This might interest you if you've ever been a fan of Deal or No Deal, as I was for about nine minutes when it first went on American TV. It's about the original British version of the show.
You may recall that on the U.S. TV game show Press Your Luck, a gent named Michael Larson won a crate full of cash because, after studying the show intensely, he discovered that the game board, which was supposed to have random patterns, actually had at least one predictable one. He got on the show and exploited his find to win more than $110,000. (If you wanna know more about this, click this link.)
Well, on Deal or No Deal, the assignment of the various prize amounts to the various boxes is supposed to be completely random but for a brief time on the British version, it wasn't. In this case, many of the show's fans figured out the patterns but none of them got on the show to use that information…