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An Appreciation of the Greats Who Guided Us Through Trivia, Tension, and Tacky Prizes In honor of the release of The Luckiest Man in America , a new movie about the infamous Press Your Luck  scandal from 1984—when ice cream truck driver Michael Larson cracked the code of the game’s spinning board and walked away with a record-breaking $110,000—I decided it was time to put together a list I've been wanting to do for a long time: my personal picks for the 20 greatest game show

If you know me at all, you know that I love game shows, and I have loved them since I was a little kid. I remember rushing home from school so that I could watch "Match Game '73"  (or '74, or '75, or '76, etc.) just so I could see the awesome Brett Somers yell at the hilarious Charles Nelson Reilly while the pompous Richard Dawson tried to steal focus, and the creepy Gene Rayburn tried to grope the female contestants. It was magic. Of course, not every game show was as magnif