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  2. Press Your Luck scandal - Wikipedia

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    Press Your Luck. scandal. The Press Your Luck scandal was contestant Michael Larson's 1984 record-breaking win of $110,237 (equivalent to $323,296 in 2023) on the American game show Press Your Luck. The event was deemed a scandal when it came to light that the show's producers were aware of a recognizable pattern in their game system, but chose ...

  3. Cheating in video games - Wikipedia

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    Cheating in video games involves a video game player using various methods to create an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually in order to make the game easier.Cheats may be activated from within the game itself (a cheat code implemented by the original game developers), or created by third-party software (a game trainer or debugger) or hardware (a cheat cartridge).

  4. Press Your Luck - Wikipedia

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    The All-New Press Your Luck. Press Your Luck is an American television game show created by Bill Carruthers and Jan McCormack. Contestants answer trivia questions to earn "spins" on a randomly cycling game board. The board's spaces display cash, prizes, extra spins, special items, or the show's mascot, a cartoon creature known as the Whammy.

  5. Cheat Engine - Wikipedia

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    Cheat Engine (CE) is a proprietary, source available [5] freeware memory scanner / debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Darke") for the Windows operating system in 2000. [6][7] Cheat Engine is mostly used for cheating in computer games and is sometimes modified and recompiled to support new games. It searches for values input by the user ...

  6. 1950s quiz show scandals - Wikipedia

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    A big-money quiz show did not return until ABC premiered 100 Grand in 1963. It went off the air after three shows, never awarding its top prize. Quiz shows still held a stigma throughout much of the 1960s, which was eventually eased by the success of the lower-stakes and fully legitimate answer-and-question game Jeopardy! upon its launch in ...

  7. Game Genie - Wikipedia

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    Game Genie is a line of video game cheat cartridges originally designed by Codemasters, sold by Camerica and Galoob. The first device in the series was released in 1990 [1] for the Nintendo Entertainment System, with subsequent devices released for the Super NES, Game Boy, Genesis, and Game Gear. All Game Genie devices temporarily modify game ...

  8. Konami Code - Wikipedia

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    The Konami Code was first used in the release of Gradius (1986), a scrolling shooter for the NES [11] and was popularized among North American players in the NES version of Contra. The code is also known as the "Contra Code" and "30 Lives Code", since the code provided the player 30 extra lives in Contra. The code has been used to help novice ...

  9. Cheating in poker - Wikipedia

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    A cheat may hand-muck or palm one or more cards. When a cheat is "mucking" the cheat is cleverly hiding cards in their hand, to later switch their hand for. This may also be done with a confederate. A skilled cheat can deal the second card, the bottom card, the second from bottom card, and the middle card. The idea is to cull, or to find the ...