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www.esquire.com www.esquire.com
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810/
Read this circa: 2019-10-26 20:00 See: https://hyp.is/HU9r5MhaEeyq-8OBZj_W7A/forum.artofmemory.com/
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forum.artofmemory.com forum.artofmemory.com
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https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/the-contestant-who-outsmarted-the-price-is-right/43337
Circling back to this a few years later... I just watched the documentary Perfect Bid: The Contestant who Knew Too Much (2017) which follows the story of Theodore Slauson from the article. Apparently he had spent a significant amount of time watching/taping the show and documenting the prices.
The documentary provides a single example of Slauson using a visual mnemonic for remembering the price of one item. The majority of his method seemed to be the fact that he put his pricing lists into a self-made spaced repetition system which he practiced with extensively. For some of his earliest visits to the show he mentions that a friend who travelled with him quizzed him on items on his price list on the way to the show. This, likely combined with an above average natural memory, allowed him to beat TPIR.
Outside of the scant memory portion portrayed, it was a reasonably entertaining watch.
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I was doing some research on counting cards and memory and came across this story from 2010 in Esquire relating to several who were using (unnamed) memory methods to perform better on The Price is Right game show. If nothing else, it’s a fascinating example of applied memory methods in modern culture.
The Contestant Who Outsmarted ‘The Price Is Right’
I was doing some research on counting cards and memory and came across this story from 2010 in Esquire relating to several who were using (unnamed) memory methods to perform better on The Price is Right game show. If nothing else, it’s a fascinating example of applied memory methods in modern culture.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a7922/price-is-right-perfect-bid-0810/
2019-10-26 20:00
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www.expressnews.com www.expressnews.com
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Excerpts from “The Price is Right” in “Perfect Bid” show this and other events happening exactly as Slauson remembers them. While he dismisses suggestions that he has a photographic memory, his ability to recall details — prices, prizes, contestant names and their bids — is impressively accurate. “Perfect Bid” director C.J. Wallis marvels at Slauson’s memory. “When we interviewed him, he sat down and, without any notes, remembered everything about probably a dozen different times he was in the studio audience,” he said.
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