disagree. should have quit a spin sooner to stay under $25k limit at the time to be able to come back next day. that would have been smartest thing to do
but like he said, no guarantees he wins tomorrow. He could have cost himself a few thousand dollars and recovering $9600 in 3 spins would be tough if he whammied. Plus the odds say you should hit a whammy about once every 6 spins, he took 7 spins so the odds were starting to catch up to him and I think he knew that.
Basically, in a "you vs the house" scenario, you keep taking your spins until you use them all, you decide to stop, or until you hit 4 whammies. As long as you don't get 4 whammies in this scenario, you come back, even if you won $0.
@@ThunderFist1978 this was the only instance in its 3 year run he played against the "house". Crazy as it sounds, there was more instances where per say money was involved but one or both players having 3 whammies and limited spins left, even down to 1 sometimes and most times the player catching up to or being arrogant kept going and whammied out, giving the win to the opposing player. But never 2 players whammied out in round 2 giving player 3 complete control of his or her destiny. In another episode however a 2nd occurrence did occur where eventually 2 people did whammy out, oddly enough player 1 whamming out early in round 2, player 2 and 3 playing on, player 2 which was the champ in that show had money with 2 whammies, against player 3 who had 0, was arrogant and spun a whammy giving her 3. But now with 3 whammies and only 1 spin left, all she had to do was hit anything other than a whammy to win, but whammies out, and player 3 won with 0. Thats as close it got to playing against the house as it got before this episode. Player 3 had no money but since she had no spins, and player 2 of course whammies, she could not play on. Its a rare feat indeed.
Was there ever a case where everyone whammied out? I had it happen once playing Curt King's old PC game with some friends. I always wondered how they would have handled that.
@@marcpower4167 Whammying out is never a win (as a player with $0 wins against a Whammied-out player), so if all three players Whammied out, I'm assuming there would be no champ and three new players would appear on the next show. However, it never happened on the show itself, AFAIK.
Sonya, you're in the same situation where Mark was. You got three whammies, one spin and $0. One more whammy and not only you'll also be out of the game but Kevin would win automatically but it doesn't mean Kevin automatically wins because Kevin would be the only one in the game and would have to play against the house.
Game shows are absolutely about knowing when to hold em and when to fold em. He folded em exactly where he needed to. Never let the whammy win, it’s awkward when the winner’s camera is focused on a whammy marker. That happened once on “Whammy” and that’s what we don’t need happening again 😂
The odd thing was that the "triple whammy out" rule never had to be employed because, of all the things that happened on Press Your Luck during it's 750+ episode run, that's one thing that NEVER happened. There were times, like this one, where the first two players whammied out and the third player played against the house, and on at least one occasion, the third player actually got a third whammy, but there never was a case where all three players whammied out in the same game. I actually hoped that, even if the third player didn't whammy out that they'd put all 12 whammy cards up after the such a game ended, but they never did.
What you're referring to, the final player hitting a whammy on his final spin to create a 3-way tie at $0, happened at least twice. But that's something totally different than all three players whammying out in the same game by getting four whammies. There was never an occasion where all three players got four whammies in the same game.
Believe it or not, there was one occasion where the first two players whammied out and the third player not only got a third whammy, but also continued on with three whammies himself. If I remember right, he got $1,000 on that spin and then quit, but that was the only real chance that the third player would follow the first two and whammy out of the game. (Frankly, I wish when that happened, they would have put up the fourth whammy card after the game to show all 12 whammies up, even though that 12th whammy card would have only been unofficial.)
After Mark and Sonya whammied out, it was Kevin against the world... He hit some nice spots on the board, got some big money, and he decided to just quit while he was ahead. He's the anti-Michael Larson. If you don't know that name, look it up. He's probably more famous than Kevin.
One of the first eps with the 3rd (and final) board sound, and the new Whammy slides (albeit looking off kilter, but this was fixed about a week later).
For a show that was canceled by the network after just a few years, it sure has done well in syndication. In fact, if the network had known how well it was going to do they would have kept it around.
I get Kevin's logic 100%... However, I'd stop with the $7000+ as $24,000+ is very nice, and I'd just like to play one more game- win or lose!! His final spin prize in Hawaii though is equisite. I always would consider Hawaii the ultimate trip!
Alright I need someone that has watched this show religiously to answer this question How many times has a contestant been put in this position and they did what the champion did where he just "stopped" after winning a certain amount of money? This must be a rare ending if this is the only one I ever saw that's for sure
Sounds like they pitched up the Big Board jingle. This is probably at the time they added more patterns to the board, unless you're talking about Michal Larson being in that position when his game was taped. Mind you I was way too young to remember if I watched Press Your Luck with my parents. I was only 1 when the show first aired. Even watching re-runs on USA Network in the 90's, I picked up on a pattern. I'm positive they fixed it for the ABC version. Though an extra spin spin-off happened, and the champion had over $100,000 fairly won dollars at the end of the round. They added a space to the board called Take the lead +1 spin in the ABC revival to keep runaway games from happening too.
Haha, I've been a part of game show auditions and they generally WANT contestants to energetic and unrealistically excitable, so I thought these constestants weren't over the top enough! I do agree what enthusiasm they did have was definitely inorganic!
He made it clear. after landing on the Maui trip, that his overall goal was to be a retired champ &, obviously, the trip was worth enough to put him over that mark
Ok Jim says at 1:19 that if she whammies out “that doesn’t mean he wins automatically, he still has to play”. But he didn’t have to play until he uses all his spins?
I dont understand his logic here. Had he came back the next day he had a chance to win more money. But even if he lost the next day, he still gets to keep his previous winnings no?
Yes, he would get to keep his winnings. But factor this as he said. He was near the winnings cap of 25,000 at the time. He knew though full well, had he have whammied. He would need X amount of spins to get back up to 10k, so if he whammied after that spin, only 3 spins left. And the odds were against him, at even getting back up to that total or beating it. So by him getting to 9k, he at least assured himself retirement right then and there. So him stopping was the logical move then.
I think I could figure out what was in his head.... he had his priorities straight, he made it known that he (obviously) wanted to be a retired champ on the show (I believe it still was the original $25K limit at the time) &, since he was playing against the house at that point, he clearly knew how much he had to win during this episode to do so he took enough spins to win enough & was wise enough to stop at the point that he did
There was another episode with jacklynn, matt, and mark. Both jacklynn and Matt hit four whammies and mark played against the house. Mark almost got four whammies but got three whammies took another spin won a prize worth 1300 hundred and retired
Yeah but you heard what he said here. If he had he might not have won the next day. So his logic was pretty sound about quitting while ahead. Plus he got that trip in the bargain. It was a smart move. Note even the player who Whammied out next to him shook his hand afterwards. I've seen many players on shows including PYL who should have quit while they were ahead.
No. I think if the other two players whammy out, he can return as champion with $0 as long as he doesn't whammy out. On Jeopardy, you have to have at least $1 to return. I've seen PYL contestants come back with $0, but have seen on Jeopardy where all three contestants finish with $0 not return.
It wasn't *that* rare - it happened something like...six, seven, eight times total during the show's run. This was either the 2nd or 3rd time. First was in May of '84.
My mother enjoyed watching Press Your Luck three weeks after we move to Scarborough Ontario before she goes to work and take me next door to Sam's house.
Actually at least once in 1986 it did. All 3 contestants returned after they all got whammies. Not 4 of them mind you but all 3 had no money left after the game ended. So they came back for a rematch.
That makes no sense and would add no benefit to the game. You can pass your spins at any time in a normal situation, there's no reason to harm a player who's playing by himself when he wants to pass his spins to end the game.
donald paluga Why would've he done that?! That's stupid for 2 reasons: 1) As Peter said, he was over the $25K limit to retire & 2) BOTH of his opponents Whammied out by then!
too all the people saying he quit when he should have, im sorry but you are dead wrong. the smartest move was to quit before he got over the $25k limit at the time and would have been able to come back another day.
