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'The Luckiest Man in America' tells the story of an ice cream truck driver who cracked a game show's code, infuriated executives and won big

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73% Informative

The Luckiest Man in America imagines what it would have been like to be behind the scenes of a game show in the 1980s .

In 1984 , an ice cream truck driver with a fondness for get-rich-quick schemes named Michael Larson won the game show Press Your Luck .

Larson figured out how to guarantee a win every time, avoiding a "whammy".

VR Score

69

Informative language

63

Neutral language

80

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

36

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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