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Luckiest Man in America release set (PYL movie)
Jeremy Nelson:
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--- Quote from: Bob Zager on April 01, 2025, 12:03:08 PM ---A couple of interesting things here:
When watching the original creation--"Second Chance""--I've often wondered would it have been more difficult to do the same technique on the "SC" board, since it seemed to move around at a considerable faster speed? I think so, but don't know for sure!
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I seem to remember this being discussed here at some point and someone mentioning that a similar incident had occurred on Second Chance. I don’t remember much more than that but I’m assuming it was less dramatic than Larsen’s run.
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When I recall it being discussed here years ago, someone threw out that a contestant had won upwards of $70K, which seemed improbable, though not impossible.
Looking at the show's intro right fast, I counted an run of 11 safe spaces in the light sequence, which landed on the big money space at least once. I could cede that a contestant figured out the pattern, and thus figured out safe strings of the sequence that more often landed on the big money space.
SuperMatch93:
^Wasn't Jim Peck himself the source on that occurring? I wonder if ABC has some sort of network logs like NBC did at the time where that could be confirmed.
At the start of the run, the big money space in round 2 was a static $5k instead of the later one that rotated between values, so I'd guess it would have happened before they changed it.
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on April 02, 2025, 09:20:35 PM ---^Wasn't Jim Peck himself the source on that occurring? I wonder if ABC has some sort of network logs like NBC did at the time where that could be confirmed.
At the start of the run, the big money space in round 2 was a static $5k instead of the later one that rotated between values, so I'd guess it would have happened before they changed it.
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I also forgot that the series started with returning champions and then moved to three new players each day, so I could see someone racking that up over several days.
SuperMatch93:
--- Quote from: Jeremy Nelson on April 02, 2025, 09:24:31 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuperMatch93 on April 02, 2025, 09:20:35 PM ---^Wasn't Jim Peck himself the source on that occurring? I wonder if ABC has some sort of network logs like NBC did at the time where that could be confirmed.
At the start of the run, the big money space in round 2 was a static $5k instead of the later one that rotated between values, so I'd guess it would have happened before they changed it.
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I also forgot that the series started with returning champions and then moved to three new players each day, so I could see someone racking that up over several days.
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I didn't know they started out with returning champions, I thought that was just the pilot.
Even so, wouldn't a contestant have been retired at $20k? If someone was going to shoot the works, they'd have to get most if not all of it in one day.
TLEberle:
He didn’t say it at the time but I believe Michael intended to win twenty grand on day one thus getting reps in then go hog wild on day two.
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