   "Press Your Luck" - remember the game show?
  Some of you may not be old enough to remember watching Press Your Luck as one of the 80's most memorable game shows where you have to stop a lighting display that awards money and prizes along with a WHAMMY which would animate a little brown dude who took all your money. You can read about  Press Your Luck  on the wiki. It explains more about the game show. The twist to this thread is, for those that havent heard about a remarkable story regarding the show has to do with a ex-ice cream truck driver who took away $110,000 from the show with no money and a suit on his back. The supposed random sequence of the tiles and sequences were really not random at all but a but an iterative, sequential pattern.. actually a total of six patterns. After you read the wiki, go on over here to view the  video of this particular episode from 1984 . Scroll down on the left hand side and you can view the 3 separate videos from the episode(realplayer required i think). If you dont have realplayer you can go to  pistolwimp  to view it there. A full story of the game show and the documentary that has aired on the GSN(Game Show Network) can be found  here  on rotten.com. i would recommend watching the video before you read this. Anyway i found the pattern easy on wiki but i only noticed 3 more patterns.. but then again i dont have time to pause and replay :) anyway its a cool thing to read about.. sad story in the end though. enjoy!   
Quote:Original post by OpenGL_GuruSome of you may not be old enough to remember watching Press Your Luck as one of the 80's most memorable game shows where you have to stop a lighting display that awards money and prizes along with a WHAMMY which would animate a little brown dude who took all your money. You can read about  Press Your Luck  on the wiki. It explains more about the game show. The twist to this thread is, for those that havent heard about a remarkable story regarding the show has to do with a ex-ice cream truck driver who took away $110,000 from the show with no money and a suit on his back. The supposed random sequence of the tiles and sequences were really not random at all but a but an iterative, sequential pattern.. actually a total of six patterns. After you read the wiki, go on over here to view the  video of this particular episode from 1984 . Scroll down on the left hand side and you can view the 3 separate videos from the episode(realplayer required i think). If you dont have realplayer you can go to  pistolwimp  to view it there. A full story of the game show and the documentary that has aired on the GSN(Game Show Network) can be found  here  on rotten.com. i would recommend watching the video before you read this. Anyway i found the pattern easy on wiki but i only noticed 3 more patterns.. but then again i dont have time to pause and replay :) anyway its a cool thing to read about.. sad story in the end though. enjoy!I used to love that game show when I was a child.  For some reason, I found the whammy character fascinating.  Yes, I'm weird.   ;  The Whammies were awesomeYeah, I've read this story. You'd figure he'd use the big break he got and straighten out his life... but no.   ;  Saw a show about this happeningt; thought it was pretty insane and I couldn't believe they would leave something like that open to abuse, but then again they said their hardware was the envy of every other gameshow and nothing like it had been done before.  Evidently the dude was totally crazy about all sorts of moneymaking schemes and died broke.EDIT: Hey, the Wiki articles totally say that so this post is a bit redundant!   ;Quote:Original post by FrequencySaw a show about this happeningt; thought it was pretty insane and I couldn't believe they would leave something like that open to abuse, but then again they said their hardware was the envy of every other gameshow and nothing like it had been done before.  Evidently the dude was totally crazy about all sorts of moneymaking schemes and died broke.EDIT: Hey, the Wiki articles totally say that so this post is a bit redundant!well you have to think at that time the "engineers" or designers of the display system probably thought that 6 different sequences were enough. Back then a "hacker" was nonexistant and the idea of someone setting up multiple TV's next to a VCR rack probably did not cross their feeble little minds. as you might have read they had added up to 32 different sequences to make it a little "less random" but still random nonetheless. You can still figure out 2 or 3 after this episode and still make pretty good money. you can download the game onto your PC and try it out :)   