Top 16 Game Show Moments - Semi Final Matchup

Before the days of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and super jackpot prizes, game shows in the 80s rarely gave out prizes totally more than 5 digits.  Which makes this clip of Michael Larson on the show Press Your Luck even more unique.  The premise of the show is that three contestants answer multiple choice questions to win "spins" on the Press Your Luck game board, a panel with various slides showing money, prizes and the dreaded whammy.  The contestant spins by pressing a button to stop the seemingly random images on the panel to get whichever prize they highlight.  But Michael Larson, an ice cream truck driver from Ohio, deciphered that there was a particular pattern to the game board, and that certain spots never contained the whammy, which was the equivalent of the Wheel of Fortune bankrupt spot.  Larson incredibly took over 40 spins without hitting a whammy, winning over $110,000 on the show.  CBS investigated the result before finally giving Larson his prize, and changing the way the board patterns so this could not have been repeated.

In the "fast money" round, the first contestant manages to ace all of her answers to get all 200 points by herself.  Host Ray Coombs decides to play a prank on the second contestant, by keeping her in the soundproof booth while the family celebrated.  Then he proceeds to ask 5 questions that are, what you would call, "off-script".  For example, "name a number between three and five".  When the contestant answered "four", the producers "buzzed" to say the answer has been repeated.  Okay the last part didn't happen, but this is a funny clip nonetheless.