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.

^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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

A couple of interesting things here:

First, a much shorter "trailer," on tik tok, with some other footage: https://www.tiktok.com/@ifcfilms/video/7486513999102627118

Next, an article by Adam Nedeff, about the actual event and mentioning the movie, premiering in a few days: https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/luckiest-man-in-game-shows/

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!