Press Your Luck scandal
1984 dramatic TV game-show success / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Press Your Luck scandal was Michael Larson's record-breaking game show win of $110,237 (equivalent to $323,296 in 2023).
An Ohio man with a penchant for get-rich-quick schemes, Larson studied CBS' then-new game show Press Your Luck and discovered that its random element was actually only five different patterns of lights. After successfully auditioning in person at the Los Angeles studio, Larson performed on May 19, 1984, and beat the show so dramatically, he was accused by CBS of cheating. After the network paid, Larson moved on to other endeavors, eventually fleeing from law-enforcement under suspicion of fraud, and dying in hiding in Apopka, Florida.