That's a heckuva wait! Glad you saw it finally.

4 days actually

Same here, happy he won. Along with the drive and brain he also had a great personality.

L m l no one

yea he is the first retired champion

@@joeyragsdale1998 Also if I remember, with the $25,000 Limit it would usually take 2 or 3 Days for any Champion to retire undefeated.

@@markheying2830 oh yea. And i meant to say hes the first $100k champion

Microwaves were expensive in 1983.

That prize has gotta come to the new press your luck

Yep. They were tres expensive back in the day. We got our first one when I was about 11 or 12 in 1980. it was a Little Litton. My Moms wouldn't tell me how much it cost. I had a few good experiences with it until I blew it up by putting aluminum foil over one of my dishes. After that, I hated the thing and always felt queasy when I cooked with it. That's why I don't have one to this day. Well, that and the fact that the talking ones for the blind STILL cost like freakin' 300 bones. Okay, boring story time with Auntie Karla is over. carry on.

@@lisacogar1490 No one would want it now.

@@gaffneyrailroading1982 why did it get replaced in early 1985

That was common in the early episodes. The board could only run one pattern at a time rather than switch to another one automatically upon completion, so they manually switched the board pattern to keep it somewhat pseudo-random. It was more Larson-proof than what they did later, ironically.

I loved Robert what happened to him? Anybody know?

Where is robert?

It took some digging to try and make sense of it, and wschmrdr did note a huge part of it. Here's a further breakdown: First, here are the Larson-era patterns used at the time, labeled A-E for avoiding numerical confusion and square 1 starting in the upper left corner, moving clockwise: A- 3, 16, 13, 10, 18, 8, 6, 14, 7, 5, 15, 11, 17, 2, 12, 1, 9, 4 B- 5, 18, 11, 13, 3, 6, 15, 7, 1, 9, 14, 16, 10, 2, 4, 12, 17, 8 C- 11, 6, 10, 12, 1, 4, 14, 16, 2, 9, 17, 8, 13, 15, 3, 7, 18, 5 D- 17, 10, 15, 13, 2, 8, 18, 16, 12, 3, 5, 11, 7, 4, 1, 9, 14, 6 E- 18, 16, 10, 5, 11, 9, 2, 13, 17, 7, 4, 15, 12, 8, 6, 3, 1, 14 The spin in question starting at 23:30 went in this order: 18, 16, 10, 5, 11, 9*, 4, 14, 16, 2, 9, 17*, 4 (STOP) The board started with pattern E, then about 6 light changes into the sequence, a manual switch was made to pattern C. Then six more light changes later, it was manually switched back to pattern E... right as Robert stopped the board. The programming forced the switches to not count as part of the change in sequence. So, where the * are above, square 9 moving to 4 was the sixth sequential number in the pattern, and at square 17, it was the eleventh sequential number. Even though there were thirteen squares in the path of the spin, due to the two manual pattern flips, it only counted as eleven. Had the sequence not been manually changed at that moment, Robert would've stopped at square 17 and won the trip to Lehigh.

@@ProWrestlingWeekly hats off to Larson for figuring out all 5 patterns and knowing when and where to stop the board. I remember watching Big Bucks: The Press Your Luck Scandal on GSN and how Peter gave a chance to Ed and Janie to replicate Larson’s run on a simulated board

No… because the limit during Larson’s episode was still $25,000…

I think in episode 8.