Review: The bizarre tragedy of a TV game-show winner, on stage in St. Paul
Michael Larson achieved TV game-show infamy when he won $110,237 in a single appearance on "Press Your Luck" in 1984. A driftless scammer, Larson had obsessively studied the show and detected a pattern in how light traveled through the supposedly random boxes on a large board that promised cash, prizes and dreaded "whammies."