When the game aired, viewers blasted Carey for his behavior toward a player who legitimately won according the game's rules. Drew Carey, convinced the show would not be aired, resumed the game and coldly informed Terry that he'd won both showcases.
The producers stopped the game, convinced that Terry was cheating somehow, but after a 20-minute pause, no one could say how that was possible. He made it all the way to the Showcase, where he guessed the exact price of his showcase, a feat that had happened only once before. Terry managed to be picked as a contestant for the taping of the Decemshow.
They watched recordings of the show for months to detect, analyze, and memorize those patterns. Las Vegas TV meteorologist Terry Kniess and his wife, Linda, discovered that prizes with particular prices tended to repeat in predictable patterns.
