If at any time a contestant hit a Whammy, that contestant was out of the round to prevent this from happening, before each spin players were given the option to freeze on their current scores. After each go round (all three players or less have taken their turns), more Whammies were added to the board increasing the danger of losing the money. As before, contestants stopped the board by hitting their buzzer and yelling "STOP!" Whatever they landed on, it was added to their score. In the first round all three players were given $1,000 to start ($0 in the first two taped shows). This is all classified as "Whammying the Whammy". To win the Big Bank, a contestant must hit the Big Bank square on the board, and answer one special open-ended question correctly. Big Bank - In Season Two, all money and prizes stolen by the Whammy were placed into his own Big Bank which started off every day at $3,000, and got as high as $50,984.In Season Two upon hitting a fourth Whammy, the contestant's scoreboard displayed the Whammy. When hitting a Whammy, the contestant's current score would either fade away or fall down. Contestant Scoreboards - The contestant scoreboards were now monitors (replacing green eggcrate displays).Even with the changes he still can take away the contestant's money when hit, and if a contestant hits four Whammies, he/she is still knocked out of the game.
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The Whammy indicators in the pilot were in circled lights, but in the series they appeared as statuettes. The new Whammy was animated in 3-D by WIT Animation. The Whammies - The Whammy had a whole new look, for he had toes, a deeper voice, a hairy face, no cape, eye mask is green instead of yellow, and a "W" on his chest replacing a "$" (dollar sign).In the final round, instead of changing altogether, a few squares changed in groups. Plus, light bulbs were replaced by neon lights: the safe squares were lit up in blue, while the Whammy squares were lit up in red. (There was an extra monitor in the center in the pilot, but it was replaced by a picture of the Whammy.) For it was run by a 200 MHz computer, it carried digitized graphics and made the board super random so that no one would ever memorize the board patterns again. The original board had slides, but this board had the slides replaced with monitors. The Big Board - While the board still had 18 squares, they were arranged differently inside a giant oval.There were other differences to this version and the original, too. The game was played exactly the same as the original Press Your Luck but with an altered format.ĭifferences to this show and the original 1.1 Differences to this show and the original.