No Whammies, No Whammies, No Whammies, Stop At...$4000 AND A Bonus Spin? AGAIN? The Michael Larsen Incident.

As a young person, I was enamored with the show Press Your Luck. Nobody likes being sick, but there were days where I was so happy to be home sick from school, nothing mattered besides the chance to watch another episode. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remember an episode where a guy kept winning and winning and there seemed to be no end in sight! If you were at home watching, you saw what looked like an ordinary episode with a very lucky contestant. The reality: the fix was in, and the producers at CBS never knew what hit them until it was far too late. Someone (maybe Goldenfiddle?) pointed me towards this story about the Press Your Luck incident involving Michael Larsen, the contestant who magically avoided all whammies and played the game to unbeatable perfection -- to the tune of $110,237, an unheard of amount on a game show such as this. Go read it -- it doesn't have a happy ending, but what story about cheating the system ever does?