Memorization is not cheating. Having a good memory, skill, and excellent timing is NOT cheating. Blame the lazy game designers. But, this man was brilliant and earned what he won.
The man did the equivalent of card counting, which is not illegal. He understood the game, studied it and got a strategy to beat it. He won under the rules of the game.
@@mxdwnfrcemdia pretty ironic for a game called "Grand Theft Auto" when in online you cant save a sports/super car from the street and save it in ur garage
I'm not even mad at this dude. That's completely CBS's fault for using the same board. It's to be expected that someone will eventually study it and exploit it to earn a fortune.
this ^^. If their master plan for some great new game show used the same exact logic for each game play, that's just begging for somebody to memorize the pattern and spank them. He didn't do anything illegal - they simply had astonishingly inadequate security in their game board design. If only they had made it like an Enigma, to introduce an extra amount of randomness, this would not have happened.
@@chouseification The execs probably never bothered to understand the actual implementation of the game by the programmers. Games go brr and they happy. Until this happens.
Yeah this was a mechanical board so it's only got so many variables due to the way it was designed and built and all electronics is doing is hitting the 'spin' button, it stopped on its own. "Press Your Luck" was a late 70s game show so no computers, no endless randomizers, it had a finite amount of combinations because it was a physical board. I work on trivia shows and we have built in tricks to track if we have a repeat or similar question now and we can just move it to another episode.(this happens LONG before it hits the stage, this is in no way 'rigging' or '50s Game Show Scandal'. I sit right beside Network game police and Game play lawyer and never meet a contestant, unless it's after their episode has been shot, a good player deserves a shout out from the crew.) None of this was happening in the 70s. Shows like "Press Your Luck" that had a mechanical board are open to a clever player. He did it. (and this is why you don't see a lot of 'hit it and stop it 'slot machine' shows or pull a Rain Man and memorize the price of everything and how randomly it shows up in a Showcase -- because the "Prize" coordinators are pretty much crying and drinking across the street half the time. (Be the "right" or "wrong" sound effects buzzer person. It can go South hard too, but not that often.)
@@alan5506 Afaik the simpliest implementation is to use pseudo-random numbers, which are still very hard to predict. It is unlikely that programmers messed this up.
Press Your Luck first aired in 1983. Back then, it was relatively expensive to hook up a computer with a randomizing program to control a game board. So the producers went with an electro-mechanical system that had a few pre-determined patterns. After Larson picked their pockets, they sprung for the randomizer.
@@Pyrotech56 So did most home computers from the late Seventies onwards. Sloppiness rather than lack of money is the only reason for the producers' lack of randomising.
Yes and no. The spirit of the game does count, although legally it cannot be proven. The UK loses hundreds of £billions every year to legal loopholes - which are within the rules. Unfortunately those rules are set by those making the money.
For real, Ed was a good sport wether he realized what Larson was doing or not, the hug is so wholesome, just two dudes, on is finally accomplishing his goal and the other is just happy to witness it 😂
I have developed a fool proof way to cheat on any test without ever getting caught. Most classes will give you the information or way of solving questions ahead of time. THIS INFORMATION IS PUBLIC. Seriously you can look it up. But where do you keep that information so you can use it on the test? You can hide it in the neurons in your brain. They won't be able to read your mind to see that you have that information. Problem is, you'll need to slowly put it in your brain over a matter a of a few weeks. If you can pull this off, you'll never be found out.
Honestly huge respect for this guy. Using "cheating" is using the word very loosely, and i think this was pure skill. He studied the tv for months, because of his dedication. RIP Michael Larson you legend
Apparently he almost didn't get on the show. Imagine if he didn't and later saw someone else go on and crack the pattern "In May 1984, Larson used most of his savings to fly to Los Angeles to audition for Press Your Luck. Contestant supervisor Bobby Edwards was suspicious of Larson's motives when he interviewed Larson on May 19, and was unwilling to allow him on the show, but executive producer Bill Carruthers viewed Larson's claim to be a "small-town plebeian desperately in need of a chance to win some money", as a good sob story for the show, and overruled Edwards. Carruthers would later regret this move.[3]"
They brought back the other 2 contestants for some special to have them learn the original pattern and see if they could beat larson's score. They both did. So as many others have stated, this wasnt cheating, it was just preparation.
Difference is that Larson probably could've gone much longer. Comparing someone with $110k at risk to people just trying to beat a score like a video game vs irl
There was a similar loophole in the UK version of Deal or No Deal. The random system they used to decide what box contained what value was not random. In reality it was picking one of a handful of sequences, and just offsetting the numbers. So, for example, the 1p would always be 3 boxes up from the 10p. So once 2 boxes had been opened, it was possible to work out exactly what was in all the other boxes, assuming you memorised the system. Therefore, assuming you missed the £250,000 in those two boxes, you could win the top prize every time. This came about because of people on forums who worked it out and discussed it. They fixed the loophole, and as far as we know, no contestant ever used it.
What about the guy on Millionaire who didn't use any of his life lines until the million dollar question which he used to call his dad and he said "hi dad, I don't really need your help, just wanted to call and tell you that I just won a million dollars... C, final answer" now THAT is what a legend looks like
If he didn’t break the rules, he didn’t cheat at shit. Dude would have been a multimillionaire if he had applied himself in different ways. While scam artists are often despicable for their actions, or scams, often their ingenuity is beyond compare. It’s sad really that we live in a society that can’t recognize that from an early age. I’m sure all the signs are probably pretty easy to spot in a child, and if given proper guidance, those children could be the best a brightest, or at the very least not live a life of criminal entanglements. Thanks for the video sir, still waiting on some more based in my home town of Cleveland Ohio.
He'd have had wanted to apply himself in other ways, no amount of outside pressure and guidance can put him on the proper path if he doesn't want to walk it.
"This was not luck, this was skill." That's fact and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. He didn't cheat he mastered the game. He was a winner, not a cheater. Suggesting otherwise is foolish. An interesting but flawed analysis this is.
@@Helperbot-2000 Well, helperbot 2000, I see you aced all your exams. How is that possible? I put the hours in, I studied, and I mastered the subject. Hmm...sounds fishy...cheater!
@@Helperbot-2000 I think both sides are right to an extent. On one hand, its not how youre supposed to play the game. But on the other hand, if youre not even going to bother to fix the loophole, you basically deserve it.
Seriously wtf? If I would've somehow watched this when I was 10 I would've figured it out. I was weirdly good at rythm games and hitting things on the write timing. DDR / Star matchup in mario bros was always 100% for me. now as an adult, its much harder!
Old people should be barred from buying/redeeming lottery tix during the morning rush, lunch break, and hometime rush. They've got all day to stand there and be indecisive about which one scratch ticket they want, don't do it while i'm trying to buy the energy drink I need to not hit the ditch on to way to work in the morning, eh.
@@j.peters1222 If my losing ticket contributed to some 90 year old winning $5mil, I should at least get to watch their family fight over it when it's all willed to the cats or a charity.
@@Y2KNW that's the beauty of that generation, they would literally burn the world down to upset their offspring and family. Nothing is worse than a Boomer.
now that I think about it, whos to say that wasnt just literal prerendered video of an interactive game? it certainly seems doable if its just an actual mp4 file, just pause and play for a video of a moving square. no need for it guys lmao
They weren't right. He didn't do anything wrong. I mean, not saying he wasn't a creep like that woman said, but in terms of the game show, clean character as far as I'm concerned.
@@Rwnds7967 uh, he was a con man who conned a lot of money out of a lot of people. forget the show, what he did to other individuals is rotten, period. anyone who got a bad vibe from him were 100% right.
Dudes, I saw this as part of a Game Show documentary about a decade ago. They opened it by showing Michael repeatedly winning for about 30 seconds. What a wild tale. What a wild man. It's a shame he died so young.
Imagine being those executives and having the potential to air a legitimate showing of an episode so unique that it had to be a two parter, and then deciding "hey lets just never make our money back, my feelings got hurt and the only people who'd ever be mad at me would already know about it but despite that lets avoid showing what would basically be a game show superbowl"
I've always said that this is like saying studying for a test is cheating. He put in his homework and it paid off. He studied the game and won - no cheating there.
I like to imagine when he hired and fired himself he imported a really fancy desk from Italy, stood behind it and hired himself than waddled himself behind the chair and fired himself and sadly walked away
My favorite gameshow story is when Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen went on "The $64,000 Question". The categories were randomly picked and he got to choose "The Seven Seas", crushed it, and became the first person to win the final jackpot. Someone in the question cstegories department got fired thst day
this is the sad nature of human behavior, everybody loves a winner.....until they win too much, theres no rhyme or reason to it, peoples emotions of cheering for the underdog quickly sift to treating them like a rat fink with no change in between. People are just odd that way
Well said. It's like the people who cheer on small businesses like mom 'n' pop shops, but as soon as those small businesses grow into corporate giants like Amazon and Walmart, all the cheering is replaced by bitching and complaining. Jealousy is a motivator in a lot of people.
@@shrekonion8307 the only people who noticed that at the time were the ones who were dreading paying the money they were contractually obligated to give, the fact they couldn't weasel out of it is proof that he wasn't cheesing the system if the system had a flaw to be begin with, its like someone in the comments mentioned about calling it cheating to study for a test instead of going into it blind.
@@AidenRKrone thank you :3 ive never gotten a comment reply that was actually a complement before ^_^ people always wanna argue the views of others, its nice to see someone be nice about it :3
@@Gojiro7 how could someone not notice a guy """"randomly"""" getting tens of thousands of dollars from a game show? no way could someone get that lucky and not be cheating in some way
Simply no brakes on the Larson train…. Great line. This is why I love your channel and these episodes. My favorite is the Kill-Dozer story. Epic, man. Keep up the great work.
Despite your attempts at making me see this guy as a loser, I admire him. He’s an entrepreneur, through and through. It’s a game of chances and not everyone can win. He was working his ass off, not being a lazy ass or just submitting to a life he didn’t want. Instead, he was always striving for something. That means more than the results, to me.
Sounded like the host said: "You are pressing your luck. [...] You-Are-Boning-Again." The "boning" part may have been a subliminal slip-up of the tongue.
"HIs palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy..." Me: "-he's nervous, there's vomit on his sweater already, Mom's spaghetti-" And then Qxir says the line lol
I've been wanting to read comments of people who tell us: "I watched it live. I called my friends to turn on channel x." Haven't found that so far. Also, in another documentary they disparage Michael Larson and you get the impression he's some sort of a fiend. Like the other contestant saying: he had a weird look, I didn't want to be around him. Really nice... This guy was greatest genius ever concerning TV show secrets. Incredible
Being skilled at a game of luck is the craziest thing I think I've ever heard. Reminds me of the recent gamestop situation, the underdog plays the game as the game is set out, and the people that own the game are annoyed at them.
I don't think he was a con man as much as a thinker, he's just intentionally putting himself in a position where he do some thought experiments. His experience reminds me a lot of my own experiences accidentally finding vulnerabilities. It's less about trying to be a scammer, more like trying to be good at a puzzle 🤷♂️ sometimes, you don't even need that, the vulnerabilities are right in front of you. I wanna shake his hand haha
@@shrekonion8307 saying Larson was a scammer for simply paying attention is like saying a doctor is a cheater because he studied for his exams... Idiot
@@shrekonion8307 hey moron Qxir is a moron too and gets shit wrong in his videos all the time. why don't you go watch the actual documentary about Larson instead... It's called "Big Bucks The Press Your Luck Scandal" ... Also I'm old enough to have watched this episode when it originally aired...
8:23 that's just bullshit, there wasn't exactly a rule that people aren't allowed to memorize patterns in your gameshow nor is it possible to not think or recognize that there is one. That's your own damn fault, if you want to make the game completely luck based then don't use predictable patterns. This man showed skill because of his efforts, he won that amount fair and square.
I think, personally, the reason someone might put more effort into a con than just getting a reg job is obvious: they experience life, and handle it, in a way you can't possibly also experience, or understand. They have been through a crucible that just creates a vastly different type of person. I don't say this as an insult, but seriously, most of us can't actually relate to the people we are attempting to analyze. I say this as someone who used to be homeless.
@@FumoAkyuu Yep watched almost all episodes that aired and he whammied the first time. Probably felt very nervous and unintentionally hit the buzzer too soon.
Bros got that sigma grindset, he is a gigachad Cheats on gameshow, makes best episodes ever, refuses to elaborate further. To be honest he should've told them about it afterwards once he got his money and told them how to fix it but in a way that will help him in the future.
Second Channel: th-cam.com/channels/t93hxFmjppL5nLRAX94UrA.html
Merch: teespring.com/stores/qxir
Patreon: www.patreon.com/qxir
Twitter: twitter.com/QxirYT
Discord: discord.gg/jZzvvwJ
Twitch: www.twitch.tv/qxiryt/
Subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/Qxir/
yo do you have discord
nvm
hey nice video keep up the good work
@Wallnut57 YO
Always brings me joy to see a fellow Ohioan run a scam like this.
What about Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Obviously there was the cheater, but there have been a few genuine winners, one of whom went on to become an "Egghead" (for those who don't know, a team of big winners on TV quiz shows considered to be the top at their game, so to speak, against a team of family or friends). Or don't you consider game & quiz shows to be the same thing? Just curious, btw. IMHO they're much the same but I can see that there is a bit of a difference. Skill over knowledge for the former.
Whatever, a very interesting story. I'm not sure if I feel bad for him or not - I reckon he deserved the win, that was plain skill, but the rest of his life made him sound like a right jerk.
He’s like that cool uncle that goes with you to the arcade and shows you how to win at the rigged games.
I don't have one of those
I'm the "Great Funkle" in my family 😁
How to actually pick something up qith those stupid paralyzed claw machines.
@@somedumbozzie1539 how the FUCK do you know my name
@@Xx_Tuberculosis_xX he doesn’t, it was a reference to Star Wars
This is like the way casinos call card counting "cheating" It isn't cheating. It's being better at the game than the house.
Do that in Vegas and they'll throw you out lol
Cards are relatively easy to predict once you know enough about the game. Casinos feature so many slot machines in their advertising because that’s what they want people to do, come in and dump thousands into a machine they completely control. You can’t do that with a card game, and they aren’t happy about it
@@andyn46 They'll get rid of them eventually. The slot machines are big. I'm surprised they haven't pushed pachinko here. They're far more dopamine producing than slots.
@@Krystalmyth I think card enthusiasts will always have a spot but I think high stakes professional card playing is coming to an end. The skill ceiling is too low. You do need tremendous skill to be great at cards, but you can learn that relatively easy compared to something like basketball
@yossarian Officially. Vegas has a lot of strange people. You might bump into someone. Lol
This man absolutely did not cheat. He simply played the game better than anyone else because he studied ahead of time. And it didn't even go perfect for him. He made mistakes, but just outplayed the game. Memorization is not cheating. Having a good memory, skill, and excellent timing is NOT cheating. Blame the lazy game designers. But, this man was brilliant and earned what he won.
This wasn't cheating. This was ingenuity
I agree! This man was a genius. It's not Larson's fault he knew how to win. He got gud, learned the game and won fair and square.
Yeah idk why qxir or anybody at all would consider it cheating
@@UUdoubleU , probably just a little bit of clickbait
Agreed
The man did the equivalent of card counting, which is not illegal. He understood the game, studied it and got a strategy to beat it. He won under the rules of the game.
All I took away from this, is that Larson saw a predictable pattern that could be easily exploited, and he abused it without breaking a single rule.
Not breaking the rules, just bending them 🙂
I wonder if I could do the same the GTA Online?
@@mxdwnfrcemdia pretty ironic for a game called "Grand Theft Auto" when in online you cant save a sports/super car from the street and save it in ur garage
@@Kart_18_Racer Not even bending. Not his problem other players never saw the in... 🤣
Maybe exploiting was a part of the game ¯-_(ツ)__¯
I love how Ed is so happy for him, and then in the reboot is super happy for his brother. What a guy.
Reminds me of that religious family that lives next door on the Simpsons lol
@@sunsetpark_fpvah yes what was his name... oh I know, Neb Flandors
@@kellymountainNick Flaggers was it?
I just feel sorry for Ed. He seems like a nice guy who was happy that Larson was winning. Hell, he hugs him to celebrate.
His love really shows. He doesn't let down the expectations and hopes people have of a pastor for sure.
budget infographics with incorrect info
@@XXXTentaclez Okay mumble rapper
@@cortex8239 mumble rappers suck
@@cortex8239 th-cam.com/video/uAjTZeZ87MQ/w-d-xo.html
I'm not even mad at this dude. That's completely CBS's fault for using the same board. It's to be expected that someone will eventually study it and exploit it to earn a fortune.
this ^^.
If their master plan for some great new game show used the same exact logic for each game play, that's just begging for somebody to memorize the pattern and spank them. He didn't do anything illegal - they simply had astonishingly inadequate security in their game board design. If only they had made it like an Enigma, to introduce an extra amount of randomness, this would not have happened.
exactly. thats like wheel of fortune using the same phrases every episode
@@chouseification The execs probably never bothered to understand the actual implementation of the game by the programmers. Games go brr and they happy. Until this happens.
Yeah this was a mechanical board so it's only got so many variables due to the way it was designed and built and all electronics is doing is hitting the 'spin' button, it stopped on its own. "Press Your Luck" was a late 70s game show so no computers, no endless randomizers, it had a finite amount of combinations because it was a physical board. I work on trivia shows and we have built in tricks to track if we have a repeat or similar question now and we can just move it to another episode.(this happens LONG before it hits the stage, this is in no way 'rigging' or '50s Game Show Scandal'. I sit right beside Network game police and Game play lawyer and never meet a contestant, unless it's after their episode has been shot, a good player deserves a shout out from the crew.) None of this was happening in the 70s. Shows like "Press Your Luck" that had a mechanical board are open to a clever player. He did it. (and this is why you don't see a lot of 'hit it and stop it 'slot machine' shows or pull a Rain Man and memorize the price of everything and how randomly it shows up in a Showcase -- because the "Prize" coordinators are pretty much crying and drinking across the street half the time. (Be the "right" or "wrong" sound effects buzzer person. It can go South hard too, but not that often.)
@@alan5506 Afaik the simpliest implementation is to use pseudo-random numbers, which are still very hard to predict. It is unlikely that programmers messed this up.
Press Your Luck first aired in 1983. Back then, it was relatively expensive to hook up a computer with a randomizing program to control a game board. So the producers went with an electro-mechanical system that had a few pre-determined patterns. After Larson picked their pockets, they sprung for the randomizer.
Even the Atari 800XL "home computer" had a randomize function.
@@Pyrotech56 So did most home computers from the late Seventies onwards. Sloppiness rather than lack of money is the only reason for the producers' lack of randomising.
This isn't really cheating; this is more like studying.
No fair their cheating by learning the rules!
Exactly this Is NOT cheating.
I call this simply beating the game
On that note he would probably have been a great mathematician had life gone differently.
@@LotteLing more like beating the crap out of it. He absolutely destroyed this game show.
How is him being smart and "gaming"the system considered cheating.I really don't see him as cheating
Omg gaming the system LOL
Just do be a devil's advocate, he was cheating by misrepresenting himself and not playing the game like the two other people he was on with.
Same thing with counting cards. Should not be illegal 👍🏽
Yeah, those TV muthafukkaz just want to show some idiots winning crumbs, but they're not happy being outsmarted on air. Fcku the TV.
@@chioptnstdr3448 Counting cards is not illegal.
This isn't cheating. This is a smart guy taking advantage of a flaw in a game show.
He didn't cheat... everything he did was within the rules
Yes and no. The spirit of the game does count, although legally it cannot be proven.
The UK loses hundreds of £billions every year to legal loopholes - which are within the rules. Unfortunately those rules are set by those making the money.
@@Spedley_2142 he didn't cheat he dis nothing to break any rules no his fault other players were too dumb and didn't see the pattern
@@KenMabie I agree in the same way that a big guy fighting a small guy won fair and square.
@@Spedley_2142 lol You Assume the big guy will always win and do it fairly.. Obviously You're NOT a fighter. XD,
@@Spedley_2142 Well... why wouldn't it be fair and square if both agreed to fight?
CBS: It’s not possible!
Larson: Not probable.
Man it's been like 10 years since I've seen a Hitchhiker's reference. 10/10 comment.
No, it's necessary
@@jaykay4137 COME ON, TARS!
@@MisterSkaa I thought it was Pirates of the Caribbean.
@@jaykay4137 DAmn, you beat me to it... Take my like.
I love how Ed is genuinely happy for Michael and how Qxir is just taking pleasure at Janie's downfall.
"Eat shit, b i t c h ."
For real, Ed was a good sport wether he realized what Larson was doing or not, the hug is so wholesome, just two dudes, on is finally accomplishing his goal and the other is just happy to witness it 😂
He died in 1999 at age 49 but somehow he played Press Your Luck in 1984 at age 60. That's more impressive than the game show win!
Sounds fishy, doesn't it?
I bet he and Epstein are having Mai-Tais on a private beach somewhere in Greece.
@@aldousorwell3807
Actually were “hanging” out in Tel Aviv
Tf
@@12yearssober yo how's John McAfee
@@Prodawg
He’s doing good. He sold out to the globalists like the rest of us.
I mean this is like calling studying for test cheating
Agreed
you're supposed to guess on the test, cheater
It's the best form of cheating because it's almost impossible to get caught.
I have developed a fool proof way to cheat on any test without ever getting caught. Most classes will give you the information or way of solving questions ahead of time. THIS INFORMATION IS PUBLIC. Seriously you can look it up. But where do you keep that information so you can use it on the test? You can hide it in the neurons in your brain. They won't be able to read your mind to see that you have that information. Problem is, you'll need to slowly put it in your brain over a matter a of a few weeks. If you can pull this off, you'll never be found out.
@@tylerbarker2957 sounds like too much work
Honestly huge respect for this guy. Using "cheating" is using the word very loosely, and i think this was pure skill. He studied the tv for months, because of his dedication. RIP Michael Larson you legend
Imagine practicing this for 6 months and then the game show gets canceled.
Apparently he almost didn't get on the show. Imagine if he didn't and later saw someone else go on and crack the pattern
"In May 1984, Larson used most of his savings to fly to Los Angeles to audition for Press Your Luck. Contestant supervisor Bobby Edwards was suspicious of Larson's motives when he interviewed Larson on May 19, and was unwilling to allow him on the show, but executive producer Bill Carruthers viewed Larson's claim to be a "small-town plebeian desperately in need of a chance to win some money", as a good sob story for the show, and overruled Edwards. Carruthers would later regret this move.[3]"
7:26 you can hear a women yell out "blatant cheat"
They brought back the other 2 contestants for some special to have them learn the original pattern and see if they could beat larson's score. They both did. So as many others have stated, this wasnt cheating, it was just preparation.
But I’m guessing they didn’t pay them out with all those winnings when invited back lol.
Difference is that Larson probably could've gone much longer. Comparing someone with $110k at risk to people just trying to beat a score like a video game vs irl
@@Armoire68 also, he probably knew that if he went on long enough he would have no chance of getting his money.
@@caelblanch2737 Or he's get tired and make a mistake, losing everything.
He never died, he just won a spot on a game show in heaven.
.....after spending a couple of decades ageing in reverse.🤔.....
So he died then?
@@braysfinds7479 Allegedly.
God combed through the rule book to see if he cheated but eventually had to let him in.
he isn't cheating, he just memorized a pattern, smart guy.
“He bought a cheap suit at the thrift store” absolute legend who didn’t cheat
This guy was a legend. Until he left 50k in $1s in his house......
ye but then he made 3 mill
Then what was he when he made 3 million?
Dead shortly after.
@@kyledubs8293 He stole 3 million
@@names_dave he didnt make. He stole.
There was a similar loophole in the UK version of Deal or No Deal. The random system they used to decide what box contained what value was not random. In reality it was picking one of a handful of sequences, and just offsetting the numbers. So, for example, the 1p would always be 3 boxes up from the 10p. So once 2 boxes had been opened, it was possible to work out exactly what was in all the other boxes, assuming you memorised the system. Therefore, assuming you missed the £250,000 in those two boxes, you could win the top prize every time.
This came about because of people on forums who worked it out and discussed it. They fixed the loophole, and as far as we know, no contestant ever used it.
So, he wasn’t actually cheating, he was just smart.
Go Federalism!
@@mycelia_ow Boooooo
@@ponraul1221 yaaaay
@@Rakshasa1986 🙌
@@ponraul1221 I’ve seen mao and a patriot in the comments. I choose the patriot
He actually didn't cheat. He was brilliant at figuring out and beating the game.
If anyone deserves “legend” status, it’s this guy
What about the guy on Millionaire who didn't use any of his life lines until the million dollar question which he used to call his dad and he said "hi dad, I don't really need your help, just wanted to call and tell you that I just won a million dollars... C, final answer" now THAT is what a legend looks like
If he didn’t break the rules, he didn’t cheat at shit.
Dude would have been a multimillionaire if he had applied himself in different ways. While scam artists are often despicable for their actions, or scams, often their ingenuity is beyond compare.
It’s sad really that we live in a society that can’t recognize that from an early age. I’m sure all the signs are probably pretty easy to spot in a child, and if given proper guidance, those children could be the best a brightest, or at the very least not live a life of criminal entanglements.
Thanks for the video sir, still waiting on some more based in my home town of Cleveland Ohio.
But did you know that the mitochondria is the pOwERhoUsE of the cell?
He'd have had wanted to apply himself in other ways, no amount of outside pressure and guidance can put him on the proper path if he doesn't want to walk it.
Amen
it's called autism and it's been mishandled for a long time yes
@@gameclips5734 didn't know people still believe that
"This was not luck, this was skill." That's fact and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. He didn't cheat he mastered the game. He was a winner, not a cheater. Suggesting otherwise is foolish. An interesting but flawed analysis this is.
Its as dumb as casinos saying card reading is cheating, or studying for a test is cheating
@@Helperbot-2000 Well, helperbot 2000, I see you aced all your exams. How is that possible?
I put the hours in, I studied, and I mastered the subject.
Hmm...sounds fishy...cheater!
@@Helperbot-2000 I think both sides are right to an extent. On one hand, its not how youre supposed to play the game. But on the other hand, if youre not even going to bother to fix the loophole, you basically deserve it.
@@LucyWest370 thats like saying counting cards isnt how youre supposed to play blackjack. what if you actually want to win?
@@bradhaines3142 well I dont know how to play blackjack, so i dont care
I mean, who is actually stupid enough to make a game show this freaking predictable?!
most people who make game shows probably
Easier to program
If you make the results predictable, you can progam the outcome that is best for TV and get the most viewership.
Seriously wtf? If I would've somehow watched this when I was 10 I would've figured it out. I was weirdly good at rythm games and hitting things on the write timing. DDR / Star matchup in mario bros was always 100% for me. now as an adult, its much harder!
i feel like they programmed it for people to get whammies more likely but because of Larson its pure RNG now
Your rant on old people buying tickets really hit home. The amount of time they take from my morning commute is incredible.
Old people should be barred from buying/redeeming lottery tix during the morning rush, lunch break, and hometime rush.
They've got all day to stand there and be indecisive about which one scratch ticket they want, don't do it while i'm trying to buy the energy drink I need to not hit the ditch on to way to work in the morning, eh.
Even if they were to win it all. What the hell are they going to do with it? They going to buy themselves an extra 20 years of life?
@@j.peters1222 If my losing ticket contributed to some 90 year old winning $5mil, I should at least get to watch their family fight over it when it's all willed to the cats or a charity.
@@Y2KNW Make it a pay-per-view event lol
@@Y2KNW that's the beauty of that generation, they would literally burn the world down to upset their offspring and family. Nothing is worse than a Boomer.
I only feel bad for the other contestants, even the staff for the show couldn't find an excuse not to pay him. What a legend.
I'm glad he got payed. It wasn't cheating at all.
As someone who loves finding patterns, this guy is a legend of mine, he did nothing wrong, he played the game as programmed by lazy developers.
now that I think about it, whos to say that wasnt just literal prerendered video of an interactive game? it certainly seems doable if its just an actual mp4 file, just pause and play for a video of a moving square. no need for it guys lmao
I feel bad for him, everyone disliked and distrusted him right off the bat, of course they were right, but still.
They weren't right. He didn't do anything wrong. I mean, not saying he wasn't a creep like that woman said, but in terms of the game show, clean character as far as I'm concerned.
He didn’t cheat. Just cheated the system
@@Rwnds7967 uh, he was a con man who conned a lot of money out of a lot of people. forget the show, what he did to other individuals is rotten, period. anyone who got a bad vibe from him were 100% right.
I mean, they probably just had a good gut- speaking as someone that is a good judge of character myself.
He wasn't cheating. He did his research and made a fool of the people who create these tacky ways to embarrass yourself on national TV.
“Aaaaand he was never caught, GOD BLESS HIM.” This is a legendary quote.
this guy wasn't cheating at all. it's like someone complaining about someone being "too good" at a game. it's simply skill
Qxir saying "Mom's spaghetti" in a monotone voice might be the best thing ever
I disliked your comment
i disliked your comment
I liked your comment
It would have been an honor to be scammed by this man.
He didn't scam dumb ass... he found a pattern and used it within the rules...
@@KenMabie watch the whole video before commenting
@@Balpindo world's most confusing man
@@Balpindo I did he didn't cheat I am old enough that I watched it when it originally happened
@@KenMabie I didnt said he cheated, check 9:40 I was referring to that
This is cheating in the same way that card counting is cheating. It's not, but it will still get you barred from the casino.
Or studying for a test. You study and you pass. It’s not cheating
Basically this. Kinda cheating, but your fault you did shit work on the luck-based game
I don't view this as cheating.
Makers of the show got lazy and created 5 whole patterns, he cracked them, and then took em for all they had.
Dudes, I saw this as part of a Game Show documentary about a decade ago. They opened it by showing Michael repeatedly winning for about 30 seconds. What a wild tale. What a wild man. It's a shame he died so young.
"This wasn't luck... This was skill"
Honestly, he deserved his money.
"Press your Luck is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits" -Spiff, probably
Imagine being those executives and having the potential to air a legitimate showing of an episode so unique that it had to be a two parter, and then deciding "hey lets just never make our money back, my feelings got hurt and the only people who'd ever be mad at me would already know about it but despite that lets avoid showing what would basically be a game show superbowl"
"Sometimes my genius is its almost frightening" said this guy
“Michael went on the run. But he was never caught, owing to his trip to the Bahamas won during his time on Press Your Luck”
I have to respect the hustle here, the man played the game and took the network for a ride.
Imagine making a game thats easy to be broken and getting mad when someone outsmarts you
A speed runners everyday struggles
laughed out loud at the terribly drawn train visual of the Larson train and the image of him fucking off with suitcases of money. This stuff is great.
As an ohioan myself I'm proud of him.
Quite the madlad.
Same lol
It's better than catching your dad cheating with your best friend.
excuse me w h a t
You OK?
Will you please just LET THAT GO Jessica....
It was a drunk mistake..
To be honest Jessica is hot
Nice
"What's the matter? You're the one who started this game... and now you don't want to play anymore?"
I've always said that this is like saying studying for a test is cheating. He put in his homework and it paid off. He studied the game and won - no cheating there.
This wasn’t a cheat. This was a finesse. He finessed the system with a loophole.
Loophole=cheating.
The other guy on his side was jenuinly a good person and was happy about him. THAT GUY SHOULD HAVE WON!
Honestly, I love Larson. He is everything I aspire to be in life.
I mean doesn't seem like cheating just sound like he did his homework.
I like to imagine when he hired and fired himself he imported a really fancy desk from Italy, stood behind it and hired himself than waddled himself behind the chair and fired himself and sadly walked away
Last time I was this early Switzerland was violating its neighbor’s neutrality
My favorite gameshow story is when Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen went on "The $64,000 Question". The categories were randomly picked and he got to choose "The Seven Seas", crushed it, and became the first person to win the final jackpot.
Someone in the question cstegories department got fired thst day
this is the sad nature of human behavior, everybody loves a winner.....until they win too much, theres no rhyme or reason to it, peoples emotions of cheering for the underdog quickly sift to treating them like a rat fink with no change in between. People are just odd that way
Maybe they realised he was cheesing the system
Well said. It's like the people who cheer on small businesses like mom 'n' pop shops, but as soon as those small businesses grow into corporate giants like Amazon and Walmart, all the cheering is replaced by bitching and complaining. Jealousy is a motivator in a lot of people.
@@shrekonion8307 the only people who noticed that at the time were the ones who were dreading paying the money they were contractually obligated to give, the fact they couldn't weasel out of it is proof that he wasn't cheesing the system if the system had a flaw to be begin with, its like someone in the comments mentioned about calling it cheating to study for a test instead of going into it blind.
@@AidenRKrone thank you :3 ive never gotten a comment reply that was actually a complement before ^_^ people always wanna argue the views of others, its nice to see someone be nice about it :3
@@Gojiro7 how could someone not notice a guy """"randomly"""" getting tens of thousands of dollars from a game show? no way could someone get that lucky and not be cheating in some way
This is one of my favorite stories and I've heard it a thousand times, but somehow the way you tell it makes it even a bit better.
He didn't cheat.
He played within the rules, he just beat the game.
Simply no brakes on the Larson train…. Great line. This is why I love your channel and these episodes. My favorite is the Kill-Dozer story. Epic, man. Keep up the great work.
6:00 - he wasn't failing or doing badly, he was testing the reaction time of the button on the screen.
Despite your attempts at making me see this guy as a loser, I admire him. He’s an entrepreneur, through and through. It’s a game of chances and not everyone can win. He was working his ass off, not being a lazy ass or just submitting to a life he didn’t want. Instead, he was always striving for something. That means more than the results, to me.
Sounded like the host said: "You are pressing your luck. [...] You-Are-Boning-Again." The "boning" part may have been a subliminal slip-up of the tongue.
@David Daivdson Hell yeah lol. Reminded me of Batman's Boner! screenrant.com/joker-boner-comic-meme/
"HIs palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy..."
Me: "-he's nervous, there's vomit on his sweater already, Mom's spaghetti-"
And then Qxir says the line lol
I've been wanting to read comments of people who tell us: "I watched it live. I called my friends to turn on channel x." Haven't found that so far. Also, in another documentary they disparage Michael Larson and you get the impression he's some sort of a fiend. Like the other contestant saying: he had a weird look, I didn't want to be around him. Really nice... This guy was greatest genius ever concerning TV show secrets. Incredible
this man is the personified version of the phrase “work smart, not hard”
Scamming other people: shit
Scamming the system: amazing
Being skilled at a game of luck is the craziest thing I think I've ever heard.
Reminds me of the recent gamestop situation, the underdog plays the game as the game is set out, and the people that own the game are annoyed at them.
Not his fault that the game wasn't random. Someone was EVENTUALLY gonna find out the system
The twist is that he didn’t actually cheat, his majestic facial hair simply warped the fabric of reality in his favour.
Big props for ed,he was genuinely happy for the guy.
I don't think he was a con man as much as a thinker, he's just intentionally putting himself in a position where he do some thought experiments. His experience reminds me a lot of my own experiences accidentally finding vulnerabilities. It's less about trying to be a scammer, more like trying to be good at a puzzle 🤷♂️ sometimes, you don't even need that, the vulnerabilities are right in front of you.
I wanna shake his hand haha
I love that old people playing the lottery rant. 🤣😂🤣
Absolute genius. Nobody ever prohibited him to learn the algorithm.
Larson, the inventor of the pro gamer move.
I always thought high of Santa, never thought he would be a scammer.
He wasn't a scammer everything he did was within the rules.. idiot
@@KenMabie 1:00 - 1:21 9:41
@@KenMabie literally a scammer
@@shrekonion8307 saying Larson was a scammer for simply paying attention is like saying a doctor is a cheater because he studied for his exams...
Idiot
@@shrekonion8307 hey moron Qxir is a moron too and gets shit wrong in his videos all the time. why don't you go watch the actual documentary about Larson instead... It's called "Big Bucks The Press Your Luck Scandal" ... Also I'm old enough to have watched this episode when it originally aired...
This isn't cheating. This is winning with maths.
A movie needs to made of this man
Anyone else making something I've seen >> PASS
Hearing Qxir tell me stuff I already know but in his accent >> THAT GOOD SHIT
You even acknowledged they couldn’t find a rule he broke so he didn’t cheat. He beat them at their own game.
She may have thought his smile was creepy, but I genuinely find his smile amazing!
So to be clear it probably wasnt CBS that stole Larsons money back
He didn’t cheat, he won. Fair and square imo.
i'm gonna ask the important question:
did he enjoy his 2 vacations?
8:23 that's just bullshit, there wasn't exactly a rule that people aren't allowed to memorize patterns in your gameshow nor is it possible to not think or recognize that there is one. That's your own damn fault, if you want to make the game completely luck based then don't use predictable patterns. This man showed skill because of his efforts, he won that amount fair and square.
“I didn’t wanna do it to ya.“
Michael Larson
The steady inclusion of trains is nice.
Does he qualify as a “mad lad”?
I think, personally, the reason someone might put more effort into a con than just getting a reg job is obvious: they experience life, and handle it, in a way you can't possibly also experience, or understand. They have been through a crucible that just creates a vastly different type of person.
I don't say this as an insult, but seriously, most of us can't actually relate to the people we are attempting to analyze.
I say this as someone who used to be homeless.
I remember watching this episode. I couldn't believe he did so well. Never struck me that he knew the board so well he never whammied.
But he did at 5:51
@@FumoAkyuu Yep watched almost all episodes that aired and he whammied the first time. Probably felt very nervous and unintentionally hit the buzzer too soon.
I used to see this show as a small child, and I always loved the "whammys". Never knew it was called Press Your Luck.
there was a revival of it in the 2000s that was actually called Whammy. my brain broke when I found out there were two different same shows
Bros got that sigma grindset, he is a gigachad
Cheats on gameshow, makes best episodes ever, refuses to elaborate further.
To be honest he should've told them about it afterwards once he got his money and told them how to fix it but in a way that will help him in the future.