How a TIME Writer Won Big on $100,000 Pyramid

Sep 16, 2016, 05:00 AM

It was early on a Sunday morning in April and I was in a green room on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, minutes away from one of the strangest, least expected and most incredible moments of my life. On a lark months earlier, I had applied to be a contestant on the new ABC reboot of the $100,000 Pyramid, hosted by Michael Strahan. I loved the old show and never expected it would be revived, let alone with me as a contestant. How the hell did I get here? I wondered.