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Press Your Luck

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Press Your Luck	comment	"Big Bucks! No Whammies!"Created by the late, great Bill Carruthers and featuring the late, great Rod Roddy and the late, great Peter Tomarken, Press Your Luck was a reimagined version of Carruthers's earlier (and far lesser-known today) Second Chance. Three contestants vied for the aforementioned Big Bucks by taking spins on the infamous Big Board, which featured plenty of cash and fabulous prizes, and perhaps the most famous game show villain ever, the Whammy. Land on one of them, kiss your winnings goodbye; land on four of them, kiss your game goodbye.The series ran for three years on CBS's daytime schedule from 1983-86, becoming even more popular in reruns on USA Network and GSN. It served as the fourth episode of CBS's 2006 Game$how Marathon miniseries, hosted by Ricki Lake, featuring an In Memoriam to the recently-deceased Tomarken at the end of the episode.Thus far, the series has spawned two revivals: The first, Whammy! (originally called Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck), aired in 2002 on Game Show Network with a few updates to the original format. See that page for specifics. The second, which reverted to the original format but raised the stakes greatly, began in 2019 on ABC for their primetime Summer Fun & Games block. Elizabeth Banks hosts.Press featured one of the most (in)famous game show contestants ever, Michael Larson, who memorized the intricate but repetitive patterns of the Big Board before he came on the show, winning $110,237 in cash and prizes. His game took so long that it had to span two episodes (and it still had to be chopped to fit in the allotted time), his score display went on the fritz when he got into the six-digit territory, and the board began to go out of its usual slide-change sync by the time he finally passed his spins. Larson's game was so notorious that CBS president Bud Grant, his vice president of programming, Harvey Shepard, and his vice-president of daytime programming, Michael Brockman, cited them as an embarrassment to the network and refused to re-air the Larson episodes following their initial showing; further, it was barred from airing elsewhere until GSN produced a two-hour documentary about the affair in 2003.P.S.: Just what exactly is a Flokati Rug?note (It's an all-wool rug that can be used as a wall hanging or a bed throw or before your fireplace to add warmth and beauty to your home.)
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Press Your Luck / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Press Your Luck / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Peter himself often caused this; there have been many instances where he notes how well the contestant is doing and just happens to mention the whammy. GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT. "One more spin." Often as not, they Whammied. Lampshaded by Tomarken from time to time; he had a name for the Whammy that often ensued—the "one-more Whammy". At the start of the Michael Larson two-parter, Peter said he was certain there would be big bucks that day. Oh, he had no idea. The Boy George Whammy would come in singing "Who would ever hurt a Whammy?" Hammering ensued. The Benjamin Franklin Whammy, while flying a kite, said "The chances of you winning this game are about as good as my getting hit by—" ZOT
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Press Your Luck / int_16417501	type	Perverse Sexual Lust
Press Your Luck / int_16417501	comment	Perverse Sexual Lust: Elizabeth Banks joked about this in the 2019 reboot, when she responded to a Whammy parodying James Bond with a remark that Whammy Bond is still kind of attractive.
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Press Your Luck / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Press Your Luck / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Peter would sometimes ask contestants "Are you ready to press your luck?"
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Press Your Luck / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Press Your Luck / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Shortly after this, the Pick-A-Corner square appeared, and the board patterns at that point made it possible to hit the square so that one of the choices in the other corners would be a Whammynote It's Square 1 in the upper-left, and theoretically, a player, if they had a lot of passed spins (which you are forced to use), a little bit to no money, and no prior Whammies, they could take the Whammy voluntarily and give their winnings back to get the passed spins into the earned column. However, this never happened, likely due to how counterintuitive such a move was.That Whammy was moved one square down. This pattern returned for Whammy!, where hitting Move One Space sometimes gave the player the option of taking a Double Whammy.
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Press Your Luck / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Press Your Luck / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: A few of the Whammy animations in the 2019 revival call out Elizabeth Banks by name.
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Press Your Luck / int_2319aa2e	type	All or Nothing
Press Your Luck / int_2319aa2e	comment	All or Nothing: Across all versions, only the main game champions keep their winnings. All other contestants receive consolation prizes. The Bonus Round in the 2019 version consists of five rounds (six in Season 1) and gives the night's champion a chance to win up to $1 million in cash and prizes. They have to take a set number of spins in each round, and ending a round with anything in the bank allows them to either quit and keep it all or go on to the next round. There are only three possible final results: win nothing (by Whammying out or hitting a Whammy on the last spin of the final round), win everything in the bank (by quitting or surviving to the end), or win $1 million (by getting the bank up to $500,000 at any point).
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Press Your Luck / int_26bccc6e	type	Ash Face
Press Your Luck / int_26bccc6e	comment	One of the signature animations is the Whammy blowing up a contestant's score with dynamite. He's standing way too close and comes out with an Ash Face as a result.
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Press Your Luck / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Press Your Luck / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Audience members would sometimes be seen dancing along to the music that accompanied certain Whammy animations, most notably the Breakdancing Whammy.
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Press Your Luck / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Press Your Luck / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The October 31, 1984 show started with Peter showing kids' drawings of the Whammy, and ended with Peter doing a little dance wearing the mask of Frankenstein's Monster.note (Management not responsible for this imitation.) The 1985 one offered nothing special, other than the use of the Halloween Whammy from the year before, and neither did the 1983 one.
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Press Your Luck / int_2ef005ab	type	Vocal Evolution
Press Your Luck / int_2ef005ab	comment	Vocal Evolution: The Whammy was primarily voiced by Press creator Bill Carruthers. Originally, he had more of a high-pitched and harmonized voice. But near the very end of the run, for some of the very last Whammies used on the show (such as the Circus Car, the Judge, and the Doctor ones), the voice began sounding a lot gruffer and harmonized.
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Press Your Luck / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
Press Your Luck / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Parodied in one of the Whammy animations. A Whammy dressed as a politician barked "If elected, I will raise your taxes!" before getting a Pie in the Face.
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Press Your Luck / int_31033156	type	Chest Insignia
Press Your Luck / int_31033156	comment	Chest Insignia: The Whammies have a yellow shield with a "$" sign on it on their front. On Whammy, the shield bore an uppercase "W."
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Press Your Luck / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Press Your Luck / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: In some episodes in Republic Pictures' syndication package of 1985 episodes in the late 1980s, there is a short animation that plays at the end showing the Chief Whammy calling out his subordinates for taking too much money and prizes from contestants, stating their bank accounts are full and their warehouses overloaded. He also calls them out for mocking the contestants and gives them all a vacation.
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Press Your Luck / int_336dd15f	type	Seven Dirty Words
Press Your Luck / int_336dd15f	comment	A later episode had one contestant, Billy, swear often at the board, but instead of resorting to the Seven Dirty Words like Hess did, he simply went for the catchy-sounding "Whammy, be damned!". It backfired on him, as he Whammied out rather quickly.
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Press Your Luck / int_3460db2	type	Foregone Victory
Press Your Luck / int_3460db2	comment	Foregone Victory: Extremely rare, but on at least a few occasions the first two players in the second round got four Whammies, leaving the 3rd player with spins but no competition. As a result, that contestant played against the house with the ability to quit at any point, assuming they didn't end their final spin with a Whammy or Whammy out. This doesn't apply when one or both of the first players end with no money but have less than four Whammies, since the passing rule is still alive in that scenario and they can still receive any spins the other doesn't play and try to get back in the game.
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Press Your Luck / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Press Your Luck / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Whammy often caps off the theft of the money with some bonus humiliation, like bringing out a whole choir to sing about how the contestant sucks.
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Press Your Luck / int_35efd14b	type	Infinite 1-Ups
Press Your Luck / int_35efd14b	comment	Infinite 1-Ups: The basis for Michael Larson's strategy. Back when he played, the board had two spots that were always free of Whammies and provided [Money] + One Spin. By always hitting the buzzer when the light was on those squares, he could lock himself in a potentially infinite loop. Granted, he couldn't do it forever because what he was doing was very complex and stressful, but he managed to do it for nearly an hour.
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Press Your Luck / int_39884242	type	KnowWhenToFoldThem
Press Your Luck / int_39884242	comment	Know When to Fold Them: In the bonus round of the 2019 reboot, you can choose to quit and keep all of your current winnings at the end of any round after using all the spins you were given. If you play on, though, you take a chance of ending up with a lower bank total when the next round is over. On more than one occasion, a contestant decided to go into the final round with a substantial amount in the bank, only to hit a Whammy on the last or second-to-last spin and be forced to leave with either nothing at all or much less than what they originally had.
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Press Your Luck / int_39f12fef	type	Vaudeville Hook
Press Your Luck / int_39f12fef	comment	Vaudeville Hook: Gets a tap-dancing Whammy that tries to get back on the screen.
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Press Your Luck / int_39f8d688	type	Home Participation Sweepstakes
Press Your Luck / int_39f8d688	comment	Home Participation Sweepstakes: The series held three of these, lasting about a month each (May 14-June 11, 1984; January 21-February 15, 1985; and October 21-November 22, 1985), as a gimmick to entice more viewers to watch the show. At the start of the second Big Board round, each contestant was given a postcard sent in by a different viewer, and one spin was designated the Home Player Spin. The contestant who took that spin won whatever cash/prize they hit for their viewer, or $500 if they hit a Whammy. The viewers whose cards were held by the other two contestants received Whammy T-shirts. The Carruthers Company, feeling the show's demise was probably imminent, decided to have the last Sweepstakes go out with a bang; instead of 20 episodes, it ran for 25. At the end of its last episode, a special all-cash board was created, and the day's champ drew one card from all those that had been chosen during that sweepstakes (75 total) and took one spin. The viewer won whatever amount they hit, multiplied by the total number of spins earned in Round 2 that day. With a stop on $2,000 and a total of 18 earned spins, the lucky viewer won $36,000, and a balloon and streamer celebration took place in the studio.
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Press Your Luck / int_3b2014fb	type	Mad Libs Catchphrase
Press Your Luck / int_3b2014fb	comment	"Stop at $[cash value (and a spin)]/[prize]/a Whammy!"
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Press Your Luck / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Press Your Luck / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Getting passed a stack of spins once you have built a solid lead. Especially if you already have three Whammies. The Bonus Round of the 2019 reboot turns extra spins into this (and, judging by how each round increases the amount of them on the board, the producers were well aware of this). You canâ€™t choose to walk away with your current winnings until a certain number of spins have been taken each round, including any spins earned via the board, which means each extra spin translates into yet another chance to hit a Whammy before that crucial decision point can be reached. God help the unfortunate schmuck whoâ€™s one Whammy away from elimination and proceeds to hit several of these in a row...
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Press Your Luck / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Press Your Luck / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Played straight with the Larson episodes. Larson's knowledge of the light patterns enabled him to rack up $110,237. Played straight with the Whammy himself in an episode with "WhammyBusters"; contestant Paul entered the second round with four spins, but didn't make a deal with the "WhammyBusters". Cue Paul getting Curb Stomped by the Whammy when he hits him on each of his four spins, resulting in him staying down for the rest of the game, which had no Whammies. A Season 2 episode of the 2019 reboot turned into this even before the end of the first Big Board round, when one contestant hit Add-a-One with a five-figure score (thus adding $100,000 to his total) and avoided the Whammy for the rest of the game.
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Press Your Luck / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Press Your Luck / int_3eee0728	comment	Season 3 of the revival introduced a new special space to Round 2: Take the Lead + One Spin.note Sets the score of the player who hits it to the current first-place score + $1â€¦ and awards an extra spin. This space is not all that great to land on for a player who already has the lead, but it at least eliminates the possibility of either of their opponents hitting the space.note "Take The Lead + One Spin" functions as a prize in that it disappears after being hit.
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Press Your Luck / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
Press Your Luck / int_41435fc2	comment	Pie in the Face: On two Whammy animations this happened: One had a Sleazy Politician yell "If elected, I will raise your taxes!" before the pie creamed him. The second one had Tammy Whammette singing like country star Tammy Wynette with the accompanying whammy playing guitar after introducing her "Ladies and gentlemen, Tammy Whammette!". He's promptly pied with Tammy looking surprised.
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Press Your Luck / int_450a63b5	type	Player Nudge
Press Your Luck / int_450a63b5	comment	Player Nudge: If a contestant hits two Whammies in Round 1, Peter will warn them about the possibility of landing on a third as a subtle coax into getting them to pass any remaining spins.
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Press Your Luck / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Press Your Luck / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Hit four Whammies at any point, and you're out of the game permanently. Beginning September 17, 1984, special Whammy animations were introduced that would play anytime a contestant hit their 4th Whammy. The first was a baseball umpirenote He appeared directly in front of the contestant, and after a baseball sound effect, he yelled "YOU'RE OUT!!!", with a Slasher Smile. Before this Whammy's appearance, other Whammy animations were used like normal when a contestant hit four Whammies, with at least one instance past this and Whammy! returning to that trend for elimination (no "You're Out" Whammies were used on Todd Newton's version) , the second was a Whammy on a cruise shipnote This is also one of the "remove score digit by digit going right" Whammies, and as the cruise ships sail across the money, the Whammy says "Hasta luego! Arrivederci! Bon voyage! That means goodbye! Hahahaha!" (the 2019 version of that Whammy doesn't laugh at the end). This was the elimination Whammy used by Leslie Nielsen in Gameshow Marathon's version of PYL, and since that was also the last Whammy of that game, it was also the last appearance of the Whammy on television for 13 years., and the third and final one, appearing in 1986, was a barbershop quartetnote This only began appearing on GSN recently, and featured three Whammies dressed in barbershop clothes like in opera plus a dog conductor character that may be Fang rising from the bottom of the screen. Once they're in front of the contestant, they sing, "You're out... You're outtttt... You're outtttttt... You're outtttttttt..." then shout, "YOU'RE OUT!" while turning to the screen. This Whammy was rarely seen due to being used in the last few months of PYL's run, which GSN did not have until recent years, and was the last elimination Whammy seen on the show before 2006's Game Show Marathon. The 2019 version has added a few more elimination Whammies, for example, there's a Whammy playing golfnote "FORE! Four Whammies means you're out.", there's a bartender Whammynote "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.", another one with a Whammy spinning a sign and getting cut in half by itnote "You... lose! Hahahahaha! gets cut in half by the sign I have a splitting headache...", and now there's one with the Whammy dressing up as Abraham Lincolnnote "Four score? More like four whammies! Yooooooou're out! (laughs)".
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Press Your Luck / int_4733c4f1	type	The Song Remains the Same
Press Your Luck / int_4733c4f1	comment	The Song Remains the Same: The Turkish version did this to any Whammy that was singing. They didn't even provide subtitles or dub anything the Whammies spoke.
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Press Your Luck / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Press Your Luck / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The Whammy gets this treatment in countless ways. Blown up, eaten by a shark, crushed by a falling car, sucked into a wood chipper...
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Press Your Luck / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Press Your Luck / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Oh, so many examples, like any time a contestant is leading going into the very last spin and then hits the Whammy on said last spin. One contestant lost on the very last spin... by three dollars. Michael Larson's record-breaking win turned into this, as he frivolously spent a lot of it on bad real estate deals and schemes including a $30,000 radio lottery involving $1 bill serial numbers that left him nearly broke, and the rest was stolen from his house when he left his remaining $50,000 lying around, with $5,000 in a closet taken by his soon to be ex-wife, who had had enough of Larson's behavior. All this by the end of the year in which he appeared on PYL, and at the very least, the money was well gone by the time the show entered its last few months of broadcast in 1986. Larson called up the show and suggested they do a Tournament of Champions, but the show declined (shame, that, since it might have helped boost their flagging ratings in '86). Plus, he died of throat cancer while on the run, which Tomarken called "the ultimate Whammy". Hitting a Whammy on the final spin of the final round or getting four Whammies in the bonus game of the 2019 revival of the show, especially if you had 6 figures at that point. One player on a 2021 episode entered the bonus game with no money (after both of his opponents in the main game picked up four Whammies), then hit a Whammy on his final spin of the Big Bucks Bonanza, leaving him with absolutely nothing. A VERY BIG ONE on the July 28, 2022 episode. Contestant Zachary won the main game with only $2,750 after both his opponents Whammied out. He hit some huge prizes during the bonus game, including two cars, a trip to both the North and South Poles, and a Harley-Davidson that he wanted to give to his father, and had his bank up past $420,000 at the end of the fourth round. A sensible person might have bailed out at this point, but Zach was determined to be the first million-dollar winner and chose to play on, and it proved to be a FATAL mistake, as he hit a Whammy on his second spin, wiping out a $433,336 bank, $66,664 short of the magic $500,000 threshold. However, he did pick up $25,000 on his third and final spin and left with an all cash total of $27,750. That Whammy was the biggest single loss in the show's history.
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Press Your Luck / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The May 18, 1983 pilot featured slides that were only shades of blue or green, and the first episodes used colors like off-white, which vanished after a handful of episodes. There was also a different sound for the Big Board, first heard in the said pilot, replaced by a different one on November 2, 1983. The original red buzzers had coils, similar to the ones on the game show PYL replaced, Child's Play. They would break constantly, which led to a redesign on the December 21, 1983 episode. But it still didn't work, so they were completely redesigned to their more familiar appearance on the February 14, 1984 episode. In these early shows, the contestants were more sedated (they weren't yelling "Big bucks, no Whammies!" yet). The first contestant to chant the now-well-known mantra of the series was future game show announcer Randy West (Episodes 9-11; September 29-October 3, 1983). The first week of shows (basically, the first seven episodes) had no Whammy foghorn. Also used for the first seven episodes was the CBS "ding" sound for passing a spin. The board looked a bit further away from the players in the first seven episodes. For the first 22 episodes, the board sound was played at a lower tone of volume. It was amped up beginning on #23 (October 19, 1983). Originally, the same light pattern was cycled over and over again until the player stopped the board. By the eighth episode, there were also instances where portions of them were jarringly skipped over. All of this was completely fixed in Episode 13 (October 5, 1983). Since the game was still new, Peter gave more of a more thoroughly detailed explanation of how the game was played for the first few months. His explanations were slimmed down considerably by Winter 1984. The '83 pilot originally had just one Whammy animation (the Whammy running with a hammer). By the time the show became a series four months later, they reanimated it, as well as added 11 more Whammies to the rotation. As the series progressed, more Whammies would be added to the rotation (typically, several at a time would be added and/or reworked on an average of four times a year). The first week of shows had the Whammies take away the entire player's score, leaving just $0 on their scoreboards. This was changed the following week, to having them take out the whole thing. By the 8th week, some of the Whammies began taking away the players' score, digit-by-digit. The board's PYL logo for the '83 pilot was done in a different, stencil-like block font, with "PRESS" and "LUCK" in yellow letters over a black background, and "YOUR" with the colors inverted. Further, the redesigned PYL logo, as seen in the series, looked a bit darker in the first six weeks. The contestants sported slightly different nametags in the first 8 weeks of shows (#001-#042; weeks 1-8). They were enlarged, beginning with the November 16, 1983 episode. For a brief time, from the November 9-15, 1983 episodes, Peter introduced the returning champion first, before he introduced the challengers. The prize cue originally had a jazzy arrangement with a saxophone lead. Beginning on October 19, 1983 (#23), it was replaced with a synth arrangement. In the first few weeks, the questions were noticeably more difficult, resulting in low spin totals (one early episode had the contestants going into round 2 with a mere seven spins between them). Over time, the difficulty was adjusted to increase the number of spins won. In Round 1, Square #4 initially used $750-$1,000-$1,250. This changed on October 19, 1983, to their more recognizable appearance, with $1,000-$1,250-$1,500. It was also the last R1 value change until December 6, 1985, when $500 + One Spin in #10 became $750 + One Spin. There were also very few "+ One Spin" spaces in both rounds. While R1 always had four (five in the pilot), R2 went from having seven (eight in the pilot) to nine and eventually anywhere from 12-14. Combined with the more difficult questions resulting in fewer spins going into the round, the initial number of free spins in R2 resulted in episodes running way too short. From December 5, 1983, to January 16, 1984 (Weeks 11-16), the R2 board only had 8 Whammies as opposed to 9 on any episode outside that span. To make things even weirder, episodes from January 17-23, 1984 (Week 17) had a Whammy in #2 in R2. The series was always taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood, CA... but originally, tapings were held only at Studio 33 note (now known as The Bob Barker Studio). Beginning with the January 17, 1984 episode, they would alternate between Studios 33 and 43 every 1-2 months (with Larson's game taped at the former) before finally settling on the latter beginning with the February 20, 1985 episode. The 2019 revival used four questions in the first Q&A round for the first two episodes produced. This was lowered to three questions for the other episodes.
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Press Your Luck / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
Press Your Luck / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: A player who gets spins passed to them by an opponent must use all of those spins before dealing with any earned ones. Often figures into the players' strategies. Subverted if the player hits a Whammy; any passed spins are moved over to the "earned" column and can be used or passed. In the Bonus Round of the 2019 revival, the day's champ has to take all the spins given to them at the start of a round (and any extras they earn along the way) before they get a chance to walk away with everything in the bank.
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Press Your Luck / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Press Your Luck / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The first and last spins Michael Larson took across his two episodes landed on the same square (#17 — which had a Whammy on his first spin and a trip to the Bahamas on his last).
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Press Your Luck / int_5b2cf07b	type	American Gothic Couple
Press Your Luck / int_5b2cf07b	comment	American Gothic Couple: One Whammy slide introduced in 2022 has Whammy and Tammy imitating the couple in the painting.
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Press Your Luck / int_5c15399f	type	Player Elimination
Press Your Luck / int_5c15399f	comment	Player Elimination: Hitting a Whammy causes you to forfeit any earnings up to that point. If you hit four Whammies, your score gets set to zero and you are out of the competition.
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Press Your Luck / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Press Your Luck / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: Used both to buzz in to answer questions and to stop the board.
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Press Your Luck / int_5fcb3c79	type	Golden Snitch
Press Your Luck / int_5fcb3c79	comment	Golden Snitch: Games were won or lost based on the last few spins, and Round 1 could be considered a time waster since Round 2 had higher prize amounts and players tended to hit a Whammy at some point, making them lose everything they collected in R1. The last round of the second German version had a car prize, which if hit resulted in that player winning the game immediately. A contestant could have three Whammies and still win the game while another could have no Whammies and not win at all. It's a matter of the contestant with the three Whammies on how many spins they have, hitting squares with additional spins and their monetary value. The ABC Revival with Elizabeth Banks turns this up to eleven: Prizes over $50,000 are common in the second round. Unlike the original version, it is easy to get over $10,000 in the first round, meaning that hitting "Add-A-One" could add $100,000 to your score. At least one contestant did exactly that and managed to avoid the Whammy for the rest of the game and win. The third season introduced the "Take The Lead + One Spin" space. If someone in second or third place hits this space, they get enough cash to move them into the lead by $1. In the bonus game, values of prizes based on the contestant's interests can exceed $150,000 during later rounds. The new "Prize-A-Palooza" space in the Big Bucks Bonanza. If a player has $300,000 - $400,000 and hits that... THEY MIGHT JUST WIN IT ALL.
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Press Your Luck / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Press Your Luck / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Amassing the $500K needed to snag the million-dollar grand prize in the Bonus Round is notoriously difficult, especially once the number of Whammies on the board starts to skyrocket in the later rounds and hitting even a single one sends you back to square one.
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Press Your Luck / int_63c6c615	type	Dynamic Difficulty
Press Your Luck / int_63c6c615	comment	Dynamic Difficulty: Occasionally, the light bulb on Peter Tomarken's podium would blink during a Q&A round. This was Peter's cue to go to the easier questions; the bulb would blink if the three contestants earned a combined total of fewer than 10 spins by the 2nd or 3rd question. January 17, 1984 episode (#93) has a disclaimer stating that the entire second round was thrown out and redone due to the original one "fail[ing] to generate an adequate number of spins to provide for a full-length program".
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Press Your Luck / int_65cbb040	type	Pinball Scoring
Press Your Luck / int_65cbb040	comment	One Flash version, created by a user with the handle "BigJon06", better known today as a video game speedrunner, features so many extra gimmicks that players can use, which could result in Pinball Scoring-levels of insanity (think insane combos like $1,000,000 + Decuple Your $$ + One Spin + Add-A-One being common occurrences). And they love posting their games on YouTube to the ranks of Memetic Mutation.
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Press Your Luck / int_68d43ebc	type	Game Show Host
Press Your Luck / int_68d43ebc	comment	Game Show Host: Peter Tomarken (1983-86), Elizabeth Banks (2019).
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Press Your Luck / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Press Your Luck / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Many excited contestants when they won the game.
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Press Your Luck / int_6cf80934	type	Big Word Shout
Press Your Luck / int_6cf80934	comment	Big Word Shout: Steve Bryant's chant of "No Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammies!"
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Press Your Luck / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Press Your Luck / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The Christmas Day 1985 show had Peter hosting in his bathrobe and pajamas, as well as Rod dressed like Santa Claus. It also featured cameo appearances by Peter's twin daughters Alexis and Candace, and it's the only post-November 1983 episode to not have an opening montage.note (It opened on a set representing the Tomarken household on Christmas morning with Peter's daughters waking him up.) Ironically, the Tomarken family was Jewish.
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Press Your Luck / int_701bd8f1	type	Auto-Incorrect
Press Your Luck / int_701bd8f1	comment	Auto-Incorrect: In the May 26, 2021 episode, Elizabeth Banks asked the contestants what feature would have failed them if they meant to text "You look so good" but instead texted "You look so food." The answer, of course, is autocorrect.
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Press Your Luck / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Press Your Luck / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: From September 28-October 18, 1983 (Episodes 8-22), the backdrops behind the audience were blue during Round 1 and red for Round 2, not unlike what would later be used on Jeopardy! from 1985-97.
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Press Your Luck / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Press Your Luck / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Michael Larson's technique for breaking the board was to analyze the not-quite-random order that the lights would flash in, wait for the right moment when he knew there wouldn't be a Whammy, and pull the trigger to rake in $110,237.
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Press Your Luck / int_73e51847	type	Missing the Good Stuff
Press Your Luck / int_73e51847	comment	Missing the Good Stuff: Washington D.C. was the highest-ranked television market where PYL did not air regularly. In Atlanta GA,note As of current the higher-ranked market at no. 7; Washington D.C. is 9th PYL didn't air there either but in a strange quirk, a UHF independent in that city was supposed to start airing a same-day delay of The $25,000 Pyramid on September 22, 1986 (PYL's final week) at 4 PM but forgot to record that day's episode. Hung up with what to air, they picked up the CBS feed and aired that day's PYL. The program didn't air on January 28, 1986, due to non-stop coverage of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and on the 29th, the January 27 episode was preempted in favor of a sitcom rerun on stations that carried the program outside of 4:00 p.m. on "Tape Delay". The latter aired on January 27 as normal.
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Press Your Luck / int_786e5cac	type	Circling Birdies
Press Your Luck / int_786e5cac	comment	Circling Birdies: This happened in two Whammy animations. One had the Whammy skateboarding into a tree, accompanied by the tweets of birds. Another had the Whammy attempting to snap a photo of the contestant losing all the money. Epic Fail ensued as usual, and the Whammy heard birds chirping.
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Press Your Luck / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Press Your Luck / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Although losing all your money isn't fun, the animations of the Whammy getting hurt in some way (blown up, eaten by a shark, hammered into the ground, etc.) are still pretty funny.
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Press Your Luck / int_794cff5	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Press Your Luck / int_794cff5	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: At least four, none of which were really that successful. An Australian version hosted by Ian Turpie aired from 1987-88 and, per Reg Grundy's tradition, the set and format were very faithful to the original - it even used the same Whammy animations! The Big Board was scaled down ("Stop at $30!") and had some rather unusual Bonus Spaces (Lose-1-Whammy or $200 + One Spin?!). A British version helmed by Paul Coia ran on HTV West from 1991-92. While the format was faithful, the budget was minimal â€” the Big Board used points, and the big winner received Â£200. The show was quickly kicked from primetime to Saturday afternoons, then Sunday afternoons. A German version, GlÃ¼ck am DrÃ¼cker (more clips here), aired for a time in 1992. This iteration used a similar set (the Big Board used a five-by-five layout instead of six-by-five), animated vultures instead of Whammies (complete with unique animations), and a "lightbox" that moved at a speed more like that on Second Chance. An updated version, DrÃ¼ck dein GlÃ¼ck, ran from 1999-2000. This version replaced Whammies with Hainz the Money Shark and an atmosphere closer to Whammy! And as with many other game shows, Sabado Gigante had their own version at one point. A Turkish version named ÅžansÄ±nÄ± Dene ran from 1994-1996.
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Press Your Luck / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Press Your Luck / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: For how amazing Michael Larsonâ€™s trouncing of the game was, it bears mentioning just how close he was to losing every penny of it on his last spin. To wit, Larson ended up stopping the board too early, landing on square 17 instead of the desired square 8. Said Square had just switched from $700 + One Spin to a trip to the Bahamas. The other value it could have switched to? A Whammy (incidentally, the very same one he hit on his very first spin). Essentially, Larson was spared being remembered for a very different reason by little more than the flip of a coin.
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Press Your Luck / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Press Your Luck / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: A more specific list can be seen in They Changed It, Now It Sucks!. After the very stable season 2 which only had two different board configurations, the final CBS season brought with it neon and many undesirable changes to the board.
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Press Your Luck / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Press Your Luck / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: One of the Whammy animations is a Whammy on a dollar bill saying "I cannot tell a lie. You lose!"
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Press Your Luck / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Press Your Luck / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: May 18, 1983 (Pilot): "These three players have been especially selected today to play television's richest game. Jack Campion is a lawyer who always plays to win, Maggie Brown says she never even thinks about losing, and Matt Dorf tells us he thinks the guy who says 'Winning isn't everything' is crazy. But only one of them can play and win today, as they play television's most exciting and challenging new game â€” Press Your Luck! And now, here's your host, the star of Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken!" September 19-October 4, 1983: "These three contestants are about to play the most exciting game of their lives, which only one of them can win." [each contestant is introduced one by one, with Rod commenting on each of them] "From Television City in Hollywood, it's time to Press Your Luck! And now, here's your host, the star of Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken!" October 5-November 4, 1983: "These three contestants are about to play the most exciting game of their lives. [each contestant is introduced one by one, with Rod making a comment about each of them. For the 2nd player, if player 1 was a returning champion, Rod would say that he or she hopes to better that figure today, but the 3rd player has other plans for both of them.] "From Television City in Hollywood, it's time to Press Your Luck! And now, here's your host, the star of Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken!" November 7, 1983-end of run in 1986 (following a montage of clips from previous episodes): "Today, these three players are after hiiiiigh stakes (later "biiiiiiiig bucks"note Rod said "Big Bucks" at first, but then changed it to "High Stakes". Also, originally, there was no music during the flashbacks.), but they'll have to avoid the Whammy as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Television City in Hollywood, it's time to Press Your Luck! And now, here's your host, the star of Press Your Luck, Peter Tomarken!" note (Beginning in February 1985, "hiiiiigh stakes" was changed to "biiiiig bucks". A few months later, a Whammy animation was added to the open and the spiel was slightly altered to extend "Whaaammyyyyy".) June 12, 2019: "Tonight, these three players are after big bucks, but theyâ€™ll have to avoid the Whammy, as one of the most exciting game shows of all time returns! From Television City in Hollywood, itâ€™s time to Press...Your...Luck! And now hereâ€™s the host of Press Your Luck, Elizabeth Banks!" June 19, 2019-October 29, 2020; July 7, 2022-December 6, 2022 (following a montage of clips from previous episodes starting with the July 14, 2022 episode):' "Tonight, these three players are after big bucks, but theyâ€™ll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Television City in Hollywood, itâ€™s time to Press...Your...Luck! And now hereâ€™s the host of Press Your Luck'', Elizabeth Banks!" May 26, 2021-August 11, 2021 (following a montage of clips from previous episodes): "Tonight, these three players are after big bucks, but theyâ€™ll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Studio Center in Hollywood, itâ€™s time to Press...Your...Luck! And now hereâ€™s the host of Press Your Luck, Elizabeth Banks!" October 10, 2023-Present (following a montage of clips from previous episodes): "Tonight, these three players are after big bucks, but theyâ€™ll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Haven Studios in Hollywood, itâ€™s time to Press...Your...Luck! And now hereâ€™s the host of Press Your Luck, Elizabeth Banks!"
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Press Your Luck / int_83ea0763	type	Rouge Angles of Satin
Press Your Luck / int_83ea0763	comment	Rouge Angles of Satin: One prize square read "Flatwear", though it was later corrected.
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Press Your Luck / int_860ca0d9	type	Losing Horns
Press Your Luck / int_860ca0d9	comment	Losing Horns: A two-note synth sound that highly resembles a foghorn, naturally played whenever a Whammy was hit.
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Press Your Luck / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Press Your Luck / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Questions in the 2019 revival are sometimes written in such a way that a player who buzzes in before hearing the whole thing will completely blow it. Example: "Tom Hanks portrayed this beloved childhood icon who famously wore cardigan sweaters." One player buzzes in at this point and says, "Mr. Rogers." The rest of the question: "What was Mr. Rogers' first name?" (Answer: Fred.)
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Press Your Luck / int_890c8068	type	Extra Turn
Press Your Luck / int_890c8068	comment	Extra Turn: Again, the "+ One Spin" spaces. There were only a few in the beginning, but way too many by the end. In the 2019 version, the "+ One Spin" spaces are a boon during the main game, but become a burden during the Bonus Round, in which a contestant has to take a certain number of spins before they can choose to walk away and each subsequent round increases the number of "+ One Spin" spaces in addition to Whammies.
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Press Your Luck / int_8a6b9333	type	Blinking Lights of Victory
Press Your Luck / int_8a6b9333	comment	Blinking Lights of Victory: The spinner indicators around the prizes and whammies and the winner's score all flash.
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Press Your Luck / int_8a8b2a87	type	And Knowing Is Half the Battle
Press Your Luck / int_8a8b2a87	comment	Lampshaded for a Whammy animation introduced in 2020. The Whammy gets his cape stuck on a firework that he's setting off, and he goes up with it. After the Whammy gets blown to bits, his disembodied head tells the audience "Don't play with fireworks."
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Press Your Luck / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Press Your Luck / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: A case happened with Michael Larson's well-known exploitation; it was obvious he had memorized the two patterns that mattered the most, but since they happened to be for spaces that also gave you a spin in the second round, he could theoretically go forever...unfortunately, he didn't memorize any other patterns that led to any other safe space that guaranteed no extra spinsnote (There were, in fact, three such spaces: #2, #10, and #13.), which meant he had to risk losing all of the money he had racked up in earlier rounds when he decided he was finally finished. Mercifully for him (though unfortunately for the staff) he ended up keeping it all. That said, Larson did still have an out, which he used once he got to six figures: he could pass his spins to another player. As long as he played his patterns perfectly, he could simply pass any new spins he picked up to another contestant, as neither of his opponents knew the light patterns and wasn't going to keep hitting spins the way he would.
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Press Your Luck / int_8d4e3278	comment	Kingmaker Scenario: If only one player has spins left and is in last in R2 by a large margin, they can technically still pass their spins even though this virtually eliminates any chance of them winning. This would give the second-place player a chance of winning if the first-place player hits a Whammy. Peter would joke that the player in second would buy the last-place player lunch or be their best friend if that ended up happening.note Incidentally, this very situation is what prompted Jim Hessâ€™s infamous Precision F-Strike; third-place contestant Sam ended up passing his last spin to Jim for laughs, which led to him hitting a Whammy and giving second-place contestant Pamela the win. Needless to say, Jim wasnâ€™t laughing.
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Press Your Luck / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: While the first revival Whammy! adapted a more high-tech aesthetic, the aesthetic and gameplay of the 2019 revival are almost identical to the 1983 show. Most obviously, while the Whammy animations in Whammy! were done in CGI, the animations in the 2019 reboot return to the Limited Animation of the original, to the point that some of them are taken straight from the original show.
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Press Your Luck / int_901dbf9a	type	Cliff Hanger
Press Your Luck / int_901dbf9a	comment	Cliffhanger: Larson's appearance was split into two episodes during post-production; at the end of the first half, Peter appeared superimposed over a still frame showing the three contestants. Even more cliffhanger-like, the two parts aired on June 8 and 11, 1984, a Friday and Monday respectively.
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Press Your Luck / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Press Your Luck / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Many times, the Whammy will steal the money and then be hit with swift punishment. One example has him smacking a fly with a flyswatter... then getting swatted himself by a giant fly. Or managing to lift a set of barbells, only to crash through the floor shortly thereafter.
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Press Your Luck / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Press Your Luck / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The Whammy modeled after Cyndi Lauper was animated more fluidly than the others.
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Press Your Luck / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Press Your Luck / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: The $470 space in Round 1 is a pretty oddball amount compared to other cash spaces. Other than that and $525 (which was right above it), the other cash spaces all had amounts that were multiples of $50. Whammy! had a Shout-Out to this, with one space that awarded $740 and another that gave a choice of $555 or a re-spin. The $1,400 space in Round 2 could also count, as the other cash spaces between $1,000 and $2,500 were multiples of $250. (Round 2 also had $500, $600, $700, $750, and $800, but except for the last one all of those also appeared in Round 1.) $1,200 was also used very early on in R2, before the first set of rearrangements. Fans know Michael Larson's winnings of $110,237, as well as the main board pattern he exploited to accumulate that number: 2-12-1-9-4 (matched to their corresponding squares). Season 5 of the revival adds "The Big 40" to the board in the second round of the main game, in honor of the show's 40th anniversary. Hitting it awards 40 of some mystery prize or cash amount.
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Press Your Luck / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
Press Your Luck / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Despite every other visual aspect of the 2019 reboot being tuned up and refined to modern standards, the Whammy animations still retain the Limited Animation of old.
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Press Your Luck / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Press Your Luck / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: The Ludia game's AI opponents can be incapable of answering simple questions such as "What is 6Ã—4?" or "How many months in a year?"
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Press Your Luck / int_95496a1d	type	The Announcer
Press Your Luck / int_95496a1d	comment	The Announcer: Rod Roddy, before (and during the first seven months of) his tenure on The Price Is Right. Someone else filled in for Rod twice: John Harlan during the September 17-October 1, 1984 episodes, and Charlie O'Donnell during the March 31-April 14, 1986 episodes. Neil Ross voiced the first four seasons of the 2019 revival, then was replaced by Chris Ahearn starting with the fifth.
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Press Your Luck / int_970ca74e	type	Big "OMG!"
Press Your Luck / int_970ca74e	comment	Big "OMG!": Done occasionally when a player wins the game.
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Press Your Luck / int_987ff653	comment	Promotional Consideration
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Press Your Luck / int_98b1dc8f	type	Luck-Based Mission
Press Your Luck / int_98b1dc8f	comment	Luck-Based Mission: It was supposed to be one from the beginning, but Larson proved that it could be won through a combination of split-second timing and memorizing the board's light patterns. Afterward, the board was reprogrammed with so many new patterns that no one would be able to repeat Larson's accomplishment.
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Press Your Luck / int_9918518b	type	Press X to Die
Press Your Luck / int_9918518b	comment	Press X to Die: If a Whammy was showing in one of the other three corners when a player hit Pick-a-Corner, they were given the option to choose it. Thankfully, no one ever did.
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Press Your Luck / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
Press Your Luck / int_9b7a0921	comment	Split Screen: When it was down to the final spin of the final player with spins remaining, a split-screen on the big board would show both that player and the player who would either be the winner if they whammied out or who was in the lead if the player taking the spin wasn't in the lead. If they picked up an additional spin, then the split-screen would continue into the next spin. Otherwise, the split-screen would slide away to show only the contestant who had won. Also, if the spinning contestant whammied, no whammy animation would be played; they would just clear away the split-screen and go directly to the winner.
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Press Your Luck / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
Press Your Luck / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: The Whammy's dog, Fang. Lampshaded in one episode; a question was asked "We all know the Whammy doesn't have many friends, but one friend he does have is his dog. What's the pooch's name?". None of the contestants rang in, so Peter provided the choices of Fido, Fang, and Spot (all three guessed Fang). Of course, Fang isn't opposed to putting the Whammy through misfortune (i.e. dragging him around or eating his food).
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Press Your Luck / int_9edfdf1f	type	Studio Audience
Press Your Luck / int_9edfdf1f	comment	Studio Audience: In a neat twist, the contestant island rotating to face the Big Board meant that not only did we see the players as they were pressing their luck, but also the audience behind them.
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Press Your Luck / int_9f80e1da	comment	Peter himself often caused this; there have been many instances where he notes how well the contestant is doing and just happens to mention the whammy. GUESS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
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Press Your Luck / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Press Your Luck / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: On June 14, 1985, one question asks which Looney Tunes character has "Sufferin' succotash!" as a Catchphrase. All three contestants say Sylvester, but the answer on Peter's card is Daffy Duck. How does the show handle this error? With Mel Blanc calling Peter to explain. In his Sylvester voice.
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Press Your Luck / int_ab729e43	type	Disappointed in You
Press Your Luck / int_ab729e43	comment	Disappointed in You: In the remake one whammy dressed as a mom comes to look at the contestant's score, sees they don't have any money and says "You don't have any money? I'm not mad, just... disappointed. I expected better."
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Press Your Luck / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Press Your Luck / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When a contestant hit a Whammy, or the Whammy got injured (or a vehicle wrecked).
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Press Your Luck / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Press Your Luck / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: One contestant on the CBS version had her two opponents Whammy-Outâ€¦ but she had $0 and no spins, and thus became the only contestant in that version's history to win with $0. She lost her second game, though, so she received the same consolation prizes the other loser got. And the 6/7/2021 All for Nothing game mentioned above.
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Press Your Luck / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Press Your Luck / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Peter would often use dry humor, especially if someone buzzed in prematurely and answered incorrectly.
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Press Your Luck / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Press Your Luck / int_aed65980	comment	And the 6/7/2021 All for Nothing game mentioned above.
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Press Your Luck / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Press Your Luck / int_b01abe4f	comment	The Whammy had the Catchphrase "Oh, no..." when a vehicle got wrecked or he suffered Amusing Injuries.
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Press Your Luck / int_b1961af1	type	Offscreen Crash
Press Your Luck / int_b1961af1	comment	Offscreen Crash: Sometimes happened to the Whammy. The airplane one is Harsher in Hindsight since Peter Tomarken died in a plane crash in 2006.
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Press Your Luck / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Press Your Luck / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Michael Larson memorized the board patterns in use at the time. After conducting an investigation, CBS concluded that he hadn't broken any rules and allowed him to keep his winnings.
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Press Your Luck / int_b1fbb55b	type	Game Show Winnings Cap
Press Your Luck / int_b1fbb55b	comment	Game Show Winnings Cap: Five days or $25,000, whichever came first. On November 1, 1984, the cash limit was doubled to $50,000.
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Press Your Luck / int_b24ce4b2	type	Rearrange the Song
Press Your Luck / int_b24ce4b2	comment	Rearrange the Song: The main theme was based on Keith Mansfield's Flash, which was used in the pilot. The Facebook app uses a new recording of the theme song in certain parts.
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Press Your Luck / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Press Your Luck / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Another had the Whammy attempting to snap a photo of the contestant losing all the money. Epic Fail ensued as usual, and the Whammy heard birds chirping.
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Press Your Luck / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Press Your Luck / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: The "Big Bucks" space, which immediately jumps the player to the highest cash value on the board at the moment. The 2019 revival has two further examples in the last round of its bonus game. The round itself is called the "Big Bucks Bonanza," with a top cash value of $100,000 and all smaller amounts as the top values from the previous rounds. Starting in Season 4, a "Prize-a-Palooza" space is added to the board, which awards every prize displayed at the time if hit.
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Press Your Luck / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Press Your Luck / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The Sherlock Holmes Whammy says, "Elementary, my dear Fang. It was greed that got him".
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Press Your Luck / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Press Your Luck / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: The original set of light patterns was retired and replaced with new ones on June 20, 1984, shortly after Larson's appearance. As a precaution, they were changed again on July 31. On September 17, the final change was made, increasing the number of light patterns to 32, which was probably too much for anybody to memorize and exploit. Shortly after this, the Pick-A-Corner square appeared, and the board patterns at that point made it possible to hit the square so that one of the choices in the other corners would be a Whammynote It's Square 1 in the upper-left, and theoretically, a player, if they had a lot of passed spins (which you are forced to use), a little bit to no money, and no prior Whammies, they could take the Whammy voluntarily and give their winnings back to get the passed spins into the earned column. However, this never happened, likely due to how counterintuitive such a move was.That Whammy was moved one square down. This pattern returned for Whammy!, where hitting Move One Space sometimes gave the player the option of taking a Double Whammy. Double Your $$ originally didn't offer an extra spin, resulting in the space being completely useless if the contestant who hit it got a Whammy on the preceding spin. Five weeks after its introduction, it was modified to include the extra spin.
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Press Your Luck / int_b8dbbc07	type	Ink-Suit Actor
Press Your Luck / int_b8dbbc07	comment	Ink-Suit Actor: Rick Stern (Associate Director) said that the bearded Whammy of the Vocalist Group Whammy animation (a quartet seemingly inspired by The Four Tops) was based on him.
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Press Your Luck / int_ba26aa0d	type	Teeny Weenie
Press Your Luck / int_ba26aa0d	comment	Teeny Weenie: Weirdly implied in one of the animations where the Whammy is caught showering and is embarrassed that his (pixellated) naked self is seen on television. He defends himself with "The water's cold, I swear."
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Press Your Luck / int_bad20f4e	type	Whammy
Press Your Luck / int_bad20f4e	comment	Whammy: Trope Namer and mascot. Land on a space with this dreaded character, at any time, and you lose all of the cash and prizes gained up to that point. Get four and it's Game Over. Dozens of animations have been used (some rarely), with a few also involving a female (Tammy Whammette) and/or a dog named Fang.
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Press Your Luck / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The most serious example is the one with Jim Hess; when he got a third Whammy, he swore under his breath, but the audience could tell he was saying "Oh, shit!" Upon Whammying out, he yelled, "JEEZ! FUCKING SHIT!" A later episode had one contestant, Billy, swear often at the board, but instead of resorting to the Seven Dirty Words like Hess did, he simply went for the catchy-sounding "Whammy, be damned!". It backfired on him, as he Whammied out rather quickly.
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Press Your Luck / int_be9d4a56	type	Home Game
Press Your Luck / int_be9d4a56	comment	Home Game: Several. The first was released for the PC by GameTek in 1988. Directional spaces only let you move in one direction, and the unique "Lose One Turn" removed a spin without touching your money. Many "amateur" (unofficial) versions were done for PC in the 1990s and 2000s, somewhat a combination of love, boredom, and the absence of a console/PC game that didn't require DOS. One in particular, made by Curt King, stood out for containing every single prize and Big Board layout ever used, audio tracks of many Whammies and most of Peter Tomarken's calling of spaces, all three board sounds, male and female computer opponents, a program for users to create their layouts, great renditions of the Big Board "slides" despite being made by hand, an immensely-detailed customization menu, and was not only very user-friendly but easy on the PC (both in space required and in CPU usage). A set of "third-party" modifications to King's program made the slides even more accurate, added custom prizes of $10,000 and $25,000, allowed the board to display slide colors according to each of the show's three seasons, had a Christmas motif that added decorations to the board, and even included a special Round 1 board that gave contestants several chances to rack up spins for Round 2. More amazingly still, the mod community is going strong to this very day: take, for instance, this visual/board mod for the 2019 reboot, unveiled a full day before said reboot even premiered! One Flash version, created by a user with the handle "BigJon06", better known today as a video game speedrunner, features so many extra gimmicks that players can use, which could result in Pinball Scoring-levels of insanity (think insane combos like $1,000,000 + Decuple Your $$ + One Spin + Add-A-One being common occurrences). And they love posting their games on YouTube to the ranks of Memetic Mutation. A DVD game was released in 2007 with Todd Newton as host and the 1980s set, but 1) the Big Board has several lights on it instead of a single spot, 2) there's no single-player mode, 3) the game has three rounds of questions and spinning, and 4) the Big Board layouts are very odd, partly since there are three rounds. An electronic handheld version was made in 2008 and was also derided. Not only was the Big Board far too small, but it was also divided with half the spaces above the screen and the other half below. And the game was housed in a TV set. Versions were released for Wii and Nintendo DS in 2009. Better than the DVD and handheld games, albeit not by much... and despite massive input from the fans, Ludia still managed to screw the game up; see the YMMV tab for more info. A Facebook app was created for the game in 2012; unlike other officially released home versions of recent years, this one seems to be fairly well received aside from its length. Here's a review. Travis Schario has created a single-player Flash version of Press Your Luck; it is no longer online. Despite the abundance of digital versions of the game, an actual, physical board game wasn't released until the ABC reboot in 2019. The game, which even comes with a Whammy plush (the first since the early '00s), is paired with a mobile app, with players answering questions and tallying scores (and Whammies) using the physical game, and spinning in the app. Some deviations have been made for the sake of gameplay (up to 4 players can play a game instead of the traditional 3, and games can last up to 3 rounds as opposed to the show's 2), but it's otherwise a faithful game, going as far as to even use videos of many of the Whammies featured on the show.
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Press Your Luck / int_c03fec8b	comment	Nonstandard Game Over: Happened if two contestants had "whammied out" with the third contestant still having earned spins. He or she could either stop and keep everything won to that point, or keep going in hopes of winning more. The contestant had the option to stop after any spin. If a game ended in a tie, then the tied contestants would be brought back on the next episode. More than once, a game ended in a three-way tie at $0, meaning that all three contestants returned for the next game. If all three contestants Whammied out, the game ended immediately with no winner and three new contestants played on the next show.
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Press Your Luck / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: The 2019 revival has a Whammy dolled up like Pennywise, who just stares at the contestant for a while before leaping at the camera with a mouthful of teeth.
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Press Your Luck / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Press Your Luck / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: The show aired from 1983 to 1986, and some of the clothing and hair on contestants make it quite hard to miss. Many of the then-in-vogue music stars parodied in the animations also date the show to The '80s, such as Tammy Wynette, Boy George and Thriller-era Michael Jackson.
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Press Your Luck / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": In the 2019 revival, the Whammy's voice can be heard screaming this if a player takes the option to get rid of a Whammy in the bonus game.
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Press Your Luck / int_c3884cdc	comment	1-Up: The "$ or Lose-a-Whammy" space can act as this if the player chooses the latter option. The "$ + One Spin" spaces can also count since they're the only things that can keep a badly trailing player alive long enough to catch up.
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Press Your Luck / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: With three Whammies and a lot of passed spins (which you have to use up), you rack up the bucks—and then when you're just that last passed spin away from being the champion, you Whammy out. For the 2019 revival in the bonus game, with a bank of at least $250,000, you hit a Whammy on the last spin of the Big Bucks Bonanza.
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Press Your Luck / int_c6c73b3b	comment	Undesirable Prize: Most prominently the Flokati Rug, the former Trope Namernote (it was worth $350 and was only available in Round 1). Whenever this was hit, Peter would go gleefully nuts, and told the contestant "Once you find out what it is, could you send us a picture?"note (The Flokati Rug was a Janis Imports rug that could be used anywhere in the house for "added comfort and warmth" such as in a bathroom or living room; it was won at least twice, with Peter making the most out of the opportunity to publicize it, and it may have also been a good-luck charm because both of these instances were won by contestants who eventually retired undefeated with over $50,000 cash and prizes including the rug.) Basically any Round 1 prize under $500. In Round 2, when given a choice, savvy contestants knew that cars were good, and golf clubs were bad. A choice of a Mediterranean Cruise easily beats out a trip to Palm Springs (the cruise was the most expensive square they hadnote (if the second place deficit was more than its value of $6,118 and the person trailing was on the last spin, they NEEDED one of the +Spins spaces to stay in the game). Double Your $$ (+ One Spin) when the score is meager, like $0 (in which case you only get the spin, and the space is taken off; it originally had no extra spins attached to it, making it worth completely zilch with $0, one step above the Whammy). Add-A-One when a contestant's score is $0 (which happened several times with a contestant hitting it either on their very first spin or after hitting a Whammy). Season 3 of the revival introduced a new special space to Round 2: Take the Lead + One Spin.note Sets the score of the player who hits it to the current first-place score + $1â€¦ and awards an extra spin. This space is not all that great to land on for a player who already has the lead, but it at least eliminates the possibility of either of their opponents hitting the space.note "Take The Lead + One Spin" functions as a prize in that it disappears after being hit.
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Press Your Luck / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Press Your Luck / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The "Big Tongue Whammy" slide may be a Call-Back to Sammy the Whammy, the mascot of the 1960s game Beat the Odds, who had a very similar expression; making this more likely is the fact that Carruthers tried to revive Odds in 1975 for ABC, albeit with Sammy replaced by a lightning bolt. Many of the Whammy animations used on the show were shoutouts to the world of entertainment. A good example was the rarely used Astronaut Whammy, which showed the rocket ship "PYL83" taking off without him, and the Whammy saying "I thought I had The Right Stuff?" Other notable examples were the whammy dressing up as The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Culture Club frontman Boy George. The Whammy's girlfriend, Tammy, was a shout to country music legend Tammy Wynette. There are Whammies in the 2019 version that reference not just music, but pop culture in general. These include a blonde-haired Whammy flying in on a dragon and saying "Winter is coming!", one coming in from a car and saying "I'll take your money so fast, you'll be furious!", one referencing The Bachelor's rose ceremonies with the Whammy dressed like Chris Harrison, one that resembles Oprah Winfrey and one dressed like Pennywise. Another 2019 Whammy is dressed up like Inigo Montoya and puts a spin on his Signature Line.
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Press Your Luck / int_c77e69fc	type	Confetti Drop
Press Your Luck / int_c77e69fc	comment	The Carruthers Company, feeling the show's demise was probably imminent, decided to have the last Sweepstakes go out with a bang; instead of 20 episodes, it ran for 25. At the end of its last episode, a special all-cash board was created, and the day's champ drew one card from all those that had been chosen during that sweepstakes (75 total) and took one spin. The viewer won whatever amount they hit, multiplied by the total number of spins earned in Round 2 that day. With a stop on $2,000 and a total of 18 earned spins, the lucky viewer won $36,000, and a balloon and streamer celebration took place in the studio.
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Press Your Luck / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Press Your Luck / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: Typically, each episode ended with Peter saying "Until next time, this is Peter Tomarken saying so long for Press Your Luck, bye-bye!", which was later changed to "Until next time, this is Peter Tomarken saying thanks for pressing your luck, bye-bye!". Some episodes even ended with Peter reciting a poem for the audience. Originally, he'd face the camera and recite a poem that was likely written by the writers of the show, such as "The Whammy is always a cute little guy, as long as he's only showing up when someone else is spinning." This was later changed to home viewers sending in poems, and Peter even acknowledged this - a month into production, at the end of a particular episode, Peter encouraged home viewers to send in poems as he was running out of the ones the show came up with.
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Press Your Luck / int_d13d746	type	This Page Will Self-Destruct
Press Your Luck / int_d13d746	comment	This Page Will Self-Destruct: The Mission: Impossible Whammy from the 2019 revival.
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Press Your Luck / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Press Your Luck / int_d24ed873	comment	Developer's Foresight: Season 2 of the revival added special Whammy animations for contestants who hit a Whammy with a bank of zero, reflecting the fact that there's nothing to steal.
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Press Your Luck / int_d3435454	type	Bonus Round
Press Your Luck / int_d3435454	comment	In the 2019 version, the "+ One Spin" spaces are a boon during the main game, but become a burden during the Bonus Round, in which a contestant has to take a certain number of spins before they can choose to walk away and each subsequent round increases the number of "+ One Spin" spaces in addition to Whammies.
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Press Your Luck / int_d35193cc	type	Bonus Space
Press Your Luck / int_d35193cc	comment	An Australian version hosted by Ian Turpie aired from 1987-88 and, per Reg Grundy's tradition, the set and format were very faithful to the original - it even used the same Whammy animations! The Big Board was scaled down ("Stop at $30!") and had some rather unusual Bonus Spaces (Lose-1-Whammy or $200 + One Spin?!).
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Press Your Luck / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Press Your Luck / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: The "$2,000 or Lose One Whammy" space can give you a safety net if you're close to Whammying out. Also, any passed spins (which must be played first) become earned spins (which can be passed to another player) if the player with them hits a Whammy. Amplified in the 2019 reboot, which makes the space exclusive to the Bonus Round. Since you can't choose to walk away until you've used all the spins you were given in a round, this space is an absolute godsend to someone whoâ€™s landed on their third Whammy and still has several spins left to burn.
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Press Your Luck / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Press Your Luck / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: The 2019 revival, which aired on ABC, added Whammy animations referencing ABC shows like The Bachelor ("This is the final rose of the night. Take a moment... and say goodbye to your money!") and The Oprah Winfrey Show ("You get a whammy! You get a whammy! You get a whammy! We all get a whammy!").
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Press Your Luck / int_de9fd393	type	Piano Drop
Press Your Luck / int_de9fd393	comment	Piano Drop: Happens in the 2019 revival to a Whammy doing an improv comedy performance.
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Press Your Luck / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
Press Your Luck / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: The Whammy animations, which are kind of low-budget, and the fandom wouldn't have it any other way.
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Press Your Luck / int_e54a8010	type	Let's Just See What WOULD Have Happened
Press Your Luck / int_e54a8010	comment	Let's Just See What WOULD Have Happened: Occasionally used on the 2019 reboot's bonus game. A contestant who decides to quit at the end of a round is given a chance to play out the next one and see if they might have won more or hit a Whammy.
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Press Your Luck / int_eac3ee70	type	April Fools' Day
Press Your Luck / int_eac3ee70	comment	April Fools' Day: It wasn't aired, but the staff and contestants played one on Peter on Episode 150, taped on April Fool's Day 1984. You can see the outtake here, courtesy of Wink Martindale's group.
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Press Your Luck / int_ec9d3eb7	type	Explosive Stupidity
Press Your Luck / int_ec9d3eb7	comment	Explosive Stupidity: One of the signature animations is the Whammy blowing up a contestant's score with dynamite. He's standing way too close and comes out with an Ash Face as a result. Lampshaded for a Whammy animation introduced in 2020. The Whammy gets his cape stuck on a firework that he's setting off, and he goes up with it. After the Whammy gets blown to bits, his disembodied head tells the audience "Don't play with fireworks."
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Press Your Luck / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Press Your Luck / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Tripped the Whammy up in one animation where he tried to get away after setting explodium by the player's score. The car was kaput and the Whammy was blown up.
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Press Your Luck / int_f6e9ef75	type	But Wait, There's More!
Press Your Luck / int_f6e9ef75	comment	But Wait, There's More!: Often done with the personalized prizes added to the board in the Bonus Round of the 2019 version. Example: a chance for a man and his wife to have a wedding vow renewal ceremony in Hawaii with all their friends and family — followed, after a delay, by the announcement that it's bundled with a trip to Spain as the honeymoon they never got.
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Press Your Luck / int_f870d50	type	Consolation Prize
Press Your Luck / int_f870d50	comment	Consolation Prize: In addition to the usual cache offered to lose contestants, the show had the occasional Home Viewer Sweepstakes. Each contestant was given the name of a viewer who had sent in a postcard, and the contestant in control of a pre-designated spin in the second round won whatever they hit for their viewer, or $500 if they hit a Whammy. The viewers paired with the other two contestants received "Whammy" T-shirts. There were also door prizes for some members of the studio audience. From October 19, 1983, to December 18, 1984, it was usually Skyway Luggage, and the plug occasionally appeared at the start of the last segment. Beginning with December 19, and to the end of the run, it was a different prize during Rod Roddy's reading of the parting gifts at the close of the show.
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Press Your Luck / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Press Your Luck / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the revival episode "Go Big or Go Gnome", one of the questions asks for a mythical creature that wears a red pointy hat, have long white beards, live underground, appears with Juliet in a kids' movie, appeared in ads for Travelocity, and was in Elizabeth's front yard last week, but the Whammy stole it. Later, a contestant, Julie, lands on a space winning them 50 garden gnomes, with Elizabeth commenting that she bets one of them is her's. Later on, that same contestant hits a space giving them 100 more garden gnomes.
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Press Your Luck / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Press Your Luck / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: A contestant named Scott Haven was on for two episodes, February 27 and 28, 1985. He would often say "No little red men" as his description of the Whammies, unaware that "little red men" was a racial slur for Native Americans. Peter could even be heard telling Scott that he had just insulted the entire Indian population.
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Press Your Luck / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Press Your Luck / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In some Christmas Episodes, the Whammy Choir would sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and did not alter the lyrics in any way.note Though one Whammy did alter the lyrics to "I wish me a Merry Christmas". The choir did alter the lyrics to "Jingle Bells", making that one about getting the player's winnings.
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