Episodes

Michael Larson's extraordinary story is one of brilliance and tragedy, as he famously outsmarted the game show "Press Your Luck" in 1984, winning a staggering $110,237—an unprecedented amount at the time. Larson cracked the show's code by meticulously studying the patterns of the game board and discovering that certain squares never contained a dreaded “whammy,” allowing him to dominate the game like no contestant before. However, his victory was not without controversy, as CBS executives suspec...