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Space guide Press Your Luck fans have a convention for identifying the squares on the game board. The squares are numbered clockwise, starting at the top left. I used this method during PYL's original run, but in my early months of net-browsing, I found quite a few fan pages that also used this numbering scheme. What's more, when the documentary Big Bucks: The PYL Scandal found the board control unit in the CBS archives, it numbered the squares the same way! | 7 | |||
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Demo board This configuration was used in the 1983 pilot, but is better recognized as the board seen in the show's opening for the first two years. In the early months of PYL, host Peter Tomarken would take a sample spin on this board to explain the game. Note that while more slides have always been blue than any other color, it is even more present here. |
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Round 1: September to October 1983 This was the first configuration used for round 1. I never noticed it until I discovered the original PYL GameControl, but almost every dollar amount was given a specific color. However, I was so used to the blue $750 slides that the red $750 looks kind of strange, especially in square 4. Also, whose idea was the $470 in square 7, anyway? |
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Round 1: September to October 1983 Round 2 is where all the excitement happens. Again, each cash denomination appears to have a "default" color to it. Also, having never seen the red $750 in round 1 during the show's CBS run, I now notice that the amounts in square 4-- where the largest amounts always are--are exactly fourfold those in that square in round 1. Also, there are a lot more spaces where a player can get an additional spin, which can be vital if the Whammy helps you dig a deep hole. |
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Round 1: October 1983 to September 1985 After the first month, the configurations in both rounds changed. This round one layout lasted by far the longest, almost two years. The top dollar value is now $1,500, and two more $750 slides, which now match the blue slides in round two, are placed in squares 2 and 13. Expect for the $100 and an extra spin in square 18, the $100 and $150 slides are gone, and the green $550 slide in square 8 seems to disrupt the default color scheme. NOTE: From this point forward, slides in bold type indicate a change from the previous board. |
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Round 2: October 1983 to March 1984 The round two board would be tinkered with constantly for the next year. The amounts in squares 13 and 15 have been doubled, a extra spin is added to the $1000 in 17, and the Whammy in square 16 took a hike.
* In January, the $1500 in square 6 switched with the $600 in square |
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Round 2: March to September 1984 The changes made earlier in the calendar year were minor compared to the new arrangement which saw the debut of Pick-a-Corner. Several slides were switched, the $600 slide in square 16 and the $2000 in 14 turned blue, and the $700 from 1 added a spin and moved to 17. However, the Whammy in 1 stayed there, which could narrow your options a little if you hit Pick-a-Corner.
* In May, Pick a Corner turned a darker green, and the $2500 slide |
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