[quote name=\'rjaguar3\' post=\'185138\' date=\'Apr 30 2008, 06:27 PM\']
/I wonder if any other shows had a similar problem
//but I don't think it would be rigging, as the contestant is playing against the house after all[/quote]
Exactly. It becomes fascinating to imagine what the reason for it is, though. Did they leave it up to the computer to "randomly" assign spaces, and some limitation in early programming created something less than random that never got noticed? Or did a producer (Ronnie Greenberg, perhaps!) just pick a number and end up picking the same one(s) too often in a perfectly innocent manner?
[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'185111\' date=\'Apr 30 2008, 11:52 AM\']Imagine, if a Michael Larson had caught this then, he'd have OWNED Club Universe.[/quote]
I get that you're joking, but let's remember the differences. It's not like the Dragon never appeared behind certain numbers, and as far as I know, no one's come up with a pattern yet. So a Thom McKee who was armed with this information might rack up a few more trips than he would randomly, but the average guy's single-chance odds would only improve slightly.