Watched this program on GSN last night. It was about a guy called Michael Larson who realised there was a pattern to the 'random' tiles on the board. He basically took the network for 110k back in 1984, simply by memorising the six patterns on the board.
The program made out like he was cheating in some way, but he was actually just very observant, and had a sort of 'Alt.Nerd.Obbsessive' quality that can be found in any large research and development company (you all know who/what I mean!)
The network executives had a meeting after they had all washed their underpants, to decide weather they should pay the man his cash, but no where did it say that paying attention was against the rules! Good on him I say!
You can read about it here: http://www.xanfan.com/pressyourluck/larson.htm
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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